To the Makers of Things, Show us what you do!

[GmpaJim]

Bead some.

Doodle some. Older stuff.



Just started, Mom’s horse Suzy. I’ll finish her this winter.

 

[J. Doyle]

Here's another Escher-est one

This is very interesting. And offers a crucial insight as to how it's made, which confirms something I was pondering already.

Taking absolutely nothing away from the craftsmanship, this isn't as difficult as it would first appear. It's made very much like mosaic Damascus. Very clever. I might have to try something like it.

 

[Dopic1]

This is very interesting. And offers a crucial insight as to how it's made, which confirms something I was pondering already.

Taking absolutely nothing away from the craftsmanship, this isn't as difficult as it would first appear. It's made very much like mosaic Damascus. Very clever. I might have to try something like it.

I looked at the plans for this, it's a lot of precision cuts and glue ups. Just like any craft you need quality machinery/tools. Even a couple of thousands will throw the pattern off amplify the mistake in the rest of the pattern.

 

[J. Doyle]

I looked at the plans for this, it's a lot of precision cuts and glue ups. Just like any craft you need quality machinery/tools. Even a couple of thousands will throw the pattern off amplify the mistake in the rest of the pattern.

Very true, and again not taking anything away from the skill and I agree with what you say.

But it appears it was made differently than what one may think at first glance. Each individual piece of the finished product was not made and glued up as single tiny pieces which is what I first thought.

I hope I didn't minimize or down play the time or skill that the artist put into it. I certainly didn't intend to.

 

[Dopic1]

Very true, and again not taking anything away from the skill and I agree with what you say.

But it appears it was made differently than what one may think at first glance. Each individual piece of the finished product was not made and glued up as single tiny pieces which is what I first thought.

I hope I didn't minimize or down play the time or skill that the artist put into it. I certainly didn't intend to.

Not at all and it wasn't taken that way. You're are correct about how it's different than one may think it's made. It's basically a bunch of small glue ups into small sections then cut and glue up into larger sections and so on to get the pattern. If I can find the video I'll post it.

 

[jlauffer]

Not at all and it wasn't taken that way. You're are correct about how it's different than one may think it's made. It's basically a bunch of small glue ups into small sections then cut and glue up into larger sections and so on to get the pattern. If I can find the video I'll post it.

Makes sense. That way if you screw up you don't have to scrap the entire thing. Just grab another lego.

 

[J. Doyle]

Not at all and it wasn't taken that way. You're are correct about how it's different than one may think it's made. It's basically a bunch of small glue ups into small sections then cut and glue up into larger sections and so on to get the pattern. If I can find the video I'll post it.

Right. The two coasters are the clue to me. The board is made up of several of the coasters glued/tiled together.

I believe one quarter of one coaster was the original glued up stack or bundle.

Then it was cut into 4 pieces and rebundled into a 2 x 2 stack and glued. A slice off the end of that would make the coasters.

After the 1st original glued bundle, reorienting the 4 resulting pieces in different ways would give you a completely different look but could all start with the same original bundle.

Mosaic Damascus is made in a nearly identical manner.

 

[Richard338]

J. Doyle I think we're all expecting a miniature version inlaid into the handle on one of your hunters! You'd sure get some eye strain trying that.

 

[Richard338]

Redmeadow Knives John, thanks again for steering me into stacked leather and the vinegaroon technique.
This is my third and best so far. Just love the stacked leather.

 

[Dopic1]

When you screw up, improvise. Messed the glue order up so need to make it into something it wasn't supposed to be lol.

 

[Dopic1]

When you screw up, improvise. Messed the glue order up so need to make it into something it wasn't supposed to be lol.

Was able to fix the dang thing, just needed to think about it for a while.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Redmeadow Knives John, thanks again for steering me into stacked leather and the vinegaroon technique.
This is my third and best so far. Just love the stacked leather.

Glad I could be of use. That's a great looking knife, well done Sir!

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Was able to fix the dang thing, just needed to think about it for a while.

Turned out great Scott, though I gotta say the effect it gave when it was out of whack was pretty cool!

 

[WValtakis]

Just Buck'in around

 

[Horsewright]

Our daughter got married a couple weekends ago. A few things of interest for the makers of things.

So my wife, here giving her speech to the couple, made a couple of things:

She tooled this leather sign (11"x14"), for the Whiskey and Cigar Bar:

I'd never heard of a Whiskey and Cigar bar at a wedding before but it was a hit.

Something else I'd never heard of. I was working out in the shop couple weeks before the wedding and the wife, Nichole, comes out and says we need to make a Shotski. Ok, whats a Shotski. Guess its a thing now but ya make a kinda ski shaped board and the wedding couple use it to take a shot together. So we trotted on down to the Home Depot and we found a piece of birch. I shaped it like a ski kinda and punched a couple of holes and then showed Nichole how to sand er up using a palm sander. Once she got to 220 grit I showed her how to dampen it to raise the "whiskers" and then sand it again. She raised the whiskers and sanded till they would raise no more. She did a great job, buttery smooth. Then we shipped it off north to a buddy that has a laser. Told him what we wanted on the shotski and he did it and shipped it back. Few coats of danish oil and it were done. A shotski:

Alyssa, our daughter getting her hair out of the way:

The Carters Established in 2022, with their brand:

What the kids were reading:

Our good friends Mary Kay and Fletch and their family posed near the cigar bar before things got rolling. We'd hired her son Shane there as a DD to drive folks home if they'd had too much. He also made a Taco Bell run for the late nighters. Anyhoo:

Mary Kay is a peerless cookie maker and decorator and used her talents for the wedding:

The wedding was at the ranch and the reception here at the house. The wedding party had to stay at the ranch for an hour and a half or so afterwards for the pictures and so to keep folks busy and something to snack on at the house till the pics were done, my sister in law stepped up to the plate. Dawn, my sister in law, (the redhead up above with the cigar), is a charcuterie goddess. This table is 8' by 4' and she filled every square inch. It took 3 whole days and she had two assistants. I lost my whole beer fridge in the shop so she could store stuff. Cutting, slicing and dicing and who knows what else charcuterie goddesses do but she did it. I didn't even know what charcuterie was till we started planning this wedding. Anyhoo:

It was hit. Just nibblings left by the time we got there after the pics, I think I got a piece of cheese. Oh well dinner was coming.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Since I signed an NDA when I was hired I cant show off any of the medical device components that I'm manufacturing.

They're kinda small, theres holes and stuff en some of em. some are blocking some are cylindrical.

they're made outtakes metal. some aren't though. Some are made of a material.that shows up on Xrays as being the same as human bone after about 3 weeks being inside the human body.

Or maybe I'm making parts for the robots that will be our police in the future.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Our daughter got married a couple weekends ago. A few things of interest for the makers of things.

So my wife, here giving her speech to the couple, made a couple of things:

She tooled this leather sign (11"x14"), for the Whiskey and Cigar Bar:

I'd never hear of a Whiskey and Cigar bar at a wedding before but it was a hit.

Something else I'd never heard of. I was working out in the shop couple weeks before the wedding and the wife, Nichole, comes out and says we need to make a Shotski. Ok, whats a Shotski. Guess its a thing now but ya make a kinda ski shaped board and the wedding couple use it to take a shot together. So we trotted on down to the Home Depot and we found a piece of birch. I shaped it like a ski kinda and punched a couple of holes and then showed Nichole how to sand er up using a palm sander. Once she got to 220 grit I showed her how to dampen it to raise the "whiskers" and then sand it again. She raised the whiskers and sanded till they would raise no more. She did a great job, buttery smooth. Then we shipped it off north to a buddy that has a laser. Told him what we wanted on the shotski and he did it and shipped it back. Few coats of danish oil and it were done. A shotski:

Alyssa, our daughter getting her hair out of the way:

The Carters Established in 2022, with their brand:

What the kids were reading:

Our good friends Mary Kay and Fletch and their family posed near the cigar bar before things got rolling. We'd hired her son Shane there as a DD to drive folks home if they'd had too much. He also made a Taco Bell run for the late nighters. Anyhoo:

Mary Kay is a peerless cookie maker and decorator and used her talents for the wedding:

The wedding was at the ranch and the reception here at the house. The wedding party had to stay at the ranch for an hour and a half or so afterwards for the pictures and so to keep folks busy and something to snack on at the house till the pics were done, my sister in law stepped up to the plate. Dawn, my sister in law, (the redhead up above with the cigar), is a charcuterie goddess. This table is 8' by 4' and she filled every square inch. It took 3 whole days and she had two assistants. I lost my whole beer fridge in the shop so she could store stuff. Cutting, slicing and dicing and who knows what else charcuterie goddesses do but she did it. I didn't even know what charcuterie was till we started planning this wedding. Anyhoo:

It was hit. Just nibblings left by the time we got there after the pics, I think I got a piece of cheese. Oh well dinner was coming.

congratulations!

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Our daughter got married a couple weekends ago. A few things of interest for the makers of things.

So my wife, here giving her speech to the couple, made a couple of things:

She tooled this leather sign (11"x14"), for the Whiskey and Cigar Bar:

I'd never hear of a Whiskey and Cigar bar at a wedding before but it was a hit.

Something else I'd never heard of. I was working out in the shop couple weeks before the wedding and the wife, Nichole, comes out and says we need to make a Shotski. Ok, whats a Shotski. Guess its a thing now but ya make a kinda ski shaped board and the wedding couple use it to take a shot together. So we trotted on down to the Home Depot and we found a piece of birch. I shaped it like a ski kinda and punched a couple of holes and then showed Nichole how to sand er up using a palm sander. Once she got to 220 grit I showed her how to dampen it to raise the "whiskers" and then sand it again. She raised the whiskers and sanded till they would raise no more. She did a great job, buttery smooth. Then we shipped it off north to a buddy that has a laser. Told him what we wanted on the shotski and he did it and shipped it back. Few coats of danish oil and it were done. A shotski:

Alyssa, our daughter getting her hair out of the way:

The Carters Established in 2022, with their brand:

What the kids were reading:

Our good friends Mary Kay and Fletch and their family posed near the cigar bar before things got rolling. We'd hired her son Shane there as a DD to drive folks home if they'd had too much. He also made a Taco Bell run for the late nighters. Anyhoo:

Mary Kay is a peerless cookie maker and decorator and used her talents for the wedding:

The wedding was at the ranch and the reception here at the house. The wedding party had to stay at the ranch for an hour and a half or so afterwards for the pictures and so to keep folks busy and something to snack on at the house till the pics were done, my sister in law stepped up to the plate. Dawn, my sister in law, (the redhead up above with the cigar), is a charcuterie goddess. This table is 8' by 4' and she filled every square inch. It took 3 whole days and she had two assistants. I lost my whole beer fridge in the shop so she could store stuff. Cutting, slicing and dicing and who knows what else charcuterie goddesses do but she did it. I didn't even know what charcuterie was till we started planning this wedding. Anyhoo:

It was hit. Just nibblings left by the time we got there after the pics, I think I got a piece of cheese. Oh well dinner was coming.

What a spread, a lot of talent in those pictures Dave. I'd never heard of a shotski either.

Or maybe I'm making parts for the robots that will be our police in the future.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

 

[Dopic1]

Damn Dave, that looks like a Helluva party and great time there.

 

[WValtakis]