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Students learn to make dovetailed shoulder boxes like this one of pine during the first semester Basic Boatbuilding course between October and December. The darker wood is mahogany.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, 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.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Pictures from this year's first Traditional Timber Framing and Full Scribe Log building course. We were building a Norwegian log cabin taught by Norwegian carpenter Marius Holje. As well students built a massive French style timber frame structure from heavy larch timbers using French and Japanese scribe rule centre line layout system. Log building was build using only axes and chisels. No saws were used to cut the joints.
I don't like this plane. The metal that the blade is made from is far too soft. The blade dulls quickly. The fit of the parts, from the factory, was poor at best. It's difficult to get the frog to sit flat and not move. The most embarassing part of this is how much time I spent flattening the sole of the plane and the frog, only to find that it's still unusable.
Update: August 6, 2007
This plane is no longer extant. While cleaning yesterday, I decided that this chunk of metal and wood was so utterly useless that it wasn't worth keeping around.
wooden food turner - Top view of a wooden food turner isolated on white background.. To Download this image without watermarks for Free, visit: www.sourcepics.com/free-stock-photography/24750284-wooden...
Briwax Natural Creamed Beeswax is manufactured to a traditional formulation using only refined natural beeswax, linseed oils, and genuine turpentine. It can be used to clean and revive the natural color of the wood and enrich the patina on the finest furniture.
Directions: Apply with a soft cloth to small areas at a time, working along the grain. Polish off immediately with a clean soft cloth to produce a deep, rich sheen with a pure clean aroma. 8 oz.
Yesterday in the final installment of his Essential Kitchen Handtools post, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt mentioned holding a Y-peeler like a pencil.
While this is probably obvious to many a Y-peeler user, I had never thought about holding one like this. In fact, I have always hated Y-peelers because of the way I had been holding them. Which is probably why I never switched to one from my conventional peeler.
Anyway, I wasn't alone. Lemons asked the same question I had — How do you hold it like a pencil? So today, when I had to shave some asparagus, I figured I'd demonstrate the pencil method. Here you go.
Pictures from this year's first Traditional Timber Framing and Full Scribe Log building course. We were building a Norwegian log cabin taught by Norwegian carpenter Marius Holje. As well students built a massive French style timber frame structure from heavy larch timbers using French and Japanese scribe rule centre line layout system. Log building was build using only axes and chisels. No saws were used to cut the joints.
Captioned image from a 1940's era Johns-Manville publication showing demonstration of manually cutting an asbestos-cement ("transite") corrugated sheet using a handsaw.
As shown in the vintage photo, seeing this type of activity provides a glimpse of at least one way as to how some workers might have likely exposed themselves to asbestos in the past.
Similarly, the same types of initial asbestos exposures on worksites like this could also be probable sources of secondary asbestos exposures to workers' family members, by bringing home the hazardous dust on their clothes to spouses and children.
Further, in a related matter, today's production and similar installation methods of asbestos-cement products in foreign markets will assuredly continue the tragic cycle of harmful asbestos exposures in untold numbers of people.
You'd certainly have WHITE TEETH if you used a tube of toothpaste this big!
This Cedar toothpaste seat was carved using a chainsaw and handtools and is one of the Works of Art on the Route to Health walk on Cannock Chase.
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 semester culminates in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts. We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948
The C.S. Osborne Caning Needle makes weaving in the strands faster and easier. Snake the needle through the strands, thread the eye and pull needle across the frame. Overall length 21". Size of eye 1/8" x 3/32". Weight 1 oz.
The goal was to do a project that did not involve my iMac (I guess until right now..): build a chair! This is a traditional Chinese / Japanese design, or as at least as close as I could get by studying the one I already have, and consulting with a colleague who made one many years ago in China (thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the final result (plus Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital concept (argh more iMac). This was my first woodworking project. I used scrap pine boards, which felt like less pressure. I'll try nice hardwoods next time.
I had three rules:
1. No power tools.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.
The idea behind Rule #1 was to spend some 'quality time' with the wood, using only hand tools, many of them Japanese. This meant spending _much_ quality time learning how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they end up sharp...
The idea behind Rule #2 was to learn how to make mortise and tenon joints. I ended up making twelve pegged, blind (i.e. 'stub' or 'stopped') tenon joints. The trick here was that every joint was at a 97 degree angle. This required some iMac-sketching and head-scratching (Fig. 3). For the 8 rail joints, I angled the mortise, and for the 4 leg-seat joints I angled the tenon, in both the x and y directions (Fig. 4). In doing the latter I screwed up some angles, and hence had to violate Rule #2. A sort of chain reaction of bad angles necessitated a reworking of all 12 joints, so that they no longer fit perfectly and required some wood glue. Luckily, making the 1/8" hardwood pegs was satisfying and successful!
Rule #3 was intended to leave the wood surface feeling 'like wood'. I read a great furniture artisan book from the SF Library (can't remember the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to take off thin, single shavings from the surface, leaving a superior finish to sandpaper, which creates hundreds of miniature cuts. Pretty neat. A combination of blue and green stains ended up quite vivid.
Slow work...but all in all very enjoyable!
The tools (Fig. 5)...Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese saw, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Combination square. Old plane that didn't work so great. Band clamp.
Tool sources and info:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Tool (Berkeley)
Cliff's Variety (San Francisco)
Books and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Tools (San Francisco)
"Japanese Woodworking Tools" by Toshio Odate
"Hand Tools" and "Planes and Chisels" from the "Fine Woodworking on..." Series
"Woodworking" by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
"HOME BUILDING AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL AMERICA" by C KEITH WILBUR
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 semester culminates in December as students work together to build a flat-bottomed skiff.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts. We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.
You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948
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Briwax Furniture Cleaner is a reviver for French Polished surfaces that cleans off the dust and dirt, while leaving the patina unharmed.
Directions: Shake well before use. Apply liberally using steel wool,ensuring that the wool is never dry, and rub gently with the grain.This will loosen the surface dirt which can then be wiped off with a clean dry cloth. Repeat if necessary. Allow to dry before refinishing.Always try a test area first. 8 oz.
The C. S. Osborne Spring Clip Pliers is a special plier for setting three prong spring or edge wire clips. Length 7". Weight 16 oz.