Christmas Gift For My Grandfather - Tooling

[artificer]

I love your dying job! A good buffing and that should be all the evening out of the colors that you need! What kind of dye/highlighter combination did you use? ...

Oh, and I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has trouble making perfect curves... Trying to get arcs exact is a skill that escapes me! I'm never satisfied with "nearly perfect..." Overall, those are spectacular! The tooling job is fantastic. The background texture especially!

The dye I used was Eco-Flo "Hi-Lite Colour Stain", one of the all-in-one gel type dyes. After buffing out a bit more I basically got it where I wanted it.

Re: the "perfect arc", I assume you're talking about the upper piece's lower left corner. There is a bit of irregularity there caused by an errant strike (which I then had to correct) but it's not as noticeable in person, the curling of the piece really compresses the line and magnifies the "oops"

The primary texture on the background is provided by the E Series tools from Tandy E294-00, I believe.

Very nice...

Thanks, BTW I am on L/W, but just don't post there too often.

Very cool Scott!
I hope you'll post a picture of them once they are framed.

I'm going to try! I may be a bit pressed for time, as I really don't like to work in the garage wood shop when it's below 10*F like it is now. Numb fingers + power tools = accidents!