technique and process

Gallery

Oak, Iron, Copper, Pine, and Walnut

 

Ewe Lamb; Color Reduction Lino-Cut

A few images from the inking and printing the first step and color in a small lino-cut edition of one of my ewe lambs.

In the color reduction process, multi-colored prints are achieved by a succession of printings, when more of the design is carved out at each round of printing, working from light to dark.

This first printing resulted in blue and white.  The next printing will be a green followed by a black or dark brown.  In these images, everything which is white has been craved away already, and that which is to remain blue must be carved away before the green printing.

Brouwerij West Crowns

Brian Mercer of Brouwerij West did a nice post on the crowns I designed for them.  Brian was a pleasure to work with.  He even sent me some beer.  You can see his post here, and below are a few more pictures of the process.  We ended up with black and white but in the trial process I used four different registered blocks to achieve various color arrangements.

Table Build in Red Oak Part 1

The following is part 1 of a photo essay on a rustic and a little bit twisty red oak hall table build.

Composing

Roughing out the leg spindles

Cutting the tenons to width

Establishing taper with a gouge

Breather, almost there

Leveling out with a jack plane

Down to size with the spoker

After shaping with an angle grinder and hand sanding through many grits

Leg # 2 at dawn

Side by side

Composing again

About 11 days left and a lot of work to go

Wood-rick and Dressing Oak

Here is my small woodrick inspired by the folks at Plimoth Plantation.  With a small door to admit the chickens.  

From the top.

From the west

 

Dressing a plank of red oak.  The radius of the iron leaves tracks.

The iron with a pail-bottom radius takes heavy shavings.

Chainsaw-milled and well seasoned,

Cut just north of the heart with enough character to remain functional.

Walnut: Trials and Joining

Utilizing the natural contours of our native black walnut within confines of a more strict geometry.

JONAH CHEST: PANELS

Building up a trapezoidal chest panel.

Ebonized walnut splines.


Rough idea of the panel with a 3/16″ reveal (ultimately) of the splines.

NATURAL EDGE FRAME


Scribed half-lap, upper left.


Dovetails, upper right.


Scribed lap joint with key, lower right.

Whole frame.  The lower left corner is a doweled butt-joint.