Thread: Carry all

So hard to see much in the first pictures, BUT:
The open cuts, backlit by the sun, now make me think of the segmented body parts of an insect. As a retired biologist, great bias for that.

Questions of process: for working, how have you anchored the wood to the bench?
The bench itself: can you walk around it? how tall?

Two hex-head baton screws with large washers go through the holes in the base - you know the holes in the black and decker collapsible workbenches. Its the smaller version B@D. I do have a larger one. When working on either of the two sides I just collapse two legs so the whole bench is at about a 30 degree angle and the side is tilted toward me. I didn't do this with the chainsaw, just when using the woodhog.

Yes, there is something of an exoskeleton or carapace to the feel of it that I have started to help along.

Thanks, movay. I have 101 reasons to try different approaches to carving this winter.
I may not be too productive but I could care less = exploration time.
I have new tools (Haida-style knives) and new wood (bass & yellow cedar) to mess with.

Tomorrow (Sept04 for me) I set off to expect to find maybe 6-8 carvings sold. Gimme 2,500km and I'll be back.

Bugs Rule.

How enjoyable it sounds to drive this time of year there.

Thanks. It will be good. Nice to sit up high in the Burb, easier to see what's happening in the traffic in front of me. 120 channels of digital sound in the SatRad for company.
Tomorrow, I drive 500km south then up into the high mountain/sagebrush country to a homestead ranch where I stay. Better than Hollywood pretty. Then another 500km down through the mountains into the Fraser River valley to see my kids in Vancouver.

Man, I have to say that summer is really done here. I do not believe that I will see 20C for another 7 months. -20C for certain. I picked, cleaned and froze 4kg black currants this afternoon. Gotta get ready for the 'S'. . . . . . . sn. . . .. sno. . . . snow. There!
I said it (sorry).
Probably no more email for 7-10 days.
Adios, my friends.

Burb?

Got this as far as I dare, a bit thin in places. Dumping it in water for 6 months or so then slow sawdust dry before finishing off details sanding and adjusting symmetry.

I can wait 6 months.

Yeh, I'm kind of scared though that leaving it in water may trigger it to self replicate or something - couldn't stand more than one of these around. I'm starting to think its a sea monkey.

I've had this soaking a few weeks in a garbage can with H2o and some lemon myrtle hydrosol from our lemon myrtle oil distillation on farm, which I put in to keep beasties out. I don't think its the acidity of the hydrosol that turned it this colour but would be curious to know why in water it would do this?
carry all purple.jpg

Late. Big Ravens gone. Little Raven gone. Salmon and Halibut Platter gone.

Burb = 454/7.6l V8 GMC Truck division "Suburban." Longest running brand/model in General Motors history.
4-door, factory loaded with all possible options + towing package (extra radiators, etc) , shift-on-the-fly 4WD.
Not over the top for where I live.

Got the head on the green sea turtle, the 30cm caterpillar is coming along nicely.
Dreadful big crop of grapes to pick soon. Should be snow up top any day soon.

Movay, that's a real shocker to see. My biology/biochem background leads me to guess a reaction between the pigments in the original wood and something in your "marinade." What's the container? Metal or plastic? If I knew no better, I'd say iron stain. Not completely unattractive.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

Movay, that's a real shocker to see. My biology/biochem background leads me to guess a reaction between the pigments in the original wood and something in your "marinade." What's the container? Metal or plastic? If I knew no better, I'd say iron stain. Not completely unattractive.

Bin is galvanised steel but rusting. Hydrosol may be accelatering. The purple is natural in Africn wattle but shows up more in old big trees I have assumed.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

Not completely unattractive.

Kinda looks cool ...

Paul

A couple of centuries ago, American colonial cabinet makers made up a wood stain with iron filings and vinegar.
Sort of a gray-black & transparent. I've used it to stain microscope slide thin sections of various woods.
Excellent to enhance the contrast for nice visibility.
If the bin is/was rusting, that puts iron into particle sizes quite suitable for solution and thus chemical reactions.
Stick another piece of some other wood in that soup = see if you get the same result.