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View fullsize It’s shark cookie time of year again🦈 Happy Holidays πŸŽ„ #sharkcookies
View fullsize Kumiko weekend at PFW! On Day 1 we focused on hand-sawing accurate Jigumi or pattern structure, then began using paring jigs to create the basic Asa-no-ha (hemp leaf) pattern in Alaskan yellow cedar - which smells great by the way! #woodschool #tradi
View fullsize I’m delighted to return to Anderson Ranch Arts Center this summer to teach Essentials of Chair Making! @andersonranchartscenter, July 1 - 12 in beautiful Snowmass, CO. Two weeks of exploring chair design and construction techniques to create a
View fullsize Using hikouki kanna to thickness kumiko pieces for next week's Japanese lantern (Andon) making class at @philadelphia_furnitureworkshop. There are still a couple of spaces available if you can't wait to make your own yellow cedar lantern with kumiko
View fullsize Applewood to ziricote, sawn marquetry veneers #marquetry #sawnveneers
View fullsize Marquetry with sawn veneers #marquetry
View fullsize Despite the drill, no birds were harmed #marquetry
View fullsize Warm-up marquetry for the current project. #marquetry #sawnveneers
View fullsize Sawn marquetry veneers, 2mm thick #marquetry #sawnveneers
View fullsize γγ‚γŒγ‚“γͺ (kiwa-ganna) rabbet-cutting plane, picked up at a flea market in Japan awhile back. Finally coaxed the side blade out of the dai so that I can now sharpen it. I think this kanna has had a nice working life so far. The main blade sharpened very
View fullsize Lag bolt. Rolled off the workbench a few weeks ago. Still stuck in the floor #easilyamused
View fullsize Winter commute a few days ago. Crunchy snow. Lots of falling #surlyogre #icetires #worldsworstsnowcycler #swearing
View fullsize Morning kumiko
View fullsize This tiny Japanese plane eases edges and makes small chamfers. It’s about as long as my little finger and has a 10mm laminated blade. In Japanese it's “mameganna” (豆鉋) which means “as little as a bean plane”. It’s
View fullsize A light tap snugs the wooden wedges. The edge-joined veneers are weighted for about 30 minutes while the glue dries. On to the next pair #sawnveneers #finefurniture #hornbeam #oneofakind
View fullsize Edge-gluing sawn hornbeam veneers using wooden wedges. Just a little pressure makes a tight, invisible joint. Some glue squeeze out means it's just about right. #sawnveneers #hornbeam #oneofakind #finefurniture
View fullsize It's all in the pinky! Laying a bead of glue on the edge of the sawn hornbeam veneer. The little finger makes a convenient fence for the tip of the glue bottle. #oneofakind #sawnveneers #hornbeam #finefurniture
View fullsize Edge jointing a pair of hornbeam veneers using one of the wooden jointer/shooting planes I make. After thickness sanding, the veneers are a strong 1/16" or 2mm thick. Thick enough to later hand-plane the surface and still thin enough that wood m
View fullsize Finished hornbeam veneers ready to be trimmed, then book-matched or slip-matched and edge-glued together. A cabinetmaker’s triangle drawn on the end of the thick plank prior to resawing allows me to keep the veneers organized and in sequence. I
View fullsize Resawn hornbeam veneers, 13 of 14 shown here. The 14th piece (the last piece from the plank) is a little thicker than these, but too thin to accurately and safely resaw. It will instead be thickness planed down to the shy 1/8” thickness of it&r