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Friday, February 21, 2014

Tea Box lid broke!

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Hi Everyone,
Well I went down to the wood shop this morning and mounted the tea box lid on the lathe and it promptly broke. I spent another hour making another one but this time the knob is screwed on and glued on too so this should hold up to turning on the lathe.
Ill send some photos later today when I do a longer posting. Since its lunch time, Im going to have some coffee and a sandwich and go back down and work on yesterdays bowl for a while. Ill work on the lid more tomorrow after the glue has dried.
VW
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Back to the Bible Box

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I had finished carving the front of the new bible box . . .


 . . . and I had finished the sides.


It was time to start on the lid, period or not I enjoy carving the lids. It gives me a little chance to work on a larger piece and the lid can really draw the piece together. With that in mind I try to pull elements from both the front and the sides.




The thumbnail cuts from the sides and the opposing hearts from the front.


I had the main parts of the box finished.


But I had the inside of the box to worry about and I wasnt sure what to do. At the time I was preparing this piece to include in an art gallery show Id been invited to. The show eventually canceled (But the good news is I secured the opportunity to carry my own show once I have enough pieces built up, Its gonna be a busy year for me I think) I wanted to do or try something different. 

In the middle of trying to figure it out I had the chance to take my oldest daughter to the Milwaukee Art Museum. I had an amazing day and took many, many, many pictures of their selection from the Chipstone furniture collection. I also got a look at this Game Chest, carved and inlaid and the inside was lined with marbled paper. 



I remembered marbelizing paper back in one of my old art classes, it wasnt too difficult of a thing to do. A few minutes searching the web and I found the recipes I needed. A little liquid starch and a little acrylic paint later and I had something to work with.


In case there is any interest I shot some video of the process.


The results inside the box can be stunning.


Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf

A quick note: The music I selected for the video was performed by a friend of my Travis Oppelt, He is a great musician, writing and playing all the instruments in every song on his album "Youll Never Stop Me" under the band name TravAce. If you enjoyed the song in the video then support another starving artist and download the album at Amazon.com and iTunes.  You can see more of his stuff on YouTube as well.

TravAce on Amazon.com

See more on YouTube

Thanks again
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Monday, February 10, 2014

The 5 board bench video is now live on YouTube! Click play on the video box below to check it out!

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Small Box

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A week or so ago I decided to try my hand at making something that wasnt Pine. I have a crate full of small pieces of Mahogany, Oak and various other hard woods, none of which are large enough to make furniture.

While most of the pieces are small they are however quite thick, around 19mm (3/4"). I therefore decided to try my hand at re-sawing a piece of Mahogany and White Oak to make a simple Jewellery box.

The only saw I had at the time (my panel saws were away being sharpened) was my Irwin pull saw which allowed me to get a semi decent cut on each piece. 

I did have to plane the cut surfaces quite heavily to remove the saw marks that resulted from constantly turning the piece while sawing and sometimes correcting my inaccuracy. Also, almost immediately after being cut both the Mahogany and the Oak cupped quite badly. 

I removed most of this cupping with a plane and ended up with my two long and two short  sides of the box all of which were reasonably square and true..

I decided to stay with box joints as they are quite familiar now and I still havent plucked up the courage to delve into Dovetails.

I used my new Lie Nielson shoulder plane to rabbit the two long sides of the box to accept a simple 6mm plywood base. 

All the cutting went well and the dry fit looked good. Unfortunately, thats where the project came to a halt as I was then away for a week down on the boat in Brighton. 

Once I did get back I was keen to finish the box, but to my surprise the pieces had all cupped and bowed again, making the joinery less than perfect. A better man than I couldve probably re-surfaced and trued up the wood but, to be honest by this point Id lost interest. I figured I would go ahead and glue it up and forget the lid that I had planned and just see how it turned out.

The two personal lessons to be learnt here are, firstly, from now on I will make sure I dont wait too long before glueing freshly cut  parts, especially once the joinery has been cut.

And secondly ... I need to work on another essential wood working skill called patience. I have noticed that once a project is well underway, I start getting excited and racing to see the completed object. 

At the moment I mentally need to start and finish things and stay in the zone. I would be completely useless doing a large project spread out over a large period of time unless I could work regularly on it almost daily.

Anyway, it was another learning experience and the box has now found a home on my girlfriends dressing table so it hasnt been completely wasted.



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