| Project by Takara | posted 247 days ago | 1061 views | 16 times favorited | 13 comments |  |
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I have been wanting to make a portfolio to display some of my previous work. We got this piece of rosewood from a garage sale just ‘thrown in’ with a larger purchase and I thought it would make the perfect album cover. I LOVE how it came out.
The album is made to fit standard 8×8 scrapbooking pages with the scrapbooking posts I purchased from my local Hobby Lobby. I finished the album with lemon oil and two coats of spray lacquer. The binding is from a leather jacket that I purchased from a thrift store for $5 and ripped up for leather strips.
I took the extra wood and made myself a matching earring and necklace set since I just can’t throw amazing wood like this away no matter how small.
-- Danielle - www.takarawoodentreasures.com
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pwgphoto
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#1 posted 247 days ago
Very cool. As a professional photographer I have been looking at different types of portfolio covers for years. I have had a bunch of different ones, but never a high end one. I now may think of trying to build one myself.
Nikki in VA
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#2 posted 246 days ago
That is gorgeous. Great idea. I saved the leather from a work chair that was broken. I just cut if right off of there with coworkers looking at me like I was crazy. Like your idea of using it as binding.
-- Nikki in Virginia
Valentin
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#3 posted 246 days ago
Oh the beauty of wood! Great job!
-- Valentin
scottishbob
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#4 posted 246 days ago
very nice , how did you do the name? its very neat, would like to do that on some of my furniture.
-- Ireland, Galway .... fingers! "we dont sell them"
Takara
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#5 posted 246 days ago
Thanks everyone. The name I just cut out with my scroll saw.
-- Danielle - www.takarawoodentreasures.com
javaboy
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#6 posted 246 days ago
That has got to be the nicest portfolio I have ever seen! Great work!
-- Sow justice, reap peace
dee2
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#7 posted 246 days ago
Absolutely beautiful, grain is perfect for this project. I’ve never thought of doing this, what a great idea.
This will keep us all drooling over the grain!
-- Dee2, OH Aromatherapy....fresh cut wood!!
vipond33
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#8 posted 245 days ago
Love the portfolio, such a nice save and great work but I really, really like the lettering. Crisp, subtle and artful.
gene
-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.
Takara
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#9 posted 245 days ago
Thanks guys! Gene – I used Bradley Hand ITC font for the lettering. I like that there are no sharp corners and few perfectly straight lines since I still consider myself novice on the scroll saw.
-- Danielle - www.takarawoodentreasures.com
a1Jim
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#10 posted 245 days ago
Very nice I like it a lot.
-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/
Dusty56
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#11 posted 150 days ago
On top of the beautiful wood , I thought the lettering was laser engraved !
I can’t believe you did it with the scroll saw ! Great job indeed : )
The jewelry is also very nice.
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-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.
clieb91
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#12 posted 51 days ago
What an great save of scrap pieces. I like the leather save.
Very nice scroll saw work on the lettering.
CtL
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AtomJack
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#13 posted 51 days ago
Very nice. I’ve been here on the site awhile, but so many people are joining, and I don’t get much time to visit like I used to, that this is the first time I’ve seen your work. I’ll have to use that leather jacket “trick”, sometime. I made a necklace out of small padauk pieces like you have done with that rosewood (different shapes, though).
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