What did you do in your shop today?
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Did some tidying up around the shop and then turned a few pens. While I was at it I finished up a few more makeup brushes.
FBE from @justallan
The pen I turned for our club demo...spalted magnolia with African Blackwood to fill the voids left by the critters.
Cigar pen with an unknown burl casted in alumalite.
Makeup brush with found wood. Used some blue dye and then sanded it back a bit.
Another makeup brush with spalted live oak with a rather large void filled with coffee grounds. The spalting was just too good to pass up so I turned it.
FBE from @justallan
The pen I turned for our club demo...spalted magnolia with African Blackwood to fill the voids left by the critters.
Cigar pen with an unknown burl casted in alumalite.
Makeup brush with found wood. Used some blue dye and then sanded it back a bit.
Another makeup brush with spalted live oak with a rather large void filled with coffee grounds. The spalting was just too good to pass up so I turned it.
Cool stuff Lou..cigar pens are one of my favorites. Where did you pick up the makeup brushes?
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Awesome Ray!!!!!!! Sorry I didn't have time visit when I was in Tampa, but I think you was out of state.
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@steve bellinger I'm glad you decided to work on the desk, it is a beautiful piece. I have always had a thing for green and green,Hall brothers, mission or craftsman style as it is sometimes called, and Sam Maloofs furniture. I really like the desk that you are working on, I hope it gives you great satisfaction in finishing it.
See that base to the left of my duck with the lily pad it was one of my favorite pieces - mind you this is Southern Louisiana - so remember that theme -- here it is!!
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Very cool. Love how the water is dripping off its teeth. The duck weed is a cool touch as well.
That is one seriously nifty mount! I love it when Taxidermists get bored!! Guy that used to do all my mounts up in ND, came up with some really wild fish mounts when he was playing.
OK one more for y'all and never seen these reproduced before - I was laughing but also thought they were awesome!!
That gator is awesome!!!!
That's fake? it looks yummy!!
Yes everything you see on the plate (ice, sauce, oysters) is fake except the shells
Where's the ringtailed cat?
Right beside the oysters hanging from a branch. Don't know if I got a picture of it. Let me check
So I've had a day..... Started last night, I'd been in bed a couple hours and my phone rings. Phone calls in the middle of the night aren't usually good. A friend was on the way home with his family and his van dies, probably the alternator. Luckily he got as far a Lanesboro where he could park it off the highway (The last few miles he traveled before there has no shoulder, nowhere to pull off) So, being the nice guy I am I head out to pick up him and the family to get them home since they have to be to work at 5am. No biggie, he'd do the same for me. Once the parts stores open today I locate an alternator for his van, it's a shot in the dark as that van had 3 options and only one of which is in stock anywhere, none of which interchange, figure if it's the wrong one, I'll pull his, get it to the machine shop and have it rebuilt. Get the thing apart and find the housing is split, no rebuilding it but luckily the one option anyone had on the shelf is the right one. Get it out and find all the brackets on the front of the motor are loose. Turns out when he had a shop in town do the water pump they never tightened anything. Explains the ongoing coolant leak the shop can't seem to fix and the loose bracket caused the alternator to twist, cracking the case. Never taking a car there and hope he doesn't ever again either. Went through the entire front of the motor, got everything tight and put the new alternator in. Did I tell you it was raining the whole time? And I'm outdoors? I got real tired of rain running down my back into the crack of my butt. Drove back to town, picked him up after work and ran him to his van (This is a 35 mile RT each time). Got back to the shop about 2:30pm. Finally got to turning, got 40 or so Slimlines turned and finished so I have 55 ready to assemble (A scary sharp skew is your friend for volume turning), drilled and tubed the blanks for 35 toothpick holders and started turning them. The last one for the day (Number 8 for the TP holders) was a piece of Kevin's Kryptonite, Koa Sapwood, curly, spalted, stabilized. I miss that man, this was the time of year he was always cheering me on as I geared up for show season..... Now home for dinner and bed and tomorrow I get to prep all my materials for some turning demos I'm doing Sunday the 7th in Aiden, MI. Oh, I also got a laser inlay kit assembled and turned too.
Colin you're the man!
Good job Colin. And kudos to you for being a nice guy....
