Practice: Oval Turning… Inro
Goofing around in the work shop the other day. I have been thinking about trying to turn a Japanese oval turned Inro. This turned out to be one of the more difficult things I have made. Trying to juggle drill bits of different sizes for different cuts just got confusing after a while. An Inro [...]
My Mascot: Ash the Turnip
Named after Bruce “Don’t call me Ash” Campbell. My Turnip!
Folding Aumbry Cupboard v1.3 98% done
The big push is on. I will be leaving on Friday for Avacal/Tir Righ war. My deadline for finishing this project was this event, so I needed to get on with it. All of the side panels have been cut out, carved, primed and painted. Sides and doors with the heraldic badges painted in bright [...]
Folding Aumbry Cupboard v1.2 door painting
More painting done on the front door panel. The two headed cock just makes me laugh. I used it as my main charge for a long time, but never bothered registering it. The other two symbols are the populace badges for An Tir, and Tir Righ. Used a commercial gesso to prime and fill the [...]
Folding Aumbry Cupboard v1.1 Tracery Bits
Heavy image laden post. I’m in a hurry so its gonna mostly be images . Dogzilla checking out the progress.
Folding Aumbry Cupboard v1.0 In the Beginning
Just a quick image laden post on my folding aumbry camp cupboard. Quick doodle of my rough plan. I am basing it loosely on three images from Victor Chinnery (sp?) “Oak Furniture”
Mulberry Tree / Silkworm Project
I have got it into my thick skull that I will enjoy raising Silkworms. The whole selective breeding for specific traits appeals to the farmer in me. I could be raising silkworms right now, as everything you need to raise silk can be bought on line. Somehow buying silkworm chow seems like cheating, so long [...]
Cardboard Cupboard
The other day I posted on a set of foldable shelves. I have since that time had the idea tickling the back of my mind. I did a quick doodle of how I could adapt Sir Geoofrey’s shelves into a foldable Ambury cupboard. Well the doodle has grown into a cardboard mock up of the [...]
Turned Bed Frame v1.2
Got a bit more done on the Turned Bedframe Have all the larger dowels roughed down to size Starting in on the Center Doughnut. Turning a 1″ sphere with two 1/2″ 90′ holes through it is hard… real hard! Doughnut in bedframe Center panel with 1″ spheres. The small dots are 1/4″ buttons. Not sure [...]
Curdled Milk
Since I have been playing around with milk paint, I decided to try my hand at making my own milk curds. I don’t want to muck about with cooking, so the test will be done at room tempature. 1L skim milk (.4%mf, and three days from expiry date) apple cider vinegar 5.5%a.acid (all i had) [...]
