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An exotic butterfly, Aglais Io. “Exotic” hardwoods used include: Irish bog oak, holm oak, walnut root, spalted pear and olive ash. Much like the butterfly, all these timbers found in Britain & Ireland, no need to go further afield. For my Nephew on his 2nd birthday.
Just finished - English oak cot for the best friend’s daughter. The timber is native to the area my friend grew up. It’s highly adjustable - the bed can be raised to 6 different heights by loosening the side bolts and using the sprung handles. The sides can also slide out so it can be used as a bed or seat.
Photos of the latest vegan concertina build, taken by my extremely talented Brother-in-law.
reed work
In progress photos of an oak concertina.
Just finished the new infill piece for our meeting table at work. It's from an old shove ha'penny board, itself repurposed from a wardrobe door, and a lot of old pallet wood with some of the shipping stamps still visible and lots of knots and character, given an aged look with some walnut husk dye and a beeswax finish. Shabby chic!
Neigh! thrown together a foldable shave horse from the piles of stuff in my workshop, I new there was a reason I'm a hoarder. I did buy the nice cedar plank and the oak dowel for the clamp, though now I won't ever need to buy a dowel again! Takes about 10mins to put up, there are a few too many screws in the legs, but I did try and keep it traditional for the oak clamp. Her first task will be to make dowells for a roundwood frame -yay!
Concertina fretwork mockup, wych elm design
Some making of photos for the previous box project.
Just finished and said goodbye to this commissioned keepsake box. Native holm oak and ash, natural beeswax finish. To the excellent design of the client, patents pending. The holm oak has been very interesting to work with, and I've used up almost every bit of an 1" thick board on this and the previous box. It had various colours going on from the rich brown with olive streaks you can see on the sides to vivid red at the highly figured end, used to make the bookmatched fretcut panel on the lid. It required a plane blade sharper than sharp at all times, and it was a relief to cheat and work with some pre-thicknessed ash for the drawers, which proved a vital time saver as I had only a month of weekends to make this. Making-of photos to follow.
A box for the best husband and wife, happy 4-month anniversary and sorry it took a bit longer!! It's sycamore with a holm oak stripe. Danish oil finish, thankfully didn't turn the sycamore a strange colour. It's not enormous it's just on a parquet table (not floorboards)- it's actually identical in proportion but just under the size of a brick. Bricks are pretty romantic.
Gorman's - trying a faster reel.
Planxty Irwin - the C/C drone comes in handy here.
Eco concertina recording 1: What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Action is light enough for the double finger roll (of sorts!)
The finished eco concertina. This has been conceived, designed and made as a 40th birthday present for a green-minded veggie friend. It is a contemporary response to many early concertinas which were made from exotic hardwoods, ivory and leather. It is basically a 20k C/G model, with 2 extra keys providing accidentals on either side. I have seen many Lachenals with this layout. I also added an extra C/C drone, on the LH thumb position, which is more a feature of Crabb/Jeffries style instruments. The fretwork is loosely designed around the sweet chestnut tree, with a pair of corncrakes set in the centre of the left side (it turned out sounding better than this bird, thankfully!) and the owner's initials on the right side. Big thanks to all the materials suppliers out there, and Bob Tedrow for his amazing photo essay: http://hmi.homewood.net/twitterzephyr/
Eco concertina - finished parts. The wood is finished with a very light beeswax based formula (Stones), apart from the matching wood buttons which had to be sealed then waxed. The hand rests are hollow to allow the straps to pass inside, the brass fixing bolts are sharpened to pierce the handstraps and hold everything in place. All fixings and actions are brass - I hear that brass is mainly all recycled these days. The reeds are from a variety of German instruments, mainly brass, variously tuned, weighted and voiced to try and get the best tone from not the best raw material. I'm pleased with the results, fine for this prototype, but for future models will be using italian steel reeds from vintage accordions (on the advice of Nigel Sture - thanks!). Phosphor bronze springs are from Concertina Spares.
making an eco concertina Part 2 - making bellows (thanks Bob!) and binding with synthetic "leather" made from vileda cleaning cloth, interfacing fabric and heavy body acrylic+acrylic medium. Since this has got to be veggie too, the linen tape is the self adhesive type as the water activated type uses gum that is animal based. Making the bellows papers: the yellowish paper is straw, the white rhino dung based, all recycled. Bellows cards and pads all made of recycled boards, bushing felt is 100% merino wool, undyed.
