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Description: Making a "steam train whistle" for my 5 year old niece to blow into. Started with a piece of hardwood rescued from the firewood pile, milled it to shape, handplaned it, parted off, drilled holes, etc. A few more steps to go, obviously!
Description: Forged these with chisel, punch, and anvil. Started with 1/4" square steel bar. Heated to 1500 ° or so, then worked. Perfect for attaching to your keys ... or your workshop wall!
Description: What I made for Christmas back in December!
Description: Ordered (5) 18' long 2x12s. Cut them to half length, yielding (10) 9' long 2x12s. Ripped each into three equal pieces, yielding (30) 9' 2x4s. Planed the faces of each, reducing thickness to 1 3/8". Picked 24 good ones, divided into 4 groups of 6. Started gluing up the four flitches (each will be 8 1/4" wide x 3 1/2" thick). Each will be allowed to cure for 24 hours, then will be run through the planer. Then the four bench segments will be glued together. I'll install one Record face vise on the front, and either two on the right end, or a single Vertias twin screw vise.
Description: Yancey had purchased a knife for hunting and didn't like the sheath. The blade is 12" long and 3" wide at the widest part. I watched Chuck Burrows video on sheath-making about a million times while I did this. The back is 8-9 ounces leather; the front is two layers of 4-ounce leather with watersnake skin insets. First time I'd done that. Hand cut and saddle-stitched. Yancey loved it. -- Morningstar
Description: Dr. Bob made the knife, and it's shown as a separate project. Morningstar made the sheath in time for it to be shipped out to the buyer. 8 - 9 ounce leather from a double-shoulder piece, hand-tooled and saddle-stitched.
Description: This is probably the best of my knives so far. It was cut from a billet made by Alabama Damascus, 416 layers of the best steels -- 52100 and high nickel steels like 203E and 15N20. Quenched three times and tempered at 350F. The fossil material is slices of woolly mammoth tooth I bought from Miles Martin in Alaska. I had put off for months cutting the mammoth tooth pieces for fear I'd make something I didn't like later or ruin them.... and I'm very happy with this now that I've finally done it. It is 9 3/4" overall length, with a 5" blade. This is a shadow box knife, though it's as hard and tough as any working knife. It comes with a sheath that hasn't been designed yet.
Description: Hope Louis Tiffany's heirs don't sue me. Inspired by Tiffany's stained glass lamps. About 24" x 10" x 4" deep. Purple heart box, butterfly of African ebony and pink ivory, leaf of yellow heart, black walnut and mora. I'm not too pleased with these photos -- the box is nicer. Represents a good month's hard labor. Dividers are left loose till the owner decides where they should be. If at all. PS -- Sold it for the price I was asking, the day I finished it!
Description: Woodturner's Catalog sells this specialized toolrest for making boxes (specifically, scraping the insides of an end grain box). The rest is $85. I think I've got a 1/2" thick slab of steel around somewhere that would be perfect for this ... I'm going to make my own some day!
Description: Woodturners use tool rests when turning. My Powermatic 3520 came with a 14" long toolrest. I wanted a shorter one that would fit between my headstock and tailstock when turning small Christmas tree ornaments. The Powermatic aftermarket 6" toolrest (P/N 6294739) costs $60 ... $70 after shipping. I decided to make my own, and did it in about 40 minutes in the shop.
Description: Bob's knife amazed me - I'd love to do something like this someday!
Description: This wool came as a kit for mittens or socks, from Fleece Artist in Nova Scotia, Canada. I saw the wool from across the store and fell in love with the colour, and decided not to splurge. When I was checking out with something else, I asked about a sample pair of mitts I'd seen -- what were they made of? Well, there was a kit, and only two left ... But really, only one left, and it was the stuff I'd fallen in love with. This is one strand each of mohair and blue leicester sheep's wool, each skein dyed in four colours in the round, so the colour changes with every stitch. An elegant mitten -- no ribbing at the wrist, just knitting around and around, and at the wrist, the fabric rolls in on itself for a border. There's a hat almost done, that I've been making up as I got along, and hoping the leftovers don't run out before it'll cover my ears.
Description: This is a pull-over sweater I knit using super-wash wool and a pattern (this time) from DaleGarn. Fine wool, a colour-stranded pattern. It's a nine-month size. Superwash wool because wool is soft and warm and this can be thrown in the washer and left out to dry. New mums shouldn't have to wash baby clothes by hand. I like this kind of classic pattern for babies -- when they're bigger, they'll argue for what they like.
Description: This knife is made from 52100 steel, the steel used for ball bearings. It is possibly the most valued of knife steels. Following Ed Fowler's method of heat treatment as closely as possible, this blade was brought to critical temperature and edge-quenched in 160-degree oil, left in the freezer for 24 hours, then heated and quenched and frozen again, then quenched a third time. Following that, it was tempered at 400 degrees for two hours and left to cool, three times. After the heat treatment, wet-sanded down to a 6000 grit mirror finish. And it is sharp. The handle is hippo ivory and web turquoise, with nickel/silver fittings. It has a 4 1/2" blade and is 9 3/4" overall.
Description: This knife is very different from any of the others. It evolved step-by-step with no plan at all. It glories in its flaws. All the metal in the knife is from a single piece of 1" steel cable, heated and fluxed and twisted and pounded with a hammer on a railroad track anvil, ground and shaped and polished and etched in acid. The guard and pommel are end pieces of the cable that did not quite weld, and I heated them yellow-hot and dipped them in molten brass, shaped and polished and heat-blued them to bring out the contrast with the bright brass. I sent pictures of them to a well-known maker of cable Damascus knives, and he told me how to keep from getting holes in the steel when I dipped it in brass. But this is exactly what I wanted.
Description: This is my all-time favorite knife. I named it Pralines & Cream. I used a forged (as opposed to ground) Damascus blank from Damascus USA in the shape I like best -- a sweeping arc with a drop point and a nice tapered tang. I asked Miles Martin up in Alaska to pick me out some mammoth ivory in a honey or almond color cause I wanted the metal to be copper. The ivory has tiny traces of that characteristic mammoth-blue. The hilt and bolster are copper, and the spacers are cocobolo. It is 8 1/2" long with a 4" blade, weighs eight ounces. Yes, I know copper and brass tarnish faster than the nickel-silver I sometimes use, but this particular copper tarnishes in a gorgeous way that makes it look like it's being heated. This knife has a wonderful balance and feel to it, and smoothness that my photography can't capture.
Description: My latest hollow form vessel turned from East Indian Rosewood with an African Blackwood lid and finial. The piece is 5-5/8" high by 5-1/2" wide.
Description: I'd like to do a segmented bowl someday!
Description: This is my 5th Segmented bowl. I am still learning how to improve accuracy.I would appreciate any feedback.
Description: "Cotton and his Candy Shoppe" are part of the new Village series, just one of the many projects delivered each month to Poly Clay Play Club Subscribers at polyclayplay.com I am having tons of fun designing these and writing the projects for club members to make their own village. It is hard to tell from the photo but light glows in the windows too from the real lights inside the house. The project instructions include the different techniques involved, including ribbon candy, image transfer, a "candy cane" cane and how to make "Cotton, the Elf". "Cotton" was delivered in November. December's village piece is going to be "Santa's Castle" along with Santa and Rudolph. Happy Holidays! Trish
Description: A third Electric guitar I am working on. The inspration for the design was from a guitar I saw on the website of soulmate guitar. Maple burl on top and on the headplate. Mahogany for the body and the set neck. Madagascar ebony for the fretboard. White binding on the head, the fretboard, the body. Need finishing. I think I'll go for some kind of sunburst. Serge Quebec, Canada
Description: I've started turning birdhouse ornaments based on Dick Sing's book Turning Miniature Birdhouses http://www.amazon.com/Dick-Sing-Turns-Miniature-Birdhouses/dp/0764320807 You can see the mandrel I made, using a Be-all spindle tap.
Description: Two peppermills I made last Christmas. They look decent, but they've got some flaws - I wish I'd seen Ted Sokolowski's video before I made these!
