Completed hickory stool and chair with hickory bark seats. For some pictures of the seats being woven in see the Traditional Woodcraft page.
woodwork
Green Ash Chair Rungs
Hickory Chair and Stool Frames
Hickory chair and stool frames, awaiting their seats; to be woven of hickory bark. Inquiries welcome, please contact playbanjo@gmail.com.
Walnut Nesting Tables
Black Walnut nesting tables in three different positions. Inquiries welcome, contact playbanjo@gmail.com.
Finished Walnut Bench
A trestle-type black walnut bench for the Big Horn River Lodge in Montana. Of all the production pieces I have been building, the benches are the strongest design. All mortise and tenon joinery, there are no metal fasteners or glue used in these benches. The grain and figuring on the wide slabs of the old black walnut is very beautiful. The white oak butterfly joint helps control the split in this piece. Much of the walnut in the furniture I have been building over the past 15 months came from a stack of wood in a flooded basement in an abandoned house in South East Kansas.
Benches like this one can be built on request, though it is hard to come by walnut this wide in Kansas, so the price is some-what subject to availability of the lumber. playbanjo@gmail.com
Rustic, or Primitive-Style Split-Oak Chair
Walnut Bench
An unfinished black walnut bench for the Big Horn River Lodge in Montana. Incorporating a lot of mortise and tenon joinery, I have built quite a few of these over the past year.
Lathe Operation
Turning a hickory chair post.
Chair-making tools
A simple foot operated lathe for turning chair rungs. The frame is dimension pine and the poppets, which house the points and sandwich the piece to be turned are black walnut, with the remaining pieces made of Q.S. white oak. Go to the Traditional Woodcraft page for more on these subjects.
A shaving horse for preparing pieces for the lathe and for finish work in its own right. It is made from part of a red oak that I milled last fall.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 