Just some small objects (4 cm) to test my new carving chisels and gouges:
- a moebius strip (ligustrum), like the recycling symbol;
- a celtic knot (pear root), the idea from another lumberjock member, thanks Yuri
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/44003
- a simple knot (ligustrum).
All finished with tung oil
Thank you

With another piece of olive, i keep it for a long time before deciding what it will be suitable for.
A place to empty my pockets !
I planed the bottom, the rim e the inside with a metal router bit, mounted on the drill press and moving the piece on the drill press platform.
The high number of teeth of the metal bit compensates for the slowness of the drill press, without kickbacking the piece.
On the outside i just removed the bark with gouge, then i carved the inside irregular borders by hand.
Finished with boat flatting.
Bye

Made with the remainders of the previous frame.
I reduced the size and put four blocks in the corners to obtain enough wood.
Also changed the back holes for the support.
In the other frame I made a single hole in the corner, to use it vertical or orizzontal, but i was a little unstable.
In this one i made 2 hole, one for each position, and you can shift the peg where you need it.
Thanks for watching.

A photo frame made from a wonderful piece of olive wood from my father garden, milled and planed by myself.
Finished with tung oil

Two pen holders, one made of layers of cherry, birch and pear, the other from a block of olive.
Cut with the bandsaw and sanded with a cylindrical drum on the drill station.
Three coat of boat flatting.
Thank you for watching.

We needed this cover to protect the big sliding window from the rain.
I built the metal bracket to sustain the beams, inserted into the wood (recycled chestnut), because i cannot use other stiffeners, due to the extension of the window.
Then i covered with copper instead of roofing tiles to keep it light, even thoug its cost exceeded everything else in the project.
I started with one beam and one bracket to test the feasibility, then built the others.
So i learnt that the assembly line is much more efficient.
It took me about 8 hours for the first, due to many different tools to use, prepare them, clean them and put them away again to save space.
Then I made the other 6 in no more than 16 hours.
Thank you for watching and forgive my english.

This is my second attempt in knife making, using the other half of the scissors.
In the last picture you can see another scissors blade equal to that from which i obtained the two knives.
The wood is the same olive as the firts knife but with the grain in the other direction.
The pins and the hole are made of brass.
Finishing is tung oil.
The sheat is nice to see but it’s not very effective and also weak in the thinnest part.
Thank you.
Riccardo

This is my first attemp in making a knife, a small one to start with.
The blade is from an old stainless steel scissors, as you can see from the original brand on one side, with a piece of steel from an Ikea support welded to the blade to extend the handle part.
The strange shape was dictated by the shape of the original scissors, but i like it.
The wood is olive, from a tree of my father, with a beautiful grain, finished with tung oil (it smells like fried potatoes!).
And i learned that i cannot use a power grinder on the pins: one of them became hot, melt the epoxy glue and burn the wood around, as you can see from the pictures.
I don’t know if a scissors blade is good enough for a knife, and if my quenching was effective but it seems to work.
If it lasts enough, i will use the other half scissor for another knife.

Thank to everyone for watching

Thanks to the good instructions provided here, i tried a “cube in cube” project and then this “dice in a cube” for my brother’s collection of dice.
It’s made from a pear root, the small parts that i was able to use without cracks.
To make the even faces (2, 4 and 6) i had to use an old forstner bit, without the central pin, in order to avoid the central hole.
A couple of hour of divertimento !

Another dice for my brother’s collection.
I took some time to design with SketchUp.
Made of of a kind of oak (rovere) that i found traslated in durmast.
If someone can tell me the english name I would appreciate it.
The dots are made of mansonia walnut.
This time I used power tools to cut and plane the pieces and a lathe for the dots.
Finished with opaque varnish.

Bye
Riccardo

My brother collects dice of every kind, so i decided to build something for his collection.
Made of small stripes of walnut. The inside is empty. The dots are made of ramino (it should be translated as ramin).
Only hand tools.
Finished with opaque varnish.

Riccardo