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~ Jen
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
~ Pablo Picasso
Very nice bro, the cord bound brushes are sweet!! I have seen people using sawdust to burnish pieces on the lathe and these would work a treat, I will have to experiment with different materials.
I have often toyed with the idea of engraved copper plaques inlaid into some of the furniture I make, I think I will go through some of the old files I have collected and give them a grind to copy some of the profiles here. Very helpful, thanks for putting this up.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Buddha was a dropout too
so now I don't feel so bad.
I do have some other tools to make which probably people here have never seen, mostly out of old dentistry books (as you might know most of them were originally jewellers' tools) and other rarities coming from all sort of trades.
I'm glad you enjoyed this.
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I will most definitely try and gather some grasses I have seen which seem to contain a fair amount of coarse grain in their leaves as they live near dunes so that could be an interesting nature-ready-made sand paper.
If you need to I will get some copies across of the profiles of the tools as they appear on the books.
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I do hope however that many worthy artworks will be made with these though. I'm glad you appreciate this image.
Take care
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~ Jen
~jmwphotographer
~aglaranna
*metalsmiths
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
~ Pablo Picasso
It is considered a sacred tree in Japan, when the timber is burnished properly the play of light really dances across the surface as you walk across a room... stunning. It was commonly grown as windbreaks in old gardens in our area and I have a nice stash of slabs sourced through a friend who is a local tree lopper to work with. This is a piece I have made from it. [link]
I can understand why they use these brushes for raising and burnishing the grain as it is a really oily timber and it can be hard to get it to except a finish evenly around knots, you can bleach the oils out using Oxalic acid but it does bleach some of the colour out as well.
Tough native clumping varieties of grasses in Australia have a very high salt/silica content, so I suspect it may not be the texture as such but the silica content that acts as an abrasive. Also the silica content would be higher still in the fiberous roots.
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Buddha was a dropout too
so now I don't feel so bad.
The timber I was referring to is indeed japanese cedar but in its variety known as Jin Dai Sugi (some places refer to it as Jin Di Sugi) Look at this [link] and then you will see the stuff I mean.
Also click on the Lotus table here and then on the support for the table itself that connects it to the base and you will see what I mean.
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The cedar (some like that link say it is cypress but according to Ataru Maeda who is the president of the Japanese Ivory carvers association it is not and it is cedar indeed) is buried (sometimes on purpose with volcanic ash) or found in peat bog like conditions and then dug up after some time. The one in the first link the timber is 3672 years old from what Ataru said.
Indeed once more you are correct, the silica content in the grass is what is supposed to add silica to the japanese steel, and likewise it is to be expected that it would be of use when polishing with it.
By the way, the photos in the japanese link are clickable and will lead to many more photos such as there which I am sure you will enjoy.
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Best regards
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