My homemade wooden kiltpin

[ChromeScholar]

Thank you.

[ChromeScholar]

Here's the last one for today. It's a red oak leaf made of purple heart, held in place with 3 x 3/8" neodymium magnets (I had to pry it off of a metal shelf earlier).

[O'Neille]

I'm glad I finally looked. I'm not talented with wood in the least. Probably because of all of those childhood pocket knife incidents.

[ChromeScholar]

I have the same problem sharpening knives and swords. (How do you tell when Chrome's knife is sharp? He passes out from blood loss...)

[James MacMillan]

Those pins are so cool.

Do you find that the magnet weight is enough for the kilt pins to do the intended job?

Makes me want to look for a coping saw!

Really nice work!!!

[ChromeScholar]

The weight of the magnet, plus the metal backing plate seems to be enough. In fact on my first pin, I had to cut down the weight of the backing plate, since it made the pin too heavy, and dragged the kilt down on that side.

[ChromeScholar]

To do the work, I use a scroll saw, band saw, table sander, sand paper, 0000 steel wool, drill press, various shades of stain, paint, and Dremel tool. I'll probably not need the Dremel once I get a set of Forstner bits. I finish them with Minwax spar urethane.

[Marshal Moroni]

Chrome,

These are really beautiful! It makes me want to pull out my dremel and create something.

Things of beauty and desire.

Cheers,

[James MacMillan]

To do the work, I use a scroll saw, band saw, table sander, sand paper, 0000 steel wool, drill press, various shades of stain, paint, and Dremel tool. I'll probably not need the Dremel once I get a set of Forstner bits. I finish them with Minwax spar urethane.

OK - let's see if I have the tools to try these:
scroll saw - Nope
band saw - Nope
table sander - Nope
sand paper - Yep
0000 steel wool - Yep
drill press - Nope
various shades of stain - Nope
paint - some
Dremel tool - Yep
Forstner bits - don't even know what that is!

You forgot the magnets - Yep
and
The wood - some..........

I still might try to do a couple, as they look so cool.

I know that they must be labor intensive, but I bet if you made a bunch, you could sell them at the next highland gathering in your area!

Really Nice Work! Different, Beautiful, Individual - all-in-all well worth your efforts!

[ChromeScholar]

Once you have the patterns figured out, they really aren't all that bad. You could do them with all hand tools, but that would be labor intensive.

BTW - Forstner bits drill round holes in wood, much like a hole saw, and you use them with a hand drill, or drill press. The difference is that the hole made by a Forstner bit is square bottomed, with no center guide hole. Perfect for making sockets to set round magnets into. They are fairly expensive, though (about $9 to $15 apiece).