Thread: Hungarian woodworker

Thats about the most confident use of tools I've ever seen. Cutting those grooves freehand and then the whole thing fitting was a joy to watch. Dont think I noticed a square or a rule either. I wonder if there is anyone still around can do work like that. Last year I watched some guys at the Roskilde Viking Museum working at boatbuilding with traditional tools. While skillful and good to watch they were no match for that bloke.
Regards
John

And I don't think I'll be getting the Fuzzette to wield a maul like that any time soon either!

6 days to complete, impressive!


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Anyone have an idea on the cutting edge of the grooving tool?

Watching the angle of the grooving tool handle, I'll guess it's a very short-bladed knife and he's running with the grain in radially split wood.
That's far easier that fighting with wood which was saw-cut.

I want to buy lessons in sharpening a draw knife like his. That was amazing.

Yes - this is all hewn straight grain spruce. No knots in that stuff - so it is magnificantly well behaved.

Notice how it was all stacked in little tee-pee's outside - most likely freshly air dried green wood.... Probably dry but very fresh - not seasoned.

The down side of this sort of work is that you waste like 60-80% of the wood just going from log to boards. that's probably not really such a huge deal for them - they would cook, heat water for everything including bathing, and heat their house with wood.... So a lot of the scraps go in the fire.

I also find it interesting how much of the work is done on the ground. He is sittin on the ground using his feet or a stump and wedge to hold the wood... This reminds me of Japanese woodworking - where the bulk of the work is done on the floor.

What is it ?

That was fantastic.

It seriously wants to make me go back to the old ways, when everything was done by necessity and need.

Pictures from James E Price, who tracked down and bought one ...

He says "ukrainian grooving plow" ... (I got hungarian from Google translate ... )

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Thanks for that, what a great tool. I must make one.

I think the trick to at least half his success is SWMBO. Look at her go with the crosscut saw and the maul/sledgie! Impressive. I also think it is lucky for the thicknesser manufacturers that not everybody has his skill with a drawknife and lucky for the vice makers that nobody else has thought to use a cleft sapling or post in the ground for a vice.

And to reiterate Sam's questionas my Hungarian has seriously let me down . What did he make?

Regards
Paul

Further investigation seems to indicate it is a chest.

As he went to such great lengths to make it, It could have been titled "Chest Pains."

Regards
Paul

That was fantastic! Heirloom piece for sure.

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

I think the trick to at least half his success is SWMBO. Look at her go with the crosscut saw and the maul/sledgie! Impressive.

What about where she wanders across the background with a 2m 300x300 cant strapped to her back (16:50)? The father in law? is only carrying a 200x300 one.