I used this technique on some gentlemen's valet boxes about 6 years ago that I built from purple heart. After hours on each (I built them for xmas gifts), the finish was like purple glass and they still look that way today. Having found the "extra" box that I was going to build for myself at the time, I'm excited to be back here again watching this and remembering how amazing this process was as I finally get to build my own. Just put the headphones in or turn the TV on and get to rubbin'. It's time consuming and worth every hand cramp that it causes.
I absolutely detest Poly for almost anything I make. I hate the smell, I hate the mess, and I don't like the idea of encasing beautiful wood in plastic. It's also a nightmare for repairing/refinishing. I've found that the claims of its durability are overblown and don't come anywhere near to justifying its use given the other drawbacks. Lacquer is better but you still have the smell and mess. Shellac is great but it's a bit finicky and it's not the most durable finish out there. For most of my projects I like to use Tung Oil and beeswax. I like the luster and soft glow you can get pretty easily. I'd never considered using just straight beeswax as a finish, but I will certainly give it a try, particularly on pieces where I don't want the extra darkening (or yellowing on lighter woods) that Tung oil usually produces. I spent six years in the Marine Corps, so I'm VERY familiar with the idea of spit polishing, but again, never even considered it for wood.
Кери, я сам очень серьёзно занимаюсь бондарством. На все диаметры я изготовил бондарные скобы(шаблоны). И по ним контролирую все размеры. А на глаз очень сложно. Спасибо за мастерство и за терпение.
Thank you for keeping the old methods alive. I worked in a cabinet maker shop years ago. The guy wouldn't touch anything less than 200 years old. Worked on a lot of museum pieces. He had me to put 6 coats of Johnson's paste wax on a 200 plus year old baby cradle for a couple, charged them $600 and they were tickled to pay it. It did look gorgeous, but the feel 🤗❤
Do you think using just the Johnsons paste wax alone would work well with antique furniture, I've been using Murphys oil soap to clean it, but wanted to wax it next, thx !
Well Kari, I don't know if you ever go back and look at comments on your 10 year old videos... But I wanted to take this opportunity to say "Thank you" for these RU-vid posts. 10 years ago I wouldn't have been interested, but just tripped over your channel, and.. "Thanks". Watching you do the chip carving.. while 'not an expert' was quite fine. I just started and would be quite content to be as good as this video. :-) And the other videos... WWIA, Peter Folansbee... Yeah, very glad I found these, and that you posted them. :-)
You know if she got with others to make an instructional on making everything, there's people that would like to have it. Where Mother Earth News and Countryside magazine would like to do an article on making barrels and the Cooper trade I would bet.
I love old time skills like this. Where a homestead that evolves off the old time skills could evolve into cottage industries, which others probably would like to visit as well as experience making things themselves. An intentional community similiar to Bruderhoff, having waterwheels in a clean freshwater creek that runs year round even in drought. Then a vineyard, orchards of various fruit. Heirloom farming, as well as medicinal herbs for health. Where in contrast to commercial food, it'd be heirloom food the way God designed it, which requires more effort and land, but things would contain phytochemicals and just natural, which I think would deter cancers and diseases. But she has a jam up operation here. Oh, I bet homegrown tobacco would make a good companion plant that deters bugs and pests, then harvested and cured naturally, I do not think it'd be as apt to cause cancer. Which it might even be kind of Amish/Hutterites like, but different where it'd be people of faith with positive attitudes and proper perspectives. Like animals treated like they should be treated. Alongside a river might be better. Which go back 20 years ago, by now it would be totally functional. Of course there's others that always want to put their people in, where this would be my people I chose. Which being a Constitutional Republic, I have that right. Something like a Skete, which is a religious monastery, which is something like a monastery, but a bit more humanistic. European like. Similiar to Bruderhoff, completely private and no government involved. Only certain types can qualify.
This has inspired me to try this! However, no results are produced when I search for "primary" knives, and all the standard chip carving knives seemed to be bevelled. Can you tell me what I need to search for to find similar knives so I can get started?
With this method it doesn't matter! You can even skip it entirely since it doesn't do shit to protect the wood. I don't get why people are praising this video. There is more than one very compelling reason they don't do it like this anymore.
I've been carving for several years. I have carved faces, Celtic spoons, relief, etc. I go to a carving class, but I only carve at class. I need to carve daily like when I first started. I'm going to work on chip carving. It's on my bucket list!
