Workin’ Wood at Haiku ....the last snow-flake falls,box of wood splays my beauty,pedals blow grace-full….—-by flp From where I’m coming from….it’s all-ready written in the wood…. Thank you.GODSPEED,FrankRusticWoodArt rusticwoodman@gmail.comhttp://frank.wordpress.com/ —”....work smart, work safe, and live, to work the wood….”
Here is a picture of the only tools I used to build the shower stool I posted a couple of days ago. No glue, no nails, no fasteners, not in time for the Summer Joinery Contest. ;o) Two stopped sliding handcut dovetails, two through tenons and voilà ! .. By the way, this picture was taken in the actual “workshop”! :o)
Blogging at “Eastern Thought” ”Building the Timber Frame House” —by Ted Benson and Part 1 the Past, chapter 1; page 3….Ted writes; ”If Japanese carpentry was highly evolved, it was also fiercely competitive. The craft was developed within a family guild system that maintained tight security over construction techniques and strict authority concerning procedure among it’s members. Intense rivalry between the major guilds had the positive effect of keeping the sta...
It just struck me that I would like to make some kind of till for my Japanese saws (that I primarily use for carpentry). I’m always nervous about bending the blades or chipping the teeth when throwing them (always set them on top of everything in my tool bag) in the bag with clamps, hammers, drill motors and the like. They’re protected by the cardboard sleeves they came in, but the idea of a long, narrow till, seems right to me. I’m thinking it would be nice to make it ...
Just found this great resource for traditional Japanese joinery. Lots of good pictures and some nice projects he’s done there too. Found it via this page after a google for tome tsugi. Enjoy! Here is a VRML viewer for the animations
Sculptured Words Bring Forth Sculptured Works of Wood —-as i have so often stated in my memories of talks with those many fine other’s that i come into contact with, along this way of golden fairways, that belongs to the out-croppings of sculptured vista’s of peaked out glory images, where my hand is all set to record the many stories that draw from the wealth-full wells of bount-i-full beings…. —-those ones that i hear speaking the words of wisdom, as i am in...
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