Conchita, I could not do a lot today,
because I went to the factory I mentioned to you
earlier and spent a wonderful three hours there!
They taught me a few things I had asked them in
advance for clarification. That really was good!
Nonetheless, I did a few things, of course.
Above, rough cutting out of the largest spoons
I make. Cutting by the bandsaw, up to this stage.
My belt sander rendered them to this stage above.
What remains to be done is to make their bottoms
convex and start concaving the other sides.
Of course, you have to round their handles, but
that is very minor...
These are the redundant pieces, cut out from the
handles. I do not want to waste them, but there is
nothing much I can do, as they come from coniffers.
Above are some of the side bars I made today for
the infant spoons. They have been cemented by now
and are drying for further processings.
These above are baby feeders, nearing completion.
All that remains is hand sanding and coating.
At the factory I was talking to the president, settling
the account, looking at their machines for advice
on my own machines. Generally, nitty-gritty of
machine operation and material properties and
how to identify them, etc etc.
He gave me a Chirstmas present, and
these are all walnut, a precious addition
to my current stock...
In return, of course, I gave him 21 butter
knives for him and his 6 employees. In addition,
I gave him 40% of what I got in terms of the sale
so that they can have extra booze for their
end of year festivities.
He also gave me a valuable advice on measurement
jigs. One of them is seen above. It should be
pretty obvoious what this does.
I am going to make one for myself, although
these are commercially available.
What it does is this. You slide across the
horizontal bar with a knife in it. Decide
on the separation you want and fix it there.
Then you slide the hole things down the side
of the plankyou want to cut through. The knife
will leave a straight line.
What I want to do is to replace the knife with
a pencil. This is good, because with my
alminium jigs distances are quantised.
This new jig is not quantised. And I will
be freed from having to have a number of
alminium jigs, forever and ever!
because I went to the factory I mentioned to you
earlier and spent a wonderful three hours there!
They taught me a few things I had asked them in
advance for clarification. That really was good!
Nonetheless, I did a few things, of course.
Above, rough cutting out of the largest spoons
I make. Cutting by the bandsaw, up to this stage.
My belt sander rendered them to this stage above.
What remains to be done is to make their bottoms
convex and start concaving the other sides.
Of course, you have to round their handles, but
that is very minor...
These are the redundant pieces, cut out from the
handles. I do not want to waste them, but there is
nothing much I can do, as they come from coniffers.
Above are some of the side bars I made today for
the infant spoons. They have been cemented by now
and are drying for further processings.
These above are baby feeders, nearing completion.
All that remains is hand sanding and coating.
At the factory I was talking to the president, settling
the account, looking at their machines for advice
on my own machines. Generally, nitty-gritty of
machine operation and material properties and
how to identify them, etc etc.
He gave me a Chirstmas present, and
these are all walnut, a precious addition
to my current stock...
In return, of course, I gave him 21 butter
knives for him and his 6 employees. In addition,
I gave him 40% of what I got in terms of the sale
so that they can have extra booze for their
end of year festivities.
He also gave me a valuable advice on measurement
jigs. One of them is seen above. It should be
pretty obvoious what this does.
I am going to make one for myself, although
these are commercially available.
What it does is this. You slide across the
horizontal bar with a knife in it. Decide
on the separation you want and fix it there.
Then you slide the hole things down the side
of the plankyou want to cut through. The knife
will leave a straight line.
What I want to do is to replace the knife with
a pencil. This is good, because with my
alminium jigs distances are quantised.
This new jig is not quantised. And I will
be freed from having to have a number of
alminium jigs, forever and ever!