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I very nearly threw this into my scrap-book of projects (a small book to be sure), and then I realized how this compares to the rest of the woodworking submissions around here, and it occurred to me that this really isn't so bad.

This is Little more than an experiment of a new approach I developed for cutting Celtic Knots, and an experiment in photo-editing. Understand, there seems to have been a slight shake in the camera when I took the picture, so it isn't my best picture, plus I tried to install a false gradient for the background.

(Sugar?) Maple and Ebony. Finished with Shellac and PPP Wax. The knot is imperfect because one of the glue-ups slid in the jig I had before I could correct it.

I'm putting a discount on this for the defect, $45 USD instead of the $65 it should really be worth. Available soon on my website, or send me a note, and we can work it out.
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~missCThurston Sep 3, 2011   Artisan Crafter
the Celtic knot, is it an inlay or part of the glue up before you turned the piece?
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~IcyDrake Sep 10, 2011  Professional Artisan Crafter
A four step glue-up. Although, I use the term inlay occasionally as a technicality when people who ask are only interested in a short description.
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~missCThurston Sep 10, 2011   Artisan Crafter
a four step glue up? that is so cool! so the pieces are curved and fitted with the rest of the glue up?
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~IcyDrake Sep 11, 2011  Professional Artisan Crafter
Perhaps a little more simple than that actually. The knot design is created by cutting into the blank at a diagonal, and inserting a thinner piece of wood. When turned so that the blank is round, the inserted wood becomes a ring within the wood. However, if I were to continue adding inserts into the blank by rotating the wood each time using the same angle, so that a squared blank shows a pair of 'X's made from the inserts, a familiar design appears in the rounded blank.

Thanks for thinking it's cool, I thought so too when I borrowed the idea from a magazine article I found.
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