This first film is from a workshop I visited in 2000, I was still on a film camera then and my pictures are all slides so it was a treat to find this nice film of the ring turning process online. This is the workshop of Christian Werner of Seiffen a master ring turner. If you have not heard of…
A new film from Artisan Media hope you like it [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLpNNf4V5lU?rel=0]
No woodworking or crafts in this post just some inspirational people living lives to the full, believing in what they do and going their own way. Maybe taking the road less travelled. First up Lloyd Kahn, I first came across his inspirational book “Shelter” 20 or more years ago. What a treat to find him on the internet, he took…
Vintage David Attenborough showing how the Dogon people in Mali approach wood carving from part one the seven-part series “The Tribal Eye”. (1975) The felling of the limb is impressive as is the finish straight from the elbow adzes and the strong bold design. Stick with it to 8 1/2 minutes in and Attenborough’s comments on art object vs living…
We are so lucky that folk years ago filmed these for us and also that folk today are uploading them and making them available for free.Alex Stewart cooper [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb2zVpQGg4] I love this one Elizabeth Proper “it’s just a job, ya gotta eat” “I just like working wood that’s all”[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3egz1xnW_wA] and 90n yr old tinsmith John Forshee[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXutrIS1HY]
What can I say? just watched this and am blown away. “When I am working I am fully focused” [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/23095780 w=398&h=224]
Though being known primarily as a turner and carver I seem to be getting more and more involved in interesting boatbuilding projects. I have a long term dream of building a birch bark canoe and loved my time helping with a viking ship build. Another boat I would love to help build one time is an expanded dugout. These boats…
Here is a really nice film of Finnish blacksmith Jesse Sipola, he has developed a system of using hand held air hammers for fine forging work, particularly faces, it’s a nicely shot and edited film too. Worth double clicking to get full screen. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/32786485 w=400&h=225]Jesse Sipola, Seppä | Blacksmith (2011) from Eero Y on Vimeo.
This is an absolute gem. Sent to me by blog Reader Tim Marshall, recorded in 1984 two “bushmen” Bill Boyd and Mark Garner fell a tree, split “slabs” off it and hew them to make house timbers. I have worked with some seriously talented hewers in Japan, Germany and the best from the UK, when I watched the first few…
first a nice new one about rakemakers the Rudd family in Cumbria. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/4231211 w=400&h=225]16 TEETH – Cumbria’s last traditional rakemakers from Rii Schroer on Vimeo. and some old ones about sussex trug making, first in colour from 1963 TRUGS and then back to 1929 BASKET MEN OF SUSSEX and finally Irish coracle making, nice shots at the end of…
