https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7PdrXYYOI
2018-01-28
Video: Roughing out Spoons at the Bench
I made a video showing my vise, chisel, hammer method of roughing out spoon blanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7PdrXYYOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7PdrXYYOI
2018-01-27
Seal the Ends of Green Lumber
When you get lucky and score a bunch of nice fresh wood like this black cherry, seal the end grain before it starts drying out.
Moisture leaves wood most easily through the end grain, less easily through the long grain, and least easily through
2018-01-20
More Adventures in Workholding
I've been working on a change to my spoon-carving process, scooping out the bowl earlier in the process with the blank held by a clamp rather than in my hand.
I tried it out with this tiny salt spoon, made from
I tried it out with this tiny salt spoon, made from
2018-01-03
Spoon Blanks by Hammer and Chisel (Without a Hatchet!)
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| Unrefined spoons, just captured in the wilds of northern Wisconsin! |
Let's say you have
2018-01-02
Video Worth Watching: Wille Sundqvist on YouTube
My teacher Drew Langsner has posted a video I love on YouTube. On several of my visits to Country Workshops, I have watched this on a VHS copy Drew has in the shop's video library.
This is basically raw, unedited footage made in 1982 by Rick Mastelli for a projected video by Taunton Press. For reasons I don't know, the project wasn't completed. I believe several black and white stills from these sessions were used in a Fine Woodworking article on the basic knife grasps.
I assume this was Wille's second trip to the U.S., when he taught the first spoon and bowl course at Country Workshops. Here you see a craftsman at the height of his powers, working in a new environment and explaining what he's doing and why in his second (third?) language. Clearly he's a master of both the work and teaching it.
Along with Wille's book, Swedish Carving Techniques, and the later Taunton video by his son Jögge, this video will give anyone interested in carving with hand tools, beginner or more advanced, plenty of food for thought. I still have new "aha" moments every time I look these over. Wonderful "ahas" I feel not just in the brain, but in the hands: one of life's great pleasures!
This is basically raw, unedited footage made in 1982 by Rick Mastelli for a projected video by Taunton Press. For reasons I don't know, the project wasn't completed. I believe several black and white stills from these sessions were used in a Fine Woodworking article on the basic knife grasps.
I assume this was Wille's second trip to the U.S., when he taught the first spoon and bowl course at Country Workshops. Here you see a craftsman at the height of his powers, working in a new environment and explaining what he's doing and why in his second (third?) language. Clearly he's a master of both the work and teaching it.
Along with Wille's book, Swedish Carving Techniques, and the later Taunton video by his son Jögge, this video will give anyone interested in carving with hand tools, beginner or more advanced, plenty of food for thought. I still have new "aha" moments every time I look these over. Wonderful "ahas" I feel not just in the brain, but in the hands: one of life's great pleasures!
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