| 2003-2004 now I have started a new year of woodcarving classes and these are my new projects: | ||||||||
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| I thought it could be fun to try and make my own christmas decorations. I started with this christmas tree. | The things I made this term was getting smaller and smaller. This mushroom is around 10 cm tall. | I wanted to try and make a screw and nut thread. You have to use a certain tool to make this. It was turned by hand through the machine and is to be used as a toy by the baby. | The bolt and nut taken apart from each other. | |||||
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| Stage 1. This is the start of my first baby rattle. It is made out of beechwood. | Stage 2. It all went a bit wrong with one of the rings and it has been removed. | Stage 3. Now my first baby rattle has been completed. The ends have been removed, and it has been sanded ready for baby's delicate hands and mouth. | Baby rattle number two. Now I was becoming braver and the rattle has got two rings. | Baby rattle number three. This time I wanted to try and make the rings completely without the teachers help and as you can see, it went well. | Here it is, baby rattle number three, completely made by me, all rings cut loose and sanded. Propably the shortest curtain rail ever made. | And finally, baby rattle number 4. Now I can't be bothered to make more rattles. | ||
| 2002-2003 I was attending wood turning and wood carving classes at evening classes. These are some of the results: | ||||
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| My first woodcarving |
This bowl is made out of Birch wood. | The dark lines comes from dryrot. | The rotting process is stopped when the wood dries. | This bowl is made out of exotic Pine. It is not very good to use pine for wood turning, as this wood grows too fast and leaves very wide grains, which makes it easy to crack. |
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| This Christmas bell is made out of labornum wood. Labornum wood is exellent for woodcarving and it has a beautiful golden colour. | This woodcarving tool is also made in labornum wood. It is used for hitting the handle of the chisel, while carving. | When making this tool for wood carving it is important that it can stand on it own. It is therefore made so that it hollows sligthtly at the bottom. | This Tux Penguin (Linux computer operative system logo)was made as a morning wedding gift for my husband which work with this computer system and he was very pleased :) It took 6 months of class to complete this piece. Compared to the fact that you can make a turned bowl in 1 or 2 lessons it is very time consuming to do woodcarving. | This doggy bowl was actually the first bowl I made during classes 2002. I just went through the bottom and had to stick another piece of wood on. Before it had dried and I got around to finishing it the classes that year was almost over. But here it is finished. It is made out of an unknown woodsort. |
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| This bowl was made out of plum tree. The tree had some beautiful lines in it, but cracked when the wood dried up. | This bowl is made out of labornum wood. | |||
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| This bowl was made out of juniper tree. | It was made out of the root of the tree, which explains all the beautiful patterns in the wood. | It was created by Pete from my class. | You can often get some amazing holes in the wood when you are working with the root. These holes were polished with a small electric file. | |
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