Art Nouveau Bed – done
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The carcass is ready, now I only need the textile for it. This is the second try with marquetry. Now I like it.:) The whole thing is mahogany.
Tiffany Lamp
I’ve finally chosen the wallpaper for my roombox and decided on the main concept of the wall decoration. I’m so excited about it! But before I assemble the roombox I need to fix the lights for it. I hope to make two lamps, one of them should be something like Tiffany:) I actually tried to make couple of them today:
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First experience with marquetry
I always wanted to give it a try, so yesterday I took one of the clipart art nouveau ornaments. The result:
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Not perfect. To my opinion – meh:)
But that’s where I love practice, I found out some mistakes that I hope I won’t make in the future – how to cut the pieces, choice of the right glue and finishing. Besides I was too lazy to trace the picture, so the edges are not good.
It was supposed to be one side of the bed for my roombox. The light border shouldn’t be seen actually – I was planning it to be dark. Well, considering the first experience I’m not sure I’ll use this one – I hope to make couple more to make sure it looks good for using with the bed.
Discovering Scale Cabinetmaker
I was lucky to find several issues of Scale Cabinetmaker mag, what a find! So many articles to read, I’m excited!
New Table
New table – I didn’t make it!:) My hubby did this table tonight. That’s how beer affects people:) After a pint of beer he decided to make himself busy. The result is below:
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To glue the veneer to the table the wire from Cat5 cable was used. I think it’s a brilliant idea.
Shelves – my small workshop
I don’t have updates about roombox, but I found some time to improve my working space a bit. Thanks to my hubby I have couple of new shelves. I’m very happy to be honest. The only thing that worries me now is how to manage all the instruments I have – I mean jigsaw, mini lathe, scrollsaw, table saw and little Dremel project table. Mostly they are fixed now, and moving them is a big deal really. So we are thinking of making some sort of “construction” that would make my life easier:)
So many things have changed in less than a year – we moved into the new apartment just couple years ago when I wasn’t mad about miniatures. So we just thought today that if we were moving now, our apartment design would be sooo different – I definitely need more space for my hobby and basically all I can do now is to add some more shelves:) Well, I hope it’s all for the best.
New Table
Here’s the new table that was made this weekend.
Well, actually I’ve never tried to make cabriole legs before, so it was very exciting experience. The table on the photos is not really sanded and finished. I’ll show you it later.I think it looks very good, considering the fact it was the first time experience with the new jigsaw.
And again, I’m not going to use it in the roombox I’m making. Just for fun!
Parquetry – done
All done – I just need to cut the paper off on the left side:) I’m pretty happy with it, though it could be better. Moving on to windows.
Parquetry
Hi everyone!
This weekend was looong, in Russia we had 4 day holidays, so I had a chance to start a new project. I can’t really go into details right now, but I hope I’ll show the whole thing pretty soon.
I finally managed to buy MDF, a bit hard to buy, all the shops that sell it don’t work during weekends and are outside Moscow, but I found one. So I bought 6mm and 10mm sheets (2m X 3m). I’m going to use them for roomboxes and maybe one more dollshouse.
I started with the parquet – and that’s when I loved my table saw. It’s so easy to cut veneer with it! We’ve found a way to make some sort of jig to cut it evenly (if you’re interested I can show you the whole process). As a result, it was possible to cut such little pieces
And these:
After that I started working on a parquet, it’s not sanded yet of course, not finished. At this point this is how it looks:
Round Table – Done
I’ve finally finished the round table, I’ll definitely need a roombox for it. I’m planning to make a lounge seat next, so maybe I’ll use them both. For now I don’t have a really good plan for roombox though:(
I’m happy and not happy with this table: lacewood veneer was a bit hard to work with, besides the lower part of the table was a bit of a challenge: I wasn’t using the router for it, only my scrollsaw, so I threw away couple of the lower part details:) The last one still not the best, but I decided to move on with it. Lacewood looks good to me.
Surprisingly I enjoyed working with veneer – it brings so many possibilities, so many patterns you can create, it’s just endless. So despite this not very good experience I’ll keep on working on it.
Oh, and welcome to my new followers! I’m really happy that you’re reading my blog, I hope you like it. Thank you for the great chance to get to know you too.