And Chunk World makes an appearance.
By happenstance the last two quickly done somethings I made involved miter joints that had acute angles.
My tablesaw tilts to 45 degrees, if I want a sharper more acute angle then I have to figure out how to do that. In Photoshop there are always a dozen different ways to get to the same point in the road, same with woodworking.
So you may have done it differently than I, that's cool.
First up. Was digging through something and came upon a pile of left over cut offs from a table I built a couple years ago. Had been saving them for something to happen. So today was the day to use em or put in the burn pile for the winter. What I made with them was of no importance. But something would be made.
Looked at using four for a four sided something. Thought of instead of miters I could join with a butt joint to have it be different.
Decided upon a three sided object. With miters and therefore the acute angle was 60 degrees.
With miters I would lose the nice repetition of form that you can see with them butted together.
The three were of different thicknesses and not flat on the flat side so that posed some additional things to think about with the cut. Tilted the blade to 15 degrees and ran the pieces through on a 45 degree sled. Little bit of hand planing and glued together.
Checking flatness on a granite surface plate.
And the something on pieces of Chunk World.
The place I like to buy my wood from has besides wood nicely stickered and orderly, two place on the property called the Wall of Anomalies and Chunk World. The Wall is where unwanted bastards are leaned up. They can be beautiful pieces of wood but they've been orphaned to some degree in the process. Most of them go for $30-$40 per piece.
Chunk World is where the real derelicts get thrown. It's outside up the road a ways. A mess of no organized chaotic piles of this and that. If you can pick it up and put in a vehicle it's $5. If you need a forklift (and there are huge chunks in Chunk World) then I think it's a little over $100.
That's where the next something came from. Three $5 pieces of castoffs.
We were at an open studio of a friend, Leah Aripotch sat on a bench and Annie said, "Hey, makes us a bench." Got home and the top was waiting right there by the front door, it had been waiting there for years for the right purpose.
This part of the base was 4" thick on one side, 1 1/4" on the other. It had split so that's why it was thrown into Chunk World. Required a sled to mill it down to a workable thickness.
I wanted a Vee for one leg of the bench and that angle turned out to be 68 degrees.
Make a 68 degree sled and used the blade at 90 degree to cut the miter.
Glued
And just like that, another example of Early Century Modern West Coast Warehouse.
Bonus pic!
Tomato plant and the Sun.
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