craft – The School of the Transfer of Energy

Posted by jackbaumgartner on September 24, 2018 in art, Bone Meal Bread, craft, custom furniture, design, photography, technique and process, transfer of energy, woodwork

The Sacred Process

Is labor a sacrament? The invitation of the Eighth Day? A sacred collaboration with the living God? I can’t help but to note that the call to labor in the garden came before the curse of toil. I am certain that labor is about more than just earning my bread. There is something deeper there, not just for the artist, but for the ditch digger and the roofer, the farmer and the nurse. “Whatever you think, it’s more than that…” ISB.

Posted by jackbaumgartner on March 13, 2017 in Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, logging and milling, photography, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

Walnut Timber Mantelpiece

The six and a half inch thick, 13 foot long walnut slab filled the shop as it came from the chainsaw mill.

Using the “beam-cutter” to rip the slab into a six inch square timber

Pulling the saw at the end of the cut to save the last bit of slab for the corbels

a jack plane with a radius set to take heavy shavings

chopping out for a patch over a rotten knot

filing the edges of a little copper butterfly template

bench-top with tools for making butterfly templates

Scribing the timber for butterflies to bind the main check

carving the corbels (my documentation fell off for most of this process)

mating the various natural edges of the corbels to the mantel

both corbels with coves-cut and awaiting final shaping

apply the final touches on the ends of the timber

installed over the fire box, and the home-owner’s sandstone work.

I look forward to seeing it with the stone work done

Posted by jackbaumgartner on January 16, 2017 in art, Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, nature, spoons, traditional woodcraft, woodcarving, woodwork

Carved Spoons

carved walnut ladle

carved pear spoon

carved pear spoon

cherry wood spoon

cherry wood spoon

Walnut spoon

walnut spoon

carved pear-wood spoon

walnut spoon

pear wood cooking spoon

pear-wood spoon (root and leaf)

Posted by jackbaumgartner on September 11, 2016 in art, bowls and vessels, craft, design, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, video, wooden bowls, woodwork

“JACK’S STORY” BY ISAIAH ELDRIDGE

Wood Turning – Jack’s Story from Isaiah Eldridge on Vimeo.

Isaiah Eldridge, a local film-maker and journalist, spent some time with me last week as I we both plied our trades.

Posted by jackbaumgartner on June 20, 2016 in art, bowls and vessels, craft, design, photography, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, vessels, woodcarving, wooden bowls, woodwork

There Is A Season

Posted by jackbaumgartner on May 8, 2016 in art, Bone Meal Bread, craft, design, farm, farming and husbandry, lambs, land, logging and milling, nature, photography, sheep and goats, technique and process, tools and tool making, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, woodwork

Beautiful Industry

Posted by jackbaumgartner on December 14, 2015 in art, bowls and vessels, craft, design, land, nature, photography, transfer of energy, vessels, wooden bowls, woodwork

Fumed White Oak

The above are eight turned pieces from a single 24″ section of a 24″ diameter white oak from Boaz, Kansas. The tree fell over and across the Van Horn Branch Creek about 10 years ago- We finally pulled the log out 2 years ago, and it has laid in my log pile since then, although I did mill a portion of it. The heart wood is still green, so these bowls were turned green and allowed to warp as they dried. Ultimately all the pieces were exposed to ammonia vapors (fumed) which reacted to the tannins in the wood, darkening the surfaces.