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Frontier Carpenter: November 2012

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Early American Woodworking and Pioneer skills. Monday, November 19, 2012. I didn’t mean that as a pun. I forgot to take detailed pictures of my forge as Cincinnatus requested, but I did include a photo of the fire box and clinker breaker. I purchased it from Kayne and Son Blacksmithing Supplies out of North Carolina. Yes it was expensive, and yes I could have welded one up, but it was easier to buy one and in the end it will outlast and work better than anything I could have cobbled together.

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Frontier Carpenter: Conestoga Wagon Jack

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Early American Woodworking and Pioneer skills. Friday, January 31, 2014. I finally found a Conestoga wagon jack I could afford. I love these things because of their history, age, and the blacksmith skills it took to make. Keith H. Burgess. Good post. Shared. Http:/ woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com.au/. February 1, 2014 at 4:10 PM. Thanks Keith should be a fun project. February 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I hope you enjoy my blog. View my complete profile. Tools For Wood Working.

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Frontier Carpenter: January 2014

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Early American Woodworking and Pioneer skills. Friday, January 31, 2014. I finally found a Conestoga wagon jack I could afford. I love these things because of their history, age, and the blacksmith skills it took to make. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I hope you enjoy my blog. View my complete profile. Jims for the love of history. Tools For Wood Working.

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Frontier Carpenter: May 2013

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Early American Woodworking and Pioneer skills. Friday, May 31, 2013. Stave Church and Norwegian Woodenware. Over the weekend my family and I vacationed as we always do in the Black hills. My wife was looking for things for us to do that we hadn't done before when she ran across an advertisement for a replica Stave church in Rapid City. I was a bit skeptical at first thinking that this must be some kind of tourist trap. Boy was I wrong! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I hope you enjoy my blog.

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Frontier Carpenter: February 2014

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Early American Woodworking and Pioneer skills. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Log Cabins in Nebraska. Whitwer cabin after being used as barn. Horse carved from cabin log. What makes this story so interesting to me is that oak logs were used. There were few trees of any kind this far west in Nebraska, but this location was unique as it had a very large growth of oaks. The area was soon clear cut and the oak logs were used to build a flour mills in both Norfolk and Oakdale Nebraska. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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The land of the Kavango | Je ne sais quoi Woodworking

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Je ne sais quoi Woodworking. Perambulations around my neck of the woods. The land of the Kavango. The reason for our annual safari is the waters of the ancient Okavango River. It originates on the eastern escarpment of the Angolan highlands before bisecting Namibia and Angola. A few kilometers from our camp it switches across the implantation of the Caprivian umbilical cord into Botswana to quench the eternal thirst of the Okavango Delta. OK, let’s go. This is a picture of a modern ossewa. We saw this in...

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Stanley no. 66 beadingtool rehab | Je ne sais quoi Woodworking

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Je ne sais quoi Woodworking. Rehabilitation of old tools. Stanley no. 66 beadingtool rehab. This is a pre-1900 Stanley no. 66 beader that I bought from Patrick Leach. If you consult the appropriate chapter. Of his epic work entitled “Patricks Blood and Gore”. You will find that pre-1900 beaders were japanned and later models were nickel plated. I got it bead-blasted to remove all the old japanning before redoing it with my usual sequence of potions. I wrote extensively about this in previous post. My fav...

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Shop made Fidgenian frame saw – part 2 | Je ne sais quoi Woodworking

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Je ne sais quoi Woodworking. Shop made Fidgenian frame saw – part 2. Finally the next chapter in this fascinating series arrive to ease the eager anticipation of the woodworking proletariat. If you missed part one. Simply click the link. Since part one of this story I’ve realised that it is a lot more work than the previous two saws I’ve built. I built recently, followed by a Veritas spoke shave and it worked much better. I reassembled the saw to check that the chosen shapes work aesthetically. It simply...

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… and there was light. | Je ne sais quoi Woodworking

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Je ne sais quoi Woodworking. 8230; and there was light. Since my bench was finished a month or so ago, it has been a struggle to see what I am doing as it is located in a part of the shop which is devoid of light. Recently I bought this basic study lamp and attached it to a short board to improve it’s maneuverability. Here are a few pictures to show how it lightens up my life. Clamping it to the bench enables me to have it hanging over the bench’s edge. Shop made Roubo-esque crosscut bow saw. Enter your ...

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Maple Nightstand – Faithfully Restored

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Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Psalms 51:12. About Mr. Stafford. 23 February, 2016. 11} And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.”. Who knows; I still enjoy imagining such things anyway. This maple nightstand is part of a bedroom set from the 1940’s. I have been commissioned to refinish the complete set and it is proving to be a most pleasant task. The customer has a great number of fine and well cared for ant...