For your education and enjoyment, here are three short films of woodland crafts from British Pathe, a huge library of vintage films: This short English video shows the making of trugs. I love the shot of the steam box. What…
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Hewing a behemoth bowl/Comb Back class
My greenwood week students are making small bowls this week and I promised them I would post this video of a German dude making a small bowl. I just watched it again for fun: The tools in the windowsill are…
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“Growth, Mentorship and Joyfulness”
Sangjie Zhaxi is a documentary studies student at Duke University who spent a semester in my shop, taking photos and talking about his life in Tibet. His grandparents in the countryside of Tibet were woodworkers and lived a simple life…
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German Wheelwright Videos
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been searching for old wheelwright videos. I only found a couple of interest, until I started searching for “Radmacher” and other applicable German words. Score! It makes me wonder how many wonderful…
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Wheelwright Videos
I’ll be teaching a weelbarrow-making class with Peter Ross the blacksmith next month (there’s still a couple spots left) and we’ll be making the wheels too. I know little about making wheels, but luckily Peter knows quite a bit, having…
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Pitch Forks
Curtis Buchanan called last week. We talked of our class schedules, springpole lathes (we are both building one) and the book Curtis is reading Craeft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts. Curtis is persuasive; I…
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Birch Bark Canoe
César’s Bark Canoe, Bernard Gosselin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada A follower of this blog sent me the link to this video about a Native American making a canoe with a dozen tools and four materials: birch…
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The Chairmaker and the Boys
The Chairmaker and the Boys, , provided by the National Film Board of Canada Since my last post I found this fictional video from 1959 of a couple boys playing at Ernest Hart’s mill and chair shop. The shop seems…
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