Today started with this box. It has been there, by now,
for some 3 years. I knew what the box contained, though.
All these redundant pieces are birches, and I happen to
love birches. So, the real issue is how to make use of them.
At the moment, I do not know. They are pretty hard, but
when coated, they look gorgeous!
Part of today's work is shown below.
They have been sitting on my desk for such a long
time, wanting to be worked on. So, took the pleasure
of doing so. They are long, at somehing like 300 mm, or longer.
Unique feature of these is that they have cavities,
shallow, naturally, but they are there. Something
you do not find with similar things on the market.
My biggest problem, in the wake of the closure of
K's shop, is that I do not know what to do with my time.
I have been making forks and their variants, as you will see
shortly, but that is not enough, to kill my time, everyday,
amounting to something like 5,6 hours.
Broadly speaking, I have a gut feeling that now is the
time to sort out a large amount of redundant pieces.
I have been doing just that with forks etc etc.
Take a look at this.
Most of what I do is related to SPs and chopsticks. As far as
I am concerned, even forks are SPs, because to profiles look the same.
I have been fabricating SPs, and forks of various lengths, sizes,
all producing side bars, as I sometimes call them, and they
are the pieces you cut out fro the main SPs.
They come in all sorts of thickness, size, length, and width.
These two prototypes bear that out. Are they acceptable, at all?
If so, I have a lot to work on, because the next pic is
showing you a large number of such side bars.
All that apart, I worked today with the ongoing mini
rojects.
This last image, showing you some spatulas, oak.
They are lovely!
Anyway, my additional gut feeling is that after
all these clear up operations, I will return to
SPs, and big cavity SPs.
I have never turned SPs using my lathe, but this illustration
is showing you how it might be done.
My deep cavity will be inside a square block, initially,
and that portion is chucked by my Talon, then turned inside,
stem cut out, conevex at the bottom, sanded off,
something like that...
for some 3 years. I knew what the box contained, though.
All these redundant pieces are birches, and I happen to
love birches. So, the real issue is how to make use of them.
At the moment, I do not know. They are pretty hard, but
when coated, they look gorgeous!
Part of today's work is shown below.
They have been sitting on my desk for such a long
time, wanting to be worked on. So, took the pleasure
of doing so. They are long, at somehing like 300 mm, or longer.
Unique feature of these is that they have cavities,
shallow, naturally, but they are there. Something
you do not find with similar things on the market.
My biggest problem, in the wake of the closure of
K's shop, is that I do not know what to do with my time.
I have been making forks and their variants, as you will see
shortly, but that is not enough, to kill my time, everyday,
amounting to something like 5,6 hours.
Broadly speaking, I have a gut feeling that now is the
time to sort out a large amount of redundant pieces.
I have been doing just that with forks etc etc.
Take a look at this.
Most of what I do is related to SPs and chopsticks. As far as
I am concerned, even forks are SPs, because to profiles look the same.
I have been fabricating SPs, and forks of various lengths, sizes,
all producing side bars, as I sometimes call them, and they
are the pieces you cut out fro the main SPs.
They come in all sorts of thickness, size, length, and width.
These two prototypes bear that out. Are they acceptable, at all?
If so, I have a lot to work on, because the next pic is
showing you a large number of such side bars.
All that apart, I worked today with the ongoing mini
rojects.
This last image, showing you some spatulas, oak.
They are lovely!
Anyway, my additional gut feeling is that after
all these clear up operations, I will return to
SPs, and big cavity SPs.
I have never turned SPs using my lathe, but this illustration
is showing you how it might be done.
My deep cavity will be inside a square block, initially,
and that portion is chucked by my Talon, then turned inside,
stem cut out, conevex at the bottom, sanded off,
something like that...
