Day 20 –
While building planes with my wife and two of our sons the other night, I made this one.
Tag: artisan
365 Create: Day 14
Day 14 post –
A table I made a while back. Its ok though, I never ended up posting it on my website. The table was pretty fun working on.
The legs for the table was by far the most challenging part as I don’t have a lathe any more. Ended up making the legs with a big Craftsmen drill and some sheet metal.
…side note – Had a lathe but it was super scary. Ended up getting rid of it!
365 Create: Day 12
Day 12 –
I’m using a drawing I did today of one of my favorite movies. Great movie, I would recommend seeing it if you haven’t. And again if you have!
365 Create: Day 11
Day 11 –
This is a habitat I whipped up today for my pet centipede. As in, now he has officially become my pet.
I caught him in my garage about 2 1/2 months ago. He’s been living in the jar I originally caught him in. Ever so often I’ll give him some fresh grass and water and he’s a trooper.
So now he has a new home.
Threw this together with maple, plexi-glass, and five-minute epoxy.
365 Create: Day 10
Blog post 10 –
This is a bronze head I made when I was 19 working at a bronze foundry. It was pretty cool job.
…with perks. As in I met some really cool people and still have a handful of some pieces I made while working there.
I made the pieces here by first making a wax mold – not your typical candle wax. Then it goes through a slurry build up dressed with a liquid eggshell substance in which you roll it in different sand to build up the casting shell. Its starts about the graininess as sugar and ends with gravel. Its about 10 different steps.
Then the hot liquid bronze is poured, then the breakaway, followed by sandblasting. Then done.
The head was designed to look like its emerging from a table or something. It now resides on our fireplace.
going to pieces 