formariz 11,987 #1 Posted September 7, 2020 Digging out templates and gathering ideas for new project long time coming. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,791 #3 Posted September 7, 2020 Carving some crown moulding Cas? Building castles? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #4 Posted September 7, 2020 This is going to be good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oliver2-44 9,684 #5 Posted September 8, 2020 I;m in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,987 #6 Posted September 8, 2020 The last one. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #7 Posted September 8, 2020 That's really nice. Though nice doesn't give it justice. What was it for? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnmor 7,302 #8 Posted September 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Stormin said: That's really nice. Though nice doesn't give it justice. What was it for? I think it is a stock like the Pilgrims used for punishment, but theirs were rather crude. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,987 #9 Posted September 8, 2020 It is an oxen yoke. Where I am from is the only place in the world that has oxen yokes carved like this . This particular style is unique to my home town. Although today not really used much except for demonstrations and parades they are greatly prized for their cultural significance. I grew up exposed with to these things and they are most important to me. Even though that some are still made as tourists souvenirs in a much simpler form , this particular style fully three dimensionally carved front and back and totally functional I think I can safely say, I may be the last one on the planet doing it and ironically so very far from their origin. In another couple strokes of good fortune in my life many years ago , I was able to be instructed by a master carver and woodworker on the process to make them.Incredibly Shortly after his passing I met another elderly man who was at the time probably the last one who had made them. Not only the time I spent with him was precious in itself, but he allowed me to copy the dozens of templates he had, many from his father which interestingly had dates on them from the very early 1900s under the promise that I carry it on.So I have kept my promise and have and will carry it on. The last one was my right of passage piece. A true labor of love and it resides now in the family home of the one that inspired and influenced me in most of the work I do. The dated inscription on it, is his birth and passing year. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,490 #10 Posted September 8, 2020 Beautiful! And what a great thing to be carrying on... kudos to you for keeping it alive. Just curious - are you able to apprentice anyone, or otherwise keep the flame lit in the future? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,987 #11 Posted September 8, 2020 1 hour ago, SylvanLakeWH said: Beautiful! And what a great thing to be carrying on... kudos to you for keeping it alive. Just curious - are you able to apprentice anyone, or otherwise keep the flame lit in the future? Thank you. My oldest son although not in this profession is a very talented woodworker who loves and shares all my love and enthusiasm for our culture and woodworking legacy. So far it also looks like he is being able to instill that in his children. They certainly are exposed to it every day and seem to have taken to it.So there is hope for two more generations for at least to carry on the knowledge of it. It is understood here and my wish that if one day he sees that no one will be interested in all of it, that all of that he and his brother inherit from me regarding woodworking specially cultural items such as this and all the family tools which I inherited are to be taken back and donated to the National Museum of Culture and Etnology. It would be of great sadness to me to have all of it sold at a garage sales or flea markets and even destroyed like it so often happens. As I myself many times browse through those sales I see so many times actual parts of peoples lives that are not understood or known about and are just discarded as nuisances or objects of clutter. Even though many of these items are no longer usable in today's society, there is much to be learned from them.Its knowledge that should not be treated that way and passed on. We cannot know exactly who and what we are unless we know what and who came before us. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,987 #12 Posted September 17, 2020 Digging out material. First time it sees daylight in 15+ years since it was milled intentionally for these projects. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,987 #13 Posted September 18, 2020 Step 2 material is in the shop 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
