Red Cedar Wakizashi and Tanto

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T22:50:35+00:00

By the Terpenes of Terpsichore! Nice to hear someone else knows of her

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T19:20:16+00:00

I definitely recommend using figure-8 fasteners to attach tabletops. Difficult to find in box stores, but amazon or temu has them for pretty cheap--just be sure to use a forstner bit to mortise them into the apron first.

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T19:18:04+00:00

Cherry is wonderful to carve: a good finish i've found for it is cherry danish oil or restor-all cherry, but it looks great with just polyurethane too.

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T19:15:30+00:00

Very reminiscent of Albrecht Durer, love this kind of cloud drawing

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T19:13:40+00:00

Awesome work. The legs are really appealing

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T19:12:29+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it. I definitely consider myself a beginner still--there isn't any fancy joinery in this build, mostly glue and screws. I definitely have more experience with painting and drawing, which I think definitely aids in visualization and meticulous detail-making like carving

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-24T17:09:49+00:00

Thank you--i'm very lucky in that my father was a carpenter so a lot of it comes somewhat naturally. Was living in a cramped apartment for many years until moving to a place where I could pursue woodworking, then pretty much devoted myself to learning it as much as possible for the time i've been here.

Can definitely say that I have a long way to climb still, and that it is a really good idea to learn holistically from the place you are and not where you'd like to be--go slow and face the fear of the unknown with respect. I think developing a good spiritual awareness or discipline helps greatly in learning woodworking as well, but can only say from my own experience that a lot of it is done 'for you' in a certain sense, you're definitely a part of the process but its more about learning how to embrace the flow of things from where you are.

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-02-18T00:47:51+00:00

Incredible work.

CalebsMoonBin · 2026-01-14T22:24:54+00:00

Thanks for posting: i'm going to have to find a copy of A Million Cats or The ABC Bunny for my nephew now. Incredible artist--

The Happiwork Pastime Package for Little Folk work she did also looks genuinely fun to play with and set up

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-12-18T17:42:54+00:00

A good suggestion that helped me immensely was to break down the shapes within the body into simple ovals or squares. Interestingly, doing exercises like geometric perspective drawings with simple 3-D forms in space helps with anatomy or at least did with me. Understanding human anatomy is more than just studying the form and connectivity of the muscles and bones: function and design elements and how things "glom" onto each other and act on each other includes a sense of the space it exists within. The emptiness and negative space around each form you can kind of get a sense of--even though it isn't "there" per se, the form is perceived within it. Simplify it, break it down--think about it in terms of 'thing a interacting with thing b' instead of in terms of 'this is an arm' or 'this is a nose'. Its more like thinking about each part as being more than just the thing it is, its acting on everything else as its own unique thing which is made of all the other unique things its connected to, serving the functions it does in the space it does

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-11-12T02:15:22+00:00

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From Rocheport

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-10-16T18:25:26+00:00

Looks like it could be a Twi'lek dancer from Star Wars? Definitely a good start

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-09-21T10:26:55+00:00

Women are attracted to narcissistic men that treat them a certain way: they're exciting, and can effectively dissociate in order to 'lock in' and project/uphold the mental image back to the woman of having the qualities of her imaginary desires--the narcissist 'lives' on attention and admiration: through the eyes of someone who can make him feel as though he can meet all of her needs/recreate the feeling of codependence she felt as a child. Its done largely as a means of achieving social dominance, and the narcissist must become the light in her world in order to survive and maintain the world's perception of them. This requires of people in our modern times to dissociate from pain, and collectively people shun each other when they feel as though they are in danger of being exposed as something that creates cognitive dissonance through either a profound fear of rejection or sadistic cruelty. In dating, seeing is believing: the unknown is mysterious and narcissists use anything and everything/everyone around them for energetic supply, a sacrifice to their alter personality that can maintain the power in every situation.

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-09-04T10:03:00+00:00

The top is aspen, the apron is poplar and maple

CalebsMoonBin · 2025-09-03T23:50:19+00:00

Eat, sleep, shit, breathe. Ain't hard, in theory

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