Peacocks

Hi all,
The weather is a bit nippy for doing any woodwork. I was going to try heating the workshop with one of those oil filled radiators, but the cost of electricity has gone daft. We are all electric with storage heaters and pay for the electricity as we go. It seems every other day we are sticking forty quid in the meter, so I'm reluctant to do anything in the workshop till it warms up. I know I'm a tight git but they say the weather is going to warm up in a couple of days so I might get into the workshop then.

Perhaps I'll get a chance to catch up on my video making. I have just finished the third in my series of butterfly paintings.

Three beautiful peacock butterflies feeding on an aster type plant. Here is a short video of how I created this painting on my ipad.

If you enjoy it please subscribe and the fourth in the series will be along soon. Any comments are welcome.

Pyrography

Hi all,
Just a quick one. In my last post I said I was going to turn the bell I made for my wife into a vase. Well I've changed my mind I'm going to make it into a hand bell and do some pyrography on it. However, I have put that project on the back burner for a while while I finish doing the pyrography on another stick.

I originally purchase 3 shanks and having complete the first two I have gone on to the third. Here is a picture of the first one.

The second was similar but the flowers were small. Anyway, after I began doing the pyrography on the stick I kept thinking that this might be of interest to somebody who ist taking up pyrography or those who are interested in seeing how it is done.
So here is a 9 minute video showing the process that I go through to burn a pyrography pattern onto a walking stick.

I hope you enjoyed watching it, please subscribe so that you can see how I make the knob and fit the ferrule.