Making Wood Chips...

[one love]

what about brazillian walnut?

[TW]

If you twist a horses head I don't think that it will be pepper grinds that come out of his bottom.

HORSE RADISH!

If that's what you want to call it.

[Sherry]

Absolutely amazing...I cannot wait to see the work in progress and finished!

[Susie Hamilton]

I want updates on your progress.

[PastorDaniel]

You are gifted TW!! Can't wait to see the finished project! Ever thought of drawing for a little money on the side....or am I in the dark and that's what you do??

[Full Quiver]

I read Pastor Daniel's post wrong I thought he asked if you ever thought of drawing money on the side?

[dolfan]

I read Pastor Daniel's post wrong I thought he asked if you ever thought of drawing money on the side?

He's good enough to pull that off.

[TW]

The project is under way. Since this is a prototype project I deceided to do things a little different. The biggest difference is that I'm doing the knight in two pieces, actually more than two, I'll explain. The Safety Coordinator at work heard about my project and offered his assistance. Now, he has two wood lathes and I have none, so he agreed to turn several different base profiles for me, and he said that when the time came to make the actual playing pieces that I could borrow his pin lathe (that's a small wood lathe, and would be perfect for turning the pieces). In the mean time I have started carving the knight himself. By doing them separately I can see how the knight will look on the different bases without having to carve three or four other prototypes. Then I can select the one that I like best and simply reproduce it when I make the playing pieces.

OK. Here's step #1 - Draw the piece on a chunk of wood, and then start removing the largest areas that aren't part of the finished piece. The piece will appear heavy because extra material has to be left during the rough shaping,




It' 2:00 A. M. I think I've done all I going to today, er . . . yesterday. Anyway I'm going to bed!


TW

[Sherry]

TW, you need to blog this project and it's progress!! It would make great blogging!! (Especially since you haven't updated in awhile! )

[TW]

It's starting to take shape.



YR I took your "oh so gentle" hint.


TW

[TW]

Although time for me to work on this project was extremely limited this week I was able to make some progress. After the initial roughing in of the piece (last week’s work), which consisted of removing all the large areas of the wooden block that would not be part of the finished piece. The most important task for last week was to insure that the area between the horse,s nose and his neck would align themselves from side to side. I accomplished this by drilling three 3/16ths holes in a straight line from his cheek to the bridle bit, then I carefully removed the material between the holes.

This brings me to the point in time where I must determine just how much armor this piece will have. After considering the scale of the piece, the carving is only 2 1/8th inches tall, I felt that it would be best to keep the armor somewhat minimal. I have chosen, as is reflected by the sketch, to limit the armor to the Champron (also known as chanfron, chamfrein, and shaffron), and the Criniere (also known as manefaire, or crinet). Additionally, I chose to only include the top lames of the Criniere, this would allow for the three straps that held the crinet in place to be seen. The end result, hopefully, is that the piece will have visual interest without being too “busy.” The following two pictures show the progress to date.



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TW