Thread: My latest projects

Outstanding
Any other pics.....we mere mortals can drool over... and welcome to
the fourm

Thanks for all your comments. I begin to feel cocky.

My confusing nick comes from the relative dimensions of the monolith (2001: A Space Odyssey) as someone already said. Please use 149 or anything that is easier. Once I chose this nick I never bothered to make up a new one altough it irritates a lot of people.

The rose window has wedges and wooden pegs used in the joints. I'll post couple of pictures later tonight and I'll tell you about the process on both of those projects. I installed the window today, the museum director was very pleased. It was first of the four windows that are waiting to be reconstructed.

edit: Here are the pictures:
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/verla1.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/verla2.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/verla3.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/verla4.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/verla5.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross1.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross2.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross3.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross4.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross5.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross6.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/1by4by9/pics/cross7.jpg

The rose window: parts made of pine (the wood pegs also), the wedges are birch. Traditional Finnish yellow pigment used (it translates directly as "yellow soil")

The cross is aspen all the way, the body was made by using wood turning technique (not by me but some carpenter.) I heated pine tar and treated the body and the shingles with it.

Nice set of photos 1by. That window must have been a bit of a puzzle to put together. Hope you'll post pics of it and the cross in their final homes. Have a greenie.

Hi 1x4x9,

Great work as I said in the other thread. Do you get to build the other windows for the museum? Should keep you out of trouble for a while

Hope you can post some pics with the glass installed and in its new home.

Are you going into cabinetmaking or something specific when you finish school?

Whatever you do, keep up the great work!

Regards,
Darren

ModelShipwright: the school I'm now finishing has co-operation with the museum so the rest of the rose windows will be constructed by other students at a later time. In our school every carpentry student has to make two smaller straight windows for the museum. There have been calculations that it would take 40 years until all of the museum's smaller windows have been reconstructed.

I'm going to another school and concentrate more on restoration of buildings. Maybe after that they'll hire me in the museum.

I brought my camera with me when I installed the window but unfortunately the batteries had gone dead. I'll have to ask the museum for the pictures, maybe they'll update those to the website. I'll post tonight a couple of more pictures with glass installed.

Click here to visit the website of Verla.

beautiful work.

only 2 things could get me back in school, one would be the chance to do woodwork and nothing else the second would be the fact that most female teachers would be younger than I am therefore more attractive than the old hags I seem to recall lol

149 - A huge round applause from this corner The joinery on the Rose Window is superb! Truly excellent - and done at school.

I hope you have ambitions to continue working with wood as it would be a great loss to the craft if you left it for something else - but likely that something else's gain..

Well done mate!

Hi! I haven't done any recent worthy woodwork stuff in my current school because it's more theory based school. But anyway, I just wanted to share these links, they're videos about these two projects already discussed in this thread:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Sv_3mpVTk"]YouTube - Shingles and a cross[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVOm7FkQ_g"]YouTube - Rose Window[/ame]

Enjoy!

1by top work thanks for sharing

I couldn't open the links to photos but the video's came through ok

Ray

Nice work 1by4by9 but wow its a long time between drinks

Hi 1by4by9
I have researched my family history and know that some of my family went to Finland to settle in the 1850's. Hope we are related as I may have some latent talent that will see me producing this type of work! Well done.
Cheers
Steve

Fantastic work. It's truly great to see a young fellow getting such a good start. You are obviously very talented and have had the good fortune of receiving excellent instruction. You will do very well in life.

There awesome! You got to do them in school? There must be something seriously wrong with woodworking in my school...

Hi guys! Thank you for the feedback!

I am slowly starting a business of my own and I just finished glazing another rose window. This time I carved the frame parts by using mainly chisels and a spokeshave so it looks a bit more rough and "organic". And of course that way it has more personal value for me.

You should be able to see the pictures even if you are not registered to Facebook:
Rose Window 2010

And here are two pictures from the original rose window project.
Rose Window 2006