traditional woodcraft
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
Locust Bowl
Locust bowl with textured rim
Detail of the rim
Carved Pear-wood spoon
These pieces and a few other spoons and bowls are available for purchase and will be on the works for sale page soon with dimensions and prices.
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.
Carved Birch Bowl
Carved birch bowl.
Using the adze, making a carving block.
Curved adze for initial hollowing.
Smoothing with a curved knife.
Shaping the outside with a hatchet.
Smoothing the outside with a hatchet.
Bread Labor
Cabinet drawers
White oak frame
Cooler emboss and inlay
Carved Birch bowls
Osage Bowls
!st of 3 natural edge Osage Orange bowls. This one is gone already, but 2 and 3 are available.
2 & 3
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3
Carved birch bowl.
Pear-wood Bowls and Spoons
Big Jonah, Cottonwood Lamp-stand
Big Jonah underpainting (5′ x 3′).
Carving a cottonwood lamp-stand with gouge and adze.
Adze Ash, Carry Cottonwood
The School of the Transfer of Energy 