Hi PhilHi Folks,
I just got an assignment from the Mardas Gallery owner, Diana Madaras. She had some 20 lazy susans from Costa Rico that had shipping damage. I do not sell my work in her Gallery anymore, but she keeps me in reserve for weird stuff...Like dispay frames for the Tucson Airport, her studio etc. So I have about 25 large lazy susans in the shop for repair.... Quite a job for me as no two are damaged as the same...Throw in two cutting boards... I am about half way through them but my shop is flooded with lazy susans.... These are from Costa Rico...Here are examples...
best,
Phil
Hi Jeff,
Human ingenuity!When your wood pile is low and all you have left are the rejects you tossed aside because they have big old curves in them. Normally I strap pull boards to close gaps but I really didn't have a way to do this so I actually found something useful to do with the factory jack stand from the ranger. ?
I actually have plans to get one or two of those from a junk yard and make a clamping setup.
Beautiful!Making a coffee table for my stepson's college graduation in May. This is a solid piece of Iroko wood, although it isn't related to Teak, it's often mislabeled as African Teak. I bought a Lichtenberg machine to burn the design in it last night then today I used my drill and a couple different nylon brush wheels to clean out the char and then sand it and round over the edges with my router. Tomorrow or maybe tonight I will mix up epoxy with some copper tint and fill the voids. I found a 2 part wax finish I will coat it all with. Should arrive soon. The company I bought it from uses it on both the sanded wood and sanded epoxy, it leaves a satin/ matte sheen. I am not a huge fan of high gloss epoxy but I will try that eventually. Luckily my pacemaker didn't give me any fits while I used the machine, maybe there's still hope for getting a mig welder after all.
Beautiful work!Hi Jeff,
I have to a degree posted some of my work but it is buried in other threads.... I can post a bit here for now.
My dining table and chairs... Table weighs 300lbs. Mesquite stump was a challenge, clocks on the wall have various pieces of them that I had to make to restore the cases....Chair backs have saquaro ribs as does the Cornice over the doors that I made too...
Live Edge coffee table we use every evening that we are not outside...
Bottle opener and wine stopper....
Cheese knife, Cheese fork and cutting board....
Just finished yesterday. Tried to bookmatch the Mesquite after filling the cracks with a polyester resin and potent black dye 9/4 mesquite resawn. 20" x 13½" x 7/8"
Mesquite is a super hard wood on the order of Iron Wood... Carbide tooling is recommended...
Best,
Phil
It goes on beyond this, but enough for now...
WOW. Those are awesome. Nice work.I’m slowly finishing my basement. These are some storage cabinets I built recently.
Thank you kind sir !
Very nice! Great job!I’m slowly finishing my basement. These are some storage cabinets I built recently.
Thank you, I really appreciate it !
