Great pamphlet, good drawings and photos, plus some really nice furniture designs. You can scout around on this website for other vintage publications.
https://archive.org/stream/buildingwithlogs579fick#page/32/mode/2up
Sent by Jon Kalish, with note: “…in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont.”
“Lloyd, I was trying to figure out what to make my son for Christmas, and saw your post on Indian Clubs. Off I went on Google….and what a discovery! If Amazon’s sold out, then I’m gonna make some! I got digging in the lumber pile this morning and found some dry Douglas Fir 4×4, and had this pair of 2 pounders buffed up by mid-afternoon. The big challenge in turning these is to make the second one exactly like the first.
I’ve been doing a bit of boogie with them to the shop radio , make sure there’s swinging room for sure, and I feel ENERGIZED! Maybe I should read the operator’s manual?
Behind the clubs on Santa’s workbench you can see a new pair of Xantho-cypress salad forks, some 90″ Sitka spoon oars ready for collars, and a couple of experimental Yuloh pivots for the catboat, one Locust and one Rock Maple dipped in cuprinol. Godfrey will know what that’s all about.
~david shipway
sutil point (Cortes Island, BC)”
(David is one of the featured builders in Builders Of the Pacific Coast.)
“Eric Hollenbeck is a master woodworker who owns and operates the Blue Ox Millworks in Eureka, CA. The Ox is a lovely short film about Hollenbeck directed by Ben Proudfoot…”
Sent by Kevin Kelly.
Also see: https://www.blueoxmill.com/
“Eric Hollenbeck, his family and staff welcome you to the Blue Ox Millworks, where the craftsmanship tools and techniques of the last century are utilized to produce authentic custom millwork for private homes and commercial buildings throughout the United States. …”
Mother Earth News is just starting this up. TMEN has something like half a million copies out per month, so this could be a good way for natural builders to get local work.
“If you are a natural or green builder, please add yourself to the map. The map is for anyone who builds green homes, such as passive solar homes, or builds using straw bale, cob, cordwood, timber frames, logs, earthbags, or other natural materials.…”
Click here.
Television of Late
Preceding the big game between the 49ers and Seahawks last week, a talentless babe sang an insipid song that ended with “…because the NFL rocks on NBC.” Barf. NBC piled on layers of shtick that made the game seem more showbiz than football.
Newsroom: the last 2 episodes were brilliant (“Election Night #1,” “Election Night #2). Lightning fast dialogue.
Woodworkers tool catalog:
https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/
North House Folk School is a wonderful place that offers a huge range of classes in traditional crafts. I recommend getting their catalog: https://www.northhouse.org/
Outdoors Over an inch of rain a few days ago. The garden is loving it. Unusual this time of year. Tom Stienstra, SF Chronicle outdoors writer, says that the Ohlone (San Francisco’s native tribe) predicted a big winter when:
a) acorns dropped early
b) bears grew shiny winter coast early, and both things have happened this year. Here’s hoping…
Autumnal Equinox yesterday Autumn elsewhere is summer here in NorCal. It’s warm today, and nice feeling from moisture in the ground left by the rains.
Today, from our brothers in France, Yogan and Menthé, prolific carpenters, whose work appears in Tiny Homes, and will be in Tiny Homes on the Move:
“hi lloyd, with Menthé we construct a new cabin, “the boat of tree,” we finish it in two weeks, i send you the first photo…”
Yogan’s website here.
Yogan’s blog here.
Menthés blog here.
“A short documentary about the craft and philosophy of wooden boat carpentry.
Directed by Kat Gardiner, produced by Kat Gardiner & Nathan Walker”
Sent us by Mike W
A long video, but a good one.
Thanks to Mike W.
This is a very good book on construction of a small building. The author is a good teacher; he walks you through the entire process of construction, from foundation to roof, in a way that’s understandable to novices. The drawings are great: helpful and friendly. Ostensibly for kids building clubhouses, but it’s also a very good starting manual for anyone building their first small structure.
From Storey Publishing here.