199 days ago
by daltxguy |
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I promised some more info about my log building course experience. There has been some delay due to some discussions with the course owner about intellectual property. That is another discussion on its own, but for now we have to come to terms about what I may ‘reveal’ or how I may approach this so that his proprietary techniques are not fully revealed. My own view is that personal instruction is still the way to master these techniques and knowing what to do it will not take away...
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208 days ago
by frank |
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Echo-Friendly Habitat//Furniture Building
....and so as we continue to search and re-fine a name for a website, let us not get caught in a ‘wooden’ box of our own making and in so doing, fail to gather and draw from the world around us, all that is fast becoming ‘echo friendly’.
One of the things to consider today is; are we as woodworkers fast becoming a relic of the past, due in time to go the ways of other dinosaurs that could not merge with what is happening...
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351 days ago
by Buckskin |
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Being from Wyoming I have a passion for all things Western, Rugged, and Rustic.
Don’t tell anyone this, but I am beginning to like Sketchup. I posted in an early thread how I would rather just use pencil and paper to do my design work. After what Mot has named the “Freedom Table” I decided to try again. I actually like this approach to design. It can be easily flipped and rotated to give different vantage points. Something my pencil and paper skills lack.
So bac...
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518 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Martin has asked for blogs re: the big table challenge and I figured that since I am tracking the process of this “creation” I might as well follow the journey with some photos.
I re-read the rules to see if I was breaking any rules by posting the progress but I didn’t see anything that indicated that this was a “no-no” .. so here is the progress!
Photo 1: The Beginning The table will be mostly willow of course (Hey, Chip – here’s my addiction o...
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131 days ago
by frank |
12 comments »
Echo-Friendly Ways To Work the Wood
....your wooden soul, is but the sole of your sitting, and as all rustic tools of wood, your rustic spirit creates an image for imagination….
....hand planning….
....with a vivid imagination….
In this day of high tech, high price tags and higher yet soaring costs of what many think they need, to have a go at woodworking, along with all those needed add-ons….that one must purchase after the initial major pu...
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232 days ago
by Jojo |
11 comments »
I just found by pure accident a website of a pair of artists/cabinet-makers. This is the kind of furniture that leaves nobody indifferent. Either you love it or you can’t stand it. Me? I do confess I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I drool over those sexy huge and old slabs and the live edges and I do appreciate the craftsmanship required to turn them into art/furniture but, on the other hand, it is not my style of choice. I find it a tad extreme and heavy for my tastes. They ...
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269 days ago
by frank |
6 comments »
After-Effects of Snow….
....what can I add that these picture do not show-tell-speak forth them-selves….?
I knew this one was coming so I had already closed the place up here on the outside, in regards to waiting on an icy breath of winters best. One must understand that it’s not the snow I have a problem dealing with, but the time spent on cleaning up after all the flakes of snow have had their party. So after having spent the day yesterday staying ahead of the storm,...
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558 days ago
by scottb |
8 comments »
Last time I merely defined the legs (or let the crack and grain define them for me), twists and all. Today, armed with some new attachements for the Dremel I cut two channels clean on though to the middle, “freeing” one leg, and nearly completeing the third channel to free the other two. Apart from the wood on the surface, this is some nice, hard wood, and was putting up quite a fight, so this is the progress so far. The Dremel was starting to heat up, and I think I’ll need ...
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239 days ago
by frank |
3 comments »
Slivered Audacity
....slicing ones wood-space,within the sea-sons of time,head-less though i am….—by flp
And now for the rest of the story in pictures….
....spalted maple….
....against a background of 200 year old//young, (plus) barn-board….
This is what I call ‘wood art’....Spalted Maple is hand sanded and steel wooled with multiple coats of tung oil….Barn-board on this side, is cleaned up with woolite pads and no-fin...
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466 days ago
by Mark DeCou |
9 comments »
Hey rustic makers. I piddle around with natural sticks once in awhile, but have never spent the money to invest much in the tools that would speed up this work. I have agreed to help pro-bono with the Vacation Bible School set work at our church for this upcoming June, the week of the 10th. So, time is getting short.
This sketch is my vision of what I am to do. I will be making the rustic fencing and gate for the kids, and a frame for the backdrop painting.
I have located the logs, ...
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