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I'm starting to think I've lost my mind.
Now that I'm working on stacked handles, I'm spending a lot of my time prepping the pieces that could end up in stacks. One of the things that's taking up a fair amount of my time is creating interesting spacers.
It started out with the fossilized ivory. Cutting and shaping and flattening the pieces. Then I added vulcanized liner to them, to make a sort of spacer sandwich. Those were the spacers I used on the Dark Lady project.
Then I noticed that the remaining fossilized ivory pieces were too small to be spacers on their own.
I decided to split the pieces lengthwise, and insert a piece of stabilized ebony in the middle to spread the iveory pieces out enough to make a decent spacer. Of course I also lined these with the vulcanized liner.
Next I took some polished bone napkin rings I'd bought and cut them into quarters. I found the flattest parts of each bone piece and sanded it down to make a flat disc. I lined half of these with the black vulcanized liner.
I started looking around for something metalic to use as a spacer or liner. Lowes and Home Depot were selling flat pieces of aluminum and steel, so I thought I would try the aluminum. I cut a few pieces of that, but frankly found it hard to work and not worth the effort.
I then went to Vetco electronics and bought a small segment of flat cable used to run electrical connections under the carpet. These consist of two flat strips of copper each one inch wide sealed inside a plastic sheath. I removed the plastic sheath and the glue holding it all together and had two strips of bare flat copper. I decided to use this as a liner, and glued it to some of the bone segments.
Then I remembered I had some mother of pearl pieces taken from an old wristwatch band. I arranged those on a strip of copper and glued them in place.
So now I have over a dozen of these spacers... and no idea how or whether I'll ever use them. But there is one thing about me you should know... things like this rarely go to waste. I feel certain I'll find a place for most of these spacers in some future project.
Anyone else making any interesting spacers?
- Greg
Now that I'm working on stacked handles, I'm spending a lot of my time prepping the pieces that could end up in stacks. One of the things that's taking up a fair amount of my time is creating interesting spacers.
It started out with the fossilized ivory. Cutting and shaping and flattening the pieces. Then I added vulcanized liner to them, to make a sort of spacer sandwich. Those were the spacers I used on the Dark Lady project.
Then I noticed that the remaining fossilized ivory pieces were too small to be spacers on their own.
I decided to split the pieces lengthwise, and insert a piece of stabilized ebony in the middle to spread the iveory pieces out enough to make a decent spacer. Of course I also lined these with the vulcanized liner.
Next I took some polished bone napkin rings I'd bought and cut them into quarters. I found the flattest parts of each bone piece and sanded it down to make a flat disc. I lined half of these with the black vulcanized liner.
I started looking around for something metalic to use as a spacer or liner. Lowes and Home Depot were selling flat pieces of aluminum and steel, so I thought I would try the aluminum. I cut a few pieces of that, but frankly found it hard to work and not worth the effort.
I then went to Vetco electronics and bought a small segment of flat cable used to run electrical connections under the carpet. These consist of two flat strips of copper each one inch wide sealed inside a plastic sheath. I removed the plastic sheath and the glue holding it all together and had two strips of bare flat copper. I decided to use this as a liner, and glued it to some of the bone segments.
Then I remembered I had some mother of pearl pieces taken from an old wristwatch band. I arranged those on a strip of copper and glued them in place.
So now I have over a dozen of these spacers... and no idea how or whether I'll ever use them. But there is one thing about me you should know... things like this rarely go to waste. I feel certain I'll find a place for most of these spacers in some future project.
Anyone else making any interesting spacers?
- Greg
