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The Slow Woodworker: December 2014
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Sunday, December 28, 2014. Well the walnut and yellow cedar boxes grew up and left as Christmas gifts for their new life. I changed one of the walnut box's handles to a piece of dark wood from the holly. I like that better. Here is a family shot before the kids grew up and went their own way. And, the good news is . . . I have actually got back to working on the shoji style lamp and am making some decent progress on it. It should look very close to its final look. Sunday, December 14, 2014. Should be abl...
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The Slow Woodworker: May 2015
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. At the IP Celebration earlier in the month, and coming home took the opportunity to reread A Cabinetmaker's Notebook by James Krenov. I am extremely fortunate to have had access for nearly ten years now to a near limitless supply of locally grown woods, in raw log form. And hopefully I will continue to have the same access in the future! With a couple of chainsaw mills and lots of friends, I have milled up over 200 logs into planks. Manitoba Maple. Known as Box Elder in the USA.
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The Slow Woodworker: June 2015
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. I cut from this same log on both visits, which were a couple years apart. The other trees which had come down were both hung up in other trees so I did not go anywhere near them! The slabs were about 16" wide and I cut them at 8' so they would fit in the truck. Four years later when I went back to cut some more, the wood had started to stain quite a bit. The amount of waste is incredibly dismaying. It cracks freely at any excuse and it also warps tremendously. Sunday, June 7, 2015.
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The Slow Woodworker: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Actually it's not part two of the same handle, it's a new handle! The first handle, pictured in my previous post, didn't fare very well when I went to shape it on the shaper, my least favourite power tool by a wide margin. The climb cutting the yellow cedar did not work, I wound up with some tear out that was beyond repair. So I had to make up and fit and then carefully shape a new handle. Glad that part is over! I am now turning my attention to the base to hold the light bulb.
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The Slow Woodworker: Contemplating Wood
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. At the IP Celebration earlier in the month, and coming home took the opportunity to reread A Cabinetmaker's Notebook by James Krenov. I am extremely fortunate to have had access for nearly ten years now to a near limitless supply of locally grown woods, in raw log form. And hopefully I will continue to have the same access in the future! With a couple of chainsaw mills and lots of friends, I have milled up over 200 logs into planks. Manitoba Maple. Known as Box Elder in the USA.
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The Slow Woodworker: April 2015
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Friday, April 10, 2015. We did some landscaping 15 years ago and planted a flowering cherry tree in the backyard. It is in full bloom right now and gorgeous. Looks like a giant fluffy creampuff or something. I took a few pictures yesterday. I like this one best since the cluster of flowers in the foreground is backlit by the sun. Not really anything to do with woodworking, but I thought it worthy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A painfully slow amateur woodworker in Vancouver BC. Inside the Oldwolf Workshop.
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The Slow Woodworker: IP Celebration
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Sunday, May 3, 2015. I had the good fortune to be able to zip up to Robert's Creek May 2 for an overnight trip and spend a couple of hours at the tenth anniversary celebration of the Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinetmaking. It was a good omen that the weather was fantastic and the scenery on the ferry trip over, really, can it be beat anywhere in the world? The ferry was the Queen of Surrey. Cute little ferry for the 45 minute journey. Flag on the ferry snapping proudly in the breeze. This picture ma...
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The Slow Woodworker: Contemplating Cherry
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. Cherry logs have started turning up at the log dump in droves over the past few years. Some are diseased, but others are in beautiful condition. The cherry street trees in Vancouver are not the well-known black cherry of eastern Canada and the US, or commercial cherries grown for fruit. Rather they are are almost entirely cultivars of Prunus serrulata, Japanese flowering cherries, grown for their outstanding blossoms. He was not happy but we got some interesting slabs out of it...
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The Slow Woodworker: January 2015
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Sunday, January 25, 2015. It is strange how you spend forever cutting and sizing and fitting pieces, then all of a sudden in one day it looks like you have taken a huge step, when really it is just the culmination of everything you have done up to that point. I finally got all four sets of slats finished and fitted together. Then with only a couple hours more work fitting and fussing, I got them assembled into the lamp for a test fit. I was very happy to get everything together to this point! Cutting the...
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The Slow Woodworker: November 2014
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. Out milling a couple of times recently. Lucky to have had gorgeous weather both times. First outing of the season. Milled up some maple and some cherry. Was Port Orford cedar and Monterey cypress. Gave all the PO away, Only kept a couple small chunks of the Monterey. I have way too much of it already. Sunday, November 2, 2014. A summer of family activities, including some travel and working with my son on rebuilding a 1971 Austin Mini took priority over the woodworking. One s...
