The Woodshop Shed

Family Tree Carving With Solder Inlay

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Quarantine time means free time to try new techniques. I wanted to try another carving project and was inspired by one I saw of a tree inlayed with silver. I inlayed mine with solder wire and filed then sanded it smooth. This was also my first attempt at raised letter carving. It was a piece of scrap wood and serves no functional purpose but it was a fun project to attempt.

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Mini Trebuchet

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Quarantine time also means making fun things with your kids. We based it on this http://woodarchivist.com/3769-toy-trebuchet-plans/ but modified it to be easier for the kids to make. They've had fun launching rocks down the driveway.

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Wild Olive wood and Wormy chestnut

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I knew I was running out of Olive wood and I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted a matching set of desk lamps. This is one of the very few times that I plan a specific outcome regarding my RM work and I set out to make them as close as possible. When I do something like this I have to make everything at the same time just to be as exact as can be especially with the RM.
The end result is 2 lamps that are sitting on a 4 1/4” square base with a 7” riser to a 1 3/4” platform for the 5” harp to bolt to. I used 5 watt LED bulbs in both of them because that particular bulb gives off an enourmous amount light for 5 watts and they don't use too much electric.
I should have mentioned that the cat is just a regular size critter, the lamps are much smaller than I normally make.
The Shade is 6” high with an 8” wide mouth and resin, walnut and wild olive wood are the only ingredients. the base, riser and platform are wormy chestnut which is just as prescious as the olive wood and nearly as hard to come by. I'll probably own these forever because I won't separate them, they're way too cute as a pair.following are a few pictures of the wormy chestnut in all it's glory.I couldn't leave without showing my drying table – it's getting pretty crowdedThanks for looking and as always I welcome any and all comments and criticisms

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