Pictured is a recently completed stool made from red oak and black walnut, harvested from Boaz, near Fall River.
Month: February 2010
Walking Man and Jonah Underpainting
Here is the beginnings of the under-painting -the first layer of many layers of paint- of the Walking Man section of the panel depicting Walking Man tromping across the ancient ocean and Jonah in the ancient ocean.
a poor shot of the entire panel
Osage Orange Bowls
Here is an osage orange, or hedge bowl. It developed a small crack in the sapwood during drying.
Another osage bowl in various stages on the lathe.
Chair Repair
Repairing a hickory and oak chair that was brought to me with a broken front leg.
Riven white oak leg, turned on the lathe then bent green in the form.
Marking the tenon on the top of the leg.
Splitting the waste from the tenon with a chisel.
Cleaning up the tenon with a rasp.
Workbench top with the leg and tools.
Drilling the holes for the stretchers with a brace.
The chair with its new leg.
New Work For Sale Page
The Work For Sale page has been updated with new work and clearer descriptions of the items. Current pieces for sale are prints. There will also be some bowls added over the next few weeks.
Jacob Wrestling the Angel of God, 2009, signed edition of40 prints
lino-cut printed on acid free rag paper; image size is 7.5″x9.5″ and paper size is 11″x15″
$50.oo
Walnut Burin Handles
After snapping the shaft of my smallest lozenge shaped burin, I now have two with longer handles to makeup the distance left by the shortened steel.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 