Large Grape Cluster Right

I remember the time that I was going to carve a grape cluster on the panel at the end of a bar that I had built. My father, having been apprenticed by a German woodcarver back in the early 1900’s, surely must have passed that natural ability on to me, right? Not even slightly! I first started out with chisels and gouges, but I didn’t have the patience for that. I switched to the die grinder. This was a mistake—100 divots ground out of a piece of magnificently-grained wood does not a cluster of grapes make. I wound up taking the piece apart and getting rid of that beautiful panel of wood. Thank goodness that Osborne Wood Products has this beautiful carving in their line, to keep me from making the same mistake twice.

~ Contributed by Charles Head, Beautiful Interiors