SAPFM Members
in the News
Brian Coe has written about a Moravian Christmas pyramid and describes how to make one in the 2008 Christmas issue of Early American Life.
Mary May's carving career is the subject of a feature article in the October 2008 issue of Woodshop News.
Al Hudson's work is featured in the October/November 2008 issue of American Woodworker Magazine.
Ed Stuckey's Federal demi-lune card table appears in the December 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Tony Kubalak has won the Best Traditional Design Award from the Minnesota Woodworking Guild. Tony exhibited a Philadelphia Queen Anne side chair. You can read more about Tony's honor and the chair in the August issue of Woodshop News.
Congratulations to the following SAPFM members who appear in Early American Life's 23rd Directory of Traditional Crafts: Dennis Bork, James King, Tony Kubalak, Paul Rulli, Mark Soukup, Duane Wendling, Fred Chellis, Brian Cunfer, and Jim Van Hoven. Cartouche Award winner Gene Landon served as one of the judges for this year's Directory.
Eight pieces of Bob Whitley's work from the Michener Art Museum's retrospective exhibit appear in the Gallery of the August 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Walt Segl's shop is featured in an eight-page spread in WOOD magazine's special interest publication America's Best Home Workshops 2008.
Jeff Headley explains how to make a veneered serpentine drawer front with cockbeading in the July/August 2008 Fine Woodworking. In the Master Class feature, Jeff shows how to apply stringing to the same serpentine shape. Joel Ficke and W. Patrick Edwards have work featured in the Reader's Gallery.
Joshua Lane, Co-curator of Historic Deerfield, is mentioned in the May 2008 Magazine Antiques for his role in organizing the exhibition Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture. The exhibition runs through 2012. Visit Historic Deerfield for more information.
Phil Lowe's McIntire armchair, Frank Woolley's serpentine bombé, and Mike Greenberg's collectibles box appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Joel Moskowitz explains how he hollow grinds chisels in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Steve Latta compares 16 different marking knives in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Robert Whitley's furniture is featured through June 1 in a retrospective of his work at the Michener Art Museum. Robert is the 2002 Cartouche Award winner.
Mark Arnold writes about the Peabody Essex Museum's The Art of Woodcarving in America exhibit in the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Tony Kubalak's serpentine bombé and Joel Ficke's Philadelphia high chest appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Steve Latta writes about reproducing moldings in the April 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Alf Sharp, 2008 Cartouche Award recipient is featured in the March issue of Woodshop News.
Peter Howell's workshop is featured in the February/March 2008 issue of Woodcraft Magazine.
Patrick Edwards writes about painting in wood in February 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
The Chairmaker Part II
8. The "Kehl" chisels have already been named in previous chapters, p. 153. A "kehl" is used for the decoration of the woodwork and belongs, to a degree, to sculpted work. It consists of a recess around which on one or both sides runs a small round ridge. With the "V tool" (Geisfuss, literally "goat foot"), p. 154, he marks the breadth of the imagined ridge in the wood as deep in the wood as he wants it to be. If this recess is even he takes it out with a Balleisen,10 p. 154; if it's round he cuts it out with a gouge (Hohleisen), p. 154. The various Balleisen, as well as the gouges in this workshop, are graduated in size. The largest are two inches wide in their blade, the smallest only a few millimeters. The smallest gouge is called the veiner chisel (Ziereisen), and this serves the chairmaker significantly by sculpture work. With a small gouge he also rounds the round ridge next to the vein. The "V tool" (Geisfuss), the Belleisen, and gouge (Hohleisen) of this workshop are sometimes straight, bent, or back bent, p. 154. The latter the chairmaker cannot be without when working shallow curves. All these chisels have a wooden handle and the chairmaker sometimes cuts freehand with these last chisels and sometimes drives them with a wooden mallet, especially when working shallow curves. The above mentioned mortise chisel (Stemmeisen) is used only with the mallet, as is also the Vermobrungseisen and the Schweifeisen.
10 The name Balleneisen Sprengel relates in the cabinetmaker text as due to the bahn or sole on one side of the blade which the cabinetmaker calls a ballen. Another explanation given by Adelung and the Grimm brothers in their dictionaries is that this chisel is driven with the ball (ballen) of the hand. In the cabinetmaker's chapter Sprengel distinguishes the Balleneisen from the Stechbeutel and describes it as a wide skew ground blade used to trim off wood, and clean up flat recessed areas. Other references equate the Balleneisen with a paring chisel.
