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Shell carving is a motif meant to look like sea shells. A popular adonnment on eighteenth-century antiques, the scallop shell, remains an attractive adornment on period furniture produced today.

RWS’ Furniture SIG will be most interested in the opportunity to practice this technique, Chuck Bender will be our guest National Workshop instructor this event.

Sulfer Inlay?
The technique, also known as, “poor man’s inlay,” uses elemental sulfur as inlay material. The vast majority of period examples hail not far here Lancaster PA. This workshop will also include a presentation about this little known inlay technique.

Preparatory considerations note from Chuck Bdnder:
For the carving class, I suggest folks bring a “V” tool (whatever size they might already have) and one or two (one large and one small, if they have two) gouges similar in shape to a Swiss Made #9 (sold at Woodcraft). The more tools they bring, the more problems we can solve. They do not need to go buy a bunch of expensive tools. Bring what they already have and we’ll make it work for their shell. I’ll also bring a handful of gouges along to share…temporarily, as I need to take them home for my school. No matter what they bring, we can make it work (I hope).