Trees

 

 

2 of the 3 tree paintings I'm playing around with 

 

Glasses from bottles

 

 

Beer and Vodka bottles put to further use - scored with a glass cutting tool, broken with hot and cold water, then sanded along the break.

Put the scoring tool in a vice and roll the bottle against it. I screw a bit of wood to my bench to butt the bottle against to get an even line

 

Shelves

Some shelves for Elizas hair salon Blondies in Bondi - mostly pieces of Australian red cedar and a couple of oregon(?) floorboard pieces.

 

 

Installed

 

 

 

 

They're all lacquered now to install tomorrow ...

A Finished piece against some that have just been sanded

 

 

unvarnished

 

 

sanding...

 

 

An offcut test painted with a couple of coats of shellac (French polish)

 

 

And another

 

 

Shellac - chitin - the material of insect exoskeletons

 

 

The first shelf

 

 

grinder - to use very delicately, mostly on the edges

 

 

The first shelf and a piece with varnish test

 

 

A couple of pieces of Australian Red Cedar, risers from an old staircase that still have their colour despite being cut down and milled well over 100 years ago.

They will become shelves in Eliza's hair salon in Bondi