2 hands woodcraft

More desk work.

2011-09-10T18:18:00.001-07:00

Detail shot of one of the uprights. Free hand chamfered with draw knife. And a shot of the whole base

Walnut desk

2011-08-27T15:21:00.001-07:00

A little more progress on the walnut desk.

Walnut desk

2011-08-20T09:13:00.001-07:00

One post fitted one to go on a huge walnut desk.

2011-08-14T13:11:00.001-07:00

Before and after

bowl making

2011-07-24T07:14:00.000-07:00

2011-06-26T14:44:00.000-07:00

A few shots of a new walnut rocker.

2011-05-29T19:20:00.001-07:00

1st coat of oil on new rocker.

2011-05-16T17:18:00.001-07:00

I have been doing a couple of designs over and over trying to increase my speed. These will all be $25.00 a piece if anyone is interested in a hand carved WORKING spoon.

2011-04-04T18:14:00.001-07:00

The beginnings of a couple of walnut rockets.

2011-03-27T12:48:00.000-07:00

been a little while so here is a update on whats been going on in my world.

1st off I've finished up few bowls.

these 2 are cherry and walnut freshly oiled

and the I've always got some spoons

in the works.

cherry,maple,holly,and walnut this time

and i also have been working on new bending fixtures for my chair,barstools,and rocker legs

and here is a walnut rocker leg steamed and bent in its drying form

2010-12-23T04:53:00.000-08:00

a few spoons and 2 new bar stools

2010-11-14T14:55:00.000-08:00

So I guess I’m pretty much a blogger slacker I suppose. But here are a couple of things I have been working on lately.

The first is another cherry chair I have been oiling up I am using a new type of oil, bio-shield that is supposed to be completely non-toxic. So far I really like it, seems to really soak in the wood and I love the fact I can rub it on without gloves.

And the second thing I have been doing is splitting fire wood I suppose this is pretty honest work by itself but it is especially nice when you find a piece or two in the pile you can make something out of. What I’ve got so far is some white oak that I think will make a nice welsh style chair. So i put the firewood on hold long enough to shave a few spindles.

2010-08-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

This Bradford pear spoon is on its way to join the collection of a Mr. Norman Stevens.

He has been collecting hand carved spoons since the early 1970s. And even though I have never thought of my woodcraft as collectable I was tickled to be contacted by Mr. Stevens and ask if I would make a spoon for his collection.

2010-07-12T18:06:00.000-07:00

Where I live it seems like everyone has a Bradford pear tree. The trouble with them is they don’t seem to stand up to storms very well. Well here is a recently completed spoon that came from a tree that went down in a recent storm.

The wood was a little tough to carve but it finished up pretty nice.

2010-06-05T17:15:00.000-07:00

Just picked up some wal-nut I had sawed. It tickles me to have fresh sawed 10/4 – 24” wide wal-nut boards in the barn.

wide striaght grained board nice!

2010-05-28T16:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a table I just finished. I am calling it a slant leg couch table. It is made out of quarter sawn white oak. The top is 1-1/8” thick and has bread board ends. The little bead detail you see running around the sides is not an applied piece of molding it is actually a thick piece of wood edge glued to the to the sides of the boards that make up the aprons. I’m sorry the pictures are so bad I might have to actually buy a decent camera some day. (Its low priority right now though.)

2010-05-02T11:56:00.000-07:00

Ok so I went with a friend of mine a week or so ago to visit with chair maker Curtis Buchanan.

Curtis is truly a master chair maker but I think the thing I admire most is that he has managed to make his living working at something he truly loves. I admire his lifestyle as much as his chairs, but anyway while we were in Tennessee I picked up a few pieces of walnut. This is a couple of spoons I have made so far from that wood.

by the way the spoon in the middle is from a piece of birch the same friend gave me.

2010-03-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

Two recently compleated oak chairs

2010-03-21T14:27:00.001-07:00

Fresh sawed cherry

2010-03-14T09:45:00.000-07:00

This one has a little chip carving on the handle. It would make a real nice kitchen spoon.

cherry $35.00

2010-02-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

here's a few picture's of my latest cherry ladle

all of these cherry spoons i have been showing were carved out of small logs cleared for a new house that would have otherwise been used for fire wood or just pushed in a pile and left to rot.

i really like the idea of making something useful out of what would have otherwise been considered useless.

2010-01-30T13:06:00.000-08:00

I haven’t had a lot of time for blogging lately. I have been really busy trying to get caught up with orders.

But here is a few more spoons. They are all cherry the light ones are from the sap wood.

As you can see they are finished completely with knife (no sandpaper).

This makes for a much more interesting surface and no mistaking that it was made by a human being.
And though it lacks the machine perfect straight lines,

I think this is exactly the kind of thing the world needs. Something made by a person for a person.
But then again if you need a perfect, boring, run of the mill spoon there’s a wall-mart on ever corner

2010-01-02T13:26:00.000-08:00

Well it’s turned really cold here so I am trying to stay real close to the old woodstove.

I am working on a red oak rib back chair, fitting the back ribs.

Don’t worry about the mess on my table I seem to get along better among chaos.

Here I am fitting the sides with a block plane.

It’s hard to beat a good knife.

Good tight fit.

2009-12-18T13:19:00.000-08:00

Well here is the snow. Good day to split into that cherry.

This is a good way to get chair material because the split will follow the grain of the wood making for a really strong part.

2009-12-17T14:39:00.001-08:00

I had this couple come by last week and wanted to see if I could build them a set of dinning room chairs out of some cherry logs they had cut on there property. This is a picture of the logs I am going to try and post as I make them so you can see a little of the process.

2009-12-12T15:14:00.000-08:00

This is a couple of cherry barstools I made recently.

Bottom has a woven hickory bark seat.
I cut the octagon legs free hand with a drawknife so as not to look machine made.
I think that we are so accustomed to the perfectly machined surfaces from the mass produced goods around us it’s nice to see something that has a little life left in it.

2009-12-11T15:26:00.000-08:00

"The apparent

"perfection" of some machined operations has

trapped the craftsman into feeling that this is the

way it should be. There is no excuse for lazy or

shoddy work, hand or machine, but it is nice to

think that this table or this chair was made by

a human being." JOHN BROWN

2009-12-07T16:15:00.000-08:00

Here is a little carving in wild cherry.

Not sure what one would use it for but it would make a nice center piece for the table.

2009-12-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

One of the nice things about having a piece of furniture hand made for you and not buying it from a big box store is that you can have the dimensions adjusted to suit you. This is a chair I made with a seat height about 2” higher than normal to help with back and hip problems.

Red oak fan back price $300.00

2009-12-03T18:07:00.001-08:00

This is a large ladle I carved from wild cherry that was cut down from a clearing for a new house.

Again this is finished only with sharp tools. The curve in the bowl comes from a natural crook in the branch.

This makes it strong because the grain follows the shape.

Dimensions=16”long x3&1/2”

Price $65.00

whos.amung.us

2009-12-01T18:18:00.001-08:00

2009-12-01T18:07:00.000-08:00

This is a bowl/tray I carved a while back.

It was made out of popular and finished with sharp tools only (no sandpaper).

My 2 kids thought it looked kind of like a snake and so it has 2 eyes.

Price $250.00

2009-11-30T14:59:00.000-08:00

This is a white oak rocker I made from a huge log destined for firewood.

The back legs have been steamed and bent into a double bend for comfort.
It has been fumed with ammonia to give it the dark color like the old arts and crafts furniture.
It has a hickory bark bottom. Sorry the picture is not too good. Price $1500.00

2009-11-29T14:39:00.000-08:00

My name is Matthew comer. I guess you would consider me a country woodworker.

I work mostly with green wood, although I have been known to do more conventional style woodcraft also.

I have never claimed to be an artist just a woodworker. Just about all of the things I make are meant to be used ,with the intention they will grow more beautiful over time. I am going to start by posting a picture of my shop from the outside and also a shot of the inside with a walnut rocker in construction. (That is if I can figure out how to post them)