Wine stand

Well I did get the wine stand done and shipped to the customer by the due date. It was wonderful and I was proud of it. I thought I could have done better, but I always think that of my work.
Before I go any further let me post some pics of the finished wine stand so that you can judge for your self.

After it was all done I brought it to UPS and had them crate it up and send it out. I made sure and told them to put $500 insurance on it. Well….. it did not arrive as it should have. It arrived damaged. That’s right, even in the crate that UPS made for it. And guess what. They did not put $500 of insurance on it. They only put $300 on it. “Well I don’t remember.” That is what the guy at UPS had to say about it, when I reminded him, that I had said $500.

As you can see the leaf that holds one of the glasses was bent down and almost torn off. The petal was also bend down. Now the wine bottle does not go into place as it should.

I have a few questions for UPS. How do you damage a wine stand that is crated and says “Fragile” ? Or if it was damaged before being crated “How can you still crate it and send it out?”??????
I think the guy may have dropped it before putting it in the crate.

Oh yeah. How does $500 sound like $300?

Here is a knife that I finished and shipped off.

Wine stand art.

Guess what I got. That’s right an English wheel. The price was to good, I just could not pass it up. Now I just need to get good at using it.

So the wine stand needs to be done by August so I figured I should get to work on it just to be sure it is done in time.

I sprayed it with Permilac. I hope that it is as good as they say it is. As you can see the Permilac did darken it up a bit. All that is left to wrap the base in leather and then rivet it to the stand. And the electrical stuff. Then it is all done. Yaahoo!

Back to it.

Well after getting more gas for the welder I found that it was leaking gas so I had to go get a new part. Then I found that my auto darkening helmet is not working any more, it was making me see spots. That is no good. I still have not got the helmet fixed, but I do have a really cool hand held face shield. It sucks.

Anyway I have got back to work on the wine stand. Here are the last two petals for it.

Getting closer.

Ahh that is pretty. I am liking how this looks.

Getting closer

I got some more gas for my welder and decided to do a mockup on the wine stand. Here are some photos of the partial mockup.

Notice that I only have three of the petals on it so far. I still have to make the other three petals for it. Also only two of the leaves are on it. I have to check some things and see about the other two leaves.

Now I need to get some more gas for the forge

More photos

Here are some more pics. Leaves on the stem.

Here is some how it goes. :P

Wine Stand

I am back to it. I have made some progress on the wine stand that I was commissioned to make. Here you can see one of the leaves for the wine stand, that will hold a bottle of wine.

Below you can see the base of the wine stand and the leaves. Keep in mind that the base is not finished yet.



































And here are two knives that I am working on. The top one is destined to go to Mexico to some good friends. The bottom one is from me just messing about and trying stuff out. I still need to do some finish work on both of them, and make a sheath for the top one.

I will try to get some better photos of them soon.

Calla Lily

Calla Lily update.

I just did some work on the Calla Lily today and thought that I would post the progress thus far. It is coming along better then I thought it was going to. When I started on it I was not sure about a few things but…. I think it is going to be ok.