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What is green woodworking?
What makes the joinery I practice “green” woodworking? Way back in the late 1970s, I read two books that ultimately directed my woodworking towards what it is now. Make a Chair from a Tree, by John A… more →
Peter Follansbee, joiner's notes
what is green woodworking?
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pfollansbee wrote 6 days ago: What makes the joinery I practice “green” woodworking? Way back in the late 1970s, I read two books … more →
more carving & riving cedar
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pfollansbee wrote 1 week ago: carved flatsawn oak panel a follow-up from yesterday. Here is the flatsawn red oak panel, now carved … more →
Atlantic white cedar moldings
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pfollansbee wrote 1 week ago: Atlantic white cedar for moldings I recently got a small quantity of Atlantic white cedar, which I s … more →
more sources for 17th-century furniture studies
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pfollansbee wrote 1 week ago: In an earlier post, I mentioned a number of sources for study concerning seventeenth-century furnitu … more →
a couple of books
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pfollansbee wrote 1 week ago: oaks in Sibley's tree guide Just a note about a couple of books I have been reading lately. Firs … more →
next box-to-be
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pfollansbee wrote 2 weeks ago: carving for next box front As it turned out, I had some time today to work on the next box, so I got … more →
new carved box
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pfollansbee wrote 2 weeks ago: newest small box This summer I saw a very nice, small box made in New England, c. 1660-1700. Its rea … more →
more about scribed layout lines
pfollansbee wrote 3 weeks ago: For those of you who have read this blog a while, you will have seen before how Jennie Alexander … more →
scribe lines
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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 →
Devon furniture on display in Exeter
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: James Conrad, a regular reader of this blog, sent me a comment about an exhibition next week in Exet … more →
better than nothing
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: flatsawn oak, in joined chest This piece of wood looks like a bad day at the workbench; knots & … more →
I forgot stability
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: splitting radial panel stock with a froe In my last post, the one about riven oak & how great it … more →
there's oak, then there's riven oak
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: flatsawn red oak The other day I bought this piece of wood at one of the large “home-improveme … more →
new mortise chisel
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: The work I do requires lots of mortises each year. A chest like this has 26 mortises, a joined stoo … more →
New England Begins on ebay
pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: New England Begins Last week I posted some reference materials for studies of 17th-c New England fur … more →
carving video
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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
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: nails secure chest panel for carving While I was demonstrating carving panels at Woodworking in Amer … more →
home again
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: I returned the other day from the Woodworking in America conference in Valley Forge, PA. It was quit … more →
some reference material for seventeenth-century furniture studies
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pfollansbee wrote 1 month ago: Folks who attended some of my carving demonstrations at the Woodworking in American conference this … more →
