Other woodworking

This post is long overdue. I’ve been postponing this one, because it’s a lot to write about. In turn, it became a lot more to write about by postponing. I’ve decided to give a short summary of this project. It’s not a success story, but I learned a lot and I’m still pretty happy with […]

Whenever trees are cut down or heavily pruned, I try to get some nice bits to carve. One of my neighbours was cutting down a young pencil cedar a few weeks back, and I got this beautiful branch.

On our way to our holiday destination in the south of Slovakia, my girlfriend an I visited Dictum last summer. I think it’s the largest store for traditional tools and supplies, located in southern Bavaria. Judging by the prestige and fame of this shop, I was hoping for a massive store to wander through for […]

As I said in my post about a leather case for my essential leatherworking tools, I’ll be doing some travelling soon, and I want to take some of my tools with me. For this, I made a lightweight, Japanese-inspired toolbox. It’s made out of tulipwood (or yellow poplar, liriodendron tulipiferia), which is not native to […]

These are some kitchen utensils – two spatula’s and a shallow spoon – I carved last week. The wood came from a big oak log that I’m slowly but surely turning into a hewing bench. More on that soon. I made a little video of how I carve a spatula:

This is my first spoon. I carved it last week from a piece of cleft oak from the log that I’m building a hewing bench out of. There’ll be a post on that very soon.

This is a plough plane I picked up at a flea market a couple of weeks ago. It was in pretty good shape, just a bit rusty and dirty. And it had a lacquer on it that I didn’t like, and some parts had dried up glue stuck on them. Other than that, it looked […]