A few images of some recently completed spoons. Two are pear with relief carving and one is a smooth finished figured walnut. All three are for sale here.
woodwork
The Land Speaks
Sangreal
From the Song of the Ancient, here is a small turned and carved vessel in black walnut and osage orange. The idea isn’t fully formed or unified, but it is advancing. As the yellow osage wood ages it will turn a deep red-orange, nearly as dark as the walnut.
Late May, Part 2
yarrow
bead-board miter
choppings
alfalfa stack
40 lbs
barn-wood cabinet door
gauging
marking tails
coping out the waste
winter pea blossom
butcher’s block
Jonah from behind
Small Persimmon Vessel
Morels, Sangreal, Forge and Tree
The End of the Valley, guitar, accordion, fiddle and banjo.
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A Portrait of the Workshop in April
The provision for me in my shop this past week: cutting dovetails in black walnut for a chest, some goat-milk and lime paint for the butcher block legs, and finishing up the milling of the mighty locust.
Prospecting and Process
Ancient Persimmon Vessel
Here are the results of my collaboration with some beetle larvae on a piece of persimmon.
Ancient Vessel: Walnut Burl
The School of the Transfer of Energy 