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Should have been a stonemason
RichardWell I would have been a stonemason if I’d been born a hundred years ago. My Great Uncle Martin. Several of my ancestors worked in stone and what work those old masons used to produce. Here is...
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What’s my (s)tool?
Richard Answer tomorrow after I’ve delivered it to my customer. Flying Shavings
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Not a stool, but a useful horse with dogs.
RichardIt turns out to be a mini sawing horse designed to be held in a WorkMate vice/bench. It is after the style of Owen Jones’. I only supply logs to a single customer now – an old friend – and my...
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Rhubarb,rhubarb, rhubarb.
RichardOK, day off again yesterday, where did we go, what did we see? We went somewhere dark,and warm, where a 30 second exposure is needed to capture the scene. It was here: Inside this shed: Those...
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Big stool flattened
RichardYou may remember this hazel coppice stool I’ve spent ages taking down: Well yesterday, I finally cut it back to the level where we expect basal shoots to grow. It took quite some work with the...
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Not Spring yet
RichardAlthough March is now with us and it also stopped raining about two weeks ago, the temperature is still dropping to below freezing most nights. However, it’s sunny, and last week I enjoyed a...
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New project
RichardOK, what’s Landroverman up to now? (Looks like something’s wrong with the new camera?) Ah! Secret plans. Looks to be some trig. in there too. Hum, inch mortise holes. Dodgy pegged lap joints...
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Project space backwards
RichardSo, this is it: A bodgery enlargement (not an extension, it sits on the same footprint). The mystery frame from my last post has created a back wall, where the back section of what is now the...
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Correction
RichardSilly me. The excellent colour-changing sculpture at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is not by Gormley (Sorry Antony, but it may actually be a compliment:) It is by Jaume Plensa. I missed his...
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Blown away by the North Easterlies
Richard Hi all! Where did March go? Blown away by the evil Easterly wind blowing in from the frozen continent. It has been a bit harsh here for March. This last one was taken from a railway carriage...
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Could Spring be far behind?
RichardAlthough the snow drifts from over a week ago are still melting, and night temperatures are near freezing and the dread NE wind doth both still (but a little less strongly), there are signs that...
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Memory box
RichardThe memory box I’ve been working on for some time is now just about finished. It is really a joinery item, and as such tried my skills to their limits, and probably increased them. Dare I...
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Complicated
Richard Do you know what I like about trees? They have no straight lines - especially if, like this one (probably a veteran ash – has lots of missing branches, associated fungi and a massive girth...
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A Correction for Laziness
RichardTitle page of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1600 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve been struggling along with a sash cramp made up of Marples loose heads and a...
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East Riddlesden Hall Shepherd’s chair
RichardYesterday we went to East Riddlesden Hall, which is our local National Trust property and is on a scale that suits us best. It’s really not much more than a farm house, but was enlarged and...
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Riving, hewing and speed planing green oak
RichardA little Spring fog yesterday morning in the forestry yard, lighting the charcoal kiln was the main cause. I’m progressing with the shepherd’s chair, with more splitting out of components, I...
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All around my hat …
Richard Well Spring has certainly well and truly sprung and it’s so busy – bees: Went to an auction at Brickhill Farm (above) run by Halifax Bee Keepers Association yesterday and there was quite a lot...
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Story chair update
RichardNow where was I? Keep getting interrupted by courses, stove remodelling, fitting doors, skirting boards, bees etc, etc. Well yesterday I found I had to split out some more oak for a back panel...
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