Congrats Mike! Not only great design and execution, but also the fact you got the ok to make something for the home! Beautiful hand work, as usual. Always inspiring.
Congrats Mike! Not only great design and execution, but also the fact you got the ok to make something for the home! Beautiful hand work, as usual. Always inspiring.
SHOW OFF, well done.
Mike,
Truly a beautiful example of adapting the Bros Greene design vocabulary to your work. Well conceived and executed!
I was blessed during my college years to be honored to live in the Gamble House for a school year which only further cemented my adoration for their design ethic. My singular piece of advice, not criticism by any means, is that the leading edge of the "clouds" should lean slightly forward (5-9 degrees) as opposed to perpendicular. This effectively adds a sense of motion to the piece which is very pleasing to the eye.
Regards - Bill
PS - virtually everything I have built has clouds.
Wow, those are beautiful!
Great work Mike! I always enjoy your build threads. In one pic you show a couple different chisels, Marples and some Japanese.....that’s a common sight on my bench as well!
Jeff, I got those marples chisels as some of my first hand tools 40 years ago. Even though they take a nice sharp edge, I confess they have been mostly sitting in the tool cabinet for some time as I found Japanese nad PMV chisels held a sharp edge longer. However since I starting using the "unicorn" sharpening technique I've been using them more because so easy to re-sharpen. IN chopping mortices, especially small ones, I prefer a smaller chisel that is easy to hold/hit the lay out lines with one hand, while keeping the mallet in the other to speed things up.
Cheers, Mike