What have you made/created today?

Cool

 

That's outstanding.

 

Heres a better one

 

very nice... my brother started messing around making custom bows. and this would make a killer display for the one he wants to give me

 

Napoleon was so afraid of air rifles, he had a standing order that any enemy soldier captured with one was to be killed on the spot..

 

Wood slices for making ornaments, fridge magnets etc...see cat butt a few posts back for example...Dried them in the smoker to prevent checking.

 

I didn’t realize it until this morning before getting ready to drop off to my buddy, I had an extra row of blue. Glad I realized it looked off and fixed it before giving it to him. I told him about it and said some American I am lol.

 

Not today but made the coat rack with my wife, she wants to start sharing hobbies.

I've got my dads old deburr tool but it's been did for awhile now and just got around to making a new one.

 

What's the process for drying?


Also, I'm more of a metal guy, but I've got a bunch of glued oak boards that have developed a bow to them, any suggestions on how to straiten them?

 

Something I made awhile back.

 

Interested to know the process on this. Looks amazing!

 

I made a table saw sled with a fence for the microjig matchfit system.

 

well its kinda new to me, but i put it in for 200-220 for about 4hrs, almost like ribs...lolseemed to work ok.

As for your boards, how thick are they?

 

Thanks!

Which one? The deburr was made with a lathe. And the rack was a laser cutter/engraver. I can give lots on either, it's both my hobby and work lol.

Awesome thanks, I've been wanting to do something similar to what you had posted earlier.

1/2" and 3/8". The bows are pretty substantial, more like an arch.....about 1" measured at the middle. I tried wetting them and clamping flat, but they just cracked. I was thinking I might need to let the water fully penetrate and gradually flatten them over a couple of days.

 

Nice!

Tool and jig making is a great skill!

I sent a pic of these to my wife, she's gonna wanna make a dog butt one.

 

I was more interested on how the image was put on, but a laser cutter/engraver makes sense.

 

I still can't draw my daughter but it is much less creepy than last time... I wound up closing her mouth, if I hadn't it would of been creepy again haha


a little contrast and stuff

 

Portraits are tough. If you mess up a tree....well, they grow in lots of different ways. A face has to appear within a certain amount of variation or it looks "off". If you want to use humans as your subject then work at shading, shading, shading. You can practice by drawing a bunched up sheet and making it look 3 dimensional. That way you will not get discouraged by your results while still getting better at it. Also keep in mind that when we draw, we are trying to recreate a picture that is the opposite of they way our eyes see. We typically will see "light" but we are trying to draw "shadows". You have to teach your brain to see the dark instead of the light. Also, it helps to find the lightest part of the image or scene and make that your brightest, least shaded part of your drawing. Then start layering in the shadows from there.

 

That's true... I have gotten to where most of my shading, when possible, I just shade heavy on my hard lines and then blend it into the "center" and that way it graduates pretty evenly, and I wind up in shading a goos bit for my highlights with an eraser...

I can't make her look the right age haha. She has just some slight roundness to the edges of her cheeks but when I try and do it she looks like a chipmunk. I also got her forehead a little short here too but I was kinda commited by the time I realized.

 

The mountains and text were done with the laser, it's super simple and works great, just find a picture you like and Bam! If you have a drawing program like coreldraw you can do pretty much anything. I even cut the box and the slot it mounts to work the laser, makes it much faster then by hand.