This review is from the March 2012 issue of our LJ eMag

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The Big Book of Whittle Fun by Chris Lubkemann is a little big book filled with a wot of whittlin fun. Small in stature (a great size for taking with you when planning on doing a little whittling) but big in content!

This book has over thirty projects and is an inspiration for many more.

• Games check
• Jewelry check
• Household items check
• fun check

and technique: also check.

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Designers can at times get a little wrapped up in manifesting an idea in its utmost perfection and thereby lose what is so enticing about the idea in the process. Gaspard Graulich shoots from the hip to create Les frères Plo in charming and free-spirited design.

Les frères Plo is a collection of side tables and display cabinets. Deceptively simple, the pieces are made up of four dark wood boards held together in a rectangle with bent steel pipes. Four different pipes are used in each piece to provide the structure needed. Two of the pipes fit around the rectangle, exerting compressive forces on it, while the other two fit inside to give tension. I

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Sage Fabric & Black Bicast Contemporary Sectional Sofa Features: Modern Sectional Couch Sage Fabric Black Leather-Like Bicast Wooden Legs Sturdy Construction High Density Foam Seats and Backs Dimensions: Sectional Sofa: 107″L x 107″D x 35″H

Just a few weeks back I received this little treat I picked up for myself from the Lee Valley Tools website, a Swedish Sloyd Knife!

This retails for $15.50 and I was plesantly surprised that for a cheaper costing carver knife that this is a very handy shop knife to have around.

I would have preferred wood to the hard plastic handle (AHHH Its 16 bucks..lol)…but it fits nicely to the contours of the hand, has a sharp blade, and cuts nice for a Sunday afternoon of whittling…(See my new blog if you are interested in thatlol)

Overall length is about 8 with the blade itself 3-5/8.

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