A dovetailed painting cabinet in quarter-sawn white oak. The tree grew along the Van Horn Branch just south of Boaz, Kansas, until it’s bank gave way. The panels will be gessoed and receive an oil painting. The cabinet is only dry fitted. It will not be glued up until the panels are fully prepared. In order to eliminate the center stiles of the frame and panel doors, the inside inch and 1/2 is a full tenon into the rail, while the rest of the panel will float in the customary grooves.
Pictured below is the beginings of a hope chest in cherry and walnut, primarily. The pictures depict the joinery of the upper case of the chest, which is cherry, and will lit atop a narrower walnut case with a row of drawers.
Here the dovetails have been cut and the piece is clamped together in order to mark precisely the corresponding pins.
cutting the pins with a dovetail saw…
cutting out the majority of the waste with a coping saw…
chopping out the rest of the waste with a paring chisel…
the board with pins cut out on both ends…
the case dry fitted.
Pictured is a recently completed stool made from red oak and black walnut, harvested from Boaz, near Fall River.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Here are some more pictures of the engraving process, and the second proof as work continues on a small copper plate of Walking Man observing and drawing a comet.
Engraving lines in the copper using a burin.
Detail of a small curl of copper being plowed up by the burin.
The plate after being inked and rubbed for printing.
The printed proof of the plate- revealing the progress thus far.
Cypress bowl on the lathe.
Same bowl on the bench.
A few other shop pictures…
A white oak chair leg for a repair job, being bent in a form. The leg was turned and bent while green. You can see my first failed attempt.
flattening a walnut half for turning with a fore-plane
The School of the Transfer of Energy 