When your weekend begins in Utopia, ( seriously, have a look for yourself )
and ends in a Fathers day on Sunday, you’ll find that life is good indeed.
But man if an extra hour would fall my way this week I’d be grateful.
Sometimes Monday comes too quickly and I’m into the wood shavings again with the old salvaged elm 8″ x 8″.
Winding it Out.
What a difference you’ll find working with old growth wood.
So much heavier and denser- I think of it as the real McCoy in a harvested tree from a hundred and then some years ago!
Sounds like a tune eh?
; )
The elm has been downstairs all week in the wood shop and it seems to be getting along quite well with its new neighbor, namely the 2″ x 8″ quarter sawn white oak.
They’ll be working with one another for hopefully the next few hundred years.
In other wood shop news I’ve been drawing a hell of a lot lately and the pencils are shortening at a rapid rate.
So much to do in June I must run now…cheers!
Scribe Lines.
3 Comments
Tom,
Big beefy stock like this is indeed a joy and takes a whole different mind set to be finishing it with it’s mass intact….no spaces left inside narrow boards forming boxes or drawers instead the wood remains almost in its raw state giving a whole different feel to it’s presence when finished.
It will be most interesting to see what develops…but when using wood at this scale you can’t help but think of ancient days of woodworking, those end grain saw marks tell there story, love it!……maybe it’s time to bring out the Krenov to sing again?
Cheers
Steve
I’m with Steve on this
Also, just how are you going to pare the end grain back to the scribe lines??
Hey Steve, thanks for the comments.
This hard elm seems to be better suited for a heavy camber on my 5 1/2″ with the mouth open really wide and working across the grain. This is going to be a work bench so I’m not too concerned with a perfect finish. Just want to keep everything square and that alone is a challenge with timber this size.
And Simon, any ‘paring’ is done with a low angle plane, both a block and a bevel up smoother.
thanks for the comments.
Cheers!