This little number is off to the ball… The compassion ball (the launceston one that is)!!!
It’s sporting a fancy new tag (it can’t exactly wear a dress now can it) and is hopefully it will make its way home with its true love (in a most respectable fashion of course)
Deep as that that title sounds, this is merely a post about me making another light shade. If you have been following along with my work (although I’m not certain how you would, unless you are one of my close friends), you would know that i have been making some lamp shades that feature some burnt… burntness… burning…
without further babbling, here is the time lapse of the thing whole saga:
Some of the journey that you might not have gleaned from the timelapse:
Things were coming along swimmingly, it was roughed out:
and had undergone some charring:
i was just shaping it down when… well…
Needless to say, i was forlorn… but it turns out that some glue and many clamps are sufficient to recover from such an incident… heres the finished piece (i ended up putting it on a different base):
and one last thing… you can buy it on etsy:
So with much thanks to the YouTube community, i decided to undertake the ‘restoration’ of this saw… without any of the proper tools or experience…
check out this guy (old sneelock) if your thinking of tackling this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXtU7dK-nFSR7JeSihPfoWQ
and this guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M3pAy6uLrHZT18dVYDHBA
Onward to cleaning… basically, strip and sand it:
next, sharpen that puppy… with a file…
then set it. So this means offsetting the teeth so that the cut will clear the blade. There is a special tool for this that dont have, but im pretty sure i should buy one!
And… Victory
the above shot also shows the stock that i will be turning into several pieces…. its cracking up fairly evenly, so i’m hoping to make some nice distressed lamps…
