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 [...]
Practice: Angled Mortice & tenon
After an epic two day clean-up, de-junk, & re-organizing of my workshop, I decided I deserve some play time. I have done mortice & tenon joints before on projects, but they have always been 90′ connections. This time it was angled joints. Grabbed to pieces of scrap wood. Marked out a 45′ angle 1″ deep [...]
Practice: Barley Twist
I decided to try a new technique today. Barley twists are a fairly late furniture technique, and almost all english examples that are even in the 1650 stretched SCA time-line are of a single twist variety. I ended up do a triple twist (cause I am retarded). marked a grid out on the dowel and [...]
