My final update to tidy up the end of the year. First up I continued carving parts for the two chimney pieces that we’ll hopefully start to make some actual progress on next month/year. Below you can see a strip of acanthus leaves in the first image and a single long vertical flourish in the second and third. Still quite a lot more to carve and we need to start putting the boxes together that all this will attach to as well…
Next you can see three images below showing a solid oak sign I made to be given as a gift for Christmas. This was created from a low-res jpeg image of the clients logo. In the first photo you can see it at the stage where the logo has been carved through a special sign makers masking-material that was stuck onto a pre-sealed oak panel. In the second image I’ve painted the areas that were machined, using the mask to protect the parts I didn’t want to paint on. In the last image you can see the finished oiled sign - after the masking has been removed leaving a lovely crisp painted logo. Very nice indeed…
Lastly a few random items from the workshop in December. The parts in the first image were created for a long-time artist client, they are some interestingly shaped (you really have to see the side profile to see how interesting…) solid oak handles that will be used to create Gerhard Richter style paintings. Each of these has an aluminium strip on the bottom of them that a piece of perspex can be stuck to when in use. The second photo below shows the edge for a desktop being carved on the big green CNC. This was pre-cut and glued before being carefully positioned back on the machine and then the curved edge shape carved into it. In the third image is something I was not involved with but I thought looked great. This pair of gates (one is behind the other) were designed by Tom and then most of the parts carved on the big green CNC. Finally they were hand-fettled and assembled by Al (whose back you can see in the image). I think these are a really nice elegant design and a great showcase of how design experience, computer cutting and human skill can work together to make something great.
That’s it for 2020. More to come in 2021 as I try and figure out how to balance what I do in the workshop with continuing to pursue becoming a psychologist…