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hop time has been almost nil i ve still been making there is just no way that i can stop so i turned my attention to one of my other hobbies knot tying i started out with some handle work on a couple of knives to give as christmas presents this involved a needle hitching technique that i ve used many times before with a couple of turkshead knots to dress things up to complete the knife package i made scandinavian style sheaths for each knife nothing fancy just solid basic sheaths before and after beeswax infusion shown with that done i decided to tackle something new that i have been looking at for some time now there is an argentine method of wrapping a knife handle that has fascinated me they use rawhide strings for the method though and i m just no ready to go down that rabbit hole it is surprising what all is involved in working with rawhide so i set out to see if i could adapt their method to plain old cotton string the first hurdle was that i could not find a book or any english language instruction source i did find a few youtube videos though all in spanish though so i turned off the sound and watched them over and over again until i got my head around it taking notes and scribbling down sketches all the way armed with a plan i dug a scrap of dowel out of the off cut bin and had a go at it then a bit more practice to confirm my notes from there i ordered a couple of mora knife blanks a standard 2 0 blade and a laminated 120 carving blade i made handles for each by turning them on the lathe used a brass compression ring from the plumbing section for a bolster and mounted the blades with two part epoxy while i waited for the epoxy to set i put together a few instructional drawings for the technique and patterns that i had worked out i also worked up a couple of sample pieces that illustrate those patterns i then completed the handles the knife handles and the sample pieces were coated with four coats of spar varnish spar varnish dries hard and is resistant to water and alcohol making it very durable for this application i still need to make sheaths for the knives but the handles turned out pretty well one last experiment in handle wrapping involved a japanese style tsukamaki i purchased an inexpensive kiradashi knife that was mounted in a wooden handle with matching wooden sheath i put the wood burner to it added the wrap and applied a couple of coats of varnish there are quite a few articles and videos to be found on the internet for the tsukamaki technique so if your interested in giving it a try just google it greg merritt posted in gaucho handle braid knot tying tagged gaucho handle wrap knife handle tsukamaki 11 comments chairs a journey stalled posted on january 20 2019 by greg merritt immediately after the completion of the prototype chair from my last post i began work on the next gluing up a seat blank of white ash and sawing arms from brown ash the shape of the arms being mostly dictated by the grain of the wood striving to keep the grain off the arm continuous in turn the arm blank then plays a significant role in the shape of the seat the process remains unchanged the leg mortises were drilled and the seat saddled first roughing out with gouge and mallet followed with travisher and scraper the edges of the seat were chamfered the chair was then legged up and stretchers fitted i did use this opportunity to refine a jig that i have been developing for this type of chair and to record the details the jig provides a bit of continuity to a chair that largely develops organically i then fitted the arm spindles and crest rail this crest rail is from a scrap of walnut that i found in my attic the contours of the arms and crest rail were then refined and the chair assembled with glue and wedges i added a bit of wood burning to a few of the edges and a touch of knot work finally the chair received several coats of oil and beeswax the two chairs from this design the prototype on the left and the slightly refined version on the right i still want to build at least two more versions of this chair unfortunately i developed tendonitis in my right elbow somewhere along the way the condition was so severe that i could not even grip a beer bottle so the situation was critical for the past several weeks i have been resting it and the tendonitis is starting to subside hopefully i can get back into the shop in few more weeks in my next post i ll show you how i have been spending my creative energy while convalescing part 2 greg merritt posted in stick chairs tagged chair making irish hedge chair stick chair 15 comments chairs the journey continues posted on october 7 2018 by greg merritt i wish that i could write about some ground breaking technique involving the making of chairs some new way of making this bit or that or maybe a new method of work holding that would be a game changer for chair makers the world over the simple truth is that all of the information you need to build a chair is already out there the stumbling block seems to be a psychological one for the vast majority continue reading posted in design finishing illustrating stick chairs tagged beeswax chair making irish hedge chair linseed oil welsh stick chair 11 comments chairs the journey begins posted on august 18 2018 by greg merritt like a lot of woodworkers i have avoided making chairs i can t really pinpoint why though something about the process just always seemed out of reach but enough is enough we need chairs here at the hillbilly hacienda so chairs it is continue reading posted in design illustrating stick chairs tagged chair making stick chair 15 comments brand new 100yr old table posted on june 10 2018 by greg merritt my niece just graduated college and it only took here a couple of weeks to secure her first teaching position of course that job is out of state and she starts at the end of july therefore she is in a mad dash to find her first apartment or house and get moved before then continue reading posted in sewing table tagged milk paint spring pole lathe staked furniture tried and true wood threading wood turning 17 comments andon and kumiko the journey continues 2 posted on may 22 2018 by greg merritt the goal for this most recent andon lamp was to create a stand that would essentially turn it into a floor lamp i went through several iterations on paper and finally concluded that my best option would be to create a stand from which the andon would be hung a chance trip up into the magic attic served to further focus my efforts continue reading posted in hb andon lamp tagged andon bamboo kumiko magic attic 7 comments andon and kumiko the journey continues posted on may 6 2018 by greg merritt management has informed me that the little andon would make good christmas gifts for this year and that i should get busy making several fine with me at least i have plenty of notice this time and the extra time means i can do a little further experimentation since this will be somewhat of a production run i took a hard look at how to economize the materials i found that by adjusting the size slightly the width of a standard small continue reading posted in hb andon lamp tagged andon kumiko shoji lamp 9 comments ad hoc little andon posted on april 21 2018 by greg merritt upon the completion of my first to andon projects i realized that i had enough bits and pieces left over to maybe possibly build a smaller version plus i have been bitten by the kumiko bug and wanted to try a couple of additional ideas on that front so i jumped right in and milled up the remaining stock that i had for the outer frames and worked out the size of this andon based on that availability continue reading posted in hb andon lamp tagged kumiko lattice shoji lamp 10 comments hb andon shoji lamp posted on april 7 2018 by greg merritt one thing that i am doing as i update old drawings is to review my sketch books for ideas that never made it off the page one such idea was for a japanese style lamp andon originally the andon was a lantern consisting of a washi paper covered wooden frame which was lite with either a candle or oil lamp continue reading posted in design hb andon lamp illustrating tagged andon kumiko miter jig rice glue shoji lamp thicknessing 24 comments mini three drawer chest posted on march 4 2018 by greg merritt as i update old drawings i will post those that i hope you will find useful some may be new versions of those that you have seen before others will be making a first time appearance here on the blog continue reading posted in design illustrating mini three drawer chest tagged knotted pull milk paint 6 comments older posts email me search for follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 485 other subscribers subscribe via rss rss posts rss comments blog stats 1 090 938 views top posts pages hb andon shoji lamp pole lathe notes 3 charpoy part 3 complete hot hide 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