I'm no robert thompson, but here's something I left the tool marks in a present I made this was coupled with some walnut utensilsGood point … his tool marks look much better than mine though
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A good vid! Thank you.
The adzing - got to be a dangerous thing to learn, eh? That razor-sharp blade swinging between one's ankles; one moment's inattention; a scream, hop and topple! Whitened faces and technicolour yawns all 'round.
Once upon a time, a long time ago and far away, I spent time in the South Cumbria woods learning various coppice work things in the company of various other novices. Stool making was one activity and this involved adzing the seats as The Mouseman workers adze everything. Seeing as how no one wants one leg a foot shorter than the other (geddit) we were all made to wear leggings made of old sacks stuffed with straw. Myself I suspected that these were but cosmetic, as the adze seemed likely to laugh in the face of a bit of straw as it headed for an ankle or even a whole shin.
Luckily everyone was careful. I had me camera at the ready in case they weren't but, as you can see, no Big Bandages were needed.
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Nice work. As others have said, not dissimilar to a butlers table where the legs would usually be a folding design, allowing the already laid-out table to be easily transported and quickly deployed in a random location.
I am building drawer inserts for the Ikea carts that I have on my workshop and wanted to find ways to get my two-year old twin daughters involved.
So, we just had an amazing father-daughters morning decorating drawer fronts:
So, we just had an amazing father-daughters morning decorating drawer fronts:
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Nicely made, but I have to ask, why? Sentimental reasons? Necklace tree?
I thought it was a bird feeder!!
It will prevent beaver damage nicely.
Ah, you have me, Cabinetman. Willow was an annoying offshoot of her old man, a twenty-five-year-old willow tree that towered over our barn and had dropped 2 heavy boughs in different years. It was near the end of its life span and had to be felled and removed in many large pieces. When the arborist left, he said other willow trees could grow from the stump. Willow did grow exuberantly amid trash growth of all kinds. My wife wanted it all gone. I complied but felt guilty when I saw her beauty too late, but she was also sinister. She slept in the barn for months losing color and life before I took her into my shop to examine her for display. I had no purpose in mind when I placed her on a base. The holes for 2 limbs were a conceit at first but later portals for her escape, to what purpose I don't know.
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I believe that you have committed a cruelty to willow-brash, caging it like that, which oughta be illegal. Anyway, I've reported you to The Druids for not allowing that bit o' tree limb to rot freely under the rose bush.
Perhaps, though, you could give it a new life as a ladle, carved green then dried out near the cooking stove, where it can anticipate its happy new life tasting soups and broths?
Cabinetman
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Old man willow! Best placated and caged, well done.
Two year olds did that? Where are the finger prints and the blobs of spilt paint? LOL
Two and a half years in two weeks time, to be honest.
I was expecting chaos, hence I have covered everything in masking tape, plastic and cardboard, but in the end it worked out and we just had lots of fun.
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