Retirement Projects
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If memory serves, your shop is almost ridiculously clean. Don't you find the lathe throws dust/chips everywhere?0
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Yeah, it makes quite a mess. Good campfire starter stuff though.2
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Love the wood projects!0
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This is my latest project:
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Crocheted giraffes!! How cute!!0
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Made another bowl for a Christmas gift between fire calls, one medical, cancelled, and then a chimney fire in driving rain and sleet way up the mountain. I'd forgotten how much fun being cold, wet and miserable was.
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A couple of my misbegotten crafts projects. First one is a little book with a folded-paper cover; the folding makes the pointed tab/pocket closure on the outside, and some small angular pockets on the inside. There's a light-gauge textured-metal point on the tab. Pages are various art papers. One might use it for text or visual journaling.
Second is a necklace. The skull was a thing I made from polymer clay (yes, the stuff kids use and bake in a toaster oven to harden) as part of an activity in a group I'm in, and aged with acrylics. I tab-set it on a sheet-copper backplate, oxidized the copper, and strung it with some agates, pyrite, carnelian, glass, sea-urchin spines, and I don't remember what-all.
Yes, I am this kind of weirdo.
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New bench vise for the shop3 -
Thanks Wayne0
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Yes, it is. Very nice. I can’t afford a lot of their stuff, but treat myself when I can. I have some nice spokeshaves, planes , saws from there. This was a lot of fit and finish work. Cherry for the jaw pieces, with a 2 degree chamfer on the front one.2
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Last night and today’s project, the third and final Christmas gift for the kids. Made a wooden bowl for each family, finished in food safe beeswax finish.
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Awesome!!2
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d_thomas02 wrote: »Final product, ready for today's gathering. (Lady did the painting, lighting, and bow on top. I moved it around for her.)
Borrowing your idea to make some Christmas gifts, Mr. Thomas. Thank you for the inspiration.4 -
Ot sure what this is, or what it's good for. Practice piece doing a technique to mAke a three cornered piece. It starts as a cube on the lathe mounted on the through axis.5 -
Finished some Christmas gifts tonight. Idea shamelessly stolen from @d_thomas02 in this thread. Thanks again, sir! Tomorrow we add some lights.
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Finally made it out to the forge last Sunday. Just tinkering with a few items, heating and beating. Lasted about an hour before having to shut it down and head inside to elevate and ice the knee.
Apparently a lot of standing in mostly one spot with little to no knee movement is not what the doctor ordered.
I'm a little disappointed with only an hour but still a good first step back into the smithy. Next time I'll try walking around more between heats and see.3 -
Todays project. A mahogany jewelry box with a tinted epoxy insert.
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Nice work, Farback.1
