24 days ago
by Thomas Porter |
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Alright so it’s been way too long since I’ve followed up this project, and yes, I finally finished it. The pictures you are about to see are where I’m at at this very moment. I just put the last coat of poly on the floor and it’s drying right now.
I ran into some stumbling blocks on the way and I’d like to fill you in. First off, I left the project alone long enough to get disenchanted with it and began to procrastinate with it, but thankfully I have a wife th...
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251 days ago
by Boon |
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This is table i’m working on, I know its a little “grand” for a first timers table, but I figured if I can do this table, it will make doing future tables much easier. I’m a child of the 80s and i grew up around 70s and early 80s furniture and if you remember, it was all massive and looked like wood. I love huge furniture still and can never just let a good floor model tv go to waste (i made a router table out of one and a fish tank out of another). So without rega...
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325 days ago
by DAN |
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This process went pretty quick.
I started at 6pm and now it is 10:30.
Includes all the photo editing and the whole nine yards.
added bronze coating and let dry about an hour. used the stuff on far right.
bronzed 6 panel
patina acid materials
panel after 15 minutes of acid soak
panel after 2 hours … ready to get started
beartex -............... rub really-really hard, long-long time
after beartex rubbing
clean off surface with brush and spray on several...
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326 days ago
by DAN |
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Fired the load yesterday.
14 hour kiln cycle …. cone 1 … around 2000 degrees
Unloaded this evening. NO TILE BREAKAGE …. first time EVER !!
NO Cracks or anything !! Think the p-clay is the clay for me to use ...........
Photo my first complete 6 panel set !!!
Never in over 8 trys have I been able to get all 6 to survive.
Even when firing mutliple sets one would always break.
photo of the metal coatings material
photo of primered tiles
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328 days ago
by DAN |
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Thought it might be fun to share photos of my tiles drying.
Then again it might be boring.
Well anyways !!
Tiles are sitting on the fiber ceiling tiles you buy from Lowes. Bought the damaged ones real real cheap.
Ceiling tiles are the best for this. Draws the wetness out of the clay and speeds the drying cycle time.
Also have an industrial size box fan blowing 24-7 on them. They’re getting dry extra-quick.
Will start a kiln load sooner then estimated.
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329 days ago
by DAN |
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Spent this weekend pressing clay tiles.
Used up 100 pounds of p-clay or sculptors clay in about 25 different handmade molds made from my mahoagny carvings.
70 tiles. Esimate 3 or 4 kiln loads.
Largest tile is over twelve inches high.
Smallest is about 4 inches.
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356 days ago
by DAN |
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Forgot how messy a router is. Mahogany machines like butter.Photos are the project with one section roughed in … deepest section … about 3/8 depth using 1/2 router bit.A section with the poster glued on and the tools I’m using, less the dust collector.
As mentioned in Marc’s blog … Bought a 1/8 down spiral do some detail work.
One thing I didn’t plan for was the paper wants to lift up next to the router bit. My work around is scoring the drawing with ...
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359 days ago
by DAN |
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This is a new technique I wanted to try. Previous projects, I have tried the drawn on technique as well as carbon paper. Thought of using a projector or finding a large format print shop, but searched the internet and found the technique of breaking part a photo into pieces call ”poster printing”. Looked at several and sellected a shareware program “Mr. Poster”. Program has it’s limitations, namely limited to it’s default size settings, ie, number rows and...
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361 days ago
by DAN |
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Inspired by Mark’s blog on his Sandzen inpired wood carving … thought might try one myself.
The idea for Haunted Forest TWO. Photo I digitally edited on my laptop. Layered a couple photos, grayscaled , rescaled, stretched, deformed, negative and pixelated ….
This is a challenge to myself. I have never made a carving this big, nor will I use the exact same methods that I have used in-the-past.
Hope to learn a few new tools and teach myself a few new tricks via ...
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375 days ago
by woodgizmo |
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My wife and I decided that since we were going to be empty nesters this fall, we would take the opportunity to redo the flooring in the main level of the home. We started the project in the latter part of February finally finishing it up in the late part of May. My wife is a nurse and ended up being called to another facility for several weeks which slowed up our progress considerably.
Originally the living room and dining room were covered in a Berber carpet and the kitchen and foyer ...
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