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White Oak and Black Walnut for Eating

The early stages of a stout white oak and black walnut supper-eating table.

Carving Mr. Edom… Still

Slowly carving away at a block of linoleum featuring Obed Edom and the Ark of God’s covenant with Israel.

Landscape Hewn and Tender

There is the first part of an interview about my Puppet Theater here at UK artist, Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ blog if you would like to check it out. Thanks everyone for the visits.

Gymnocladus dioicus deconstructed at 800 rpm

A more singular post than is normal around here, but I am really into taking these high speed photos of spinning wood and stationary steel precipitating a diaspora of fibers and debris. This is a piece of a Kentucky Coffee Tree being made into a bowl.

Come With a Stone Tree

Spout Root Spoon Route

Black walnut spoon with carving and ebonizing. It is for sale if you would like it.

spout root15 Osage Orange long handled spoon. It too is for commerce.

Here is a little of that walnut spoon before it was finished. The black or ebonizing is made by brushing a little bit of vinegar that has iron oxide (rust) dissolved in it. It reacts with tannic acid in wood and turns black on contact.

Now that our does have freshened with the wholesome milk of provision we have soap abounding. It’s good stuff.

A Vessel, Strange and Unknown Finds Walking Man

A vessel from the earth, strange and unknown, baring forth both blood and fire, finds Walking Man

When You Spoke, guitar, accordion, banjo, and voice.

Erde Stein Stahl

Earth Stone Steel12

My friend, Cody is the artist behind the stone and the metal. I have lent my hands.

Walking Man, Root

A new drawing of Walking Man with some contextual review. And a traditional tune called The Gobby-O, played by the skin of my teeth on the tenor banjo, with spoons and guitar.