May 2, 201313 yr Thanks to Alec at the NWBA conference at Midnight Madness on Friday for striking a bit for me. I finally got to spend a couple more hours on it, cleaned it up a bit and have the fingers about 90% split. I'll post more when I get back to it (hopefully this weekend).
May 2, 201313 yr Author Was very enjoyable working with you! Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, but obviously I found my hammer.... ;)
May 2, 201313 yr it does not look like you need a hand you already got one! nice job! so now that you got a hand what ya going to do with it?
May 2, 201313 yr He could mount it on a wall then whenever he did a good job he could back up to it and give himself a pat on the back.
May 3, 201313 yr Author He could mount it on a wall then whenever he did a good job he could back up to it and give himself a pat on the back. I like that idea!!! Actually, I was planning on a stick shift for the truck. After 6 years without a knob on my lever, ( and being single in my mid 40s...) I'm getting tired of explaining the large callous on my right palm. :unsure: That may get edited....I also need a parking break release lever that broke 3-4 years ago and hood release lever that I've had to use pliers to open for the pastnumber of years. This one is a bit big for that... I also owe my Aunt a sculpture for her 80th b-day last Jan, I've got a few flowers made and have been planning on a bouquet of 8 flowers for her. I've got 3-4 others blanked out and an idea on another way to do it without any power tools. (I have one bandsaw cut on the example shown.) I've got a couple other sculpture ideas, but not completely in love with any yet. Keep the ideas coming! I'm having fun with the hands and may keep doing them until I my Muse tells me to move on...
May 3, 201313 yr Author i like this - really effective where the palm meets the wrist - nice one! Thanks beth! I wish I could say that I planned that, and even though I would have tried for this at some point, it just kinda happened. When I got back to it after Alec and... was it Tracy??? finished striking a few days leter, I though we drew the wrist a bit too far and had too sharp a transition, but when I finished knocking down the sharp corners on the first few heats that second day, there it was, a few more heats to smooth the curves and another couple to fuller with the cross-pein defined the thenar and hypothenar muscle groups. I was so tickled that I stopped right there so as not to screw it up. I didn't even put it back in to trim the pinky (I COULD have done that....)
May 4, 201313 yr Author Ha! I think it's called luck. Spent a couple more hours and split/trimmed the fingers and made another few chisels. I realize I need to make a bench anvil and have some 1 1/2 x 3/4 4140 that oughta do. I think I'll use some power, I hope Terry needs help with his Seahorses soon....hehehe <_<
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