rayra
Sep 14th, 2001, 01:12:39 AM
Building a Dark Ages -looking Chandelier, to hang over the massive beam table at the vacation house (:) ).
A few of you may have seen the 'Celt art?' thread I posted in the OT Forum.
Here's a few shots of the carvings, used several wood carving and engraving bits in my multi-speed Dremel, with flex wand.
Learned the hard way that the flex wand has no finger guard - work long enough and your fingers will slip downward until the collet rubs on your finger at high speeds.
The piece is two 3'-dia laminated pine table rounds.
I sawed out the 12 candle holder holes (will be using large 3"dia collonade candles) in the top piece, and put dremel carvings on bottom portion (which will face down towards the table / diners).
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan1.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan2.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan3.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan4.jpg
I printed the words / patterns on paper, spray glued the paper to the wood as templates, sanded the paper & glue off after carving.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan8.jpg
Aluminum Black -
I searched my local OSH / Lowe's / DoIt / Home Depot for some black / wrough iron chain, but all they had was a low-strength, unwelded-link, decorator chain (in black).
This whole chandelier will weigh ~60lbs when completed (intend to put halogen spots in the cross-pieces, someday), so I had to go with a 'real' chain.
I tried chain samples, in both zinc-washed and chrome-dipped, dipping them into the Alum Black bottle, worked nicely!:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan6.jpg
Bought 15' of chain, crammed it in a Ziploc bag, poured in the couple ounces of Alum Black and kneaded it for a bit, it all came out nicely.
It does rub off a bit, and can be scratched off, but I intend to zap it with some flat clearcoat.
I'll post pix of the table and chandelier together, in a week or two, after I make the trip / get it installed.
Thought I'd throw these techniques out there, in case anyone is thinking about some kind of props for a haunted house or something next month :)
A few of you may have seen the 'Celt art?' thread I posted in the OT Forum.
Here's a few shots of the carvings, used several wood carving and engraving bits in my multi-speed Dremel, with flex wand.
Learned the hard way that the flex wand has no finger guard - work long enough and your fingers will slip downward until the collet rubs on your finger at high speeds.
The piece is two 3'-dia laminated pine table rounds.
I sawed out the 12 candle holder holes (will be using large 3"dia collonade candles) in the top piece, and put dremel carvings on bottom portion (which will face down towards the table / diners).
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan1.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan2.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan3.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan4.jpg
I printed the words / patterns on paper, spray glued the paper to the wood as templates, sanded the paper & glue off after carving.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan8.jpg
Aluminum Black -
I searched my local OSH / Lowe's / DoIt / Home Depot for some black / wrough iron chain, but all they had was a low-strength, unwelded-link, decorator chain (in black).
This whole chandelier will weigh ~60lbs when completed (intend to put halogen spots in the cross-pieces, someday), so I had to go with a 'real' chain.
I tried chain samples, in both zinc-washed and chrome-dipped, dipping them into the Alum Black bottle, worked nicely!:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayra/rpftemp/chan6.jpg
Bought 15' of chain, crammed it in a Ziploc bag, poured in the couple ounces of Alum Black and kneaded it for a bit, it all came out nicely.
It does rub off a bit, and can be scratched off, but I intend to zap it with some flat clearcoat.
I'll post pix of the table and chandelier together, in a week or two, after I make the trip / get it installed.
Thought I'd throw these techniques out there, in case anyone is thinking about some kind of props for a haunted house or something next month :)