Well, only 2 weeks have gone by before my weekly update. The previous weekend was a bust, but this weekend saw some production.
The first thing that I worked on was the shelf brackets for the kitchen. The first design did not work and I was just not pleased with it. I took the old one apart and came up with a new design. I am much happier with this one:
These were made to hold a shelf over the entrance to the dining room from the kitchen. Our display of pennsic mugs had outgrown our old display and this seemed like a good solution. I am very happy with the way this came out and the way it looks in the kitchen:
After that I decided to work on a piece from the Mastermyr chest. I decided to try my hand at making a spoon bit. there were several found in the chest. Instead of making an exact copy of one of them, I decided to just try and make a general on to get the hang of them. I am working on writing the documentation on this and will give more details in the write up, but here is a pictorial progress report:
This is being made from a piece of coil spring steel and will be tempered to help it hold an edge. Hopefully next weekend I can make and fit a handle onto it.
The next project was to make a 2nd Mastermyr trivet, only this time starting from flat stoc instead of bar stock. I ended up using a piece of scrap from my scrap bucket and did not do a whole lot of photographing as I went along. Working from flat stock seemed to make the job a little easier. Here it is finished:
On Sunday I just felt like pounding on metal. so I decided to make a cooking tripod. It is something I have had on the back burner for quite a long time now and it just felt like it was time to get it done. I do not know of any period-ness to this design, but I have seen several using this concept and I like it. The tripod does double duty as a kitchen utensil rack as well. The tripod was made from 1/2 in round stock. I had three pieces cut into 5 foot lengths. If i were to make this again, i think i would use 7 foot stock to give me a bit more finished size.
And finally for those of you following at home, I completed my first skein of wool from the weight experiment. It started as 12 ounces of unwashed fleece and this is almost 1/2 of it spun:
So that was this weeks fun and adventures!