green woodwork

8 min read 2023-05-19 02:51:00

Weaving a Seat With Danish Cord

A few weeks ago I made a post and rung stool from fresh-cut wood. The following picture was taken about that time when I was just experimenting

7 min read 2023-05-05 07:17:00

I needed a project to use the fresh-cut wood that I split out last month. The inspiration probably came from some Follansbee work I've seen, but

4 min read 2023-04-14 07:43:00

Some recent storms here in northern California took down a bunch of trees. I grabbed a couple pieces from an ornamental flowering tree, possibly a

5 min read 2022-11-18 17:30:00

In the last blog of this series, we looked at seasoning, and how it concerns our greenwood carving projects. With that in mind we can now move onto

6 min read 2022-11-11 17:30:00

In this greenwood carving aftercare series we covered abraiding and burnishing last time and in this weeks blog we will be looking at how to allow

4 min read 2022-09-23 04:28:00

A neighbor recently gave me an 8-foot 4x4. Rather than let it lie around in my small shop, I thought I'd make a chopping block from it.Chopping

3 min read 2022-07-15 03:37:00

A few weeks ago I wrote about cutting a branch of a pittosporum and that I'd hoped to make some spoons from it. Well from the 6 blanks that I

2 min read 2022-07-08 00:02:00

Last week I wrote about making a shave pony, but I didn't have enough practice with it to figure out its faults. Since then, I've used it more and

5 min read 2022-07-01 10:43:00

Oh, how I wish for more space. It'd be great to have a full size shaving horse, but I just don't need one badly enough to justify the space it

3 min read 2022-06-24 04:13:00

I've done a fair amount of reading about working with green wood, but don't generally have access to fresh-cut wood, so I have a lot of questions.