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Second (mini)Project Got Done


Gergely

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Hi All,

 

Encouraged by the positive feedback received for my first project I share this one, too. Although negative critique is also welcomed.

 

First I need to clear that this is not a gate hook  :) but a short poker. The story behind it is that I took my son to his great-grandmother on Saturday and I noticed she uses a piece of bent wire as a poker for his little woodstove. I measured the device and as finally got my chance to sneak out to the shop for a short section, made this.

The biggest challange was the scroll which is my first one ever. Had to redo three times  :(.

Today on my way to work I took the item to the old lady and she was really happy with it. Yippii.

 

 

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Excellent work.  For your first scroll, it's very nice.  Scrolls are always troublesome to make free-hand because you need to find that visual balance between negative and positive space.  However, you can take great pride in the fact that you used your skills to do a good deed for your grandmother.  I'm sure she's overjoyed with your thoughtfulness and the usefulness of the the poker.

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Thank you VaughnT!

 

You're right, keeping the balance was the most difficult to do.

 

You think is it possible to make a scroll tool for tiny/tinier scrolls? I have a big one, maybe I could make somehow a small one copying the ratio. But how?

 

Gergely

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Take a picture of it from straight on and print it out reduced. Or trace it onto paper and reduce with a photocopier.

There are some really detailed YouTube videos on designing scrolls by hand on paper but the creators name escapes me. Look up 'scroll jig' on here via google: "scroll jig site:IForgeIron.com" without the quotes.

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Well done Gergely, on all counts. Best is making a tool for your Grandmother, she'll use it and think of you every time she does. There's nothing wrong with the scroll, so you had to redo it a few times, nothing special about that. We all get to redo and tweak things

 

Making a scroll jig isn't too hard, even small. I wish I had some how to pics, they aren't hard to make. I'm sure someone will post pics or a video link, lots of guys use scroll jigs.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

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