Table Build in Red Oak Part 1

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

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.