That looks really awesome. 
More leatherwork for June: converted the rigging on this saddle from English to western rigging. Designed an H-shaped leather attachment to hold the D ring and fit between the existing stitching, punched and drilled out the copper burr rivets, removed the billet straps, and installed the new rigging using new copper burr rivets. Repeated on the other side.
Before
After
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Beautiful! And what a great way to display your work. Plus, it just goes to show that even 1/24 cats should never be underestimated! '-) I’d love to talk with you about how you made this project. Is there a place where I can see more? Thanks!
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I’m attended the Rocky Mountain Smiths Conference this past weekend in Colorado. I made a “kitchen trio” of utensils for the “Iron in the Pot” auction. A coffee scoop, a longer version of the corkscrew I made earlier, and a pizza cutter (with a cutting wheel borrowed from a Dollar Tree).
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Air dried these cookies for 3 years from my parents oak tree that was taken down to put in a pool. Turned the thickest one into a patio table with a little bit of resin, walnut bow ties, and flattened on the router sled. Thinner piece became a lazy susan (finished a little bit ago).
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When the daughter comes calling with a want for artsy hexagon shelving, a corner table, and platform twin beds … well, you say yes. That doesn’t mean you will discover that hexagons are fun to work with! Pretty sure only a very wealthy, free spending customer will ever talk me into making any six sided things in what’s left of this lifetime.
In addition to hex, she also wanted rustic … which is hard for me to do for some reason. Figured that alder would be my best bet for the requested look. Part hardwood and part alder veneer ply … but that veneer layer was so thin you just had to look at it wrong to go through it. Daughter was very happy, but this is one project that is only satisfying in the rear view mirror!!
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Way cool Bert!!!
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Thank you for sharing your process and beautiful work!
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With many thanks to John K to loaning me his Creality 10w LED laser to test it for work:
Original on top, duplicate on bottom.
Still some refinement needed in settings and pre prep of the base label, but darn close for an hour or two of poking at software settings and base material preparation.
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Very clever! What’s the base material for the copy?
Duplicating fonts when you not sure what their names are is painful. Great job,
Base material is 2mm laser plywood from Microcenter, gessoed and “gold” (brass) leafed, then lasered.
I can usually get pretty close to an exact font match using DaFont.com, but in this case it was just an internal test to see if this is a workable tool chain for my shop, so an exact match wasn’t needed.
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My workplace has a ping pong table and some people are talking about setting up a tournament. I figured I’d use this opportunity to finally start a wood project. The goal was to use as much CNC as possible, and start using top down design in CAD.
Designed on SolidWorks.
Export DXF and cut 1/8" aluminium on Dynatorch.
CAM main paddle out of Walnut on Easel, and cut on Shapeoko II with rough and final pass.
CAM engraved letters with V-bit on Carbide Create, and cut on Shapeoko III.
PLA on various 3D printers
Hollow print, and filled with sand for weight.
Finished with Arm-R-Seal, Laquer-Stik, and Scotch-Brite .
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Chainsaw dog FTW!
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Turtle tray. Got the idea to dye the maple from the drawers @got_tools did. The turtle was found when i was looking for images to do for steamroller.
The ends are curly walnut I was able to bookmatch.
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Last weekend I stopped by to drop off some circuit boards for the freebie shelf, and stayed to use the woodshop to help ‘carve’ the high-density foam prototype flux band bracket for the Kia/Fiero Time Machines.
Some straight-edges and a snappable box cutter blade were used to break the source exercise foam into usable chunks, and after I traced my erstwhile template onto the blocks, I used the long-board belt sander to arch the corners, but found I needed the flexibility the smaller disc/belt sander had.
The next week, I finished up the carving with X-acto blades and a Dremel drum sanding bit which was the perfect size for the tubing.
Your Friend in Time,
McFlyDallas
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