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Visit to a Springfield Museum
The English colonist William Pynchon founded the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, naming it after his hometown of Springfield, Essex (England). While there are many Springfields in the US - that's...
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Japanese Gate Typology (21)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (22)
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Japanese Gate Typology (23)
Today marks - uh, well, a couple of days belatedly in truth - the 4th anniversary of the Carpentry Way!! After 611 posts, and more than 643,000 page views, this is still going strong. I would like...
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Japanese Gate Typology (24)
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Japanese Gate Typology (25)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (26)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (27)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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French Connection 9
It's been a while since I updated this series - a bit over 3 years in fact. After my various frustrations with drawing dormers in the 19th century Mazerolle book Traité Théorique et Pratique de...
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Japanese Gate Typology (28)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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French Connection 10
Continuing on with the drawing work on the 19th century layout exercise of a three-legged bench with various arrangements of scissor braces - or Saltaire crosses as they are also termed.I started with...
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Japanese Gate Typology (29)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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French Connection 11
A received a question recently concerning the applicability of this three legged bench - did people make these? Well, yes - here's at least one, a scale model:This three-legged bench is really a...
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Moving Along a New Plane of Reality
Today's post is all about transcendence, though concerned merely with aspects of physical reality not spiritual. Best I can do at the moment I'm afraid. That said, my spirits are definitely on the...
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New Plane of Reality (II)
Getting the planer off the pallet required a little head-scratching as I lack a forklift. In the past when taking machines off of pallets I've made use of pivoting the center of mass around, using lots...
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New Plane of Reality (III)
Well, today I was able to talk to a guy named Norbert in Kaslo, B.C. who runs tersaknives.com. He's Swiss and definitely knows his stuff. I told him what I had done and as I feared, the cutterhead will...
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French Connection 12
I had moved my drawing of the three-legged bench, a layout project intended for the study of placing Saltaire crosses with their pieces in various rotations in between posts and beams which are not...
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New Plane of Reality (IV)
The adventure continues with my newly-received SCM S-630 planer. I've been doing a fair bit of research on Tersa heads, past and present, including looking over the original patents, been in touch with...
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New Plane of Reality (V)
Well a week has gotten by me since the last post, and most of those intervening days have featured time working on the planer or at the very least thinking about working on the planer. It's been a bit...
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A few weeks ago I received some comments on the 'French Connection' series. The reader stated that he wasn't "convinced" by my approach and that I had wandered off from "real world" carpentry by making...
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