Shiny things!!!!

 

Yes the above photo seems similar to one from a week ago; but I can assure you that many steps have been completed to take the rough products to this finished, polished shiny stage. 

The objects have had the back of their bowl sections planished on metal stakes; all edges ground and leaves and bowls shaped; and the pieces given three polishing - two by wheel (one brass wire wheel) and one by hand. They are now ready for their swing tags and market.

Some process photos follow.

A couple of the finished pieces.

In all there are 18 objects - half most likely will go to Scotland and half to Maleny Additions.

Finally a bit of workshop time

 

I think it has been about two months since I have been able to get into the workshop to hammer and grind some metal because of infected wounds and virus. As you can see from the opening photo I progressed some product (leafspons, tea caddy spoons and leaf pate or spreading knives).

When finished some of these might go to a local shop and some might head to Scotland to be part of our local pop-up exhibition. 

I reacquainted myself with tools and forms I made and use for making product including my thumb print groove in a piece of hardwood. I had to grind a few of the tools to remove rust that had built up from lack of use and our recent wet weather.

A few more process photos follow.

Though I felt a bit weary after the session in the workshop it was great to be back on the tools again. I might get back to finish these pieces over the next couple of days.

Request for product

 

As the title of the blog post says I had a request for a range of my leaf related items including Leaf-spoons, Leaf Tea Caddy Spoons, Leaf Knives-spreaders and small patinated copper leaves. Leaf-spoons and Leaf Tea Caddy Spoons above.

I managed to get them done during the week and delivered them this morning. So I will see where this goes in the next little while. Some photos of each of the items follow.

A few process photos are included below.

It has been a while since I have made pieces for a local outlet.

Product and more product

 

I have been making leaf form product for a couple of markets - locally and overseas - so the quantise are reasonably significant. 

Today I started and finished 12 leaf teaspoons as you can see in the opening photo.

I tagged spreading leaf knives and tea caddy spoons as you can see below.

Following are some process photos from today's effort.

I'm a bit tired at the end of the day; but also happy that I got this work done.

Leaf form knives to spread stuff with

 

I used to refer to the leaf form knives in this blog as 'leaf pate knives'; but Fiona said folk might use them for all sorts of spreading tasks - butter, soft cheese, dips etc as well as pate - so they are now know as 'leaf spreading knives'. The spreading section of the knives is not sharp - not for cutting cheese  or sausage!!!

I have made 20 knives - with a bit of variety - some with leaf veins, some totally plain, some with ornate backs and some with ornate fronts - really mixing it up as you will see from the photo above and the ones below. The opening photo shows that a number of vintage silver-plate trays were cut up for these knives. 

A few process photos to show that there is a process and the shiny pieces do start out looking pretty grungy.

Different gloves for different tasks.

The last photo was taken when I was packing the 20 pieces up - though each is unique they do generally pack together well.

Cards for Christmas and 24 pieces of silver

 

Saturday and Sunday were quite a busy couple of days. I managed to print 20 cards and 20 postcards for Christmas; and made 7 Tea Caddy spoons, 8 Leaf Teaspoons and 9 pate knives for Maleny Additions (MA).

The cards were printed in rubine red and have been dusted with gold dusting powder.

After a lot of cutting, form folding, hammering, grinding and polishing went into the 24 pieces but they look great as you can see below.

A few process photos follow.

The last tasks with the MA pieces are to add swing tags, courtesy of Fiona, and then do price lists - never done until it is all done.