WoodWriting Haiku Thursday's --by RusticWoodArt #55: Ageless Wood

Ha, I get your drift…..

Interesting piece… I see eyes and jaws and finger tips… Like looking at a cloud, everyone will see something different.

Thanks for the post.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

very nice Frank

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

Mother nature speaks without volume, but Frank can hear loud and clear…Blkcherry

Frank: Your eyes and ears search out treasures of the world..

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Your words and wisdom are “Masterpieces of Reflection”

Thank You for sharing your gift with us.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

another unique project

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

As always, Frank, your heart and mind see the wonders that most of us would over look.

Frank, what an incredible find. Amazing, truly amazing. Nice Haiku. m

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Fantastic Frank,

It looks like the spirit is having a “Bad Hair Day”!

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Never stop listening Frank!

Btw, there looks to be a beautiful tool as well down below. Care to share?

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

Wow Franks all you need to do to it is finish it. Great find. Glad to see ya back in the swing of things

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Greetings to all;
....for the comments and the time each one took to post a re-flection of what they are seeing herein.

Now if I may, let me continue on the thought of sharing an answer according to to the ”care to share”; that daltxguy (Steve) has asked.

As you will see from the pictures below, there are three tools that I use and keep close to me on all my projects. I will use these tools at the start, middle and at finish and to tell the truth, since I learned how to use them, I cannot imagine doing any working of the wood without these by my side.

Starting with the one in the background, what I have here is a timber framing slick or chiesel, that is 2’’ wide. Next coming forward I have two socket firmer chisels, which are 1’’ and 3/4’’ wide. I will use these chisels for debarking, mortise and tenon joints, working and re-working live edges on slabs, plus I have also found them use-full in hand planing of tops and shaving wood, did I miss any-thing and the answer is I use these all around for working wood. An-other point I might make is that the slick is ‘never’ hit with any object….wood or steel and the socket firmer chisels are ‘only’ to struck with wood mallets….

....and as to the wood, well I thought I wood throw in a background of ‘spalted maple’ that I cut out of a tree some 4 – 5 years ago, and has been patiently sitting in my barn. Why waiting so long….well the wood has not awakened yet to tell me it’s destiny. Moving on I have included one last photo of two of these tools outside from the other day, getting ready to take on some fungus-in-the-wood….

....thank you….and;
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Frank, Thank you.

Those are some beautiful tools and some beautiful spalted maple.
I would love to follow you around and watch you work. Maybe next year? We plan to holiday in New Hampshire in July 2010 at Weirs Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee. Are you anywhere near there?

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

Frank, the feature piece here in the intial picture, it might be interesting stood on end and then an orb or other piece being place in the seemingly open hands.

Of course that is just me, I’m sure you will let the wood tell its own destiny. Thanks for the tool tour.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Steve, Wow and then some….

Now lets see, one who comes from New Zealand and then is talking to me of//about Weirs Beach….small world we live in in-deed. Yes, Weirs Beach is not in my woods but is definitely in my ‘neck of the woods’ and then Lake Winnipesaukee. A very big lake in NH and one that gives me practice with waves when I get out there in my kayak and mix it up with the big boats….kind of like a pea sitting next to a pumpkin.

I might also mention that July can be a very good time to visit NH….so lets talk more.

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Rob, thanks for taking the time to put some thought into that picture….

Yes, I do see what your are seeing with the wood, so maybe I should think on this some more or better yet….maybe I should go and ask the wood what it thinks of this interpretation for a destiny.

Makes me think of an-other question I have often asked my-self as the artist. In the process of working the wood….who is the ‘interpretor of dreams, the wood or the artist?

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Frank,

I will be in touch about being in NH next July. It would be a pleasure to come visit the man and his woods in person.

Steve

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com