Oh, happy day!!! A postcard from the Papiermeister @KeybillyJefe arrived!
(cropped, obscured, and blurred)
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That’s fabulous! Is it a particular character? I might have missed some the discussion of this piece; I do know it’s for a parade.
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All will be revealed in two days!
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It looked like my friend Mike until you added hair.
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I’d say;
Except that my ear piercings have long since closed up.
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You could always get them re-pierced! I did not too long ago, in fact!
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I’ve pondered it; I have some nice earrings, but since I’ve retired I don’t have many places to wear them, and I’m pretty indifferent to my appearance these days. I used to be a clothes horse, but now I’ll settle for clean, tidy and comfortable.
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Final product.
I did use the pull-saw method you described on the back side and it worked quite well thanks! I did make an error while cutting the right side because the mitre saw tool a deep shave out of a corner. Since I was out of wood, and time, I had to cut a new bevel and patch the gap. You can see the filler in the second picture. Once I added five coats of polyurethane the gap was less noticeable.
The clock face press fits into aluminum stock. I removed the primary lens and used the retaining ring to hold the aluminum plate. I cut the outer shape of the plate to shape using the scroll saw. The center hole was a pain. It needed to be 2" diameter, so I drilled a 1 7/8" hole and filed the last 1/8" by hand. Took hours.
Finally a nice congratulatory plate was added to the large flat surface of the camera. No picture though.
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Nice work!
I feel that! I’m making a dice vault from some funky white oak. I made some templates to router out the interior chamber while the outside has seamless grain, but sanding the inside walls to get rid of the router marks and line them up was torture.
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This is fantastic!
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Chef’s kiss!
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New album release:
Improvisation on modular synths & software, in the vicinity of drone / dark ambient / abstract etc.
100% of proceeds will be donated to Lambda Legal.
Notes are here.
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made in collaboration with the electrician, this is the underside of the wall cabinets. these boxes, hidden under the cabinet bottoms, will get outlet faces on them.
the doors and drawer fronts will all be inset. to facilitate the opening of the face being more perfectly square than the cabinets, and therefore accepting the doors with perfect margins all the way around, we built the faces with a jig and then glued and shot the faces to the cabinets.
the base cabinets get 3 different sized drawers. to figure out what size drawer faces will go with the different depth boxes and also perfectly fill in the cabinet faces inset from top to bottom, we modeled it on the floor. we tried to do it with just math, but it was beyond us. we got it correct with the model
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Nice work!
I hate to be Mr. Advice-After-The-Fact, but as one who has spent time filing round holes into square ones (easier than enlarging round holes, I know) I feel your pain.
I have a hole saw like this one, and it does a very good job, especially in a drill press, which I’m guessing you have. They’re available in sizes much larger than 2". Lenox are good quality. I also have a cheap one bought for a different job, and it’s garbage.
For really big holes, I also have a circle cutter like this. Drill press only, more dangerous than it looks, but it does a nice clean job. I was using it just last week to cut a bunch of discs for a child’s toy. One side of the cut is bevelled, but by reversing the cutting blade you can get holes or discs as needed.
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I have one of those large circle cutters that I use occasionally. Cannot overemphasize, unprotected blade moving at high speeds in close proximity to soft flesh is a recipe for bloodshed. Figuring out how to safely hold/clamp the object being machined that does not require fingers close to blade is critical.
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I usually get help from a friendly neighborhood woodpecker, but then again I’m basically a Disney princess.
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Yep. That there’s some mighty fine rectangles if I’ve ever seen some 
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