It took a few days to get this one done, but generally went pretty quickly with no issues. Now THAT'S gotta be a first!
The rack is made of Oak, the 'feet', made from Cherry dowling. Indents in which the pipes sit were carved with a medium sized gouge. Although the color temps in the pics are a little misleading, the stain is black semi-transparent and many of the borders and places were two pieces of wood meet were darkened with wax and/or watercolor based colored pencil (which I use quite a lot). Following a good drying time, it was re-rubbed lightly with 0000 steel wool prior to a final sealing with 3 coats of spar urathane spray.
The 'Tamper' is obviously a Ninja sword theme (a Samurai sword would have had the arced Katana shape) and is made from a good piece of Damascus steel...left raw on top and bottom and with a high polish on the sides. The tamper handle is Black Bamboo from a friends property locally (there are no scraps that I will not scrounge). The butt of the tamper holds an agate, set to project out sideways...looks cool with a light source behind it. In one photo below, the tamper is shown inserted into it's 'home' which is a square channel cut down into the back board.
The round icon is Briar...and the Japanese 'lettering' stands for 'Bamboo'. Again...carving tools (quite small ones) were used to incise the calligraphy into the Briar and then red pigment was added into the channels of the writing.
One thing I do extensively is use 'found' and scrap pieces in these projects. Every piece of the piperest and the tamper thing are of that type. The agate was found near Yachats (pronounced 'Yaw-hots") on the Oregon coast and were 'tumbled' in a vibrating polisher I use frequently.
Fun project. BTW: the two pipes were purchased as a set of two. They look right at home, I'm thinkin'.
The rack is made of Oak, the 'feet', made from Cherry dowling. Indents in which the pipes sit were carved with a medium sized gouge. Although the color temps in the pics are a little misleading, the stain is black semi-transparent and many of the borders and places were two pieces of wood meet were darkened with wax and/or watercolor based colored pencil (which I use quite a lot). Following a good drying time, it was re-rubbed lightly with 0000 steel wool prior to a final sealing with 3 coats of spar urathane spray.
The 'Tamper' is obviously a Ninja sword theme (a Samurai sword would have had the arced Katana shape) and is made from a good piece of Damascus steel...left raw on top and bottom and with a high polish on the sides. The tamper handle is Black Bamboo from a friends property locally (there are no scraps that I will not scrounge). The butt of the tamper holds an agate, set to project out sideways...looks cool with a light source behind it. In one photo below, the tamper is shown inserted into it's 'home' which is a square channel cut down into the back board.
The round icon is Briar...and the Japanese 'lettering' stands for 'Bamboo'. Again...carving tools (quite small ones) were used to incise the calligraphy into the Briar and then red pigment was added into the channels of the writing.
One thing I do extensively is use 'found' and scrap pieces in these projects. Every piece of the piperest and the tamper thing are of that type. The agate was found near Yachats (pronounced 'Yaw-hots") on the Oregon coast and were 'tumbled' in a vibrating polisher I use frequently.
Fun project. BTW: the two pipes were purchased as a set of two. They look right at home, I'm thinkin'.
