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Once you have your gourd design figured out, it is time to break out the wood burner and permanently burn that design onto you gourd. This blog is assuming that you have at least some experience with wood burning. If you are brand new to wood burning, there are many books and videos available that … Read more
When you are ready to purchase a wood burner, you will first need to do some homework. Get on Google or your favorite browser and search pyrography or pyroengraving or wood burning. Typing in “wood burning on gourds” will get you lots of information specific to gourds. That should keep you overwhelmed for a while. … Read more
How do you get a flat design onto a curved gourd? It seems like it would be fairly easy. But you don’t realize just how curved and 3-dimensional a gourd is until you actually try to lay that design on the gourd. The design becomes crooked, wrinkly and ends up in the wrong spot. Have … Read more
