{"id":110,"date":"2012-05-07T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2023-07-22T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T01:50:00","slug":"2006-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/christmas\/2006-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stuff made for Christmas 2006.<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This was a busy, busy season of making stuff. \u00a0Everything was done on the scroll saw this year — ornaments, Christmas cards (not pictured), and lots of fretwork goodies. \u00a0Most of the wood used was thick hardwood, using stock left over from last year (it’s always a ‘good thing’ to buy extra!). \u00a0I was a lot more comfortable scrolling the thick hardwood this year than I was last year. \u00a0In fact, I find that I now prefer it in many ways to thin stock. \u00a0 For one thing the end result has a ‘heftier’, more substantial feel to it. \u00a0For another, while doing the cutting everything happens much more slowly due to the thickness. \u00a0The down side of thick hardwoods is, of course, that it takes longer to cut out the finished piece!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The dated ornament for this year is a kind of multi-media effort. It’s about 4-inches high and is made out of 1\/8-inch Baltic birch plywood, painted with various colours, and finally soaked with a natural oil finish. \u00a0The colours are acrylic paints thinned to make a sort of watercolour effect. \u00a0On a few of them, I painted the lamp in silver, but I think I prefer having some wood showing. \u00a0 And, yes, I know that cardinals have a black patch on their faces but the painting was fussy enough without worrying about teensy-weensy details like that!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s a fretwork cat done in 7\/8-inch red oak and finished in Danish oil. \u00a0The cat’s face looks very much like our Spooky, I think! \u00a0The overall sized is about 8×10.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s another cat-related piece that is a bit different, but I think it rather looks like our own Bo. \u00a0The head is done in 1\/4-inch Baltic birch plywood, the frame is 1\/2-inch plywood, and the backer is 1\/4-inch plywood. \u00a0The frame is painted “mars black” (a sort of matte black), and the head is unfinished. \u00a0The whole thing is sprayed with a couple of coats of a spray-on polyurathane. \u00a0It’s best viewed from some distance, and the thickness of the head makes it change how it looks depending on the angle the viewer is at.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s an owl-puzzle that I made for my wife (and given to her unassembled, of course).\u00a0 It is made out of African mahogany (about 1-1\/4 inch thick), and finished with Danish oil.\u00a0 The actual size of the main tree trunk is about 6 x 10 inches.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This fretwork “butterfly amoung the flowers” is made out of 1-inch lacewood and finished with Danish oil. \u00a0The overall size is about 8×10 inches. \u00a0I really like the look of lacewood. \u00a0It is quite hard but\u00a0somewhat brittle.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This mounted knight is made out of 1\/2-inch cedar, the base is a piece of butternut, and the whole thing is finished with Danish oil.\u00a0 It is about 8×10 inches in size.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This frework horse is made from 7\/8-inch red oak, and is about 8×10 inches in size. \u00a0It was made for a co-worker who is always talking about winning the lottery and buying a pony. \u00a0So now he has a pony.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This rather artsy piece of a woman “blosoming forth” is made out of a hard maple with a sapelle base, stained with a walnut danish oil. \u00a0It’s about 8-inches tall.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This piece is inspired by the traditional “green man”, and is called “Oakoo” by it’s creator. \u00a0It’s made out of 3\/4-inch oak, and is about 7-inches wide.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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For whatever twisted reason, I kinda like the look of this stylized cat, and invented a title that seems to fit … “cat on catnip”. \u00a0It’s made out of 7\/8-inch ash … yep, the same stuff used for baseball bats. \u00a0Nice grain, good hefty density but, damn, it is tough to cut.<\/p><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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A fretwork tree frog made out of 1-inch mahogany.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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A fretwork chickadee done in 1-inch African mahogany, and is about 6-inches wide. \u00a0I made several of these, some mahogany and some in 3\/4-inch oak. \u00a0Fun to make and quite charming. \u00a0I even saved one for myself.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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A mountain goat, done in 1-inch mahogany. \u00a0It’s about 7-inches wide.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s a stylized wolfpack done in 1-inch spalted maple (the spalting refers to the black lines running through the wood; sort of like a wood version of blue cheese). \u00a0I did another one of these in mahogany that looks pretty spiffy (mahogany is such a nice wood). \u00a0They are about 7-inches wide. \u00a0Actually, the first one that I made was done in 1\/2-inch butternut, but beautiful as it was it proved to be somewhat on the light side, and cracked at a stress-point. \u00a0I modified the design slightly to eliminate the stress point on subsequent pieces, and used thicker, stronger woods. \u00a0But at least I’ve got a nice piece to keep for myself once I mend it.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Another puzzle, in 1\/2-inch Baltic birch plywood with various stains. \u00a0I made a couple of these, each stained somewhat differently. \u00a0And, yes, they were given to the recipient unassembled.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Last, but not least, here’s a fretwork sports car that I did for a co-worker who is keenly interested in fast cars. \u00a0It’s done in oak, and is about 8-inches long. She used it as a club to hit her coworkers.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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