logging and milling – The School of the Transfer of Energy

Posted by jackbaumgartner on March 13, 2017 in Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, logging and milling, photography, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

Walnut Timber Mantelpiece

The six and a half inch thick, 13 foot long walnut slab filled the shop as it came from the chainsaw mill.

Beam cutter on the old worm-drive

“rough-sawn” to the max

Using the “beam-cutter” to rip the slab into a six inch square timber

Pulling the saw at the end of the cut to save the last bit of slab for the corbels

Aluminum C-channel as a guide

start of the smoothing

a jack plane with a radius set to take heavy shavings

Now the joiner

pretty obvious

chopping out for a patch over a rotten knot

the same, fitted

filing the edges of a little copper butterfly template

bench-top with tools for making butterfly templates

variety of butterfly templates

Scribing the timber for butterflies to bind the main check

Routing out the waste

chopping the rest

right up to the knife line

ready for the joining

carving the corbels (my documentation fell off for most of this process)

mating the various natural edges of the corbels to the mantel

a little further back

fitting the opposite corbel

rough-cut cove on the left corbel

both corbels with coves-cut and awaiting final shaping

apply the final touches on the ends of the timber

“C” for the covenant

installed over the fire box, and the home-owner’s sandstone work.

I look forward to seeing it with the stone work done

Posted by jackbaumgartner on May 8, 2016 in art, Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, farm, farming and husbandry, lambs, land, logging and milling, nature, photography, sheep and goats, technique and process, tools and tool making, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

Beautiful Industry

Posted by jackbaumgartner on March 6, 2016 in art, bowls and vessels, craft, design, Drawings, farm, farming and husbandry, illustration, lambs, land, logging and milling, nature, Oil Paintings, photography, technique and process, transfer of energy, woodwork

The Flow of Art in Life

Posted by jackbaumgartner on November 10, 2015 in art, Bone Meal Bread, bowls and vessels, craft, design, farm, farming and husbandry, lambs, land, logging and milling, music, nature, photography, sheep and goats, transfer of energy, vessels, wooden bowls, woodwork

Husbandry in Harvest

Sally In The Garden, traditional fiddle tune performed on banjo and fiddle

Posted by jackbaumgartner on July 15, 2014 in art, Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, logging and milling, photography, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

White Oak and Black Walnut for Eating

The early stages of a stout white oak and black walnut supper-eating table.

Posted by jackbaumgartner on April 29, 2014 in art, Bone Meal Bread, bowls and vessels, craft, design, land, logging and milling, technique and process, woodcarving, wooden bowls, woodwork

Ligneous

Thank you to my great friend Cody for the first photograph in this group.

Posted by jackbaumgartner on January 28, 2014 in art, craft, design, logging and milling, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

Brought Low

Working for and in collaboration with my friend, Cody, we have been preparing waney-edged planks and slabs of eastern red cedar and black walnut for loft and stair railings and countertops, while making much fodder for the compost pile.