Project Information
Sometimes it takes a disaster to cause one to shift gears and try another road, sometimes for the best. This started out to be a vase, it was the first project after making the wooden articulated arm. Being anxious to try it out I hadn't set up a lazer to check wall thickness. You can guess what happened. The spaulted wood just gave way at the top. The wood pattern was so spectacular I was very disappointed. It was on the way to the fire but just couldn't do it. After it sat around for a few months a brain wave hit me. Enlarge the hole, make a lid and it could be a knitting bowl, of a slightly different design.
I found a matching slab of spaulted birch that I had been hording for at least 30 years. It was Ŧow beautiful to drill a hole through the knob for the yarn so a made another plain lid for knitting.
This project was completed in March just before I left for a trip down south to volunteer to do building projects at a camp. A friend who I was teaching him lathe work, I was telling him I was going to take it and other things with me to sell to raise money for the camp. He said could I buy it for my daughter, being I had her in school I said why not, I said 75 dollars, when he brought me the money he gave me a hundred. With that amount and other things I wrote a cheque for $600.
There was about 70 volunteers there working on numerous projects, I worked on the COWS, Cabins On Wheels.
4 to 6 of us where able to frame up two units.
Had a great time and then visited family and friends, so it was a month before I got home. Now that spring is here in the North there is no end of jobs to be done. Hope I will have time to post a few projects.
I found a matching slab of spaulted birch that I had been hording for at least 30 years. It was Ŧow beautiful to drill a hole through the knob for the yarn so a made another plain lid for knitting.
This project was completed in March just before I left for a trip down south to volunteer to do building projects at a camp. A friend who I was teaching him lathe work, I was telling him I was going to take it and other things with me to sell to raise money for the camp. He said could I buy it for my daughter, being I had her in school I said why not, I said 75 dollars, when he brought me the money he gave me a hundred. With that amount and other things I wrote a cheque for $600.
There was about 70 volunteers there working on numerous projects, I worked on the COWS, Cabins On Wheels.
4 to 6 of us where able to frame up two units.
Had a great time and then visited family and friends, so it was a month before I got home. Now that spring is here in the North there is no end of jobs to be done. Hope I will have time to post a few projects.