202 days ago
by mike |
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Over a series of blog entries I’d like to present a project that builds turning skills, has very low materials cost, is fun to do, and the kids and grandkids will love it too The project is a wood stool with turned frame components and a woven rush seat. The basic materials for the turned frame components are likely to be free and might even be in your firewood pile at this moment.But first a little background. I learned this technique from Temple Blackwood an awesome turner and a great...
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232 days ago
by frank |
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Trading In….; ‘Beauty For Ashes’
....achromatic grey, stirred by your whisper i squall, i process too end…..—by flp
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246 days ago
by frank |
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Wood Root
....root system births birch, struggle of titanic crux, time fades and i walk….—by flp
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276 days ago
by frank |
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Breaking Forth as Maple
....and so out of the ground i arose, sugar maple beauty of be-holden sweetness, orange and garnet shellac with brushed on effect, all burnished with hands tuned to fine steel wool….
Thank you.GODSPEED,FrankRusticWoodArt
rusticwoodman@gmail.comhttp://frank.wordpress.com/
—”....work smart, work safe, and live, to work the wood….”
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357 days ago
by frank |
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Wood Scupper
....your eyes corrupted,my being as fire melts ice,i am soon turned out….—by flp
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358 days ago
by frank |
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Whale Tales and Barn Rigging
....and so I thought I would post some more pictures here of the barn hooks or barn rigging, as I refer to these items of minute or massive steel and that view point is up to you.
So here is the following question I originally asked in a previous blog story….
....”and so I have a question, often when I go fishing at the ocean, I will take along my whale hooks….true or false?....and can any-one tell me the story names of these? And yes, I know ...
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392 days ago
by frank |
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Stories of Wood That Yearn
”....tis in the sliding of the barn door’s opening, that the eye of man meets those other’s, who have heard the news, that often what is sold as wood, be-comes the more of what is worked as art....”
Often now the mornings are getting colder and so I find myself coming out here earlier to start the fire in the belly of my beast, as I prepare the tools that the ‘old timer’ will be using today. Tools come in many forms shapes a...
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619 days ago
by JTRid43 |
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Hello everyone. Well, I’m not really big on the blog thing. Just a personal issue on my part. But this group is all about wood working and helping eachother in our craft.
The craft show season in upon us and I have been very busy making things for the show. A very simple shakers bench, nesting tables, mosaic tile table, a charging station for cell phones and other items and if I have time, a shaker shelf. I like the shaker style items for the craft show. Made simple and out of pine w...
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67 days ago
by frank |
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Painted Expressions In Wood and Canvas
....what i write in wood,by the gouging of words,is the need to express my-self,but in the end i still fall short,since the wood has by this time also moved on and,i am left standing all alone….—by flp
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100 days ago
by lethentymill |
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“Maybe he was a pattern maker”. Alexander, my oldest son, is an engineer and was looking at the collection of gouge chisels as I put their tray back in the chest. I was wondering why Mr Wake had so many gouge chisels and whether that was a clue to his job.
All the tools in this chest are marked “C Wake” but I know nothing else about him, except for what I can guess from the chest and its contents.
“You just want to show off your collection of tools, that’s why you’re doing these arti...
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