"Torque" Bracelet, Frank Gehry Design.

nice job

A wonderful bracelet with a unique shape and a lovely wife. It’s fun to make things for the ones we love.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thats gorgeous!! I really love it, the style and wood is just beautiful and so is your wife it looks great on her.
Great Job!!!

-- Rj's Woodworks,San Jose & Weed Ca,

Beautiful bracelet for your beautiful wife. She looks really happy and I can imagine how you are happy to see that.
The design is also beautiful.

-- Junji Sugita from Japan, http://tetra.blog12.fc2.com/

very cool, love the shape.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

You picked a beautiful piece of wood for that project. Really cool idea, great job.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

pretty…. and the bracelet is nice too ;o)

thats a beautiful grain pattern and color – is that the original color? or the finish brought it up? what did you finish it with?

was this carved with chisels ? I’m curious how you’d get that clean simetrical look

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

thanks for the comments guys…

Sharon, the color is a kind of green (see picture), very very similar to Lignum vitae but with the finish, -raw refined Linseed Oil (Windsor and Newton)- the color got more brown…..

It was interesting because I had the same idea -carving- before starting, I even bought a PFEIL gouge with that in mind…..but everything was shaped with saws, coarse files and, for the last stage, card scrapers. the interior was shaped with a metal saw (yes a metal saw!) placing the blade trough.

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

Gorgeous wood, nice bracelet.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Wow – that’s a stunning bracelet. And it looks great on her wrist – very nice!

-- Where did all this sawdust come from?

Thanks for the insights…. that’s fantastic. never thought of a metal saw to get the bulk out from the inside…make sense though. beautiful piece!

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

Nice art work. Wonder how it was made – turned and hollowed by hand with chisels? Any pix on the making process?

-- The time I enjoy wasting is not time wasted

Chuck,
Thanks for your comment.
Unfortunatelly did not take pictures during the process, but I’ll bestarting a second one soon, so I’ll be sahring some pics about the process. everything is by hand except for using a Hole Saw to make the center hole.

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

any chance you would make this again and sell it? ;)

I recently got another “cocobolo” blank…..but not sure about having some time to start a new “Torque”.........:)

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

cocobolo is beautiful! how long did it take you? if you do decide to make another, I would definitely be interested in purchasing! i had initially seen the bracelet at tiffanys and immediately thought I would prefer to make my own or have it made.

Wow, your going to have all of our wives wanting one of these now. Can you share how you actually did the piece of work?

-- Matt, Arizona

Alana, Matt,

Thanks for your comments, I would love to share with you the process about making this bracelet….
I actually have a couple of blanks and I want to take some pics about the process…...:)....so stay tune!

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

im going to show this to my wife too! very cool. cool name too “torque”...

-- -Spencer, Gilbert Az (http://www.azwoodshop.com)