Great Wood Turnings

I stumbled across this video the other day, it still blows me away how big these sculptures are. It's definitely worth your time to watch.

Big Wooden Ball Project from Mike Leuis on Vimeo.

Portland Woodcarvers Association

As most of you know, I have recently made the move to Hillsboro OR to work for Intel for the summer. While I'm here I decided that it was a good idea to check in with the Portland Woodcarvers Association to do some networking in the case that we find ourselves living here later on. I'll be honest, I was a little nervous after I checked out their website but I decided to give them a chance even though it looked like it was designed in the mid 90's. (Which is was) When I got there I was fairly surprised...

X-Post: Light Suits

This has been one crazy weekend, and I thought I'd let everyone know that it went great. We had our final performances with the BYU Ballroom team and our light suits we designed for them. All the shows went well and the audience loved it. If you want an idea of what it looked like, we have been featured on KSL, Deseret News and the BYU Homepage. 

It was a fun ride while it lasted, but I'm fairly excited that it's over. At least I have more time to dedicate to my carving now. More to come this week.

The Long Hiatus..........is OVER!

Many of you have noticed that I've been rather absent for the last two months. It is true that I've had to put my carving on hold due to the many school related obligations that I've had this semester. Thankfully the semester is winding down and I'm finally finding myself with enough free time to start new projects!


For those of you who are curious, I've been working with a team of fellow engineers to develop special lighted suits for the BYU Ballroom Dance team. The suits use a special wire called EL (Electro Luminescent) wire which glows when a voltage is applied to it. 

The different sections of the suits can be turned on and off independently to create the light patterns used in the performance.

We've made 4 suits in total and all are controlled wirelessly from a computer offstage. The team will be taking these suits on tour across the country in the coming months. 

(We have some video from a few practice runs that I will post once we get it back from the photographer.)

X-Post: LoudCufflinks

When I started S.H. Carving, I quickly became aware of many other small businesses being conducted in the area or by close friends of mine. Every now and then I'd like to spread the word, because we can all give each other a little help now and then right?


LoudCufflinks is fairly new to the scene, but has enjoyed much success in social commerce websites such as Etsy. It was started by a roommate of mine, Geoff Scott, who I met in my Sophomore year of College. His cufflinks are a great quality and the variety that he supplies is wonderful, I am always amazed at what new designs he has to offer. 


I think his business motto says it the best: "Why pay $60.00 for lame, boring cufflinks when you can pay a sixth the price and get cufflinks that don't suck?"




Give his Etsy & Facebook pages a look and see if there is anything there that you like, and feel free to tell your friends!







Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/people/LoudCufflinks
Facebook: 
http://goo.gl/0Dx8p