It's been a while since I posted anything here. Thought I'd start it up again since I recently restarted woodworking and specifically woodturning.
Here are a few pictures of my latest project a Toothpick holder which was a welcome gift. It holds a dozen toothpicks (purely coïncidental, I hadn't thought about the number of toothpicks)

I was looking for a way to sign or mark my work without it being to visible. The second condition was that the signature should be repeatable.So I quickly landed on branding or pyrography.
A few years ago I bought a wax stamp and since that's metal I could heat that up and use it to burn a letter R. since I made several pens and it's pretty imposible to burn that R into a pen.
I also wanted to show a piece of the wood the project is made of.
And so I started making labels made from the same wood as the project and burnt with the logo.

Here are the pictures:

shiflett brothers sculpting challenge: monster rider

Here's the work so far. The idea was to have the human be "the monster" and the other creatures are the riders.here's the teaser text:
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Are your humans running around unsupervised?
Are they destroying your towns and forests without consequence?

Then mrRuben's Monster Rider 3126 is exactly what you are looking for. Available now for only 99,95 P*

*P = pieces of gold.
* rig is handmade from solid tree trunks by mrRuben's finest craftsmen (aka lumber jacks).
* red glow on the commander is not from shame that you can see his naked parts. It's caused by a badly cleansed brush being used for his yearly bath.
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I have started painting the master. The minion has a primer layer because it was complety baked black. the 'ropes' have metal painted balls so the minion can easily hold on and pull on them. The side anchors by the minions legs should be (painted in) metal so it can wrap the side ropes around them to hold them in place.

to do:
- The legs of the chair need to be shorter because now his head touches the balcony.
- The ropes of rig need to be painted to look nicer.
- Some nice piercings should be designed and made
- finish painting of the commander, minion and rig.

here are all the pic's:


































latest pictures:

almost there..

so the board is just about finished too. all it need is some varnish and shiny-making :)

next step on the board

next step on the board.

why make one chess set, when you can make two?

When I was working on the previous chess set, I got the idea of making a square and round set... and so here's the start:

wooden chess set: complete set

The chess set is finally complete. here's a few pictures. I'm sorry to say the pictures of the separate pieces are quite blurry.
anyway here goes: