pounding & peeling

[@darrella3217]

Peter, I enjoy your style of woodworking. Thank you for your willingness to share.

[@btblou]

I have never seen that done before, brilliant! How can you have more fun than that :)

[@davemartin1534]

You sir are a hard working master. Of all the videos I've watched in this series the work was easy to follow by example. Great videos!!!

[@MrFollansbee]

Thanks Dave - glad you like them.

[@Timberbeartrail]

@@MrFollansbeewhere are you located if I may ask

[@MrFollansbee]

@@Timberbeartrail southeastern Massachusetts USA

[@martinriley106]

I’m just hooked to your channel and am fascinated by your techniques?

[@jeffsimpson9232]

What a treat! Thank you.

[@michaeldonahue2308]

like your baskets great craftman ship

[@geraldinerobertson3481]

Thanks for the video I love your work 😊

[@asmith7876]

I'm wondering if using a strap cutter used in leather work might not be a great way, easy and accurate, to split the pieces out rather than scissors? Love your channel! (Edit) Never mind, using a strap splitting device at the end!

[@christiblackley3820]

Did you use an axe to cut up log into billets or a bandsaw? And how did you get the billet sides so smooth?

[@MrFollansbee]

There’s a companion video called splitting riving & shaving that shows the previous steps

[@mburnsoh]

I learned so much in this video.

[@petecooper3701]

From one Peter to another, thankyou. On the Isle of Wight.

[@jayeharris3793]

How green is your billet?

[@MrFollansbee]

As fresh as can be. I pounded this whole 7’ log in spare time over about 5 weeks.

[@Timberbeartrail]

Where are you located if I may ask

[@irishcottagerenovation9900]

Hi , maybe it's a simple question but what time of year do you cut wood for processing. Your basket videos are great. Thank you

[@mattmoore1311]

Any others I've seen do this, pound the log. I think beating a billet like this makes a lot more sense. I think you'd get a lot more correctly sized strips. Thanks for posting.

[@CaptCanuck4444]

I had no idea this was even possible. Wow!

[@wsflather]

Since Ash is among the walking dead of species on the US east coast, are there other species that this can be spit and processed in the same way?

[@Snarkey777]

Can oak be separated in a similar pounding style?

[@MrFollansbee]

Ash is the only wood I've ever heard of that works this way. In the eastern US, white oak saplings are split apart along the growth rings to make basket material. Not pounded. And only the saplings - not a large tree.

[@makenchips]

It fascinates me that someone came up with this idea I'm taking a bill of wood and separating through the large grains and to parallel pieces! I wonder who originated this process?

[@ralphhunt3337]

Hi Peter. Where did you get the cutter you used in the strip cutter you made? I’ve searched far and wide and I can’ find them.

[@timothylongmore7325]

looks hand-made to me. x-acto blades it looks like. Look up lace or strip cutter for leather. Ive seen people use them.

[@budskillman7510]

I have an ash log that I can’t work with now shall I paint the ends now and put in the creek before working?

[@skitzochik]

i can use any wood to do this?

[@MrFollansbee]

Nope - the only wood I've ever heard of doing this with is ash (Fraxinus).

[@paulk6509]

Amazing, Never occurred to me.

[@wesmartin937]

Thanks so much! I never knew you could pound white ash, I only had heard of people using brown/black ash. I am assuming this should be done in the spring for best results? I am going to try this for chair seat material, and make longer strips.

[@MrFollansbee]

It doesn't have to be spring, but the log has to be freshly-cut; I try within a month or so. They tell me black ash works easier, but white ash still works.

[@timothylongmore7325]

I used white ash.... once , by mistake. I've heard white ash was doable but as our host said several time do it green. Don't let it dry out . Like I did, once , lol. I also tried soaking black ash in a pond and then tried to pound them and they seazed up pretty good to.

[@onZampie]

Can this only be done with ash? Are there any other woods you know of that this method can be used on?

[@MrFollansbee]

I've only ever heard of ash being used this way.

[@onZampie]

@@MrFollansbee Ok, thank you for the response!

[@asmith7876]

I thought I'd seen Roy Underhill use white oak to make baskets. I've never tried any of it so no first hand experience.

[@timothylongmore7325]

@@asmith7876 they are not pounded. there are videos on the process

[@surfearth1]

What if you took your box and added the blades from the hand tool in the hole. Then just pull the wood through the blades. This would keep your pieces even and would be less hard on your risks.

[@JarlSeamus]

Living in the area where the "Adirondack Pack Basket" originated, I always wondered how they split those out. Now I want to go beat on a log with a hammer, LOL

[@timothylongmore7325]

I'm just east of "the park" and I pound on logs. Or rather billets like Peter does. Beware , , it's like eating potato chips , once you start you can't stop. I told my wife I almost like produceing the raw materials more than the weaving. I sold some , but it's really not worth it. Selling the splints I mean. To much work to do for a living.

[@Johndoe-hk1sy]

Wisdom use a piece of wood on each side of your strip the length of your product that way you can't mess up with another guy did a video where he used a tree cut down and notched the top in half then crosscut the groove and pushes his knife down into it and that's how he use it as a gauge And used as a slither like a table saw o and thank you for the ancient knowledge

[@darkphoenek]

Salut

[@WIReeder12]

Sorry, I think I would be searching for a Little Giant trip hammer.

[@MrFollansbee]

Nothing to be sorry about. If I did this work a lot, I might look for ways to streamline it, but as it is, I pound basket stuff maybe once a year or every other year. So not a big deal. An anvil would be my first choice for improvements...

[@maxpolaris99]

too much work!

[@erictaylorbasketry6814]

We are in the 21st century. Eric Taylor basketry