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.

The Unwinding Hours

The Unwinding Hours is the duo of Craig B and Iain Cook from Glasgow on the Chemikal Underground label.  They featured some of my work for their latest release, Afterlives.  The sleeve design is by Nadia Bradley.

I received the final results in the mail this week; some cd’s and a nice heavy vinyl LP.

I really like how Craig isolated the figures of Jacob and God.

The inner sleeves and the disc itself carry a detail from Moses in the Rock.

Walnut: Trials and Joining

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.

Prairie Clover and a Sawmill

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