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It was great to be the Movember Elves. I’m glad you have made good use of the supplies.
I used that same salt and pepper mill kit last year With matching measuring cups.
My daughter says one has become difficult to turn.
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I’m cleaning up my wood shop finally as I have a few things to turn this fall!
Can’t wait to make some shavings once more .
Those look terrific gents..
I am looking forward to your projects. Will we see a loom strop for Movember?
Difficult to turn? That would be a bummer as I just bought five sets of these kits for Christmas Gifts. Did you polish those tops? They look to have more shine than mine. Those Resin and wood blanks sure look nice. A great-looking set! Thanks for posting your work.
Mike, I will be happy to see what my Lathe Mentor is turning next. Make it a tough one so I can have a new project to copy. LOL.
Ya never know what is going to be on the block this year Shaun!
;)
And regarding the pepper mill being sticky, make sure the grind isn’t set too course as that can make them hard to start, specially with the smaller lever arm on those cranks.
Made this set today. Christmas gifts. CA finish and again it's from the wood of the tree in my front yard, Locust. I just couldn't get the finish to show very well. Attachment 345318
Nice grain on those. Captured well in the profile you chose too.
Nice job buddy.
Wicked cool man, looks great!!
I set these limbs up in the lathe to drill them. Angling a little off center but still center enough to drill out the piff from end to end. I had just enough length to get them both out of the same limb. I've gotten my CA finish down pat nowadays. No blemishes or rough spots. It sure took a while to get the CA finishes figured out. I could still use another chuck so I don't have to change attachments so often.
Nice set buddy.
Turned some handles and farrules for a pair of weeding tools I forged. Had to make myself a new one since i ran over the old one with the mower. (that really made some noise! ). The walnut handled one is for me and the oak handle one as a gift for my son. The white oak is from a historic tree in the area where the settlers made treaties with the natives.
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Very cool with the twist. Nice work.
Nice pickle forks for sure. The whole project looks good, the handles and ferrules are a great touch to your forging.
Really nice take on a weeding tool. Love the results. Gives me yet more inspiration to try my hand at smithing sometime in the future.
My wife uses one of those regularly to get up the dandelions.
Today I managed to make 3 kaleidoscopes (Zebrawood) and one shave brush (Purpleheart).
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Also made a tool to help clean out the taper on both ends of my lathe. I used a 20 guage bronze bore brush tip...
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Really nice looking turnings Jerry. That zebra wood is so pretty to look at. Nice choice for a kaleidoscope.
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Kaleidescopes huh? I want to watch when you try convincing the patrolman that's what those are.:rofl2: They sure look an awful lot like fatty-mobiles.
Hey, I've seen what those crazy kids do.
Now I have fo google fatty mobile. Nope, that didnt help. Enlighten me.
The kaleidoscope's are for two grandkids and one for the wife. They did turn out nice. The finish is a shine juice burned in after a laquor sealer. Ive gotten good at the CA finishes but wanted to try something else. I will see how well this holds up.
awesome work as always Gasman.
I started a chess set today. Well, I did one pawn prototype. now to spin 16 exactly the same. I really wanted to make the set from boxwood and ebony, but the cost of that stuff is too high for a first try. So, I'm going to go with maple for the white pieces and ebonized oak for the black.
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Looks good. Make a jig. It helps when making more that one. I thought about a chess set but nobody Round me plays so i gave up the idea.
Cool stuff. I like the cleaning brush idea, and the kaleidoscope are pretty cool.
When you get the chess pieces figured out I would like a really big Queen brush handle.
I like them and think they're really nicely done. Just saying that when I first saw them I did a double take. It wasn't until I read the post that I knew they weren't dope pipes. The neighbor next to our shop years ago was a smoke shop and he had a case in the window full of "tobacco utensils," :tu that looked just like that.
No offense intended.
I started the knight prototype this morning. I will say wood carvers do not have it easy.
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That looks great.
Big enough that you can put a 25mm knot in the bottom. I expect that chess pieces have some sort of proportion to them and the diameter would predict the height. Although because it only needs to look like a chess queen, those proportions need not be accurate.
So far I’m loving it.
The queen in this set has a 1.7-inch base. So fitting a 25mm (1'') knot would be no problem at all. Just a matter of adjusting the height of the base to accommodate the extra depth needed to set the knot.
Not happy with the proportions of Queen's crown but that's why we prototype.
The same thing happened with the finial on top the king's crown. I'm just going to fix them both when I turn the actual set.
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