| This blog is written by CreekOne | 53 entries so far |
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Wood of the day #36: Brazilwood
Common name(s): Brazilwood, Pau-Brasil, Pau de Pernambuco, Pernambuco Tree, Nicaragua Wood,...
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Wood of the day #35: Lati
Common name(s): Lati, White Wenge, Yaya, Blaiglu, Vartu, Gbandi, Fantueh, Va-tue Botanica...
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Wood of the day #34: Tulip Poplar
Common name(s): Tulip Poplar, Poplar, Yellow-poplar, Tuliptree, American Tuliptree, Whitewo...
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Wood of the day #33: Ironwood (African)
Common name(s): Ironwood, Black Ironwood, Ysterhout, Swartysterhout, Eisenholz, Moraøane, S...
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Wood of the day #32: Singleleaf Pinyon
Common name(s): Singleleaf Piñon, Singleleaf Pinyon, One-leaved Pine, Gray Pine, Frémont Pi...
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Wood of the day #31: European Yew
Common name(s): European Yew, English Yew, Common Yew, Yew Botanical name: Taxus baccata ...
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Wood of the day #30: Whitebark Pine
Common name(s): Whitebark Pine, Whitestem Pine, Alpine Whitebark Pine, Pitch Pine, Scrub Pi...
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Wood of the day #29: Katsura
Common name(s): Katsura, カツラ, 桂 Botanical name: Cercidiphyllum japonicum Synonymous: Ce...
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Wood of the day #28: Catawba Rhododendron
Common name(s): Catawba Rhododendron, Mountain Rosebay, Purple Ivy, Purple Laurel, Purple R...
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Wood of the day #27: Mitzeeri
Common name(s): Mitzeeri, Bruin Stinkhout, Motsere, Ndzerhe, Costal Golden-leaf Botanical...
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Wood of the day #26: Ponderosa Pine
Common name(s): Ponderosa Pine, Yellow Pine, Western Yellow Pine, Bull Pine, Black Jack Pin...
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Wood of the day #25: Western White Pine
Common name(s): Western White Pine, Idaho White Pine, Silver Pine, California Mountain Pine...
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Wood of the day #24: Sheoak (Unknown Allocasuarina subspecies)
Common name(s): Sheoak Botanical name: Allocasuarina spp. Synonymous: __ Distribution...
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Wood of the day #23: Cumaru
Common name(s): Cumaru, Kumaru, Brazilian Teak, Tonka Bean Tree, Tonkin Bean Tree, Tonquin ...
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Wood of the day #22: Gray Pine
Common name(s): Gray Pine, Digger Pine, Ghost Pine, California Foothill Pine, Foothills Pin...
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Wood of the day #21: Jeffrey Pine
Common name(s): Jeffrey Pine, Jeffrey’s Pine, Yellow Pine, Black Pine Botanical nam...
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Wood of the day #20: Desert Ironwood
Common name(s): Desert Ironwood Botanical name: Olneya tesota Synonymous: __ Distribu...
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Wood of the day #19: American Sycamore
Common name(s): American Sycamore, American Planetree, Occidental Plane, Buttonwood Botan...
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Wood of the day #18: Stone Pine
Common name(s): Stone Pine, Mediterranean Stone Pine, Italian Stone Pine, Umbrella Pine, Pa...
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Wood of the day #17: Yarúa
Common name(s): Yarúa, Chakte-Viga Botanical name: Caesalpinia violacea Synonymous: __ ...
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Wood of the day #16: Verawood
Common name(s): Verawood, Vera, Palo Santo, Argentine Lignum-Vitae, Paraguay Lignum-Vitae ...
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Today I got a package...
Today a kind lady from DHL came by and dropped of a rather small, heavy square package… ...
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Wood of the day #15: Dawn Redwood
Common name(s): Dawn Redwood, Shui-shan 水杉 (Water Fir) Botanical name: Metasequoia glypto...
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Wood of the day #14: Sequoia (Burl)
Common name(s): Sequoia, Redwood, Coast Redwood, Coastal Redwood, California Redwood Bota...
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Wood of the day #13: Sequoia (Old growth)
Common name(s): Sequoia, Redwood, Coast Redwood, Coastal Redwood, California Redwood Bota...
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Wood of the day #12: Giant Sequoia (Old growth)
Common name(s): Giant Sequoia, Giant Redwood, Sierra Redwood, Sierran Redwood, Wellingtonia...
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Wood of the day #11: Giant Sequoia (Curly)
Common name(s): Giant Sequoia, Giant Redwood, Sierra Redwood, Sierran Redwood, Wellingtonia...
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Wood of the day #10: Norfolk Island Pine
Common name(s): Norfolk Island Pine, Star Pine, Triangle Tree, Living Christmas Tree Bota...
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Wood of the day #9: Atlas Cedar
Common name(s): Atlas Cedar Botanical name: Cedrus atlantica Synonymous: Cedrus libani ...
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Wood of the day #8: Balsam Poplar
Common name(s): Balsam Poplar, Bam, Bamtree, Eastern Balsam Poplar, Hackmatack, Tacamahac P...
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Wood of the day #7: Scots Pine
Common name(s): Scots Pine, Scots Fir, Scotch Fir, Riga Pine, Norway Pine, Mongolian Pine, ...
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Machine restoration #4: Electricity
So, now that cleaning is done, I’m only missing power.When I bought the machine the last ow...
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Wood of the day #6: Dark Red Meranti
Common name(s): Dark Red Meranti, Dark Red Lauan, Dark Red Seraya Botanical name: Shorea ...
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Wood of the day #5: Amazon Rosewood
Common name(s): Amazon Rosewood, Amazonas Palisander, Amazon Jacaranda, Pará Jacaranda, Pre...
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Wood of the day #4: Japanese White Pine
Common name(s): Japanese White Pine, Japanese five-needle pine Botanical name: Pinus parv...
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Wood of the day #3: Swedish Whitebeam
Common name(s): Swedish Whitebeam, Oxel Botanical name: Sorbus intermedia Synonymous: S...
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Wood of the day #2: Cocobolo
Common name(s): Cocobolo, Cocobola, Caviuna, Cocobolo Prieto, Funeram, Granadillo, Jacarand...
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Wood of the day #1: Osage Orange
Common name(s): Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Bois d’arc, Horse Apple Botanical name: Maclur...
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Machine restoration #3: More cleaning... And a "dry assembly"
So, after a day of cleaning and a night of sleep I just have to say, Shame on you who don’t...
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Machine restoration #2: Cleaning begins...
Today I started the slow and soothing work of cleaning my new old Stenberg KET 600. There are...
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Machine restoration #1: Long time, no see...
Hi all, I have not had time to write here for a while, much to do in school and than the western ...
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Education #5: Small side table done.
It has now been som hectic weeks and i havet not had time to post any blog Posts but an update is...
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Japanese Tools #4: More things happened this weekend.
I have this Chouna, it was all black/brown and after about a day in citric acid and a lot of scru...
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Japanese Tools #3: Saw fixing weekend
So, I have these saws. These are old, how old, I don’t know but they are handmade, most ...
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Japanese Tools #2: Vocabulary.
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, PLEASE HELP ME FILL THIS OUT.Send me a message or a comment to add st...
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Education #4: Finally, the parquet is done.
So after two weeks of work and experimenting I have finally finished the parquet. All the 120 ...
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Japanese Tools #1: This is the start of a new series where I'm going to clean and fix up tools, specifically Japanese
So. This is the first of hopefully many posts about fixing up Japanese tools, I have a lot of old...
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Education #3: Sharpening
After spending one hour flatening the stones in school i hade to spend an hour flatening and shar...
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Education #2: Sidetable part 2
After a day of laying parquet i realise that the angle is off, just slight but enough to make...
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rain and parqet..
So, yesterday the shop was flooded, veneers floating around all over, jigs all became trash and m...
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School workshop.
This is two of the machine shops in school, there are lots more.My bench: Machine shop 1 ...
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Education #1: Side table part one.
This is the first post about my latest project, a small sidetabe. The Originals where made by ...
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First post
So, this is my first post. I was thinking of taking some photos of my home workshop but the camer...
