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Traditional north European wood carvers and chair makers curved adze. Laminated steel. 2 1/2" blade width. 6" axe head. Turpentine, beeswax and linseed oil mixture for the steel as the treatment for anti rust. Rockwell 60 (HRC). Linseedoiled and beeswaxed 18" elm wood handle.
Available to order: neemantools@gmail.com
Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.
3 models of our Scandi Brother Damascus knives in Damascus steel version with 3.9", 5" and 6.3" blade length. Lapland curly birch handle. Cow hide leather sheath.
CONCORD, MA: June 6, 2004. Hartwell Tavern in the Minuteman National Battle Park in Concord, MA. The Hartwell Tavern still stands at Mirriam's corner which was the site of one of many skirmishes between the Brittish army and the Colonial militia along the 14 miles back to Boston. This room served as a dinning room, work room and living area for the tavern keeper and his family. This image shows the room and many impliments as they would have appeared in 1775.
The School begins classes once each year, early in October. Students are divided into sections of 12 students each, and get two hours of classroom instruction and six hours of shop instruction per day, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm.
Basic Boatbuilding is the focus of the first semester, which runs from early October to late December.
The instructors assume that most, if not all, students have no woodworking skills and proceed from that assumption. The skills taught in the first semester are those essential to boatbuilding, and the course, for that reason, is very "hands-on".
Students learn to sharpen and use all their tools, and participate in a wide range of individual skill-building exercises, from learning to make the joints commonly used in boatbuilding to a series of tools. Basic lathe work is taught. Students learn to draft and make a half-model. Then, working in pairs, they learn to loft a boat full-size on the floor. Finally, working, together as a team, the quarter culminates in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
This is instructor Ben Kahn's section, standing next to the Light McKenzie River Boat they're building out of Alaska Yellow Cedar. Ben Kahn is second from left.
The Light McKenzie River Boat, as it is traditionally known, is described in detail in Roger Fletcher's book "Drift Boats and River Dories", published by Stackpole Books in 2007. The book's ISBN is 0-8117-0234-0 .
Author Roger Fletcher's website is www.riverstouch.com .
The McKenzie River flows west out of the Cascades Mountains in central Oregon and terminates north of Eugene Oregon when it joins the Willamette River.
The Light McKenzie River boat is thought to have been first developed in the 1920's by Veltie Pruitt for use on the McKenzie River.
This boat was built at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding by students in the Class of 2014 working under the direction of instructor Ben Kahn.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching adult students the traditional wood and wood composite boatbuilding skills they will need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School.
Please feel free to give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.