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Cats... well wooden ones. Given to me by the son of a very a good customer of ours (Dad's/we've worked for him well over 30yrs now) when he was having a clear out. I liked them so I had them :)
Over a long weekend a Danish photographer and I set out for an extended road trip from Copenhagen up into Sweden. Over the following several days we moved from the warm southern regions into the frozen midlands. These are the photos from that journey.
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i got bored, when we went to see granny, yes i know.. i'm random but, i took some great photos.. dont you think?
Random White graffic tee with Fleur De Lis design and crystals. Size M. $1
Tan Wool Abercrombie V neck sweater. $3
Hollister Boatneck tie dye 3/4 length sleeve tee. Size S. $1
Hollister white long sleeve design henley. Size M. $1
All have quite a bit of wear on them.
I didn't take any pictures after this step, so I'll have to describe what happened next.
Here I've chosen the sections of the glued-up walnut strips that looked best. The main, striped board has been run through the table saw to straighten it up, then put through the drum sander to perfectly flatten the top and bottom, which took many minute passes. End grain is notoriously hard to sand. I'd say it went through about 8x per side. I ran the joined up walnut strips through the sander as well to clean the glued-up regions and smooth them, and to thickness them down to match the stripes in the main board, all of which were sanded down in the drum sander both sides to clean them up and match their thicknesses before they were glued up.
I'm using a pine caul on each side and 4 Bessey K-Body clamps tightened as hard as I could tighten them. After a full day of drying, I carefully cut the extended strips of walnut from the sides with a little pull saw, then carefully took a pass on each narrow end of the board to shave them flus and clean them up again. Then I ran it again through the drum sander to bring the front/back walnut strips flush with the rest of the board and give it one more cleanup from the glue that spilled over.
With a nice, clean, perfectly squared up block, I went at both faces with a random orbital sander for about 30 minutes with several grits to really make it smooth. Then I used a palm router with roundover bit w/ bearing to round all the edges, then lots of hand sanding to round the corners, followed by another pass with the finest grit in the random orbital sander to smooth up the roundovers, edges, and faces once more.
After that it was just down to wiping it clean of dust with some mineral spirits (greatly prefer this to a tack cloth), marking positions and drilling for screwing in the rubber feet (don't drill all the way through!), and hitting it with my brand to mark it as my creation in 2011.
The end!