The first thing I did today was to try and improve my
working conditions. I changed the positions of the nails
for hanging my tools.
It has been a long standing issue, not that much time
consuming, but you really press yourself hard enough
to do something like that...
In addition, I also made a renewed provision for my
cutting tools and other small items. Once they go
missiing it will take days before they resurfce.
The box here, fixed to the wall will ensure that
I will not easily loose small pieces fronm now on,
or, at least that is the idea...
Above is the uncramped experimental piece for my butter knife.
You can easily see the monstrous discontinuity at the stem.
So, today's biggest issue was how to smoothe out this
discontinuity. In the schematic below, A was my original and
intuitive idea. The sanding was to be made by the belt sander.
The problem with this method was that it will chew into the
main stem material, reducing its thickness, by an
unpredictable amoount and you do not want that!
As it turned out I found it easier to do the sanding like
B.The black dotted line in the blue is the end of the belt
sander. The idea here is this.
You hold the workpiece on the belt and sand lightly towards
the discontinuity, and then try to over-ride it, in the general
flow as indicated by the blue bar.
This will ensure that the sharp edge is slowly, after repeated
attempts, erode away, showing a nice and smooth curvature,
which is what you want! I am pleased about this discovery!
See two of the above three images? Sharp discontinuity has gone!
One in the middle is the extra pieces for 14 boots holders.
Wild cherry chopstics are coming along, as you can see above.
They are more or less coating ready now.
Shown above are three segments from one long piece,
which I cut down into 30 cm shorter pieces. The idea behind is that
it has been sitting in my bedroom for more than 5 years now.
And, I thought it was about time I turned it into something
useful... Right now, I have butter knives in mind, for the
colleagues, former colleagues who gave it to me as a gift.
The issue here is how to cut each into slices. They are
not straight, nor flat, too dangerous for normal
cutting by the bandsaw...
My instinctive view is that I use cramps so that each piece
is nicely secured and fixed between the constraining jig
blocks. I will see if this will work out as planned...
working conditions. I changed the positions of the nails
for hanging my tools.
It has been a long standing issue, not that much time
consuming, but you really press yourself hard enough
to do something like that...
In addition, I also made a renewed provision for my
cutting tools and other small items. Once they go
missiing it will take days before they resurfce.
The box here, fixed to the wall will ensure that
I will not easily loose small pieces fronm now on,
or, at least that is the idea...
Above is the uncramped experimental piece for my butter knife.
You can easily see the monstrous discontinuity at the stem.
So, today's biggest issue was how to smoothe out this
discontinuity. In the schematic below, A was my original and
intuitive idea. The sanding was to be made by the belt sander.
The problem with this method was that it will chew into the
main stem material, reducing its thickness, by an
unpredictable amoount and you do not want that!
As it turned out I found it easier to do the sanding like
B.The black dotted line in the blue is the end of the belt
sander. The idea here is this.
You hold the workpiece on the belt and sand lightly towards
the discontinuity, and then try to over-ride it, in the general
flow as indicated by the blue bar.
This will ensure that the sharp edge is slowly, after repeated
attempts, erode away, showing a nice and smooth curvature,
which is what you want! I am pleased about this discovery!
See two of the above three images? Sharp discontinuity has gone!
One in the middle is the extra pieces for 14 boots holders.
Wild cherry chopstics are coming along, as you can see above.
They are more or less coating ready now.
Shown above are three segments from one long piece,
which I cut down into 30 cm shorter pieces. The idea behind is that
it has been sitting in my bedroom for more than 5 years now.
And, I thought it was about time I turned it into something
useful... Right now, I have butter knives in mind, for the
colleagues, former colleagues who gave it to me as a gift.
The issue here is how to cut each into slices. They are
not straight, nor flat, too dangerous for normal
cutting by the bandsaw...
My instinctive view is that I use cramps so that each piece
is nicely secured and fixed between the constraining jig
blocks. I will see if this will work out as planned...
