Woodworker's Journal 2008-32-6, страница 22
^^ iwvjvui i [ui-vvii' XMOR€ ON THG WGB For more great photos from the Sao Diego Woodworking show, go to woodworkersjourmlcom and click on the icon at left. "Deco-Asian Liquor Cabinet" by Kory Zussman -h ■» V^'yV- r -'* —"Hollow Form" by Jim E. Berger "Table Lamp with Shade" by Brian D. Jackson x 1 f \ * "Can/ster Set" It- by Mike Mahoney Winning Works This year's 27th annual Design in Wood show, sponsored by the San Diego Pine Woodworkers Association, yielded beautiful designs and woodworking at its best. Photos by Andreip Patterson and Lynn Rybarczyk The author carved the trillium flowers on this wagon's Port Orford cedar trim with knives and gauges — and built the rest of it, too. Wagons, Ho! Building a Living Past In the winter of 1972, a wandering antiques dealer came by my shop in southern New Hampshire. He was hauling a rickety old sheepherder's wagon fixed to the frame of a Model T truck to make it road-worthy. I was enchanted: I knew that I had to someday build such a magical, mobile space for myself. A few years later, after research into traditional sheepherder's wagons and wainwrighling {the craft of constructing wooden carts), I designed an all-wood structure for the bed of a 1940 fiat-bed pickup. it was built mostly of pine tongue-and-groove boards screwed to ail oak frame to create walls and then enclosed with canvas "sailcloth" spread over steamed oak hoops. 1 couldn't stop myself from building more sheepherder-lype travel trailers on the side, i studied the definitive book on the subject (The English Gypsy Caravan by Cyril Ward-Jackson and Denis Harvey) and ordered drawings of some var-dos (what the Gypsies called their living wagons) published by John Thompson, ft turns out that these "one-horse drawn, four-wheeled, one-room, chimneyed" vehicles were only produced for a relatively short period of time in England during the Victorian era. The Gypsies themselves rarely built their wagons — Shop Talk continues on page 24 ... 22 December 2008 Woodworker's Journal |
