My utmost concern this morning was the reproducibility of
my butter knives. To that end my first task was to make a
template out of yesterday's prototype.
It is seen to the right of he first image. As a matter of fact,
making the second one from this template was surprisingly
easy and consumed only less than half an hour.
This is good, because my intention is to sell them
at a relatively high price. When properly coated I would
demand a minimum of JPY 2500.
Needless to say that these are only prototypes and the
wood used for the knife portion is not of best quality.
I will be using oak in my ultimate version.
I did not make any more of these butter knives, simply
because I wanted to await the arrival of my mail-ordered
Borneo iron wood. That will get here by the end of this week.
My immediate problem today was that I found, from the last lot of
19, 3 had developped shears. Here, I am talking about
bootsholders.
Quite how this came about, I am not exactly sure...
However, I do know how to combat this. In above I am
cutting a 50mm wide, 5 mm thick soft iron piece
with my grind-cut tool. Naturally, I had to employ
my metal bandsaw as well.
The idea is seen above. Press down the free ends of the bank of
boosholders-to be with this metal bar on top and the metal bar
will be bolted down. That should work.
These are the next lot to be fixed on the jig.
Bandsaw was used to cut out the rough outlines. These will be
belt-sanded. There are about 20 of them here. I went out this
afternoon to buy further materials for another 60.
50 of them will end up in the department store, and the
remaining 30 (earlier ones included) odd with my friend.
I will be making another 50, 60 of these in due course.
Now, for the immediate future, I am toying with the idea of
making spoons based on the idea of my self-supporting
butter knives.
Why? It is my gut feeling. Spoons can be self-supporting, can they not?
Large ones spring to my mind. Ones that you may use with
your winter pods.
Even smaller ones might benefit from it...
my butter knives. To that end my first task was to make a
template out of yesterday's prototype.
It is seen to the right of he first image. As a matter of fact,
making the second one from this template was surprisingly
easy and consumed only less than half an hour.
This is good, because my intention is to sell them
at a relatively high price. When properly coated I would
demand a minimum of JPY 2500.
Needless to say that these are only prototypes and the
wood used for the knife portion is not of best quality.
I will be using oak in my ultimate version.
I did not make any more of these butter knives, simply
because I wanted to await the arrival of my mail-ordered
Borneo iron wood. That will get here by the end of this week.
My immediate problem today was that I found, from the last lot of
19, 3 had developped shears. Here, I am talking about
bootsholders.
Quite how this came about, I am not exactly sure...
However, I do know how to combat this. In above I am
cutting a 50mm wide, 5 mm thick soft iron piece
with my grind-cut tool. Naturally, I had to employ
my metal bandsaw as well.
The idea is seen above. Press down the free ends of the bank of
boosholders-to be with this metal bar on top and the metal bar
will be bolted down. That should work.
These are the next lot to be fixed on the jig.
Bandsaw was used to cut out the rough outlines. These will be
belt-sanded. There are about 20 of them here. I went out this
afternoon to buy further materials for another 60.
50 of them will end up in the department store, and the
remaining 30 (earlier ones included) odd with my friend.
I will be making another 50, 60 of these in due course.
Now, for the immediate future, I am toying with the idea of
making spoons based on the idea of my self-supporting
butter knives.
Why? It is my gut feeling. Spoons can be self-supporting, can they not?
Large ones spring to my mind. Ones that you may use with
your winter pods.
Even smaller ones might benefit from it...
