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frontier carpenter frontier carpenter early american woodworking and pioneer skills friday november 16 2018 swiss tradition of tavillonnage i spotted this excellent article on swiss wood shingling on the bbc today see link below http www bbc com travel story 20181115 switzerlands artfully tedious job i have only done one wood shingled roof and i absolutely hated it because it was so tedious the roof these swiss masters are doing in the article makes what i did seem like childs play oh what i would do to be able to move to the swiss alps the only mountains we have in nebraska are from the piles of corn after harvest link to youtube video on tavillonage https www youtube com watch v 4tvuiqy34m8 posted by frontier carpenter at 10 50 am no comments sunday november 11 2018 happy veterans day happy veterans day the guy to the very left of the picture is me waiting to get out of a very hot airplane in the 1990s boy how my life has changed i don t miss everything from my career but i do miss parts and veterans day brings those memories back posted by frontier carpenter at 9 26 am 2 comments tuesday october 17 2017 traveling blacksmith forge last month i finally finished my traveling forge i wanted something that i could completely take apart for easy transport so after looking at a lot of photos on the internet this is what i came up with i ve used it for at a couple of living history events and it has met all of my expectations the only real negative i found is that the bellows is heavy but what the hell it puts out a good flow of air with little effort the hardest part of the whole project was making the bellows i used 1 inch thick pine for the body and followed the directions in the attached pamphlet for the covering i choose heavy waterproofed canvas over leather to save money not really thinking it through i purchased a very reasonably priced canvas tarp that was made in india as it turned out the material makes a great fire starter which is not really a desirable trait for something that will spend its life around fire as long as i am careful it should be fine i purchased the fire box from fiery furnace forge on ebay and i have been very happy with it posted by frontier carpenter at 10 22 pm 2 comments thursday march 9 2017 log replacement for circa 1930 cabin this week i ve been repairing a log cabin for the antelope county museum in neligh nebraska i was told that the cabin was built as a playhouse for a prominent man s daughter in the 1930 s the cabin was made out of cedar logs this might seem a bit strange but trees were sparse in these parts with the exception of cedar and cottonwood i ve also been told that the trees might have come on a train from the black hills while that would have been possible i ve not researched it so it s hard to say i sourced a suitable cedar log from the local area and had it sawed down the center i knew i would have to do a lot of shaping to get it to fit so i went with an oversized log and whittled it down with a chainsaw and a power planner to get it to 6 inches wide at the bottom it took about 5 hours of cutting and finessing to get it to fit thanks to the cabin being constructed out of a light wood raising it up with wedges to get the log in was easy once the weather warms up i will start replacing the missing chinking if you re in the area this museum is a great place to visit and has a lot of interesting artifacts on display a few years ago i discovered a caesar chelor molding plane there that was relegated to a pile of mass produced planes from the late ninetieth century after explaining the significance and value of the plane to the members of the museum it has since been displayed in a more appropriate manner posted by frontier carpenter at 6 31 pm no comments friday march 3 2017 home for misfit tool or rebirth of a tinsmith burring machine recently i ve gained an interested in the tinsmithing trade this opened up a whole new area in tool collecting for me so i have been diligently searching tools sites and ebay for finds during my searches i ve come to realize that tinsmithing tools are expensive and relatively hard to find when one does happen upon a find there s generally a lot of competition for the tool driving up its cost this has caused me to aim for the low hanging fruit like the rusted nugget of a burring machine pictured here roughly speaking i am no expert a burring machine forms a small 90 degree lip on the edge of a piece of tin this tool is especially useful when forming a lip on a circle such as on the bottom of a cup see picture of tin bottom this machine was horribly rusted and i suspect it spent a lot of time in water after soaking in rust remover i wired brushed the metal and painted the areas black that were once coated in black japanning the original wooden handle was shot so i turned a new one on the lathe shined up the brass and put it back together the forming heads are pitted from rust so they tend to transfer the roughness to the tin but other than that it seems to work pretty good for a tool around a 150 years old from all i ve read and watched on videos this is not an easy tool to use i will need a lot of practice but overall i am happy with the finished results posted by frontier carpenter at 2 29 pm no comments friday october 7 2016 norwegian open hearth farm house last night i came across this excellent film on youtube from the norwegian folk museum the film documents the reconstruction of an open hearth farmhouse in norway from circa 1650 https www youtube com watch v d4746vgms w period correct tools are used throughout the construction and the craftsmanship is incredible what i found particularly interesting was the manner in which the builders moved and placed the heavy logs this video is definitely worth watching posted by frontier carpenter at 6 56 pm no comments tuesday september 27 2016 forge cart made with pipe fittings i recently purchased a gas forge and needed a cart to place it on i couldn t find anything locally or online that i liked so i decided to build the cart myself since i didn t want to place the forge on a wooden stand i needed to come up with a way of making a stand out of metal that didn t require welding the easiest although not necessarily economical method was to build the cart out of ¾ inch pipe fittings the build was pretty straightforward and with the exception of drilling the holes through the 1 8 th inch top was easy and only took about an hour the nice thing about using pipe fittings is that it s easy to level the cart legs by simply screwing the pipe with the wheels on it in or out some people will probably wonder why i purchased a gas forge since i already have a coal forge i will continue to use both i got into to blacksmithing to make hardware for the tools and furniture i make i have found that if i only need a few items like a bolt or nails the coal forge can be a pain because it takes a while to build up a good fire and short projects tend to waste coal the nearest place i have to buy coal is about 2 hours away with a gas forge all i have to do is turn a valve and i have fire the gas forge also uses propane which i can buy in my town posted by frontier carpenter at 3 31 pm 6 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me frontier carpenter my blog is dedicating to crafts and survival skills of the american frontier i have a strong interest in how history geography and the availability of natural resources formed early america at first my interests were limited to early woodworking and building construction it didn t take long before that interest morphed into blacksmithing and early survival skills on the frontier i don t claim to be an expert in anything i just like doing sometimes i get it right and sometimes i end up with junk either way i have fun i hope you enjoy my blog view my complete profile followers total pageviews favorite links blue oak blog flying shavings hovelbenk jims for the love of history mr 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