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cormie

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SpitfireIV

Ah ha! A gallery, ok, here goes, a few of my creations..MOOHAHAHA...:D


'Honour and Glory Crowning Time'


Hand made pine cabinet and small bedside locker


My Junior Cert project, mixture of Ash and Mahogany dedicated to the Irishmen who fought and died in WW2 and other conflicts.


Grandaughter clock


Curio Cabinet.


Jeez, I better stop with the pics now ..

Enjoy,

CroppyBoy1798

cormie

Come on, we need more additions:)

JoeB-

Hi

I haven't posted anything before I run a commercial shop and machines are used as much as possible, this means that I wouldn't be hand carving anything because I find it too time consuming...

I've been making furniture for eighteen months and so I'd expect to improve significantly over the coming years although I consider myself very competent now...

The picture here is of a display cabinet, the reason I like it is because it's relatively detailed compared to the items I usually make, it looks good in the customers house and the customer is very pleased. I feel the doors are nicely made, both the glass doors and the raised panel doors below...
(I use a glass person to make and decorate the panes and for glass shelving, I haven't given his name as I haven't spoken to him about it)
I'm well aware that nicer work is being done everyday but I'm always looking for improved techniques and innovative machines and never think I've come to the best possible...

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link to large image, click me!


link to second image, click me too!

I find a cabinet like that will take about 25-35 hours from start to finish (starting with 8'x4' laminated Pine panels), including getting supplies, making the cabinet, doors and drawers, spray finishing the cabinet inside and outside and delivering it...

Cheers
Joe

Fingalian

Made this last winter.

cormie

Here's a little carving I've been working on:)

kadman

Nice work there guys . keep it coming.

Kadman

cormie

Here is a lamp shade I made in stain glass. I also carved the lamp base from a snooker leg I got off Karl Timber:D


Here is a better picture of the hand:


anyone know what wood it is?

cormie

That's a hand chip carved clock with my own design, the name of the wood escapes me!

My brother has one of these*. They allow some pretty nice object photography. That's their purpose after all. First time I've used it tonight.

*jaysus, it took me about 5 minutes to fix that link, well, whatever the time from the posted to last edited time is, don't know what's wrong with me, I need bed!!!

SpitfireIV

Very nice Cormie, me likes it . Nice, simple, crisp and clean, good work!

CroppyBoy1798

Alun

Very nice Cormie! What's the wood? Getting the carving that neat close to the circular bit in the middle must have been pretty difficult alright.

BTW the link should be cubelite, not cubelight

cormie

that's hilarious, I can't believe after all that I put in the wrong link:D

Thanks for the compliments.

I forget what wood it was unfortunately. Perhaps somebody else will be able to tell?

Alun

Here's a nice Ash bowl I just finished today. It's an unusual shape, but I think it works. Turning it was PITA at the start because of the imbalance created by the heavy heartwood on one side and the much lighter sapwood on the other, but luckily it got better as hollowing progressed.

kadman

I m strongly tempted to ban the lot of you ...collectively:eek: :eek:




For being so damn expert and concientous with your woodwork projects......I,m so damn proud I feel like crying:p

Good stuff guys

legologic

Suppose this is as valid here as in the instruments thread. I made this for my leaving cert construction studies project.

Woods for the body are 2 types of mahogany, maple and walnut. The neck is Mahogany and Ebony. It was finished with about a thousand grades of sandpaper (up to I think about 1200 grit), 0000 grade wire wool, then danish oil and wax.

My pride and joy.

Alun

That's really nice, especially the headstock! Just one question though ... is the danish oil and wax finish usual for musical instruments? I'd have thought that given all the wear and tear they'd receive that a good number of coats of a hard lacquer would be more appropriate?

I know what you mean about the sandpaper though. The oil finish I use on a lot of my turnings requires wet sanding going down the grits all the way to 2000! I think the skin of my hands is rougher than that stuff

legologic

Yeah the usual finish on a guitar would be a thousand or so (about 20/30) coats of nitrocellulose . I wanted to keep the natural finish and feel so I went for the oil and wax. Needless to say I don't plan on it getting thrown around so I think for the sake of the feel of it the wax was well worth it.

I think I had up to 1800 grit but just couldn't get that far. Ordinary paper is rougher than 2000 grit