I'm trying to restrain myself from posting recent images of work from my upcoming solo show ("Spawn", Harrison Center in Indy). Here's some shots of current "prep" underway. I must knock off the 1/2" edges from these finished pieces. I like the edges on the smaller ones; they read as a 1970s craft plaque. On these larger pieces it does not work at all.
So I'm sawdust protecting with plastic and then palm sandering with 40 grit. I'm angling the back off, all surfboard-like. Well, semi-surfboard-like, which still takes 1-2 hours per panel, and fills my dual purpose kitchen-woodshop with sawdust...
This has to be the worst dual-purposed room use ever, unless one is low on dietary roughage I suppose.
I'm trying to restrain myself from posting recent images of work from my upcoming solo show ("Spawn", Harrison Center in Indy). Here's some shots of current "prep" underway. I must knock off the 1/2" edges from these finished pieces. I like the edges on the smaller ones; they read as a 1970s craft plaque. On these larger pieces it does not work at all.
So I'm sawdust protecting with plastic and then palm sandering with 40 grit. I'm angling the back off, all surfboard-like. Well, semi-surfboard-like, which still takes 1-2 hours per panel, and fills my dual purpose kitchen-woodshop with sawdust...
This has to be the worst dual-purposed room use ever, unless one is low on dietary roughage I suppose.
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...a pleaser.
Once, and only once, I forgot to properly cover items when working with power tools and wood. I thought it would be a quick, tiny job. It was like working in a snow globe.
Congrats on the show.
Thanks.
I'm making so much dust that the plastic is almost useless. One more day of this.
Yeah, great fiber.
That's what I tell people when I eat wax, anyway.
I think wax may work differently on the ole system.
I think you might be right. Hm. Well, it's all good for you.
That looks like a nightmare Carla. I might recommend paying the hundred bucks for a small router.
I didn't think I could control a router well enough, but I ended up using my dremel with a largish shaping wheel to remove the bulk of the edge, and then it finished nicely with the palm sander...until I burned up my dremel on the last panel.
It's all something I should have done before painting.
I don't know about dremels and routers, but I DO know about not doing things I should do BEFORE I start painting . . . I never quite learn.
"Paint now, prep later!". We need to take the shame out of it, maybe adopt as a motto.
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