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.
Slow and periodic movement across the panel of Thomas’ egg-tempera underpainting.
Big Basin, South-East of Dodge City.
Gyp Hills, West of Medicine Lodge on US 160.
Ten-petal mentzelia, Big Basin.
Sink-hole containing Saint Jacob’s Well, Big Basin.
Colored proof of the Job lino-cut, using water based inks.
Round-headed prairie-clover (left) and White prairie-clover from northwest pasture – good forage
Custom-built sawmill bought at an action last month
Another view of the saw
Good label
New lean-to built on the west side of the shop
Scribed rough sawn walnut panel for a chest
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.
Beginning of grisaille (gray-scale) underpainting for panel of Thomas in egg-tempera.
wheat shocks
Wheat, from the field to bread, cabbage into sauerkraut, carrots, wild sand-plums and blackberries, a rigging axe harvested from a field, chicks cleaning an alfalfa patch
Slow refinement upon the underpainting of Job in the Cave of the Erth.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 