A mystery in Amoora

[Meem]

I showed my wife and she says you're building a guillotine.

[Graybeard]

By your use of two part marine epoxy, I would suspect an outdoor application, unless you are merely prone to 'overkill' in your construction. Wood is a living medium (yes, even after being cut and seasoned) and the diligent application of time, energy and skill makes every piece of hand made furniture an object of living memory and a creation to cherish.

I am subject to overkill ... especially as the epoxy takes 24hrs to cure ... but it enables my joints to be stronger than the timber .. this means I can make very tiny pieces ... with brass pinned centres that look like they would snap in your fingers like any twig ... but they are as strong as steel in the composite of brass, epoxy and timber (only the timber is visible.

I could not miss this..lol...are you building some high tech archery set???

No ... not archery .. I won a wood carving competition by carving a little boat. I carved it out of a single piece of 6" x 4" hardwood 20" long. It is on a fossilised stand of sand ripples from Australia's Sea-that-was and the last waves that formed them evaporated and drained away over 250 million years ago. Do you like ???

I showed my wife and she says you're building a guillotine.

rotflmao .... no ... it is not a guillotine ......

Thank you all for kind comments and will post some more progress fotos here tomorrow, friday. .... will change all your ideas again .... lol (work has been slow)

cool bananas ... greg

[Graybeard]

Some slight progress has been made. The following parts have been cut and fitted together

[leskey]

For me, the mystery only deepens.

[Graybeard]

For me, the mystery only deepens.

Fallaces sunt rerum species.

cool bananas ... greg

[austintorn@aol.com]

It's a bird?

[Graybeard]

No ...........

???

[austintorn@aol.com]

Putting poles in all those holes?

[austintorn@aol.com]

A cargo-cult kind of thing?

[Mikal]

I am subject to overkill ... especially as the epoxy takes 24hrs to cure ... but it enables my joints to be stronger than the timber .. this means I can make very tiny pieces ... with brass pinned centres that look like they would snap in your fingers like any twig ... but they are as strong as steel in the composite of brass, epoxy and timber (only the timber is visible.No ... not archery .. I won a wood carving competition by carving a little boat. I carved it out of a single piece of 6" x 4" hardwood 20" long. It is on a fossilised stand of sand ripples from Australia's Sea-that-was and the last waves that formed them evaporated and drained away over 250 million years ago. Do you like ???






rotflmao .... no ... it is not a guillotine ......

Thank you all for kind comments and will post some more progress fotos here tomorrow, friday. .... will change all your ideas again .... lol (work has been slow)

cool bananas ... greg

Yes Greg I like...smiles...its a very impressive replication and I would have to congratulate you on some pretty specific talent and skill.
I'm with Lesk here...its just getting more mysterious...its parts could come together in a million ways I could envision but I still cannot see the whole....grinning....
Again congrats!!

Regards Mikal