I do 90% of the time. As I wrote in the description for this one, I've been sick for two weeks and coughing so much that not talking was preferable at the time. Glad you liked it.

@@QSOutdoors thanks, get well soon. Appreciate your efforts 👍🏻

Glad you liked it!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

@@QSOutdoors You're welcome!!! You are a great fellow!

Haha yeah! Still going through the pile of ~520 blocks I got cut!

Merci!

Thanks Gina. He seems doubtful about something that I don't know. At least, for me 😅

My shelf has been full for a LONG time. I have carvings all around the house now. Haha. Thanks my friend.

@@QSOutdoors Glad that you are back to carving!

Thanks! Yeah, it comes in phases now. Work is absolutely crazy and takes all my willpower 😓😅

Glad you enjoy the content Bill. Thanks for trying for the longhouse, automatic moderation can be annoying but it's all good.

Thanks!

Oh yes. Axel is a legend. I visited his museum last year. I've a video on the channel if that could be of interest to you. His work is amazing.

@@QSOutdoors yes absolutely! Thanks for telling me. I'm driving my dad up there this summer. He is from around that area. Thought it might be fun for him to see. I'm thinking of learning to do this, but turn the figures into stopmotion puppets. It might be easier for me to do this in blender 3D software and animate the figures. But I am growing a bit tired of computers 😅

@@QSOutdoors btw, do you have a recommendation of where to buy the tools?

By tools you mean knives? Are you in Sweden?

@@QSOutdoors No, I live in Denmark know, but my family lives in Sweden. I just bought a beginner set on Amazon. I know... I tried buying some wear else. But... It was more affordable there. But if I get bitten, then I will by quality stuff.

Hello Peter. I am indeed really well! I haven't caved much in the last 2 months or so. Was focusing on work and preparing for the gardening season. Creating youtube videos, especially tutorials take quite the mental space that I don't have at the moment. Thank you for checking out. It means a lot.

@@QSOutdoors Good to hear Jeff. During Covid,some people got pregnant,some got a dog,I started carving. Between you,Doug Linker and Gene Messer,I've become addicted.I'll keep checking back for when you get back into it.

@@user-km6sr2cr5l Thank you very much for sure support!

Thank you Gene!

This one was not exactly meant as a tutorial as much as the other ones I've done. I have plenty other similar tutorial on the channel though!

That's a good question. If we look at the origins of Scandinavian flat-plane carvings from like Axel Petersson, it's really about the roughness of the cuts and the simplicity of the carvings. No fluff, every cut is there for a reason. I feel that when Harley Refsal revived the style and put his own twist to it, it became the art of one tool where everything is still "raw". I think that flat-plane defines itself in its cuts where we can clearly see edges and per it's name, the flat-planes, of the surfaces.

@@QSOutdoors Thanks for the description. I didn't know that.

@@jackdon4482 I'm sure a lot of us have different definitions but that's sort of what I make of it.