Christmas Is Here

I have been scrambling for the last few weeks preparing for the Christmas season. I hope this new endeavor with longboards is successful adventure.

The Honey Cat

Getting help making tags.

Making Tags

The Vacuum Press

The vacuum press in action. My handy-dandy Shopsmith in the background, best muilti-tool ever.

Oh sanding

Cleaning up the edges for sanding.

Colorado Flag

Working on a new skin

Three Little Birds

Working on the birds. It was a very laborious design, but well worth it in the end.

Another new skin

Working on a "Free Tibet" design. The new Eucalyptus burl is exquisite.

Mending Edges

Fig helping me fix up edges

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Impossible triangle design

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The gorgeous Redwood burl design. It will be unbelievable once it has a bit of finish on it.

Overflow into the kitchen

Veneer glue only cures above 70 degrees which gets complicated as the weather cools off. I live in a very small house and have a small studio so sometimes the kitchen is invaded.

The powerful little vaccum press

Adding the veneer to the 3 Little Birds board.

WindRoses for top deck

A few of the new WindRoses

sketches

Working on some new sketches and designs. I have been thinking about moths a lot lately. I received some Chestnut burl in my last veneer order that is just screaming to become a moth wing.

Veneer for the White Elephant

The Camphor veneer for this design was very temperamental. I had to do a lot of stabilizing with tape, but finally liberated this elephant. The stripped wood grain is sweet!

Prepping edges

Trimming and sanding edges to prepare for finish sanding.

Pressing a board

Working in the garage pressing a board. My sweet Shopsmith is in the background. Love that muili-tool

Veneer

Bamboo, Mahogany and Babinga

Small but powerful

My husband built this for me! We needed a pretty powerful machine to do the laminate bending of the boards and we found the directions for this one on Joewoodworker.com. That is a fantasitic website for all things related to veneer.

My little studio

It just never manages to stay tidy.

Work in progress

Veneer under pressure and Sunlit Scales drying from a new finish coat.