The Hammer Secertary

Thos,

Welcome to lumber jocks.

Very nice wood work, and once again, your leather work is unbelievable!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

beautiful

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Nice job!

Re. the pix, are you on a Mac or on a Win machine? I can help you with both of them if you contact me directly.

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://www.japanese-woodworking-tools.com/

Very nice job.

Who is Bobbi Hammer?

bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Wow, very nice, welcome to LJ. I love those hand carved panels, carving is one thing I haven’t quite gotten the nerve to try.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

exquisite!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

—edited this comment to remove question that you answered in the description—pls ignore.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Thos, this is outstanding. Welcome to LJ’s.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Thos, welcome to LJ’s. Looks like you are going to be an interesting contributor. I really like your work, especially the leather carvings.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Exquisite work! I really like turners that don’t use duplicators, like myself. You did a great job of turning those legs free hand. Don’t get me wrong…if I had to do ten the same or more(production work), I could look the other way if a duplicator happened to appear on my lathe. I guess I find it is more challenging to do it by hand and be able to match it by eye. Love your work!

-- Jesus is Lord!

If you are using Windows XP, you can easily download a tool from Microsoft called

“Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP”

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You install it and when you right click on any image in a directory, you get a menu choice called “resize pictures” which generates a pop-up that looks like this:

From there you get a copy of your image in the new size.

Hope this helps.

-- John

Amazing work!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Thanks for all the interest and info. Some one asked who Bobbi Hammer is. She is a very nice lady who grew up here in Jordan Valley and now resides in Caldwell Idaho. When she sold her business here in town she came by and ordered this piece. She just wanted one of my works. I really appreciate her and her husbands friendship.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

after seeing your carved panel kitchen panels this morning, I decided that I had better go explore some more. Somehow in my self absorbed world of staying alive, I missed all of these carved leather front projects. They are truly works of art. Glad I spotted them, and was able to catch up. Please forgive me.

Mark.

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

thos. ive looked through your projects like 3 times and every time i see this hammer project im more amazed !
awsome work and ledgendary in my opinion .

Thomas: I guess i missed this project. A great looking job. Nice grain on the Sapele. The leather work is outstanding.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

I wasn’t here when this first went around. I am glad it came out of the archives. I am duly impressed. That looks like a lot of work!

-- Maplewood, MN

Thanks again, fellows. It was a lot of work. the hardest part being that there is no back.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

I seemed to have missed this one the first time around. It’s fantastic. The leather work, even the back!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very impressive. I thought that looked like leather carving and was trying to figure out how you could carve wood that way. I used to do a lot of leather carving and some of my work might have approached the quality of yours but I haven’t touched it in years. In fact, I sold all of my tools on ebay last year.

Very nice job and a nice combination of woodworking and leatherwork!

Jim

Beautiful – I love your leather work – and you joined up some pretty decent sapele!!! Wonderful!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Hi Thomas,

You posted this before I came on board but I am glad it surfaced on my review list. This is a beautiful piece. You really combined a number of skills in producing this piece. Your carving is exquisite. And the sapele is beautiful

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

stunningly well done

-- http://www.furnituremann.ca/