266 days ago
by Dorje |
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Here’s a little more ‘milling around’ for fun:........
This board turned out to have some really interesting spalting…........
And, upon closer examination:...........
One with our stacks:........
And our final parting shot! ........
This concludes the milling process. What a blessing it was to have Mike’s support in this process. I can thank LJ for that! And a HUGE thanks to Mike directly! That was a lot of fun last Wednesday. Just amazing what can come f...
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270 days ago
by Dorje |
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After the slabbing cut, we continued to cut the first half of the log. Here’s a short video of Mike on the saw…....
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After a few cuts we hit a nail…pulled the saw out and cut from the other end…chipped a tooth but nothing really terrible; the chain was still relatively sharp, so we continued to cut!............
Here’s the spalting a bit closer up…it gets even better in the 2nd half!.......
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A bookmatch shot for fun…........
MORE TO COME!....
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258 days ago
by Dorje |
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Last step in the process (well not the last – but close to it – still have to get back over there and paint, or otherwise seal the endgrain, which hasn’t done much in the way of checking with all the freezing temps and the moisture we’ve been getting)
...I set up a level ‘foundation’ for the lumber stack. Made sure it was up off the ground and spaced the beams just under 2ft apart:.........Here’s a couple shots of the progress. My wife helped me h...
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183 days ago
by frank |
15 comments »
A Northern Version of YardWork
And so up here in the land of snow, I was in need of doing some yardwork here recently and then more of….sometimes daily. So I thought I would post my version, of what that means for one such as I, who live’s in the north country come winter. So if you have your boots on and if you will please grab a shovel, then let us proceed for this mornings clean-up….
....digging out my path to the shop has become a daily thing for me as I shovel...
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268 days ago
by Dorje |
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At the end of this short video you’ll see me look up at Mike. If you listen closely you can hear the saw hit some more metal…....
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At some point after the next few cuts we hit our 3rd and 4th nails within the same board:........
But, look what we have here!........
Here’s a shot of the “scene” at this point (there’s a few board feet of sawdust):........
We’ll finish up the sawing in the next installment…We uncovered a real gem just a bit ...
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271 days ago
by Dorje |
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On the same cold, crisp, gorgeous day in Sunny Seattle…the next thing we did was mount a 2×12x12 to the top of the 1st half of the maple log as a guide board to establish our first flat face from which we could continue to cut with just the chainsaw mill. The 2×12 had 2×2 runners screwed on to it to keep it flat and a wee bit more ridgid. One hooked over the edge, while the other was inset a few inches to “shim” the board to “level” it out (all ...
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152 days ago
by frank |
11 comments »
My Puszcza of a WoodTable
....rustically flared, bucolically conceived, asian inspiration….—by flp
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131 days ago
by frank |
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Madregah Tzedek
....madregah tzedek, a level of righteousness, given as ‘wood art’….
Thank you.GODSPEED,FrankRusticWoodArt
rusticwoodman@gmail.comhttp://frank.wordpress.com/
”....work smart, work safe, and live, to work the wood….”
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16 days ago
by frank |
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Which came first....!
....and so there remains a question that has been posed to me….which I shall attempt in some feeble way to exploit some light upon. It has been asked:
Does art imitate nature....?
or
Does nature imitate art....?
WOW! What a power pack of a question or either the shadow of thinking that would tend to describe and inscribe me within a box. Can any answer this question or is the question it-self designed, to limit an answer within the fabric of two popu...
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156 days ago
by frank |
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I Am Seeing WoodWorking Goodness
....woke up this morning seeing all things as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, got a head full of ideas that are ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, my opinions are mine which i shape by hand as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, there’s plenty of wood joinery to do as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood….
—-soon out to the barn of my work-space i shall go, to start ...
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