Black Walnut Archives | Carol C Griffin

A suggestion from the Internet helped me to achieve a beautiful natural sheen on my newest sculpture, "Enfold", in black walnut wood.

I don't use sandpaper on my sculptures. Instead, I finish the surfaces using a variety of chisels. Watch this video for a behind-the-scenes peek.

I'm using a vise to hold my black walnut wood piece as I carve a place that's hard to reach. A good vise is like another set of hands!

I'm in the studio examining a black walnut log. It's total stream-of-consciousness as I think out loud about what I plan to do.

Spongy Areas Have to Go! I’m just starting on my black walnut log. There are some spongy areas in the whitish sapwood that I’m investigating.

This is a post that describes the beginning of a piece in black walnut wood. It starts at the point of splitting the log in half.