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Comment on Back To (old) School: Coopering by davej

davej — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:47:15 +0000

wow, i want to try this after seeing the step by step! thanks for the detailed post…also encouraged to see you are doing creative work and making a go of it.

if you only need the pounding surface of an anvil, there are several options that are more affordable than a new nimba…an old or broken anvil that still has a useable section, a 4″ square by 2 or three foot long chunk of tool steel set into the ground, half drum of sand, or wooden block support will give you a nice japanese style sword maker’s anvil…even a couple feet of railroad track spiked to a stump would allow you to flare those hoops in a pinch…

keep rockin’

Comment on Shoji for David Coulson by JC Scott

JC Scott — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:56:44 +0000

Sandra & Joe,
Nice story about these beautiful shoji doors for David Coulson’s elegant design studio in the forest. Because we work together,I have seen these doors both by daylight and illuminated on a winter evening as well. They are very warm in feeling. The overlap offset which only shows with backlighting is worth mentioning and adds an element of grace. Your wood work continues to set standards.
JC

Comment on Exploring Texture: Gail’s Cabinets by Eliza

Eliza — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:17:02 +0000

Wow! Really beautiful work. It’s so great to see this standard of work in the Valley. Keep it up!

Comment on Back To (old) School: Coopering by Rob Gorrell

Rob Gorrell — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:35:02 +0000

Hi. I have also been learning to make buckets lately. If you get the itch for a midwest trip sometime, Tiller’s International teaches a great weekend class on buckets. I have put a couple of posts up about their style of buckets on my blog, robgorrell.com.

I’m glad to see what other folks are doing out there to learn some basic coopering. I hope you post more in the future.

Rob

Comment on Back To (old) School: Coopering by Steve Tomlin

Steve Tomlin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:22:21 +0000

Thanks for a wonderful account of the course and the steps in coopering – really interesting reading.
I have a book “Wooden planes and how to make them” by David G Perch & Robert S Lee which has plans for making several specialist coopering planes.
Please post up your future progress with this.
Steve

Comment on Exploring Texture: Gail’s Cabinets by Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:49:52 +0000

Thanks Devin- we don’t have have any images of the tops that show off the colour and grain… we probably should. They were all out of one log we had milled some years ago- we used the last of it on these tops, I wish we had some more. Time for procuring another monster maple!

Comment on Exploring Texture: Gail’s Cabinets by Devin

Devin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:00:03 +0000

Beautiful work guys…again. The combination of the various colours and textures is just outstanding, and the spalted maple tops look fantastic, any other close up shots of the tops?

Comment on Swallowfield Garry Oak by Ron

Ron — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:11:25 +0000

Wow, ive been looking for garry oak like this! I have around 400bdft of dimensional garry oak in 5/4 Id love to have just one of those slabs I live in Mission

Best of luck you guys, I wish i was there with ya Merry Christmas! Ron.

Comment on Building a Sideboard by Devin

Devin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:10:45 +0000

Another stunning piece from your shop. Beautiful work.

Comment on Building a Sideboard by Cam

Cam — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:59:39 +0000

Excellent blog posting. Cold shower required after the M&T description!