685 days ago
by frank |
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Where Are the Power Tools
....climbing up out of the saw pit, the worker of wood looked around and was under-stand-ably fathomed by the appearance of what he saw from up here on top. ”Just like climbing out of a box”; he was heard to exhale as he shook the wide brimmed hat free from all the particles of saw chips that gravity had brought his way. Stomping off in the direction of the sap house and muttering to himself, I could not quite understand what the words were that he was...
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688 days ago
by frank |
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Polyporus betulinus
....just thought I would post a shot of one of my keepers of the ideas that fungi around inside my head, before manifesting their molds of desire in the mind-full beauty of ‘wood art’….
And so if any want to follow, then here’s a short course in General Mycology….or as some may say,....WHO-ology and WHAT-ology….!
Walking the woods and gathering wood is not the only thing I gather, since what good is wood unless ones starts to un...
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689 days ago
by frank |
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Simulated Wood Tales
....brushed shellac breathes tone,by hands of the creator,i impart design….—-by flp
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693 days ago
by frank |
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Waunderings in Ones Back-Yard WoodLot
....crunching the landscape of snowflakes, i soon took a waundering walkabout, where all is silently content within their respected milieu, awaiting those birthing pangs that signal a spectacular spring…..
—-were it not for these striving images of imagination,who would be found to come and rescue a soul such as i,since long ago in times of olden beholden begotten wood turnings,i walked right out of sight from those who had long tried to...
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696 days ago
by frank |
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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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716 days ago
by frank |
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Stories of Wood That Yearn
”....tis in the sliding of the barn door’s opening, that the eye of man meets those other’s, who have heard the news, that often what is sold as wood, be-comes the more of what is worked as art....”
Often now the mornings are getting colder and so I find myself coming out here earlier to start the fire in the belly of my beast, as I prepare the tools that the ‘old timer’ will be using today. Tools come in many forms shapes a...
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