If asked if I know what I want to do, in terms of
working out cutleries, I would say I do not!
I have run out of ideas, and keep fabricating more or less
the same things, for my friends, that is...
Take a look at the following. This is the result of
yesterday's coating, just before 2nd wet sanding.
They have all undergone 2 stages of penetration
coating and are getting glossy, except the baby
feeder in the middle of these.
2nd wet sanding resulting in much less murky water,
as shown below. The water will be clear with tommorrow's
session.
I did not do the 3rd penetration coating, because of
the humidity of today. See?, they are drying and some
look shining, already, because polyurethene coating,
with some of them is getting saturated on the surfaces,
depending on the types of the materials used. Oak pieces
are getting there before others!
There was this Kamakura business, first thing in the morning,
and the whole morning was taken up by post processing of
my earlier coatings. In the meantime, a pair of damaged
chopsticks arrived by post, shown bellow.
I was asked to repair them, but I would give away, free of charge,
a new pair. That would be less time consuming...
So, what did I do with the rest of my time?
Without thinking too much, I went for my picker knife
forks, trying to make a lot of them, partly because
I still have a lot of thin redundances. I simply
wanted to make he best use of them.
One of the following templates was the first one
I made and has a very thin stem profile. I was asking myself
if the stem profile might be changed, as shown.
Problem is this. While my picker knife forks are not
supposed to be used for heavy duty cuttings the stems
do pose potential hazzards.
As a matter of fact, those undergoing coatings at the
moment are all oak pieces and stems are very thin, but
when I hold them to check their structural strength,
they seem OK.
With different materials with different strengths
I may have problems. The only way to find ot is to
produce lots and lots of them.
What follows is showing you what I did today.
I probably produce (not completed) nearly 70
of them.
These are partly treated ones and what follows, not yet.
I will be working on them, on all of them, thinning the knife
protion of them with my belt sander. The best profile I am
looking for might emerge out of that operation.
working out cutleries, I would say I do not!
I have run out of ideas, and keep fabricating more or less
the same things, for my friends, that is...
Take a look at the following. This is the result of
yesterday's coating, just before 2nd wet sanding.
They have all undergone 2 stages of penetration
coating and are getting glossy, except the baby
feeder in the middle of these.
2nd wet sanding resulting in much less murky water,
as shown below. The water will be clear with tommorrow's
session.
I did not do the 3rd penetration coating, because of
the humidity of today. See?, they are drying and some
look shining, already, because polyurethene coating,
with some of them is getting saturated on the surfaces,
depending on the types of the materials used. Oak pieces
are getting there before others!
There was this Kamakura business, first thing in the morning,
and the whole morning was taken up by post processing of
my earlier coatings. In the meantime, a pair of damaged
chopsticks arrived by post, shown bellow.
I was asked to repair them, but I would give away, free of charge,
a new pair. That would be less time consuming...
So, what did I do with the rest of my time?
Without thinking too much, I went for my picker knife
forks, trying to make a lot of them, partly because
I still have a lot of thin redundances. I simply
wanted to make he best use of them.
One of the following templates was the first one
I made and has a very thin stem profile. I was asking myself
if the stem profile might be changed, as shown.
Problem is this. While my picker knife forks are not
supposed to be used for heavy duty cuttings the stems
do pose potential hazzards.
As a matter of fact, those undergoing coatings at the
moment are all oak pieces and stems are very thin, but
when I hold them to check their structural strength,
they seem OK.
With different materials with different strengths
I may have problems. The only way to find ot is to
produce lots and lots of them.
What follows is showing you what I did today.
I probably produce (not completed) nearly 70
of them.
These are partly treated ones and what follows, not yet.
I will be working on them, on all of them, thinning the knife
protion of them with my belt sander. The best profile I am
looking for might emerge out of that operation.
