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Practice any art, however well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to find out what's inside you.
--- Kurt Vonnegut

Pictures are meant to be self explanatory, and for visual clarity you may
click on each photo to enlarge. For older projects see Blog Archive. I don't specialize on a particular genre so there is quite a variety of projects for a number of different interests.

Even if you are not a woodworker but you like some or all of the projects, have your local crafts person make them for you from the ideas and photos you see here. For a particular project just click the specific title on the Blog Archive list (right side column below).

For anyone willing to learn or begin to do woodworking for the first time, please read first from the Blog Archive, "How and Where to Begin a Woodworking Hobby.

And it is not for men only. Read my note on "Women in Woodworking" from Blog Archive, April 2010.


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Saturday, January 8, 2022

"Milking" This Levitating Thing

I realize now that polycarbonate (Lexan is one trade name) - a derivative of petroleum, i.e. plastics - is more than just a curiosity or trick material in woodworking.  It is strong and stable. It can be cut and shaped and polished like wood but unlike the latter it is clear as glass but will not shatter easily. Used as part of a project, albeit in a strategically limited way, it actually enhances and strengthens the project and make them appear to float.  


 



So, for one more time, an opportunity presented itself by way of excess, "scrap" material from an earlier use of polycarbonate in making a woodworking jig. There were enough pieces to make one project to again showcase the utility of polycarbonates.

The two one-trick pony filet knives (to filet is their only one trick) begged to hangout next to each other.  They do well with that one trick so I obliged to grant their request.

 






And there they are.




They also begged to be photographed in silhouette.  




It was understandable one of the filet knives got jealous when at first only one of them was on a pedestal


And unlike the other denizens of the kitchen the filet pairs live in a nice area while the rest are in a crowded housing complex of city dwellers, relatively speaking.



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