I have not had much action here on the blog in recent weeks – but I have been woodworking. Just haven’t got photos shot, and most of my posts stem from photos. Slowly I’ll get back in the swing of things; but it is May, that means birding gets much attention…
I have been carving a bunch of oak for some joined chests I am building – here’s a detail of the outline for one panel.
carving underway
This chest is pretty small – about 40″ wide across the front. Here’s the frame, test-fitted, with one panel to go.
frame test fitted
This chest has been here in process - http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/scratch-stock-moldings-2/
At the same time I am making an all-carved chest; here is its front frame cut & fitted, with a side frame begun -
carved chest
This chest has also made an earlier appearance:
http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/joined-chest-progress/
http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/carving-a-wide-muntin/
See – that’s the trick about the blog. I tell the whole story eventually, but not in sequence. I’ll save doing it in order for a book…
I’ve been reading some blogs lately too – Rick McKee keeps making the carpenters’ blog from Plimoth better & better http://blogs.plimoth.org/rivenword/
and I don’t miss a post from Louise either http://louiselangsner.wordpress.com/
Education is a big issue in our house these days too – so I try to keep up with Doug Stowe – but he writes a lot, and it’s all very good stuff. http://wisdomofhands.blogspot.com/
this past winter, Doug included a great clip of a lecture by Roy Underhill – pardon me for swiping it – but here goes. It’s long, 18 minutes, but you have 18 minutes. watch it. Roy is teaching many disciplines in this clip – some you don’t even notice.
May 11, 2012 at 12:00 am
Hi Peter, I saw your program with Roy Underhill, I got the link from Jogge Sundquist, on face book. Relly cool, I learned some new cuts, and I have been making some frames, with mortice and tennon joints. I remember seeing the photo’s of the way you dig out the middle , It really worked for me. Thank You. Winston James Birchill
May 11, 2012 at 11:15 am
Well I didn’t have 18 minutes to spare but I watched that Underhill video anyway–that man is born to teach! But then, the same could be said for you, Mr. Follansbee. Mother Nature was a trooper to hang in there while Roy chopped. Thanks for the shout out and for doing what you do! (PS: What was all the writing on Underhill’s hickory handle? Did you sign it for him??)
Rick
May 12, 2012 at 11:40 am
[...] I found this on Peter Follansbee’s blog. [...]
May 13, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for sharing Roy’s great presentation. After watching you and Roy wield your instruments of destruction my attention and understanding of grain patterns and the physics of the wood I work has improved dramatically. I’m more likely to shoot a hand plane across a board than hew a log but this enlightenment has improved my process and results remarkedly so.
May 14, 2012 at 2:53 pm
“See – that’s the trick about the blog. I tell the whole story eventually, but not in sequence. I’ll save doing it in order for a book…”
—by then all the good oaks will be cut Peter! Hurry lol
May 18, 2012 at 5:59 pm
That Roy Underhill – who’s like him? Nobody.
June 2, 2012 at 10:01 am
I always coveted a Dedham-Medfield chest. But have nowhere to put one even if I could afford it. Struggling to finish a Boston William & Mary easy chairs article for Beckerdite. Almost done.