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The famer had better know how to work with wood...... you had to listen when your father showed you how...and then...practise !
Too bad children don't have hands-on experience with these skills in our modern schools......
Still too busy for comments today....I should have time tomorrow.
While building shelves, I needed to add a nose to some plywood to hide the grain. I did a really messy job (it was cold in the barn) and I ended up with a lot of sanding on my hands.
I through the glue drips looked like rockets launching. Maybe to a better place. Maybe not.
Pine cones, throughout history, have symbolized the “pineal gland”, or “Third Eye”, and by association the esoteric act of awakening it. This gland is said to lie at the geometric center of the brain. The French philosopher Descartes famously referred to the pineal gland as the Seat of the Soul.
Olympus PEN-FT
F.Zuiko Auto-S 1.8/38mm
Fomapan 100 Classic
ars-imago #9 1+50 9min @20° in Kaiser Tank
DSLR Scan with Essential Film Holder
NegativeLab Pro
Birnam Wood has plenty of trees, but it's always a shame to see one go. This one was a casualty of this winter's gales.
for 7DoS: as I bought back a cold with me from my trip last week, I'll be resorting to archives until my eyes stop streaming ;)
Fortunately, I have plenty of colours to choose from.
One nice thing about being sort of retired is that I keep finding things I picked up over the years intending to get to them "someday" and I can finally give them some attention. Next up: a spokeshave that came in a box of tools from an auction. In OK shape, other than the blade, which has had a rough time of it. I ordered a Hock replacement blade (I've met Ron; he's the best) and it should be back to work any day now...
The shave takes the same 1-3/4" blade as the Stanley "small" spokeshave, but isn't marked and may be from another maker of the time, I'd guess around 1900 +/- 20 years. I've seen one other on the internet with the same style blade hold down (slightly ornate in the art nouveau style of the end of the 19th century) but it wasn't labeled either. Not that it matters, just a bit of curiosity.
iPhone image processed in Aquarella and layered with the original in Laminar Pro. The plane is a cleaned up resharpened find in my Dad's tool box. The shavings are from a cabinet door adjustment.
More lockdown still life photography. Another piece from the box of ancient woodworking tools. Shot in colour this time using the Canon 5DS & a Voigtlander 90mm f3.5 Apo-Lanthar Lens.
Here is the tips and tricks for woodworking projects and saved tons of money, here is the link for woodworking classes bit.ly/3fOw45N (copy and paste into the browser).
I saw this saddleback at Zealandia chipping away at the remains of this dead branch, presumably in its hunt for grubs that may have taken residence in the rotting wood.
I got too close and some of the debris fell on me in the process of taking this photo.