54 days ago
by frank |
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Wood From An-Other’s Wood Bin
....and, the beauty that comes from knowing there is a place that I fit in….
....my days are filled with the ever increasing knowledge that this thing I call wood and working, is my place of having found peace within the cosmic center of my universe….
....spalted maple; 38’’ wide x 3-1/2’’ thick and 7’-8’ in length and, this is one that I am working on in the evenings here in my outside 360 de...
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57 days ago
by frank |
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Druthers of Wood
....esoteric, rar-i-fied forms for wood art,realms of vision….—by flp
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64 days ago
by frank |
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....can I speak for WoodArt?
....creatures of the wood,invading darkness nests light,winged nascent being….—by flp
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64 days ago
by frank |
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The Beauty of a Soul in Wood
….into the fire of your eye, ran the character of the wood, and who was there to welcome my goings, but the burnished steel of i….
—-my going was but a sweetness of golden syrup, and from the tap ran gallons of sap, so what was i a doing collecting, when the springs of spring sprung ambrosia….
....that was then till in my now of days, i milled your sapwood looking for slabs, and in the soul of your heartwood you still held more...
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68 days ago
by frank |
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Glamdring and Hard-Rock Sugar Maple
So shall we begin….as in a continuation of Hobbit stories for those who waunder much of their life in the woods and glens of the Dark Forest…..Mirkwood.
Here is a picture of a froe-saw-sword-hammer that will from hence-forth be known by the name of ’Glamdring’.
Glamdring was a Noldorian sword, that was first used by Turgon; king of Gondolin in the Battle of the Unnumbered Tears, (Nirnaeth Arnoediad)....during the Years of th...
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71 days ago
by frank |
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Splaying For Maple
….one wood as i am,wood house of the mighty ones,splayed color environs….–by flp
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72 days ago
by Mark DeCou |
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”Wood meets Felt” aka “Woodworker Meets Hatmakers”
I’ve been trying to fit into my spare time the tedious work of making of several different hatmaking tool prototypes. Each of them has come along as a result of a custom hatmaker asking for one, and so I have met some cool folks that are passionately working at something they love doing.
Hopefully, all of us will get tired of ball caps at some point and look for a style that is better looking, and actually...
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78 days ago
by frank |
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Redolent Tease
....sugar maple wood, vase of nosegay by beauty, backdrop weathered grey….—by flp
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87 days ago
by Mark DeCou |
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My recent lumberjock postings of the walking cane work I have done recently has brought a lot of interest from folks wanting me to build them special, unique, elaborately detailed, walking canes and sticks.
This new blog communicates the design process on one cane as I prepare to start the carving, and get approvals on the final design.
The customer is a Youth Pastor, and needs to use a tall walking cane to support a bad knee. He and I have been designing this project for several weeks...
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90 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
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I know that there is already an entry on hickory but i figure that the more entries we get even if on the same wood our library will grow as everyone will present new ideas. so first off one thing that i noticed with hickory was that it chipped out a lot with router use. what i did to counter this though was take a lot of passes. even if you do take a lot of passes though you can still get chip out. also the king of chip out on hickory are the straight grained boards that are the ones that wo...
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