Wow, nice! Like others, I am impressed by the body of skills shown on this thread.
Wow, nice! Like others, I am impressed by the body of skills shown on this thread.
Finally finished my drafting table "architect's table"
Is that Sycamore? Beautiful!
It's walnut base with curly maple top. I cut the maple into strips and turned 90° and glued strips so that edge grain is up - supposed to accentuate the wood grain.
I learned to knit years ago and took it up again shortly before retirement because our church has a group that knits chemo caps and also provides hats around Christmas to poor people through Project Warmth. Even better, women who have quit knitting have brought in giant stashes of unused yarn (and sometimes partially-completed pieces which I happily unravel). I'd never worked with patterns other than simple stripes before and now I'm really enjoying it. I sure don't need mountains of knitted goods, so I can be creative, make nice things, and give them away to people who need them. Everybody wins!
I did find some beautiful yarn among the donated stash with silk content, in mixed shads, and made myself a circular scarf. I put an extra check in the collection basket for the yarn!
It's walnut base with curly maple top. I cut the maple into strips and turned 90° and glued strips so that edge grain is up - supposed to accentuate the wood grain.
It's walnut base with curly maple top. I cut the maple into strips and turned 90° and glued strips so that edge grain is up - supposed to accentuate the wood grain.
Absolutely fantastic work, nice mix of the Walnut with Curly Maple. As a person who worked in both logging and sawmills I get a big overload of memories from seeing things like what you did. The last year of working as a lumber inspector, I was going through about 10,000 board feet of Walnut a day. Wish I had picked up more unique pieces.
So we're looking at the end grain like some citting boards. Interesting. I can see the grain on the edge piece and that wood really had a lot of figure. I guessed Sycamore because of the light color and I milled logs a few times from Sycamore that had this "tiger stripe" look. Table really turned out nice, will be a shame to cover it with drafting paper!
Those are gorgeous. Good use of yarn stashes although not much is prettier than a basket of skeins of yarn . My mother used to ravel old sweaters and make mittens for us from the yarn.
Here is my last project:
Awesome knitting projects - Athena & Bestwifeever! It amazes me how well you worked designs and lettering into your work.
Very nice, like the personalization. We have a big basket of alpaca yarn that we've spun and it does look nice just sitting in the room.
My DW is working on carding the fleece from a small alpaca we fostered that died after only being sheared once. The fiber is so fine it may be hard to spin. Here's are a picture of the batts she is working on right now. Here are some of the batts.
Wow - 10,000 board feet of walnut a day. Seeing that would have really sent me over the edge!
Yep - The maple color is very close to sycamore. I've read that curly maple is not a sub species of maple, but rather the grain condition. I turned a bowl from a block of sycamore, and it had interesting grain, but not near the curl that this maple had. I didn't really want to spend the $280 that the curly maple board cost, but it was so much better looking than the $100 regular maple board.
For clarity I think Dave Davemartin88 was asking about "end grain", I'm thinking your piece has "edge grain".