7 days ago
by frank |
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WoodShop Tales Beyond
….two trees blowing in the wind,a mighty forest surrounds these centennial’s,two loner’s sending out their branching eaves,many sentients come to waunder along the way….
….i was younger in those days that are behind,one worker of wood leaves his shop for open space,out here i am but the shadow of my own imagination,my sentiments to those who can-not come out to play….
….two tree’s,two loner’s,many sentient’s,one work...
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74 days ago
by grizzman |
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Here is our statement our woodworkers creed, we all come from a certain breed….wood is our forum our fix and our drug..were like some strange exotic bug..we cant be figured and no species or a name…we work with wood for we all like the fame. Ive made it better and with a diffrent wood , i knew someone would try and i knew that they could..saw dust is like our perfume and smell….my bed is full of it , my mate they will tell.
You might see my shadow upon the wall..but its i...
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133 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I just tumbled into a fantastic vat of info hosted by the Special Collections Research Center of the NCSU Libraries.
”Radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the 14-volume rare book The American Woods, published between 1888 and 1910 by the author, Romeyn Beck Hough. The images can be accessed by volume number or by the scientific or common name of each tree.”
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html
The 600DPI i...
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205 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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Wow, it’s been a busy month. These are from a month and 2 days ago. My landlady stopped by to check things out, and decided the Hollywood Junipers (Juniperus chinensis) needed trimming. Here’s how they looked, during a day when I was drying out my tarp, and realizing it was the same size as my tiny back yard:
That was 3 months before they were trimmed. They had grown in a lot more in that time. I had cut down a limb last year so I’d have room for a wood storage shed, ...
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253 days ago
by John Gray |
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Courtesy of Fine Woodworking dot com – http://finewoodworking.taunton.com/item/9367/threat-to-american-walnut
Black walnut trees in the U.S. are facing a serious threat called thousand cankers disease, according to Colorado State University researchers. This recently recognized problem has already devastated black walnut trees west of the Rocky Mountains over the past 10-15 years.
The disease is caused by a newly discovered fungus that is carried to trees by the walnut twig beetle...
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391 days ago
by frank |
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EverWood Tells a Story
....soul of a live tree,
heart color felt from within,
spirit as i am….
—by flp
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423 days ago
by frank |
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Live Free….Work Wood
....jubilant art-full colors drift before my sight,shaking the leaves from off my eyes,straining this veil of flesh to come up higher,where from my mountain-top view i gladly inhale….
....inhaling the whiffs of passing breeze,i all too soon know that i’ll be counting flakes of snow,but in the rhythms of the seasons where time stands still, i keep on working the wood after patterns of trees who came before….
....what matters the time of day...
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454 days ago
by frank |
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Working Woods
....art-full woods i work,
stopping to dream of what if,
there was no-cleared land….
—by flp
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554 days ago
by frank |
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Two Maples….One Pine, and….
....so i stepped outside to the wonders of an outdoor workshop, where some trees where culling my name, having not much time to pass with endless chatter, i reached down and turned my cell-phone off….
—-silence…..
....and so i went up last week and payed my respects to an old friend, one much wiser then me in all the ways of wood, who welcomed me back since our meeting of last fall, while even now this one is busy in the givin...
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561 days ago
by frank |
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Where Dreams Are Made
....never having a thought to lay down and rest, i was culled from the era’s of past, into the days of what might be called future quest, and so from this forum i soon was caught out as blest….—by flp
How one goes about ending a hard days work, is just as important as how one starts a day of hard work! I all-ways give thanks in the mornings for the opportunity to work….and, then when my day is done, I give thanks for the day.
And did I al...
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