Tag: Oak

Fall Woodworking Update

Campfire Lamp with Flickering LED Bulb

Here are a few project updates for my new woodworking projects this year. I tried to make a few new ideas including a burning log lamp and wood sided bags. I hope you enjoy the update!

Campfire Lamp with Flickering LED Bulb

Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Oak Slab Table with Hairpin Legs

Black Walnut Cutting Board with Runic Inscription

Black Walnut Keepsake Box with Runic Inscription

Aspen Sided Leather Bag with Tree of Gondor Wood Burn

Aspen Sided Leather Bag with Pine Tree Wood Burn

Black Walnut Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table with Hairpin Legs

Dala Rocking Horse

Tags Agate, Agates, Bag, Black Walnut, box, Coffee Table, Dala Horse, Dala Rocking Horse, fire, hairpin legs, jewelry box, Lamp, Leather, Leather bag, Oak, Purse, Resin, Rock, Rocking Horse, Rocks, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, Slab, slab table, Table Lamp, tables, Wood-burning

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Summer Woodworking Projects

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date July 8, 2018
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Live-edge Oak Desk/Breakfast Table

Here is a quick update of a few of my recent woodworking projects from this spring and summer. The coffee table, sofa table, jewelry box, and magnetic knife block are made from black walnut wood which my great-grandfather cut and milled decades ago from our family farm in southern Minnesota. The oak desk/breakfast table is made from live edge wood that we milled with a chainsaw from an old dead oak tree on the same farm/woodlands of our family. The interesting character to the wood is from partial rot, weather damage, and insects and makes for a very unique piece.

Black Walnut Jewelry Box with Runic Inscription and patterns from Sami, Kpele, Norse, and Japanese Art

Black Walnut Magnetic Knife Block

Black Walnut Coffee Table

Black Walnut Sofa Table

Live-edge Oak Desk/Breakfast Table

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Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Verse from the Vǫluspá in the Old Norse Poetic Edda

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date November 14, 2017
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Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Old Norse Verse

This end table is made from a chainsaw cut naturally fallen oak tree from southern MN. The edges are chiseled free of bark and rot and dried for over a year. The crack which opened up during the drying process has been held together by three black walnut butterfly inlays for strength and decoration. The oak slab is mounted on raw steel legs which also brace the cracks in the wood. Around the edge is an Old Norse verse written in Elder Futhark runes from the Vǫluspá in the Poetic Edda.

The verse reads:

Vǫluspá 3

Ár var alda

þar er Ymir byggði,

vara sandr né sær

né svalar unnir,

jörð fannst æva

né upphiminn,

gap var Ginnunga,

en gras hvergi.

The Seeress´s Prophecy 3

Young were the years,

when Ymir made his settlement,

there was no sand nor sea,

nor cool waves,

earth was nowhere

nor the sky above,

chaos yawned,

grass was nowhere.

The English translations are from The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington. Oxford University Press. 1996

ᚨᚱ ᚹᚨᚱ ᚨᛚᛞᚨ ᚦᚨᚱ ᛖᚱ ᛉᛗᛁᚱ ᛒᛉᚷᚷᚦᛁ ᚹᚨᚱᚨ ᛊᚨᚾᛞᚱ ᚾᛖ ᛊᛇᚱ ᚾᛖ ᛊᚹᚨᛚᚨᚱ ᚢᚾᚾᛁᚱ ᛃᛟᚱᚦ ᚠᚨᚾᚾᛊᛏ ᛇᚨ ᚾᛖ ᚢᛈᛈᚺᛁᛗᛁᚾᚾ ᚷᚨᛈ ᚨᚱ ᚷᛁᚾᚾᚢᚾᚷᚨ ᛖᚾ ᚷᚱᚨᛊ ᚺᛖᚱᚷᛁ

Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Old Norse Verse

Tags Black Walnut, Butterfly Inlay, Crack, Forest, Live-edge, Live-edge Table, Live-edge wood, Natural, Nature, Oak, Old Norse, Poem, Poetry, Raw Steel Legs, Red Oak, Rune, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, tree, Tree Rings, Viking, Wood, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking

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Wall Art and End Table Wood-Burns

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date August 11, 2017
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Tree of Gondor Woodburn Red Oak End Table

My recent nerdy wood-burning projects including a Tree of Gondor end table, Yggdrassil/Branch and Root Tree, Tolkienesque Minnesota Map, Nazgul, and Gokstad Viking Ship wall decor pieces.

Tree of Gondor Woodburn Red Oak End Table

Branch and Root Woodburn on Red Oak Wall Decor

Tolkien Minnesota Map Woodburn Wall Decor

Nazgul Woodburn Wall Decor

Gokstad Viking Ship Woodburn Wall Decor

Tags End Table, hairpin legs, lord of the rings, lotr, map, minnesota, Oak, Table, tolkien, tree, Trees, vikings, vikingship, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking

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Cutting and Serving Boards

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date July 13, 2017
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Black Walnut Serving Boards with Runic Inscriptions from Hávamál

My most recent project was to make a variety of cutting and serving boards out of black walnut, oak, and cedar. Some of these boards are charred with a blow torch in an attempt at the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban style of cedar wood charring which I also performed on oak and walnut. The charring makes the wood UV, weather, rot, and bug resistant and makes for a unique look and interesting creation process.

Two of these boards have runic inscriptions of Gnomic/Wisdom sayings from Hávamál in the Old Norse Poetic Edda. The chosen verses for these boards deal with friendship and hospitality which I thought was most fitting for something which can be used for entertaining.

The axe/cleaver styled board has a verse which translates:

34. It’s a great detour to a bad friend’s house,

even though he lives on the route;

but to a good friend’s the way lies straight,

even though he lives far off.

Afhvart mikit er til ills vinar

þótt á brautu búi

en til góðs vinar liggja gagnvegir

þótt hann sé firr farinn.

ᚨᚠᚺᚹᚨᚱᛏ ᛗᛁᚲᛁᛏ ᛖᚱ ᛏᛁᛚ ᛁᛚᛚᛊ ᛁᚾᚨᚱ ᚦᛟᛏᛏ ᚨ ᛒᚱᚨᚢᛏᚢ ᛒᚢᛁ ᛖᚾ ᛏᛁᛚ ᚷᛟᚦᛊ ᚹᛁᚾᚨᚱ ᛚᛁᚷᚷᛃᚨ ᚷᚨᚷᚾᛖᚷᛁᚱ ᚦᛟᛏᛏ ᚺᚨᚾᚾ ᛊᛖ ᚠᛁᚱᚱ ᚠᚨᚱᛁᚾᚾ

The more board shaped example has the inscription:

47. I was young once, I traveled alone,

then I found myself going astray;

rich I thought myself when I met someone else,

for man is the joy of man.

Ungr var ek fórðum fór ek einn saman

þá varð ek villr vega

auðigr þóttumsk er ek annan fann

maðr er manns gaman.

ᚢᚾᚷᚱ ᚨᚱ ᛖᚲ ᚠᛟᚱᚦᚢᛗ ᚠᛟᚱ ᛖᚲ ᛖᛁᚾᚾ ᛊᚨᛗᚨᚾ ᚦᚨ ᚹᚨᚱᚦ ᛖᚲ ᚹᛁᛚᛚᚱ ᚹᛖᚷᚨ ᚨᚢᚦᛁᚷᚱ ᚦᛟᛏᛏᚢᛗᛊᚲ ᛖᚱ ᛖᚲ ᚨᚾᚾᚨᚾ ᚠᚨᚾᚾ ᛗᚨᚦᚱ ᛖᚱ ᛗᚨᚾᚾᛊ ᚷᚨᛗᚨᚾ

The English translations are from The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington. Oxford University Press. 1996

Black Walnut Serving Board with Runic Inscription from Hávamál

Black Walnut Serving Boards with Runic Inscriptions from Hávamál

Black Walnut Serving Board with Runic Inscription from Hávamál

Shou Sugi Ban Charred Cedar Serving Boards

Charred Oak Serving Boards

Charred Oak Serving Board

Charred Black Walnut Leaf Shaped Cutting Boards

Charred Oak Serving Board

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Boards

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Board

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Boards

Tags Black Walnut, Butcher Blocks, Cedar, Cutting Boards, Hávamál, Oak, Runes, Runic Inscriptions, Serving Boards

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Oak Slab Table

Oak Slab Coffee Table

An oak slab table from a large naturally fallen tree stump in southern Minnesota. This stump large, braced cracks for character as well metal hairpin legs.

Oak Slab Coffee Table

Tags Coffee Table, Grain, Oak, Slab, Table, Woodworking