433 days ago
by frank |
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More Safety, Chainsaw….Broadax
Well that’s it….LOL
....I’m not able to blog my story I had thought to put in here this morning, since I was looking through the forums and I saw a question asked about; “If you where a hand plane?”! This got my mind to turning and so where I was going to go with “Slabbin’ at Wood” is out the door for today.
Also let me say that I need to go and set up some photo jigs, so that I can also take some pi...
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438 days ago
by Buckskin |
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My wife wants to move her sewing table into our bedroom so that has brought about a few changes. To get the table in the TV has to go someplace but it can’t leave the room.
This is one of those spur of the moment deals where I took a few measurements and headed to the shop. Looking around I decided to use 1×4’s that once served as bed slats and a piece of 7/16 OSB that was left over from building my benches.
The shelf is now hanging from the ceiling joists with a fir...
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439 days ago
by frank |
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Old Growth and Farm Living
....well I mean what can I say, farm living is working and selling, while finding time to look for some old growth//ancient ones and then workin’ at slabbin’ some tree blanks….
A little artistic enhancement added to an old growth mailbox….
....no Home Depot mailbox holder stand here. Cut this one out of the woods some years ago, left the bark on and planted the trunk in the ground. No-more veggies for sale though, berries are pas...
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442 days ago
by frank |
11 comments »
Old Growth and the Ancient Ones
....’old growth’ that I have found!
While out Sunday afternoon in the forest here, we (my wife and I) set out to discover some new territory in the surrounding habitat of the woods and I happened to come upon some pines that were growing on an eastern slope of a hill. At the bottom of a ravine I first spotted an old pine that had escaped the logging crews of yesteryear. At first I thought this one was the only one out there, but after looking ...
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449 days ago
by Buckskin |
8 comments »
Here is an up date on my Green Man. I am not sure exactly how many hours are involved at this point I think around 18 and I still have a long way to go. Not exactly knowing what I am doing is aiding the slowness. This is a huge learning experience for me.
One shaving at a time.
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457 days ago
by scottb |
3 comments »
The king is dead.
A few weeks back, while we sure had some fierce gusts of wind, which caused my chess trellis to tip over.
And while the (wood only) joinery of my trellis survived the impact with the ground (rocks and/or pottery) the wood itself did not. I found everything still together, save for the King himself. I originally intended to reattach it, but had the quick inspiration… a little poetic je ne sais quoi… some sort of “art (or hidden meaning) is in the e...
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480 days ago
by frank |
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Soul of Pine
—-see it, feel it, create it, suffer it,
....soul of pine!
—-i am the all i see, i feel your inner desire, i create this birthed expression, i suffer a beauty that ‘just is’,
....i am that soul of pine!
—-will you flirt with me as within the mystics of wood, turn me upon a lathe of fire, even so shall not i know that i am, just as now my spirit cries out,
.... i am soul of pine!
Breaking dawn is where the kings gather, to go...
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482 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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I have a great friend that is learning to do woodworking. He has been working hard at it the past 5 years, or so, and building some adult Adirondack Chairs was his first entry into making his own project. I suggested a curved seat, and a curved back for comfort (I had spent about 18 months perfecting my own Adirondack chair design, before I gave up), but he wanted to make them simpler.
He found a plan on the internet, and went to work. They started out as gifts, and then he decided to s...
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491 days ago
by scottb |
1 comment »
Was running out of daylight to take pictures in, so I had to finish quick… here’s the pieces:
and here's the project
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492 days ago
by scottb |
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To date, the most time I’ve spent at the lathe was 3 hours – and that was in a small classroom setting practing beads and coves – 1/2 the time playing and getting a feel for the tools, and the rest of the time trying to make deliberate shapes – while contantly dealing with catches.
Today, I began working on my wood joinery/garden project. 1 hour of planning and cutting, 4 hours straight at the lathe! Also to date, the longest things I’ve turned came in around ...
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