Go On, Pilgrim, the Outer Life and Inner Life Version.
Featured today is a small cabinet painting modeled after the Northern European alter-pieces of the 15th and 16th centuries. This was painted in 2003 with oils on oak panels. The case-work is black walnut.
Below is a gallery documenting the process of carving a large bowl from 1/2 of a cottonwood log.
Cypress footed bowl, 7″ x 3 3/8″
Cypress cored set
Large with foot, 8 1/2″ x 5″
Medium, 6″ x 3″
Small, 4″ x 1 3/4″
Pyrographed Cypress Bowl, 6″ x 3 1/2″
Same bowl
Fancy Eggs: A Christmas family collaboration
The finished table in the shop.
In situ
The finished table installed under some european mounts.
And below is a slideshow of the second half of the build process.
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 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.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 