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I think the red works nice with the leather. ;)

Ha, I now see how I could have worded that better.

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Any steer on a good starting set of tools for spoon carving? I’m sure I’ve seen some great ones on this thread.

Want to buy some blanks and replace some screen time with something else to focus on. Tools obviously seem to run the gamut from unfeasibly cheap, to buyer status. What’s the best actually viable option, for a hobby approach?

Mora Hook knife probably a good starting point. Careful if you go double edged though and are used to thumb pushing to make some cuts...

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Mora 106 and a Wood Tools hook. The Mora hooks are a bit crap.

Made a start on a fun little prototype the other day. Making rectangular facets was surprisingly easy but they’re not quite as accurate as they could be. Not a fan of the 7mm square facets but they go round that radius neatly.

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Cool, lampshade?

Nope, just a ufo, for the fun of it.
I made the form for the fibreglass mould from a fire pit and the compression tank out of a caravan fridge. The proportions are pretty good. The central eyelet is supposed to be off centre as we wanted it to hang/rotate at a gentle or 45° angle depending on which eye is used.

I’ve done lampshades before but we don’t get asked to make them often.

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proportions are pretty good

You have access to Area 51?

Picked up a pack of hardwood scraps for cheap, planed and glued up. Plan is to flatten both sides, cut strips across the grain, flip the strips end grain up, turn every other strip 180 degrees and reglue into a random checkerboard type board. It will be small, but this is just to play with.

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Looks good. Where did the scraps come from?

Ebay

My wife has given tacit approval for me to do something fun with this table. It has a crack on one of the edge boards.

It doesn't suit our current house and I've never really liked it.

We want something fancy and mid century vibe so my plan is to try and rebuild/reshape using only the materials from the old table (plus some bits of brass byt will come to that later). Oval top, angled legs.

Il sketch something out this week. Should be a laugh. And even if i fuck it up, we get a new table.

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Please ignore the shambles that is the room in general. Its a bit of a storage space, which is why it looks horrible. Curtains etc were all out of mother in laws loft. Chairs need to go in a skip

You mad? Those chairs are the best thing in that pic.

Nah they are cheap tesco crap. Mostly falling apart. They look alright from a distance.

Ah fair enough then ;)

Just get Stokke Trip Traps for the adults as well. Real comfy!

Waiting to see if the big box that arrived that I'm not allowed to look in is the planer thicknesser I asked for for my birthday, or the wet grinder. Until then, I started taking down some of the high spots by hand. Quangsheng No. 62 low angle jack massively out performed the Stanley No. 4, probably because I didn't pay any attention to grain direction when gluing up the pieces. Also flattened one side as a reference face with the big Faithful No. 7, which is now performing brilliantly after buying a new iron for it.

I may end up splitting the final board into 4 and making a set of coasters as it really is too small for anything else. But I'm enjoying the process as practice regardless.

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That plane is a beauty.

New saw and home made shooting board in action. Still need to flatten the faces, at which point I might decide that the face looks better than the end grain. No idea.

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Following up on my earlier post about making umpires' flags I have now had a go at making a set with leather grips. Much self-teaching, watching of YouTube videos, investment in a cheap beginners kit of tools and lots of practice later, the first version turned out not too badly, though I say so myself.

Having made the first set people have been asking me to make some for them, so I am now halfway through making set number four.

Every time I make a set I find some small improvement I can introduce.

The pictures show sets 2, 3 and (unfinished) 4.

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All six sides planed now. Still not sure what I'm going to do with it really but it's more for the process than anything else.

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