Update
For anyone who cares
So, I'm working on this Bunraku puppet, articulated face and hands. Studying human anatomy as a side-piece to creating better sculpts and movement. Should be fun when it's finished.
Putting finishing touches on my jukebox tomorrow. Made a 1936 412 Wurlitzer, to the manufacturer's specs, unfortunately there wasn't enough time to make a WORKING model, so this one has lights and a speaker controlled from the booth. Standard fare for theater work. ON that project i did a fair amount of router and trim work, turned some caps on the lathe, and did some sexy "pie-wedged" trim on the bas of my pvc pipes to make rounded trim. It looks great, fun little trick. TO date I've made 6 jigs for one project. Pimping these tools to the fullest! Tomorrow I'm finishing my metal coinslots and installing those with the turntable and "stack o' wax" and it will be finished. It's already been painted. This project combined furniture grade 1/2" birch ply, poplar lumber, masonite, one segment of store-bought oak trim, 4 1/2" PVC pipe, and plexiglass, 1/16 or 1/8" thick, I can't remember which, steel, elastic, and a tin cup. I did the "pie-wedged" trim (don't know the name of the process yet), a shitload of kerfing on the tablesaw, PVC splitting with a jig, two turned pieces on a lathe out of poplar, welding, grinding, polishing, fun fret work with a baby-skil saw w/jig, fun with forstner bits, and some sexy cuttery with the scroll saw once I tuned it in to cut straight (funky problem to fix). Nice, tight carpentry with good wood, makes me happy.
Steel class should be fun. My next project is an all-metal sculpture, wrought-iron pub sign holder. Should be fun. I'm making a phoenix outstretched over the top of the sign with the bottom being lots of swirly fire, seeing that the pub's name is "the phoenix". Will be a lot of oxy-acetylene "forging" on this one. Some twisted square stock, lots of filing, tapering, and a few pieces hammered out and flanged into feather tips. Should be fun. Learned the mig a little already, it's not pretty at this point. I will get better. Hadn't messed with oxy-acetylene (sp?) yet. Tom makes all this shit look easy, I'm finding there's a reason I don't know it yet. I will though, just gotta practice. Learned dishing some as well, that will be fun/tiring. On the upside, I haven't burned myself yet, or gotten injured at all really. Just splinters and phantom cuts, but nothing bad.
uhmmmmm.......saw a dance concert last night. It was decent, makes me miss dancing.
Got introduction to
Fuck this plotter. I'm gone.
So, I'm working on this Bunraku puppet, articulated face and hands. Studying human anatomy as a side-piece to creating better sculpts and movement. Should be fun when it's finished.
Putting finishing touches on my jukebox tomorrow. Made a 1936 412 Wurlitzer, to the manufacturer's specs, unfortunately there wasn't enough time to make a WORKING model, so this one has lights and a speaker controlled from the booth. Standard fare for theater work. ON that project i did a fair amount of router and trim work, turned some caps on the lathe, and did some sexy "pie-wedged" trim on the bas of my pvc pipes to make rounded trim. It looks great, fun little trick. TO date I've made 6 jigs for one project. Pimping these tools to the fullest! Tomorrow I'm finishing my metal coinslots and installing those with the turntable and "stack o' wax" and it will be finished. It's already been painted. This project combined furniture grade 1/2" birch ply, poplar lumber, masonite, one segment of store-bought oak trim, 4 1/2" PVC pipe, and plexiglass, 1/16 or 1/8" thick, I can't remember which, steel, elastic, and a tin cup. I did the "pie-wedged" trim (don't know the name of the process yet), a shitload of kerfing on the tablesaw, PVC splitting with a jig, two turned pieces on a lathe out of poplar, welding, grinding, polishing, fun fret work with a baby-skil saw w/jig, fun with forstner bits, and some sexy cuttery with the scroll saw once I tuned it in to cut straight (funky problem to fix). Nice, tight carpentry with good wood, makes me happy.
Steel class should be fun. My next project is an all-metal sculpture, wrought-iron pub sign holder. Should be fun. I'm making a phoenix outstretched over the top of the sign with the bottom being lots of swirly fire, seeing that the pub's name is "the phoenix". Will be a lot of oxy-acetylene "forging" on this one. Some twisted square stock, lots of filing, tapering, and a few pieces hammered out and flanged into feather tips. Should be fun. Learned the mig a little already, it's not pretty at this point. I will get better. Hadn't messed with oxy-acetylene (sp?) yet. Tom makes all this shit look easy, I'm finding there's a reason I don't know it yet. I will though, just gotta practice. Learned dishing some as well, that will be fun/tiring. On the upside, I haven't burned myself yet, or gotten injured at all really. Just splinters and phantom cuts, but nothing bad.
uhmmmmm.......saw a dance concert last night. It was decent, makes me miss dancing.
Got introduction to
Fuck this plotter. I'm gone.