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Mike Abbott
Приєднався 3 чер 2012
A collection of videos related to green woodwork, chair-making, woodlands and other related matters.
Bending chair legs
A short film by my son Dougal, of my latest system for bending chair legs single-handed.
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Chairs from the woods
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A short film made during a chair-making course with Mike Abbott in his woodland workshop in a Herefordshire woodland in the summer of 2011. The film shows the final assembly of a chair frame using components made over the previous few days. Music by Tom Dillon: tomdillon.bandcamp.com/
Chair-making with Mike Abbott: Cleaving an ash log
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This is the first in a series of short films showing how to make a chair from freshly felled wood using mainly traditional, low-cost, low-energy tools and equipment.
Chair-making with Mike Abbott: The final squeeze
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A short film made during a chair-making course with Mike Abbott in his woodland workshop in a Herefordshire woodland in the summer of 2011. The film shows the final assembly of a chair frame using components made over the previous few days.
Making a baby's rattle with Mike Abbott
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This film shows the whole process of transforming a lump of fresh apple wood into a delicate baby rattle using a traditional pole-lathe.
Great work
Lovely video !🙏
Just beautiful, thank you for sharing Tamsin’s magic !🌿
Just fyi your old videos are for kids only so we can't comment or save them but they were great. As is this amazing artists work! Holy SMOKES its good
Good to see your work, Tamsin. Fab stuff! Sean (Farrar - Stirling uni)
Wonderful talent expressed in a beautiful medium. Bravo, very worthy of the time spent creating your pieces. Good job Mike presenting her to the world.
I love your lathe. 😀😀😀
Just built my first spring pole lathe 3 days ago. Took 4 hours to make a small goblet. This will be my next easy project. Thank you for the video!
Lovely to watch. Built my lathe 20 years ago, following your design from your book. Just getting back into it all now. Thanks.
Very cool!!
goodness gracious that gouge is certainly razor sharp!!
#stop_cuting _the_trees
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It looks so easy to do but only in the hands of a master. Very nice work!
Very smart rigging, good job!
I don't see a chair
Try this film, then you will: ua-cam.com/video/1Xtm33j6C_8/v-deo.html
Hello Mike, Please make lots more videos all the time! I made your shaving horse (giddyup), and would love to see more of your techniques.
Thanks Ruby!! - more videos coming up this winter 2020/21 goingwiththegrain.org/book-updates/
I love how comically large that mallet is
thanks man. like 20 trees fell down on my property and I've been trying to find a way to use them other than firewood.
+MN-14 Look up Jimmy Diresta. He also does some creative things, some of them with logs.
Now that is a proper lathe. Quiet and dependable. You are keeping history alive. The most important thing we can do. Thanks for making and posting this video. Sam
Thanks Sam for sharing this little video. Best wishes, Mike
Mike Abbott I made a shaving horse 20 years ago. I was into the Woodwrights shop-big time. I wanted to be a chair bodger. But not much call for that anymore. Remember, "Exploit the lines of weakness when milling and take advantage of the plans of strength when building.? (Roy Underhill)
WYOMINGWOODTURNER I just spent today in the sun turning a set of oak legs for a Windsor chair (see the Facebook group, 'spoon carving green woodwork & sloyd').
No hewing needed
That mallets a tank!
Thats Thors mallet ... Mike dont be shine make more videos please... :)
Whats with the tiny mallet ;oP
Mike you wild animal!!!! That's way too cool!!! Subscribed!!!!
Thanks for the question. The main reason it doesn't crack is because it has been split so the pith has been removed (as you say). The wood can then warp and shrink as it dries rather than develop cracks. The reason I air-dry the blank before completing the rattle is so I can get a good shine on it, while still on the lathe.
What keeps the green wood from cracking? Removing the Pith? Letting it dry for a week or two without bark?
Sorry to have taken 6 years to reply! Cleaving the log allows each piece to shrink unevenly, which is what it naturally does. Then it has no need to crack. If it dries very quickly, you may get little cracks on the end, so just leave it in a warm room or outdoors in the shade and it should be fine :)
I loved watching the process! I am so in awwwee of a carpenter! What you can do with wood from a baby rattle to a home~*
What a fantastic and informative video, so clear and concise. Will watch this again and again, especially when my turning isn't having a good day.
Ah so that's how to do it! Great to see the Master at work - those shavings coming off with the roughing gouge look really dynamic.