Willowshimmers Woodworks
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I have made this blog because I wanted to. It is my own little corner of cyberspace where my passion for wood reigns and i am hoping to watch just myself and my wood evolve into the way I envision it to be. I would love to use no patterns and be able to find my true "self" in here some where. I have found out alot about me already that I guess was buried somewhere and happened to be released due to a fall and subsequent broken knee.or maybe it was the otherway around and I needed to slow down ,take a deep breath, and try something I normally wouldn't have tried. But whatever the case these pages showcase a passion/calling and even tho I don't know what any of this means,I do know I want to learn,learn,learn more, and be able to make a quilt of Willowshimmers time here on earth,or perhaps Allison's PEACE!!!
This is in my for sure top 5 favorite items I have made and I liked it sooo much and was so happy with the outcome that I took it with me to show my father in southern California 3 trips ago and I can’t get it home. So this time I just gave up and took a picture of it. When I brought it down my husband and I had drove down there. I had , had a dog stolen from down there and we drove back still trying to find him. (He was a purebred mutt and I loved him so and still miss him very much)So anyway we did not have a dog or much luggage and I was able to get it down there to show him (my father)and a few days later it was missing from my bedroom and I found it hung at the end of my fathers hallway, and I guess that is where it is going to stay and I am never going to get it back as since then we have dogs again and we won’t go anywhere without them and they are not little dogs as you will see if you were to stay with this blog as there are pix of them. Anyway I flew down this time and tried to get it home and we (my son Hunter and I )realized we were not getting it back home this time. This eagle’s original pattern is flat and I decided to make it an intarsia project and tho’ the pictures do not really show it this bird has a 30 inch wingspan.
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This was a kind of gag gift I gave to my son Troy and his wife D.I.L. last year. I will have to look up who the designer is but he designs things like this a lot and they are fun to make. His patterns can be found in Creative Woodworks and Crafts. He calls this one a “Buck Saw.”By the way , believe it or not the “bucks” are actually made from a* pomegranate *tree that’s located in so. Ca. at my father’s house. Just like the lemon tree in my cockatoo this tree also needed pruning and hubby was the lucky one asked to do it and we were astonished at how *BEAUTIFUL* the wood was/is.There are all sorts of different shades of yellows starting with real light, almost white all the way to nice shades of light browns. I had no idea about how to dry this and just took a chance. I made this for my son 2 Christmas’s ago
and when I was down there this Christmas I took this picture, so , so far so good as to holding up. It never ceases to amaze me at the innards of a tree.When I look at a *pomegranate* tree or consume it’s fruit now I think about it all so differently. I can’t wait to share with you, who come here to my page, the wood from the *apricot *tree that we also pruned! It almost looks like the wood *paduak* It’s just plain awesome!!!
The handle is green poplar.
Thanks for checking this out. Allison
PEACE!!!
