Bill Lantry
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Hey, folks,
Well, I blew up yet another project, a nice cherry bowl I was making for a colleague's birthday. So I CA glued it back together, and went on turning. Then I blew it up *again*! So I glued it back together. And guess what?
You guessed it! So I glued it back together, but this time, instead of putting it back on the lathe, I just placed it next to it. I need something to hold screws and stuff, so what the heck?
Then it was time for another colleague's birthday (they come thick and fast around here... She'd always admired a painting I have in my office (as you can imagine, given my place of employment, we have some pretty substantial archives in the basement of the library, and they often lend them out to people who they know will take care of them. There's even a joke going around that my office is a satellite branch of the archives.
Anyway, this particular colleague brought down a couple young staffers a few weeks ago, while I was out. She mentioned the painting over and over and over, and then happened to mention her birthday coming up. Geez...
Needless to say, later that day, I found myself cornered by two lovely young lawyer types saying "would you pleasepleaseplease give Peg that painting for her birthday, if she promises to take care of it?" To which I replied, quite honestly: "Sorry, but I'm just not *that* nice!" And even if I were, my deal with the archives wouldn't let me do that...
So instead, I got one of our digital media guys to take a really good picture of it, and printed it up on a high quality color printer. It's amazing what you can do with a twelve magapixel camera. Another young woman who works around here has a mat cutter at home, so last night she made a mat for the picture, and called with the outside dimensions. So I went out to the shop, took the beautiful piece of burly maple doorlink wouldn't let me use for her cabinets, and made a frame. Finished it with lacquer, and added another coat this morning. Then I cut the plexiglass, and cut some luann for the backing. We assembled the thing around 10 am, using the back of my car for a workbench, and gave it to her at noon, with the fresh lacquer smelling up the restaurant...
Of course I rushed it, so it's not perfect, but at least it hasn't fallen apart. Yet...
Thanks,
Bill
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Ps. Larry, I'm just not that good with photoshop. The photo is as I found it...
Well, I blew up yet another project, a nice cherry bowl I was making for a colleague's birthday. So I CA glued it back together, and went on turning. Then I blew it up *again*! So I glued it back together. And guess what?
You guessed it! So I glued it back together, but this time, instead of putting it back on the lathe, I just placed it next to it. I need something to hold screws and stuff, so what the heck?
Then it was time for another colleague's birthday (they come thick and fast around here... She'd always admired a painting I have in my office (as you can imagine, given my place of employment, we have some pretty substantial archives in the basement of the library, and they often lend them out to people who they know will take care of them. There's even a joke going around that my office is a satellite branch of the archives.
Anyway, this particular colleague brought down a couple young staffers a few weeks ago, while I was out. She mentioned the painting over and over and over, and then happened to mention her birthday coming up. Geez...
Needless to say, later that day, I found myself cornered by two lovely young lawyer types saying "would you pleasepleaseplease give Peg that painting for her birthday, if she promises to take care of it?" To which I replied, quite honestly: "Sorry, but I'm just not *that* nice!" And even if I were, my deal with the archives wouldn't let me do that...
So instead, I got one of our digital media guys to take a really good picture of it, and printed it up on a high quality color printer. It's amazing what you can do with a twelve magapixel camera. Another young woman who works around here has a mat cutter at home, so last night she made a mat for the picture, and called with the outside dimensions. So I went out to the shop, took the beautiful piece of burly maple doorlink wouldn't let me use for her cabinets, and made a frame. Finished it with lacquer, and added another coat this morning. Then I cut the plexiglass, and cut some luann for the backing. We assembled the thing around 10 am, using the back of my car for a workbench, and gave it to her at noon, with the fresh lacquer smelling up the restaurant...
Of course I rushed it, so it's not perfect, but at least it hasn't fallen apart. Yet...
Thanks,
Bill
.
.
Ps. Larry, I'm just not that good with photoshop. The photo is as I found it...
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