Spoon Root

Pear and osage.  Pot and spoon.  Turn and carve.  Root and hold.  Turn to bread.

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carven pear wood spoon

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roots grab earth

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grow tall

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charred a little for contrast

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carved with prairie dwellers

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wheat and bluestem on an osage vessel

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also burned a little prairie fire

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with the remnants of earlier dwellers

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light as a feather

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another pear wood spoon

         

October Pull

Frosty Morning, traditional, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bones
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Turnings in Walnut, Cypress, and Crabapple

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little cypress vessel

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little cypress vessel

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little cypress vessel

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walnut bowl with foot

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walnut bowl rim detail

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noyer bol à pied

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crabapple vessel

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crabapple vessel

These are all available over at Baumwerk.

Löffel, Holzarbeiten, Schlange

walnut spoon

walnut spoon

walnut spoon

walnut spoon

walnut spoon

walnut spoon

planing a line

planing a line

ash

ash

four

four

solution

solution

rough earth snake

rough earth snake (I think)

rough earth - good name

rough earth – good name

if you like the spoon you can buy it here.

The Waning Summer

Sally In the Garden traditional, arranged by me.

spread

spread

scald

scald

engage

engage

brasica

brasica

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hot

graze

graze

ram

suffolk ram (Freeway)

mesa, Beaumont KS

mesa, Beaumont KS

yellows and reds

yellows and reds

big blue, Boaz KS

big bluestem, Boaz KS

stacked

stacked

plow

plow

deconstruced

deconstruced

indian grass, Boaz KS

indian grass and purple top, Boaz KS

process

process

turn

turn

flat

flat

indian grass, Boaz, KS

indian grass, Boaz, KS

weather

weather

sedge, New Boaz KS

sedge, New Boaz KS

between Beaumont and Piedmont

between Beaumont and Piedmont

skinned

skinned

scalded

scalded

rub

rub

stone

stone

Leavenworth eryngo (parsley), Boaz KS

Leavenworth eryngo (parsley), Boaz KS

plucked

plucked

house

house

pitcher sage, Boaz KS

pitcher sage, Boaz KS

cart

cart

Wood: New Pages

persimmon vessel

persimmon vessel

Wood, since boyhood, has been a passion.  One also shared by my father and grandfather so I had worthy teachers and opportunity.  There will ultimately be three pages featuring some examples in each category:  Furniture, vessels, bowls and spoons, and structure and milling (yet to come).

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woodrick

Walnut Banjo

Walnut Banjo

The Ascent of Maclura pomifera

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Spiral stair in Hedge (Maclura pomifera, bodark, bois d’ark, osage orange).  Designed by my friend Cody to join a 100 year old barn basement to the floor above.  The barn, just outside of Fall River, got hit by a twister about 4-5 years ago and is now being rebuilt as a workshop and living quarters.  The stair isn’t officially finished, we already have a list of things we want to change, but this is it in it’s first state.