When book matching goes wrong...

[CaptainBudget]

Hi all,

Figured there are people out there who could do with a laugh this morning...

So I've picked up a beautiful piece of yew to make a thimble display shelf for the Mother In Law's Christmas present, and the plan was to band saw it and bookmatch to make a wide enough panel.

All looked great until I cleaned up the faces and did the test fit. Not sure I can use this piece now...

Spoiler

 

[Blackswanwood]

It’s a rhinoceros

 

[duke]

I see many shapes , very interesting look , I like it.

 

[Stigmorgan]

I see a bird diving with wings tucked in

 

[BCS1980UK]

That is a gorgeous piece!!!
Should we start a Bookmatched Rorschach thread?

 

[CaptainBudget]

I see a bird diving with wings tucked in

In all seriousness I can't unsee that now and you may have just saved me here.

MIL is a serious wildlife/bird fanatic and that might just do it...

...if you can ignore the big black pair of points 2/3rds if the way up

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

In all seriousness I can't unsee that now and you may have just saved me here.

MIL is a serious wildlife/bird fanatic and that might just do it...

...if you can ignore the big black pair of points 2/3rds if the way up

It's a sea-diving bird having just pierced into water for fish.

Those black areas are low pressure water swirls of eddy current, and the grain around the bird's head is the cavitation and boundary layer, surface friction effect.


(I know a thing or 2 about fluid dynamics and aerodynamics and flying...)

 

[paulrbarnard]

Hi all,

Figured there are people out there who could do with a laugh this morning...

So I've picked up a beautiful piece of yew to make a thimble display shelf for the Mother In Law's Christmas present, and the plan was to band saw it and bookmatch to make a wide enough panel.


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All looked great until I cleaned up the faces and did the test fit. Not sure I can use this piece now...

Spoiler

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It’s for the mother in law. Go with it

 

[Blackswanwood]

It’s for the mother in law. Go with it

... you can always go round to Paul's for Christmas Day lunch after the divorce

 

[CaptainBudget]

I know it goes against the trope but I do actually like my MIL, and she does as well (I think....)

Hopefully won't have to take up Paul's offer of a seat at his Christmas day lunch though...

It's a sea-diving bird having just pierced into water for fish.

Those black areas are low pressure water swirls of eddy current, and the grain around the bird's head is the cavitation and boundary layer, surface friction effect.


(I know a thing or 2 about fluid dynamics and aerodynamics and flying...)

Will definitely be using that, thanks!

 

[Cabinetman]

Definitely use it, and I hope she laughs as long as I did when I saw the spoiler.
Sorry but now I’ve seen the bird it’s just not as funny. I wouldn’t mention it! In fact definitely don’t say a word and act surprised lol.

 

[Stigmorgan]

In all seriousness I can't unsee that now and you may have just saved me here.

MIL is a serious wildlife/bird fanatic and that might just do it...

...if you can ignore the big black pair of points 2/3rds if the way up

Those are the flight feathers at the tips of the wings

 

[duke]

How could she not like it !

 

[bansobaby]

If you do go with it, please, please, please inform us as to the reaction

 

[Sideways]

Adopt a gannet to go with it !
https://seabirdshop.org/products/adopt-a-gannet

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

It’s a rhinoceros

You shouldn't talk about his MIL like that. Anyway she's a hippopotamus according to Reggy Perrin.

I see a bird diving with wings tucked in

I know MILs can be sharper than a dagger but it's still a hippo!

 

[HamsterJam]

Looks like a unicorn to me if you rotate 180°

 

[accipiter]

Rotate the photo - or the pieces of wood themselves - 180° ... Phoenix Rising...

 

[CaptainBudget]

I've finished it now. I had to join the shelves together with veneer pins and the heads are more visible than I would like but I'm really pleased with it.

Made from a single piece of Yew; shelves got a bit thinner than I would have liked as I ran out of material. They're 4-5.5mm thick whereas I was aiming for 6mm so I could rebate them into the sides of the unit; I don't have smaller chisels so opted for pins instead.

With the shelves installed the back is not as "problematic" as I'd feared; they break up the shape fairly well I think...

Finished with fine sandpaper and two coats of Hard Wax Oil

(It is missing a simple D-ring hanger that's in the post and just needs screwing on so it can be hung on the wall)

 

[Cabinetman]

Not sure what’s going on but it says I’m not allowed to open either of those.