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Place
https://jackbaumgartner.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/rootrill-12_7_14-10-30-pm.m4a“Rootrill” I hope that you will forgive me for posting an eleven minute song in the twenty first century. Mostly, I...
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Provision
I have been printing an edition of Flying Fish, a copper-plate engraving about the miracle of provision experienced by Thor Heyerdahl and his crew in the Pacific Ocean on their balsa log raft, the Kon...
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Sangcræft
Sangcræft is old english for the art of “singing” music, including on a musical instrument. I am using it here to announce a permanent page for music at this website. You can find it labeled “music”...
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From the Dust I Came
I began as dust, heavy with the sweat of God’s fingers as He formed my flesh; a heap of particles still ringing from the sound of His voice. His breathe came as a holy wind, compelling me to breath,...
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An Interview With Elizabeth Duffy
detail of Go On, John the Baptist, oil on panel, 2008 Elizabeth Duffy has been posting parts of an interview she began with me last spring and summer. To date, this interview consistutes the clearest...
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Go On, Bezalel
“See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of...
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Weitergehen “Go On”
winter’s lathe work Red oak bowl with salting and beaver teeth-marks. box wood Many of these bowls are or will be for sale at our Etsy Store: BaumWerk.
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The Eternal Present
Summer waxing into eternal presence ancient thunder quivers along the crust twinning amongst and toppling titans the smallest witnesses quiet as their gaze oldest of fault lines wrought with terror for...
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Bodark Obed Edom
Print of Obed Edom framed in a re-purposed osage-orange (hedge, bodark, or bois d’arc) fence post
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Commerce
Workshop, Studio & Land A slew of recent additions to our Etsy storefront are pictured below. There are prints, bowls, handmade goat milk soap with free shipping and a few paintings, even. Please...
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Holy, the Lesser Saints
the lesser saints weave their quiet agile stories amongst the lives of greater lights holy, the lesser saints the color upon their brows they do not cry out they do not turn hearts raised like rafters...
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Der Aufbau des Champion-Tisches, Teil 2: Rand
surface preparation with a Stanley #80 scraper the swirly walnut grain is difficult to plane but the scraper is able to deal with it efficiently beginning to fit the side rails and bread-board ends...
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The Champion Table Build, Part 3: Leg Joinery
flattening walnut stock with a wooden joiner for the top rails of the leg assembly using winding-sticks to make sure there is no twist in the board finishing up with a #7 jack plane squaring up the...
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Champion Table Build, Part 4: Base & Arc
preparing to fit the base to the leg assembly defining a semicircle with 3 saw cuts 3 saw cuts get refined into facets with a paring chisel and again then shaped with a rasp the base of one of the leg...
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Husbandry in Harvest
https://jackbaumgartner.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/sally-in-the-garden.m4a Sally In The Garden, traditional fiddle tune performed on banjo and fiddle
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The Champion Table Build, Part 5: Carving and Inlay
sanding and refining the shape of the legs carving some details into the lower horizontal member of the leg assemblies “C” for Champion the lower leg joints, reinforced with screws, concealed by pegs...
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The Champion Table
After about five months the Champion Table is finished and in its new home outside of Chicago. The woods in this table are Kansas Black Walnut and White Oak (the base uses oak from Kansas, the top...
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