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....................where do you start with the superlatives for this, stunning, beautiful, mind blowing, genius..........................there's no suitable smilely for this lot...........

Tree species in the Ash genus = Fraxinus, are very strikingly ring porous. That is, the annual growth rings are assembled much as in the manner of a leaf spring assembly from a vehicle.
Looks to me like he's perfected a technique to take a radially cut beam of timber and split it into layers. Possibly no more than 6-10 growth ring increments per layer. His steam-bending capabilities must be gigantic.

The indigenous native peoples in the St. Lawrence River Valley in eastern Canada applied the splitting technique to construct very large and very robust woven baskets from F.nigra. That is, until the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway flooded and killed the best groves of F. nigra. All in the name of commercial progress. You can now wipe my sarcasm off your computer screen.

The first piece I looked at says he uses White Oil - There was a question about getting and using it here.

There must be something over here they call White Oil - I'll do some checking and if I learn anything I'll post an update.

Thanks Spencer, what can you say?

words fail me!!!


Jeff
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My word.

That, is breathtaking.

Thanks for posting - my mind is well and truly boggled

The section on his early work is impressive too; how's this for a chair design?

Welcome to the Joseph Walsh Studios in Cork Ireland

At least I can see how most of the early stuff would have been constructed, but his current work????

yer when i stumbled across this dude i was in absolute awe. i was like this guy ---> for every piece in it.

as for the white oil, i've had a look into it very briefly and couldn't find much info, so i would be very interested to find out what it is.

as for what your saying robson, is there any websites you can direct me to to explain further what you're saying about the growth rings and splittin etc, possibly with some illustrations?

I visit this site atleast once a week just to be reminded of the possibilities, which in itself is the main reason i love woodwork.

Spencer, you need to do a little homework exploring wood anatomy. Secondary growth in trees. Off the top, I can't recommend a suitable text that is in the very least economical.
Possibly an internet search? ring-porous vs diffuse porous?
Most basic uni botany texts have a good piece in woody growth.
I've been in the wood science biz for 40+ years. Did the lecture thing for 30+.1
PM with questions.

White oil is a mineral oil.
It is actually used as an insect control in plants.
Cheers
Wolffie