Will it float?
black walnut
Black Walnut: Stock Preparation
Wide Black-Walnut stickered and acclimating since September
Flattening with a router and jig
Cutting to over-length (with a badly neglected Diston. I sharpened and set the teeth and she cuts quick and true, though in need of a polish and new handle).
Acclimating once again and awaiting final dimensioning.
White Oak Relief Press
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
New Vessels
Dead-fall Black Walnut
Locust
Carved Black Walnut
Maple
New Vessels in Black Walnut, Locust, and Maple. Some of these bowls are for sale on the Work for Sale page.
Past Weeks Work
Spoons
Ten spoons in black walnut, osage orange and soft maple. Carved in the past month under a mulberry tree with axe and knife.
Soft maple, osage orange, and walnut.
Osage orange.
Roman “V” signograph.
Ash and Walnut Headboards
Working out the first of a series of headboards in ash and walnut.
What relationships work?
Fitting the scribed pieces.
Possible locations for butterflies.
Detail of scribed “joint”.
Carved Walnut Frame
Here are a few follow up pictures of a large walnut frame, featuring carved ringneck pheasants and the portrait subject’s name. It is difficult, I must confess, to photograph a large empty frame.
The whole frame against the bench.
Lower left corner pheasant.
Lower right corner pheasant.
The carved name, as well as a view of the bead edge molding
Corner detail.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 