Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

Cheese or chopping board?

I think it's too small (about 200mm square). Might just be a set of coasters, predictably.

Some more progress today, halted dramatically by mini_com developing a quite sudden and concerning fever, right in the middle of the glue up so I was called in sharpish. As a result the clamps were thrown on in a hurry. Definitely need a finer blade for the bandsaw. Will likely end up with @coventry_eagle 's suggestion as either a chopping board for mini_com or as a small cheeseboard. Will put 45 degree chamfers all round to keep the geometric feel.

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Guinness for scale eh? ;)

Natch

Is there a reason you have glued them up on those dowels?

I'm guessing easier to roll the dowels off if any glue squeezes out the underside, vs an mdf worktop

This. Flat(-ish) surface and less surface contact area to get stuck to the piece. They're just the bars from mini_com's old cot and any glue can be cleaned off them easily when I actually need them for something.

Makes sense, thanks!

Fin. A learning experience from a bundle of scrap wood has resulted in a thing.

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That's really lovely! Well done. This thread is great. I love seeing what others make and that craft really is an art.

Could have potentially been a really nice chess board, looks like you had enough contrasting blocks to have made it work.

Nope, some blocks were a lot smaller than others and not square. They would have needed to be squared then all the other pieces sized to the smallest common denominator. So it would have been much smaller, very fiddly, and even more of a waste as I don't play chess.

I’m making something that requires pretty much every part to be fabricated. This bit has been the trickiest, it’s a sapphire stylus and is tiny, breathe too hard and it will fly away kind of tiny. I’ve had to facet and polish three faces to the end of the sapphire to create a point at a certain angle.

Sorry the photos are a bit on the blurry side, it’s shot on an iphone trying to autofocus through a jewellers loupe.

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Whats the thing you are making?

A point

I live in absolute awe of what people on this thread achieve. The dedication to sharpen a sapphire, the rather wonderful uselessness of making a very small and yet beautiful cheeseboard from scrap timber. And mirrorballs, I do love a mirrorball.

Making a record lathe, this is the stylus for cutting the record. It’s a long, deep expensive hole but I’m in too deep to stop now.

Ha

I was daft enough to leave my 4 dogs tethered to my stick which was shoved into the mud. A minute later, having not seen me for at least 3 hours they decided to greet me enthusiastically, the stick didn't survive. New stick time, recycle handle, make use of a shed fallow antler found in the woods.

I mean, how difficult can it be to make a lump of timber, a hazel stick and a ring of polished antler fit together (using only a junior hacksaw and a stanley knife)?

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Many hours later it became obvious that the answer was 'fucking fiddly'. All 3 components are slightly oval in irritatingly different ways, the stick had to fit into the handle and the ring to overlap both. To add to the frustration, the bark of the hazel had to remain undamaged where it emerged from the antler ring.

It came out pretty well, but just don't even think about asking me to build another...

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I knew the answer as well which is why I enjoy seeing the results, nicely made.

We ordered a prefab play house for mini_com for her birthday. But then I felt a bit inadequate not making anything for her so made her a mini Adirondack chair to go with mine out of left over timber from building some planters.

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best dad award goes to...

Wanna adopt me?

Jokes aside, well done!