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Make a start...

Today, as I make my way out to the workshop, ideas are flying around… having looked at the information on lamination design that Scott sent….wow… so many new thoughts are spinning through my head… I had an inkling as to how it was done… but now the technical part is explained…

So, to the shed…..rip, glue, crosscut, glue, crosscut at a different angle and glue again… then sand, sand, and sand some more…


These three boards were made using a design from WoodTurnerPro. [available for free download.]...Can't wait to see how this all works out….although I think I will stop at the second…. for the time being anyway…
NB… I did not make these boards… they are made by WoodTurnerPro… I use them as illustration only…
 
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#113 ·
Alternating the stripe.

In my last post In the round the second pic shows a single stripe .. double chevron [second gen] ..
This blog will show in part how this was done…
Natural material Triangle Creative arts Wood Art


To start make two grooves on both faces of a board… in this case virgin hoop pine…[virgin meaning naturally grown… not plantation timber]

Inlay two different timbers… in this case purple heart
Wood Table Wood stain Flooring Plank


And narra [new guinea rosewood]
Wood Floor Hardwood Wood stain Flooring

This is instead of one strip of timber between two others…
Shown end on…
Wood Wood stain Hardwood Art Creative arts


I am sure that you all can see where this is going…
When cut the first time [to make the chevron pattern] you flip each piece and get an alternating colour..
Wood Rectangle Wood stain Tints and shades Gas


As seen here in this glue up…
Cut a second time and flip again to get the desired pattern..
Wood Rectangle Art Hardwood Creative arts

This last shot is a closer view…
Brown Wood Art Flooring Symmetry

I hope this challenges some of you to look outside the square…
And FWIW…. I cut all the second gen cuts on a SCMS by eye.. the first gen are done against a fence on the TS…[after the first angle is cut on the SCMS…
 

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#114 ·
Alternating the stripe.

In my last post In the round the second pic shows a single stripe .. double chevron [second gen] ..
This blog will show in part how this was done…
Natural material Triangle Creative arts Wood Art


To start make two grooves on both faces of a board… in this case virgin hoop pine…[virgin meaning naturally grown… not plantation timber]

Inlay two different timbers… in this case purple heart
Wood Table Wood stain Flooring Plank


And narra [new guinea rosewood]
Wood Floor Hardwood Wood stain Flooring

This is instead of one strip of timber between two others…
Shown end on…
Wood Wood stain Hardwood Art Creative arts


I am sure that you all can see where this is going…
When cut the first time [to make the chevron pattern] you flip each piece and get an alternating colour..
Wood Rectangle Wood stain Tints and shades Gas


As seen here in this glue up…
Cut a second time and flip again to get the desired pattern..
Wood Rectangle Art Hardwood Creative arts

This last shot is a closer view…

I hope this challenges some of you to look outside the square…
And FWIW…. I cut all the second gen cuts on a SCMS by eye.. the first gen are done against a fence on the TS…[after the first angle is cut on the SCMS…
Very informative Larry.

Nice design.
 

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The teaser...

From the last post you would have seen the teaser…
Here it is all glued up and marked for cutting into an oval… I also used a little turpentine to enhance the colour and grain…
I think the choice of Queensland Red Cedar [toona australis] certainly brings out the angularity of the design…
 
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MC Escher tessellations...

Recently I was sent a link to Instructables.com…

They made an end grain tessellated chopping board… cut with a 400 W laser…

My laser is only 80 W so I cut some thinner timber…long grain Rosewood actually…







Each lizard fits into the adjacent one…







They are almost impossible to glue individually… so put them together dry… used masking tape on the back and smeared glue all over… scraped it across and into the joints…

More when it is finished… [at the moment it is in a vacuum bag being glued to a 10 mm ply substrate..
 
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