Zed
13th August 2003, 03:19 PM
Hi All,
You may notice from a previous thread that I have been doing a turning class at the local High school which has and continues to be lotsa fun, in my last submission on this topic I wrote :
---------------
Fargin' 'ell!!! in class last night right?... found a picture on the web of some wood carving mallets all nice and round, clean and sexy looking - dead easy to turn up - so I gets me peice of iron bark - lovely bit of stock - spend a whole hour shaping it up nice and neat and when I get to the sanding stage I notice theres some score marks in the handle section, so I sez to meself i'll just clean that up with the flat angle chisel to get rid of the cut and guess what ?? I farged it up didnt I ? just kept slipping and sliding all over the peice till there wasn't enough thickness in the handle to support the hammer end!!! I had it all nicely dimensioned too ! very disappointed in myself!... when I told SWMBO that I had reduced a peice of 100x100mm iron bark to so much toothpicks she just her self laughing...
--------------
Anyway - that was last week - I have now completed Mark II of the said carving chisel from a new piece of stock and here is the result :
Sorry about the quality of the image but I dont have a digi camera and had to borrow a mates phone camera hence the quality.
I though the carving mallet would be good practice as its got straight, convex and concave sections also giving lotsa practice on various techniques. Its only old iron bark 100x100mm stock that I bought at the local dump for $5 for 1.8 m recycled. Must say theres a lot of hard work in turning a dry hardwood.
Next week I imagine I will have finished my first bowl made from silky oak (?) whichI will post also assuming I dont farg it up too!
You may notice from a previous thread that I have been doing a turning class at the local High school which has and continues to be lotsa fun, in my last submission on this topic I wrote :
---------------
Fargin' 'ell!!! in class last night right?... found a picture on the web of some wood carving mallets all nice and round, clean and sexy looking - dead easy to turn up - so I gets me peice of iron bark - lovely bit of stock - spend a whole hour shaping it up nice and neat and when I get to the sanding stage I notice theres some score marks in the handle section, so I sez to meself i'll just clean that up with the flat angle chisel to get rid of the cut and guess what ?? I farged it up didnt I ? just kept slipping and sliding all over the peice till there wasn't enough thickness in the handle to support the hammer end!!! I had it all nicely dimensioned too ! very disappointed in myself!... when I told SWMBO that I had reduced a peice of 100x100mm iron bark to so much toothpicks she just her self laughing...
--------------
Anyway - that was last week - I have now completed Mark II of the said carving chisel from a new piece of stock and here is the result :
Sorry about the quality of the image but I dont have a digi camera and had to borrow a mates phone camera hence the quality.
I though the carving mallet would be good practice as its got straight, convex and concave sections also giving lotsa practice on various techniques. Its only old iron bark 100x100mm stock that I bought at the local dump for $5 for 1.8 m recycled. Must say theres a lot of hard work in turning a dry hardwood.
Next week I imagine I will have finished my first bowl made from silky oak (?) whichI will post also assuming I dont farg it up too!