Just a quick note and a series of pictures from this past weekend.
As some of you have heard me talk about, my other big hobby is Viking Age Reenactment, I amd a Member of a group called
Tribe Woden Thor. (click on the name and check out our page!) There was a local festival celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day in Westby Wisconsin this week. Most of us live near by and with the links to Norse heritage we have set up a living history display there for the past few years.
For a long time I have been wanting to do some type of medieval woodworking demo at these type of events and this past weekend I finally pulled one together. If you look at medieval furniture carvings, those that did survive this long, you can see a lot of similarities between them and those carvings found in the 17th century, like the ones done by one of my heroes,
Peter Follansbee. So that's what I decided to work with, I would set up my travel joiner's bench and begin work on carving the pieces of a bible box. I spent the weekend working and finished the front panel, there's a lot of carving left to go, but I don't think I went to slow considering how much I stopped to visit with people and how new I am to this skill set.
Anyhow I guess that would wrap up a quick note for me...it's all picture from here. Enjoy.
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My set up just before I get started. |
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The rest of the tools I brought, no the pliers themselves are not old, Viking style, but I needed them to put together the workbench. |
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My set up from the other direction, the "public's" Point of View. |
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Some more of our set up, we tried to stay modest so only a small part of our medieval weapons collection made it to the table. Most of these pieces are hand forged by a blacksmith friend of the Tribe. |
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A bit of "everyday life" items with reproduction coins, the board game hnefatafl, An ancestor of chess, it takes five minutes to learn to play and a whole lot longer to master. |
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Some of the armor set up, We had several stands sporting various armor as well. |
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Hard at work starting the carving. |
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"V" chisel sweep to the left. |
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The arches are finished. |
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While I worked, and spent time visiting with the public, so did my good friend Patrick, AKA Einar the Scar,. He weaves chain maile armor and he is supposed to be working on a new shirt for me...(just a reminder Pat) |
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As with any festival, there is a parade and the Tribe usually marches to give the crowd some loud medieval entertainment. We had a smaller crew show up this year, to many people stuck at work, but we made the best of it, had a lot of fun, and judging by the crowds reactions, they enjoyed it too. |
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That's me on the right hand side. Kind of a mush up of different periods of armor, but I was looking to show off a little this weekend I guess. Most floks who aren't serious reenactors wouldn't notice. |
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Back at the tent and I've finished carving the front panel. Included is a blow up of the picture I used to carve this from. It is based on the carved box Peter Follansbee wrote about in Woodwork Magazine. |
Come to think of it, here's a link to where you can download the article in .pdf I highly recommend you do.
CLICK HERE.
Hope everyone out there had just as much fun this weekend as I did.
Cheers.
Oldwolf
Derek,
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great festival. Sorry I missed it.
Also (and more importantly) nice carving! That's going to be a beautiful box.
Thanks Dyami, I'm pretty happy with how the carving turned out, now the pressure is on to not screw up the rest of the parts. :)
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Looking good. I'm going to be working on that carving pattern pretty soon for a box. I've gotten distracted with some S Scroll carving, but that one is on my list. My wife loves the Fleur de Lys designs, and she'll be getting a box with that design.
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