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(clicking photos takes you to Flickr page) Well it’s been a long time coming, but the long-awaited TV stand is finally a reality… much as it pains me to use “reality” and “TV” in the same sentence. It’s posing here under the living-room window to show off its shiny finish, but obviously this is not [...] With dawning horror, I realize I have made a probably fatal mistake, total rookie move, in the construction of my TV stand… in order to disguise some ugly defects in the walnut veneer of one of the side pieces (which I should have picked up on earlier in the process, another rookie move) I decided [...] Two Carbara Pens, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. Two new pens in a new format I’m trying, called “Carbara”. One is the coffee beans in white acrylic seen earlier in a standard slimline, and the other — just in time for Christmas — is my Halloween pen… orange acrylic with black chrome fittings… These pens are a little [...] Before I could continue working on the much anticipated TV stand (see artist’s rendering) I knew I had to make something else first. Not as a distraction or delaying tactic, though you might be forgiven for immediately suspecting that, but as a necessary step towards completing the project. I needed to build a miter sled. [...] Two Pens – African Spalted Stinkwood and Coffee Beans in White Acrylic, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. The stinkwood is quite subtle, but rewards deep gazing… like a burl almost… not sure how much actual spalting made it into the finished pen here… The coffee bean pen is anything but subtle… actual coffee beans embedded in white acrylic… [...] More Pens, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. These are available (i.e. not part of an order) Species include (l-r) curly maple (2), cherry (2), walnut (4) and a lone pau ferro on the right. Oddly, the four walnut pens are all quite different, despite coming from the same piece of wood and getting the same treatment… no [...] Five More Pens (Sorry, I know this is boring), originally uploaded by rgdaniel. Actually made 6 pens today, but one had a teeny tiny flaw that caused it to fail my stringent quality control. My wife seems happy to have it though. This time we have (l-r) Paduak, Zebrawood (x2) and Pau Ferro (x2). The Paduak and the [...] Five Pens for Karen, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. Made these five “Designer” pens today, a new record! The trick is to not worry about the quality… that was a joke, they’re awesome… orders are piling up… Christmas is coming, hint hint… From left to right, the woods are Pau Ferro, Lacewood, and Paduak, Paduak, Paduak. I’m LOVING [...] Three Pens Originally uploaded by rgdaniel Having some fun with replacing the store-bought centre band with wood centre bands of contrasting material that I turn along with the pen. The first one we saw in an earlier post, purpleheart with maple bits. The second is curly maple, the third is from a very nice piece of cherry burl, [...] TV Stand – FINAL Originally uploaded by rgdaniel This is (hopefully) the last of at least 7 design iterations in Sketchup for the TV stand I’ve been mulling over for several months now… Version 6 was actually marked final and the cutting had begun, when I realized that the shelves it included would not be necessary and [...] |
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