Dave Polaschek

The most recent session in the shop had a lot of putzy work. Mostly a card scraper and sandpaper, and more CA glue. But I got close enough that I ...

This evening, I got a couple hours in the shop. Set up the laser-guided hollowing rig and took the bowl down to a little over a quarter inch. I had...

After company visiting us for the weekend, and my sweetie’s birthday yesterday, I got back to the shop this morning. About an hour and a half finis...

Haven’t had time for writing, so this is a big catch-up. I had a piece of juniper which had a crotch with a large bark inclusion. I looked at it a...

Today’s 90 minutes of shop time started with some shaping of the handle. I dry fit the shaft into the handle, and then shaped the piece of granadil...

I finished up the carving on the shaft. Going to keep it simple, with just a single set of lines, rather than full checkering. Sanded with 220 grit...

It’s getting into the home stretch, I think. I sanded off (using 220 grit) the excess white grain-filler, then hit the handle with a coat of Tru-Oi...

90 minutes in the shop this morning, but quite a bit of progress. First, I shaped the handle a bit more. When Greg tried it on Friday, we made mar...

About two hours more work (for two handles) mostly with a spokeshave and a knife, but also with some rasp work and a pencil to mark what I want to ...

This morning’s progress was marking the position for the hole in the tenon, [IMG_9240.jpeg] [IMG_9241.jpeg] [IMG_9247.jpeg] Then offsetting it b...

Another hour, some more progress. I started rounding the shafts with my homemade spokeshave, but that’s set for a pretty rough cut, and I was getti...

Next up, making the shafts rounder, but first, done quick fine-tuning of the tenons with a float. I had aimed to make the mortises slightly larger ...