Table Planes

This little kimiko frame is going to turn into a table when all is said and done. Making the asanoha hemp leaf pattern for a second time was a lot more successful. I'm planning to paper the underside and then put a piece of glass on the top. We'll see how it turns out. The contrast between walnut and poplar is something I like a lot.

So I made a new plane as well. It's sort of a franken-plane, made up of a myriad of leftover pieces of wood (there's at least three different pieces of oak and a little padauk). It's longer than my 5 1/2 and is intended to work as a jointer. So far it seems to be working quite well, even though it's super ugly. I think it deserves a rebuild, but conceptually it works!

Shoji

So we had our show and sale this weekend at the Globe and it all went really well.

Aside from the tables and lamps I had already built I wound up finishing a shoji screen that I was really happy with.

It also features a nice little asanoha inset.

It's a complex piece that takes quite a bit of detail work, but a nice thing to work on.