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I finished this project some years ago but it is still my best project plywood 4mm here you can see video of final result and some photos https://youtu.be/G3wEMLKXQJw
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Hi everyone, greetings from Argentina. I learned to fretwork at 8 y.o. with my grandpa, who was a Basque cabinetmaker and luthier. Several year ago I took the chance of work in metal besides wood. I wish to introduce my latest works: Eagle head pendant, fretwork from an 1 mm thick nickel silver. I can't remember who's the pattern author. Clover pendant, fretwork from an 1 mm thick nickel silver filled with malachite powder. This is a knife handle, made of a local wood called lapacho and nickel silver. Another knife handle, made of carob tree and nickel silver. This is a "bombilla" (metal straw for a local hot drink called "mate") made of nickel silver decorated with a metal rosebud. A little pendant. Native style bird, fretwork in nickel silver, mounted on a staghorn slice. I hope you like my work. If this post does not belong to this place, please move it where appropiate. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plater%C3%ADa-y-Cuchiller%C3%ADa-Ceibo-Blanco/352999141533735
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Hi everyone! My name is Lilly and I've been scrolling for about 10 years. I've never had the opportunity to make my hobby my source of income, but it looks like I may have that opportunity coming soon! I'm really green about the whole thing though so I thought I'd come a pick the brains of the pros here.
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I made this nativity item for the wife and ended up having to make six more for family members who seemed to like it. I think I found the pattern in a book somewhere? (I made them last year but only just got round to taking a picture) The purple background is cellophane which shows the item up well when a light source is behind, another way I did it was to use the cellophane and place some kitchen foil behind then a wooden backing, this way it reflects light in an interesting pattern. (The one shown here has the solid backing) It's just bare wood, I did not apply any finish
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Recently made this gamekeeper bracket from an old Hobbies pattern, I know it's not very exciting but the reason I made it was that 50 years ago when I was a young lad I made the same item from the same pattern using a Hand frame and a bit of old plywood from a tea chest. I still have that item in my workshop and I wanted to remake it using some better timber. In case anyone asks yes I do still have the same pattern that I used 50 odd years ago,(I have kept all of my old patterns) in the days before printers and copiers we used carbon paper and traced the pattern onto the timber to save the pattern. The main difference in my quality of cutting then to now is that I can now do the lettering a bit neater than I used to, probably more to do with the fact that I now use a Hegner rather than a hand-frame than any improvement in ability!
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(I am a bit dubious of posting this after seeing all the fine work here but thought I would give it a try anyway) So here goes -- Just finished cutting these brackets, one is made from mahogany with the cyclist overlay in Maple. The mahogany panel is made from 4 strips joined edge to edge making a 10 1/2" panel to cut the bracket from. The maple was just a short off-cut found in a skip from a kitchen fit I ripped it edgeways to make three 1/8" small panels and cut the cyclists from this. The second panel is cut from 3mm birch plywood which came off an old wardrobe that I broke up. I haven't applied any finish yet but I may just use water based clear varnish, (any other suggestions welcome). The coloured backgrounds are not definite yet, they are just being tried out and not fixed. The brackets are approx 10" high and 11" wide, strangely enough the part I found most difficult to cut are the 7 round holes in the corners! I cut these with the saw but when doing so wished that I had used a drill bit instead!
