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Tramp Art Sewing Box – continued.
I got a chance to work on the new sewing box for another couple hours. I am almost ready to start putting a finish on the box. If you missed the earlier post where I started the box, click here. I had...
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Building a tramp art and tin church box.
A couple of years ago I built a series of three small cupboards. Each cupboard was based around some salvaged wood drawers that I have used in a number of projects. As it usually happens, two sold...
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Making a bucket at Tillers International.
A major goal that I have been working toward is learning to create my work using less electricity. I want to work more with hand tools and drastically reduce the noise and dust in my shop. Getting...
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Starting another tramp art church cupboard.
I keep coming back to the inspiration provided by the cathedrals and churches we have seen on vacations over the past few years. There is something about the interplay of eternity and decay in the...
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Pearl, Queen of the Sea.
Looking back over the months I spent periodically working on this piece I think I really just needed to adding something goofy and fun to the world right now. We are being bombarded with so much bad...
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I tried to make another Piggen.
Now that I have finished up the washtub and a couple buckets, I wanted to see what else I could make from the pile of odds and ends in the cedar pile. What is left is pretty scrappy and I ended up...
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Variations on a Parisian street sign.
The Carnavalet Museum in Paris has a fantastic exhibit of trade signs made up of original metal signs saved as many sites in Paris were being torn down to make way for new streets and buildings. One...
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Making a large wood tankard.
Each time I make something in my shop I try to improve on a technique that I am learning, and often try to add a new skill along the way. This time I decided to try my hand at making a wooden tankard....
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Repairing a tin lantern.
I have been doing a lot of reading about coopering and tinware lately and trying to learn the techniques myself. One area that I have found very interesting is in the repair of tinware, buckets and...
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Monkeys on a Weathervane? I call it “King of the Hill”.
For some reason the other day I got to thinking about the old “Barrel full of Monkeys” that we played with as kids. Did you have a set? It was a pretty simple toy, but fun. At the same time I was...
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