Wood Turning a Nantucket Basket Mold on the 1946 Atlas Screw Making Engine

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In 1946, my Grandfather gave $647 for this Lathe & used it for decades to make his own screws.That was a half a years wages back then & I still marvel at this tool. Converted to use as a wood turning lathe for the last 30 years & source of thousands of turnings… It is my most important tool…As a Tool Maker, one of the most important aspects in Making is creating a velvety smooth working surface & that is where the reversing
switch on this tool comes in handy...

1946 Atlas Craftsman Screw Making Engine

 

Nantucket Basket Making is another Colonial Maritime Craft that deserves wider use...We
will have a 1st Principles Nantucket Basket Making Video up soon...

Nantucket Basket Molds with Reeds Drying to Shape

 

The concept of the slotted base that fixes the reed and the mold that fixes the shape
have been bound by tradition for centuries.

A Tool for a Maker’s Odyssey
 

 As an innovation in Basket Making and a departure for experimentation and study, the Nantucket Basket Mold is a tool like no other.

Hyper Stereo Pairs in HDR:

White Sands National Monument Central Dune Field at Sunset
 

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In the Tularosa Basin ...

White Sands National Monument

This Hyper Stereo Pair, taken at sunset with the lens stopped all the way down. The exposure runs at about 2-3 seconds.

It is in the central dune field a couple of miles from the road looking due north towards the Trinity Site...It seems like another planet when you are there. That there might be a vast sandworm waiting unseen, with a Galactic Heighliner floating overhead...That's what time in the New Mexico desert will do to your mind....32.835336,-106.261772

Hyper Stereo requires a Longer baseline for enhanced 3D.
The White Sands Dune Field Stereo Pair was taken with a Sony A350...

The interaxial stereo base is the distance between the ‘eyes’...If your eyes measured 1 Meter between them, this is what you would see! The Camera takes 2 images with one meter separation with a slight 3 degree angle towards the opposite image...

 

White Sands National Monument in Mammoth Vision!

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Cross your eyes till 3 images appear...Concentrate on the one in the middle and focus.
Try having your eyes about the same distance from your monitor as it is wide.

Our vision of the world and its relation to art and creation are no longer limited by our biology and attempting to perceive the environment like the other creatures that share the biosphere drive a corner of my creative endeavors...

Hyper Stereo Pairs in HDR:

The Very Large Array at Sunset

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On the lonesome Plains of San Augustine sits a technological marvel...

The Very Large Array

 

 

Hyper Stereo requires a Longer baseline for enhanced 3D.
The Sunset Very Large Array Stereo Pair was taken with a Sony A350 with the lens stopped down to F22

The interaxial stereo base is the distance between the ‘eyes’...If your eyes measured 1 Meter between them, this is what you would see! The Camera takes 2 images with one meter separation with a slight 3 degree angle towards the opposite image...

 

The Very Large Array in Mammoth Vision!

 

Click the image and size it so that it takes up the full width of your screen.

Cross your eyes till 3 images appear...Concentrate on the one in the middle and focus.
Try having your eyes about the same distance from your monitor as it is wide.

 

Our vision of the world and its relation to art and creation are no longer limited by our biology and attempting to perceive the environment like the other creatures that share the biosphere drive a corner of my creative endeavors...

Relief Carving Basics:

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Free Beginning Woodcarving Lesson

 

This graphic illustrates the beginning steps of laying out a panel of woodcarving. There are many methods of layout & this is the one that works for me when laying out the Jewel cases that I make.

A Little Geometry and Sharp Tools... 

You Tube lessons will follow that include these techniques and the most important technique of all…SHARPENING…

Sharpening is the most important technique to learn in carving…With sharp knives, the imagination is the only limit.

The Rudge Cup and Artistic Inspiration:

 

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Here are two links that illustrate my processes for Artistic Inspiration.

Archaeologica: http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Talking Bowls from Long Ago: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2012/first-souvenirs-enamelled-vessells-from-hadrians-wall

Just like some of my Navajo friends that view time in reverse, The past is my guide and artistic muse.

The farther back the better…

Copper Bound Talking Bowl

The Archeological news aggregated at Archaeologica is always interesting and
very occasionally an article ties the things I make to the ancient past…My Talking Bowls with their graven rune messages have been very popular and on December 19^th, the article on the Rudge Cup and others proved the value of following Archaeology…Almost 2000 years ago, another maker made bowls for those that spent time at Hadrian’s Wall. The little bowls are inscribed around the top with the names of the forts along the great barrier…The Rudge Cup was found in a well in a ruined Roman Villa in Southern England in 1725… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudge_Cup

Shape Inspired by the Rudge Cup...

 

Ancient Styles and practices have always held a fascination for me & none so strong as the workmanship in these little bowls made when everything was so hard...These items provide a direct connection with things familiar today...

Items Made for a Modern Faire...