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About Me Member Woodworker IcyDrake18/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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Mahogany over Oak wit rosewood

I was messing around one afternoon with a new skill/technique I had discovered (new for me at least), and through a few *erm* Deviations on the design, came this piece.

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What can I say? all you see here are mine, and all that's mine could end up here (it had better not appear anywhere else...)

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I don't like anything that's made the ' Popular' page before I see it, anything I don't understand the context of, nor anything so far beneath the level of hobbyist that it is an insult to the artist. That said, it should be understandable that I also prefer to list things that reflect my own interests. Enjoy.

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Looking into a particular garage in the Eastern San Fransisco Bay area, one might see a dark haired young man of eighteen bent over either a green ten speed woodworking lathe, or a variable speed gray minilathe to the side with chips of different colored woods flying in every way around him.
He is totally entrapped in his work, tuning out all other life until a car rumbles by. He wears loosely fitting but not baggy clothes, a pair of black and orange gardening gloves and half-rimmed blue framed rectangular glasses, habitually covered in dust. On one side of the garage, an old analog radio plays music from the upper shelf of a long tool-covered workbench, the other side filled with storage cabinets and raw wood.
When the lathe does stop spinning, one might see any number of different combinations of wood in a half-completed bowl, pen, or an artistically crafted tool or ornament waiting to be finished.

That's me, Daniel. I advertise my services as a professional wood turner, specializing in wooden bowls. However, I have been reaching out into different aspects of woodworking, like carving. About 5/6ths of what I make there actually ends up here in an untimely manner in the form of a photo, the rest are mostly tools or household projects.
I would also recommend strongly that learners don't use me as an example of safety in the workshop, as some of what I do (like the gloves) is potentially hazardous, which on a wood lathe, can turn (pun intended) very bad, very fast.

One'll also note that not all of my stuff are wooden. I will always be trying to learn and perfect the art of fantasy drawing and poetry, hence the genesis for my name.

Perhaps I'm also way too honest... :blahblah:

:bulletgreen: I'm the only woodworker on this entire network who works with wood harvested from grapevines

:bulletblue: I have got to find a better way to say some of my more winded speeches.

:bulletorange: Quite a number of my works are sold on my website, which is linked to below.

:bulletyellow: Member :iconartisancraft: and of Diablo Valley Woodworkers, (Also the name of the local mountain, not anything sinister pertaining to the Spanish language).

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: East SF Bay, California, United States, Terra Firma
  • Interests: Woodworking,Water Sports, High Fantasy
  • Favourite band or musician: Craig Chaquico
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock and Jazz
  • Favourite poet or writer: Should I answer? It changes so often
  • Favourite photographer: What a megelomaniac question...
  • Favourite style of art: Utilitarian Turnings
  • Operating System: Vista (I'm so ashamed...)
  • MP3 player of choice: My SanDisk MP3 Player
  • Skin of choice: Erm...mine? should I have anyone elses?
  • Favourite game: Chess, Freecell
  • Personal Quote: The best Adventures are the ones which you come home happy from.
  • Tools of the Trade: Ten speed lathe, 3/4" bowl gauge, fujiflim camera, pencils

New Tool

Tue Nov 3, 2009, 7:36 PM
It's been some time, about a month since my last update on my life to the world at large, or at least the nine watchers who think I'm somewhat neat.
During that time, I can say that the number of watchers who'll even bother reading this journal has increased by about 50 or 60 percent, and I've uploaded thirteen :? brand-spanking new pictures, for a total of nine new works. :shrug:
Ah statistics, the only AP class I took that dropped out from around me instead me from it...

Okay, update...well, I suppose I should start with the topic of the journal, my new tool. A quarter inch thick, one and a half inch wide, six inch long bowl scraper, courtesy of my grandmother, who never tires of trying to spoil me. Should I get even more anti-climactic (for those of you who even have the foggiest of what I just described)? Well, I'll do my best.
That one project which took up a record three entries this last month, the elf head project that was a collaboration with ~Malteg, is quite officially finished, the resin head being used for a Halloween decoration (of rather poor artistic taste, I have no pictures); a sitting scarecrow. however, this was done without me, so I didn't see when they accidentally dropped the head, adding a few more cracks. and what was the most complimented decoration? My pumpkin. (I won't say which took me more time, or which had the more value) (~Malteg, we need a talk about finances...)
Um, um, um, ah, one more thing (because my announcements come in sets of three or more) new project; cardboard chair. No points for guessing what the theme will be, Fantasy. but this will be awe-inspireing, if we (~Malteg and I) get it finished. More will be explained in the actual deviation.
Finally, my Computer. I have been having troubles with power, and working from a laptop between home and college, this is bad. The trouble was with the power chord, the 'brick' which converts AC to DC, and so what has happened is that I've had to replace the whole chord with one of a similar voltage, but 4 or 5 more amps (for those few of you who know electronics, that's more total energy available, but the same potential, for those who don't, I don't blame you, but think of it in this analogy, I've got the same pipeline size, but more pressure), it's a temporary fix, and I hope to get the right cord soon. ALSO, I've been working with a VisTablet pen pad to edit my drawings digitally, and it's busted, so no digital works in the near future that won't be simple mouse-edits (color and distortions, etc.) eta, if you like my drawings; 1-3 months.

Thanks for reading. Oh, but one last note, I posted a question to the artisan crafts forum, and I'm still waiting for some results; What's the best food-safe finish for wood? You know I don't want to poison a customer on accident. :?

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:iconipneto:
thanks for the watch

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:iconicydrake:
No problem, yours is a very talented gallery.

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:iconipneto:
Thank you. :D

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:iconlakotawolf116:
thank you for the fav :D Your work is beautiful

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:iconicydrake:
I'm honored.
For I still consider myself to be but a journey man in my craft, and but a hobbyist in all other arts that I may try.
I would say the same to you about your work, but it seems I just did.

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