Little Persimmon Bowl

Here is a pretty (I think) little persimmon bowl, turned green. The rim is grey as a result of the blank being sealed with wax for a few months before it was worked. My guess is the moisture being trapped against the surface of the wood- which shed its cellular moisture first (the interior retaining it’s cellular moisture, ie green), and therefore “weathered” grey. The bowl has also distorted as it has dried.

Three-legged Ash Stools and Bowls

Here are two different 3-legged stools, in Green Ash.

This one has a handle, like a milking stool.

An Ash plate, bowl, walnut bowl, and a small persimmon dish.

Ruth Drawings

Symbolic study-drawing of the Biblical heroine, Ruth, drawn with sumi ink and a metal nibbed pen, 4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″.

A study for Ruth after Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Summer drawing, 1568. Also sumi ink and pen.

Test Proof of Jacob Lino-cut

Below is the test-proof of the Jacob Wrestling the Angel of the Lord lino-cut. I have also included a few pictures of the process. The block size is 9 5/8″ x 7 1/2″, printed with Graphic Chemical bone black etching ink, on BFK Rives 250g paper.

Finishing up the cutting.

Preparing to ink the block.

The proof next to the block on the press bed. I use a Wepplo etching press set very light pressure and using one blanket.

Three Legged Stool

This is a little three leg stool, turned from black walnut on the pole lathe. The seat is sawn, not turned, then I used a little gouge on the edges and where the tenons from the legs come through. The turning is intended to resemble bells and clappers.

Walnut Slab Bench

Pictured below is a walnut slab bench that is meant to accompany the headboard-chest bed, also of black walnut.

A detail of the joinery – bridle joints join the legs to the aprons and are pegged, and the stretchers are joined to the aprons with sliding dovetails.