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(Okay, here is a mistake. I had my brain on auto pilot and I started to work the long grain first. I should have started on the end grain. This opens the door for blow out, but with some extra scoring, I avoid making a mess.)
Stanley #45 with a 1/4" cutter, the smallest I own, to establish the edge of the raised panel. You don't have to do this, but I like the look of a panel when it has an established ridge.
These four pieces of 8/4 maple are the legs of the bed I'm making for my son. I'm using Domino joinery for the headboard and footboard and KV Swirl connectors (the metal disc and bolt on top of the second leg from the right) for the rails to make the bed a little more portable.
After this shot was taken, I rounded all the edges of the legs with an 1/8" radius molding plane then smoothed all faces with the smoothing planes in this photo. Glue up of the headboard and footboard started at midnight.
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strobist: Sunpak 422D, 1/16 power, 3/4-inch black straw grid snoot, left of camera, triggered by CTR-301. Ambient light from orange shop light.
Needs new cable and new brushes. gears are good. Maybe a bit of paint or clear.
Old Tool Restorations
A lovely example from the '60s. Stained hardwood handles, rosewood fence, 99% of nickel plating intact.
From a mini-project featuring a selection of tools from far off years on my father's farm in Morayshire and which now reside in my garden hut. These hand tools could be sixty or more years old and have a 'rustic character' missing from their modern day counterparts. It's a shame I don't have access to my dad's old tool shed on the farm, as it would have made a great background with its stone walls and racks of miscellaneous tools along with gouged, wooden benches with their bolted-on vices. As a youngster, I could potter for hours on end in the farm tool shed; that was long before the days of health and safety.
The photograph was made in my home-studio and lit only by the modelling lights of my Elinchrom flash units. The sepia toning aids the feeling of antiquity.
Notice how the area in the center shows lines? I've been sanding the plane down. The areas where the lines show have not been sanded down. It's going to take some work. If only I had a machine shop.
THE PAST IN THE PRESENT & FUTURE ... a photographic project inspired by Edgar Martins' series entitled "The Time Machine" and specifically his photo's of the lifting eye, box spanner, etc.
A little project I am doing, taking pictures of some of the hand tools used at work.
I don't know what appeals to me about this, think it might be history of use we can see in each item. If I can think up some better bullshit than this, it might be art.