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[alfshooter]

Very good, very good, I encourage follow working ..

Greetings ..... Alf

[Abe_Stranger]

Great job! Welcome home, brutha.

[Dayhiker]

You are improving rapidly. Nice work.

[newconvert]

My fav id the one you have double banded, your work shows alot of character, by the way, what do you think of the rod saw, i almost bought one today

[WTBJR]

Very nice indeed! What are the wood species?

[cheese]

porcelanowy, on 08 February 2012 - 09:16 AM, said:

Somewhere in between I’ve made this ugly natural to experiment with different ammo (cherry wood + TBG 200x25x20 + kangaroo pouch):

but I had a nasty accident with this fork: one of the bands snapped, the frame slipped from my palm and hit me in the lower lip – after 6 weeks I could still feel the scar inside my mouth.
Next to it there are materials for my first boardcut.

In late summer during the work in my parents garden I’ve gathered some naturals including this oak:

I shaped it for a hammer grip but lost somewhere all my feelings for it and it stays that way ever since.

Here with a slingshot made for my nephew (dogwood + very light TBG):


I don’t want to overload my first posts in this topic with pictures, so that’s it for now
But please stay tuned. There is more to come
Cheers
Rafal

same thing happened to me once, it left a dent right above my lip.

[porcelanowy]

Yellow
Sorry for the late answer. Couldn’t start the computer with my English dictionary

newconvert, on 12 February 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

(…)by the way, what do you think of the rod saw, i almost bought one today

Bought it to cut a tempered steel (has a tungsten carbide powder on the surface) – it worked just fine till it broke You can cut pretty much any shape in pretty much any material. Well, I can’t cut straight line with it

WTBJR, on 15 February 2012 - 07:43 PM, said:

Very nice indeed! What are the wood species?

Hard to find English names for some of them, co I will post some Latin
First – wild growing prunus avium;
Second – quercus (don’t know which oak exactly);
Third - prunus avium;
Fourth – unfinished hammer grip - quercus (don’t know which oak exactly);
Fifth – for my nephew – common dogwood/cornus sanguinea;
Sixth – this one is tricky, and I have to wait till spring comes to see what kind of leaves it will grow
@ cheese – it happens J
Cheers
Rafal

[porcelanowy]

Hello
It took me some time to figure out how to transfer the boardcut (don’t have drawings anymore) to a jpg/svg/pdf. I have found Hrawk’s tutorial (thanks mate ) and played a little bit with inkscape.org

I’ve came up with this:

Additionally:
big png => http://img195.images.../9258/deha1.png
pdf => www.bobisko.republika.pl/litter/deha1.pdf
and if you want to work with the design:
svg => www.bobisko.republika.pl/litter/deha1.svg
Have a good one
Cheers
Rafal

Edited by porcelanowy, 27 February 2012 - 02:37 PM.

[porcelanowy]

Hello
I need something light small and sturdy but lost somewhere my sheath of 4mm carbon I have found that piece of hazelnut (don’t mind the bone; its time will come) in a public park and thought that it could do the trick
I have used only the knife to shape it a bit (left the original surface) than red ink with some mahogany color (it is a lot brighter than on that pictures) and an experimental coating (epoxy glue diluted with an alcohol – not enough alcohol and it didn’t soaked the wood as I hoped for).


Banded up with TBG 25x20x230mm. I’s working fine but I will change it to double TBG 15x10x230mm. 25mm it’s too wide for this narrow tips




A scar after peeled off bark:



It isn’t pretty but it is doing its job. I will do better next time
Cheers
Rafal

Edited by porcelanowy, 05 March 2012 - 03:50 PM.

[alfshooter]

Fantastic work, we see that has a lot of enthusiasm, encouragement and continue to show.
A hug .... Alf

[porcelanowy]

Hello
Thanks and yes I’ve been blessed with enthusiasm of a neophyte

Meantime to try something new: some exotic wood for a boardcut and semi-finished polyurethane slingshot. Never worked with that stuff:

Don’t mind the knife. It’s for knives.pl forum
Cheers
Rafal

Edited by porcelanowy, 07 March 2012 - 01:04 PM.

[porcelanowy]

Hello
I have picked up this Natural two weeks ago:

and it is eating pretty much all the time I have so I can focus only on “small arms”

My friend’s Kooniu little catty => http://www.bobisko.r...tter/kooniu.pdf
Some hideous looking plastic sheath, some old jeans pants as scales, some epoxy, some tiles to squeeze all this between them and…



I have screw this up I have no clamps so I had to put a pot with my orange tree on the top. Unfortunately during the night wind overturned it and the cloth slipped on one side of the plastic core and I ended up with this



Still usable just have to change the project a bit.
Stay tuned
Cheers
Rafal

Edited by porcelanowy, 21 March 2012 - 08:54 AM.

[Sean]

Congratulations on your new Natural, what a sweet little one! Enjoy.

sean

[porcelanowy]

Hello
Since my last Natural (picture above) all I do is harvesting more and more forks with no time to work with them Fortunately I have a new toy which makes that quite easy – wenger new ranger 78

From left to bottom : European rowan, ash, juglans regia/Italian walnut, something dead and rotten, small blackcurrant, some black stuff for my straight wrist project:


Plus a sneak peak – half finished laminate:


Rubber mounted just for the picture (double 20x10x230mm + kangaroo pouch = they have the power ):



Cheers
Rafal

[kooniu]

Rafał, I'm waiting they are will done

[harson]

Cool ,interesting as well and that one you had in the bag is stunning!

[Btoon84]

awesome post. a pleasure reading through your progress. congrats on your little one. and those are some sweet looking slingshots! good job on those they are looking nice. nice harvested forks by the way too!!!! looking forward to seeing your denim project, i myself just put a layer of denim in a caddy.