Blogs about: Carved Oak
Featured Blog
Shop cleaning & blog update
First thing I do each year at work when the museum closes for the winter is to give my shop a complete cleaning/sorting and re-organizing. It takes a few days to really get it all done…today was… more →
Peter Follansbee, joiner's notes
more carving & riving cedar
— 2 comments
pfollansbee wrote 2 weeks ago: carved flatsawn oak panel a follow-up from yesterday. Here is the flatsawn red oak panel, now carved … more →
scribe lines
— 6 comments
pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: joinery scribed on face of chest A reader asked about the scribe lines I left showing on some carvin … more →
better than nothing
— 3 comments
pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: flatsawn oak, in joined chest This piece of wood looks like a bad day at the workbench; knots & … more →
carving video
— 4 comments
pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: Well, I got “Hultman’d” the other day… for those who don’t know what t … more →
nails, not clamps
— 2 comments
pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: nails secure chest panel for carving While I was demonstrating carving panels at Woodworking in Amer … more →
preparation for "Woodworking in America"
— 5 comments
pfollansbee wrote 2 months ago: preparation underway The picture is the result of some preparation undeway for my trip to the Woodw … more →
one more road trip, Valley Forge, Oct 2-4
— 4 comments
pfollansbee wrote 3 months ago: It seemed like a good idea at the time…Chris Schwarz wrote to me & asked if I would be a p … more →
incised w/gouges versus V-tool
— 3 comments
pfollansbee wrote 4 months ago: Richard Francis, one of the readers of this blog, was kind enough to send me some photographs he sho … more →
Oak: a good reason to go to church
— 4 comments
pfollansbee wrote 4 months ago: I often get emails in addition to the comments posted on the blog…some with questions, others … more →
three hands carving again
— 2 comments
pfollansbee wrote 7 months ago: lunette, attr William Savell 1652-1700 carved lunette, attr John Savell 1642-1687 lunette, William S … more →
carving tools & panels
— 2 comments
pfollansbee wrote 7 months ago: A quick note to try to answer a couple of recent questions that come up while I was away. Regarding … more →
more carving patterns
— 5 comments
pfollansbee wrote 7 months ago: regarding the carved pattern I showed last night. Several readers commented asking about & specu … more →
more new carvings to come
— 5 comments
pfollansbee wrote 7 months ago: chest w drawer, Plymouth Antiquarian Society Last week I went to the Plymouth Antiquarian Society in … more →
recent projects
— 4 comments
pfollansbee wrote 8 months ago: I have a number of projects underway, as usual. I have just test-fitted these two joined stools, … more →
carved panel drawing
— 1 comment
pfollansbee wrote 8 months ago: Bromley carving, H Tanner drawing If you read the post last night about the early 20th century photo … more →
old book, new carving pattern
— 9 comments
pfollansbee wrote 8 months ago: I received a book in the mail the other day from Robin Fawcett, a pole-lathe turner I have crossed p … more →
more seventeenth-century English joinery
— 6 comments
pfollansbee wrote 9 months ago: pew paneling w spindles I’ve been rummaging around some photographs lately and found a coupl … more →
carving
— 9 comments
pfollansbee wrote 11 months ago: new Devon pattern I have been working on some carving/photography lately. A few projects coming up … more →
upcoming projects
— 1 comment
pfollansbee wrote 1 year ago: new carving detail Mostly I have been just splitting and planing red oak stock lately; but I did get … more →
