Latest #pyrography practice. I find patterned spoons a bit twee and stereotypically country-living, but I wanted to try it once.
Whatever wood they used to make our archaic spoons burns really well, even against the grain.
April 4th.
When you drill into end grain with a sharp Forstner bit, you get some really interesting shavings.
#Woodworking #Wood #Walnut #Forstner #Woodturning
Some video from my concert last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odv6P42CTGA #lute #oud
#gambus #barbat #luthier #lutherie #laute #laúd #medievallute #liuto
#luteria #lutheria #ούτι #laudarabe #whatsonyourbench #ud #worldmusic
#earlymusic #renaissancelute #lutemaker #woodworking #woodwork
#musicalinstrument #عود #oud_maker #femalemusician #womenmusicians #iranianmusic #persianmusic #موسیقیایرانی
Wow holy frak this is some magical woodworking!!!!
A whittle TARDIS.
The hard part of something like this is pushing through to a final product even if I'm a little unhappy with it instead of just immediately giving up as soon as I fuck up.
My custom version of a painter's point. I have a bunch of the traditional ones, and they work great for panels and wider workpieces, but are almost useless for narrow workpieces.
When I was making my grandson's crib, I took a few furring strips and drove a bunch of drywall screws through them pointing upward for finishing the spindles. They work reasonably well, but aren't very flexible.
These should work great for smaller workpieces.
Fixed up the roof supports of the firewood store. The old were sitting on soil and rotting away.
Jacked up the roof beam, cut out the rotten old support and pulled it out. Filled the hole with smashed up concrete debris and drilled a hole through a large chunk, hammered a piece of rebar through and left it sticking out to fit into a hole I drilled into the new log. No more rotting.
Then new supports cut, shaped and installed x3.
Sorry it’s been quiet. Getting ready to move states, buying / selling houses, while preparing to teach another class AND find a new job! It’s been busy.
Here’s an in-progress piece I’m working on over lunch hours.