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| I've made around 5 hand mirrors in my 3 years of woodshop at my High school. This is my most recent hand mirror, which was made as a christmas present for my mom in the year 2000. |
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| This hand mirror started with an idea that gave my woodshop teacher the idea that crazy, or something close to that. I saw this design in a guitar that my pastor owns. The gutiar had a strip about half the width of mine and with different colorations. The guitars strip was obviously machine made, but I didn't let that stop me. I got the idea during the summer in anticipation for what I would build in woodshop for my senior year. It took me nearly a week just too convince my woodshop teacher that it was possible to build such a complex design, and another week to convince him that there might be some worth in this. |
| I spent six weeks getting many questions, and many confused students trying to understand what I was doing, while I worked on these strips. according to the math I had to do to convince Mr. Pickard, I made over 200 cuts on the table saw, on only three pieces of wood; I wasn't exactly counting While I cut. Those three pieces of wood were ash, peduk and purple heart. This complex design in this strip took four seperate strips consitting of a pattern in 1/16" increments that looked like this. |
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| This is made of four seperate vertical strips. Both outer strips are identical but potitioned differently; likewise with the inner strips. With this principal I only had to make two blanks. I cut two 1/16" strips off of each blank, placed them accordingly, glued them together, and a decorative strip that took forever to make. this all wound up costing more than $30. |
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| first blank used to create the strips |
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| second blank used to create the strips |
| Then cut strips and glue |
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| types of wood: peduke, purpleheart, figuretive maple, ash, soft maple, hard maple, walnut. |
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