Just so our viewers don’t think I have disappeared, I thought I would show some of projects I have been working on.
I have added a few more branches but I still think it needs more.
This is a prototype of a bicycle trophy for “Bike to Work Week” in Des Moines. (I am going to add pedals and mount it on a base.) Someone is commissioning me to make it. If they like it, I will make 3 more just like this one!
This is what has really been eating up most of my time. I am making a new winerack for Cafe Di Scala. I am only half-way done with this one. When it is finished it will be able to hold more than a thousand bottles of wine!
The beginning of the mechanical sculpture with wood gears.
I have just been working a little bit at a time on each one of these things. With the exception of the latter, I am planning on getting these projects done by May 9. Then I am going to fly down to the southwest for a week, to do sketches and take photographs of landscapes. Once I return home, I am going to do a whole series of paintings of the desert.
I was starting to get some gear ready for the trip when Ethan decided he wanted to come along. When he is swaddled just right he fits in the backpack pretty good!
Dave Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 8:39 amVisit Dave
That bike is pretty incredible. How big is it? Did you turn the tires on the lathe?
The collaborative sculpture is coming along nicely - I agree it could use some more branches, though.
What are you using for the wine rack? Plywood?
Looking forward to seeing more of your southwest paintings … I hear the Northwest is pretty scenic, too … ;)
Gabe Says:
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:11 amVisit Gabe
The bike is about 7″ tall. The tires are cut out of 1/2″ ply wood and then I used a 1/4″ round over bit on the inside and outside to get the tubeular effect.
All of the shelves on the wine rack are dadoed into the sides. It is plywood that will be face framed with pine.