I had earlier posted some biplane bookends. biplane bookends I had another friend with a new baby and decided to make a different set.
She was doing the baby's room in a safari theme and it gave me a great opportunity to have some fun with elephants, giraffes, Festools and a few other tools.
Festools used: Domino, ETS 150/3 sander, Circular saw & guiderail
Other tools: Scrollsaw, Oscillating spindle sander
Pattern designs came from a Patrick Speilman scrollsaw book.
Making these is really easy:
1 - Photocopy and reduce to the size you want
2 - Finish sand with an ETS 150/3 BEFORE cutting them out
3 - Mount with spraymount on 1/4 oak
4 - Cut on a scrollsaw. First time I had tried the multipiece animals and they really turned out nicely.
4b - I made two photocopies of each animal - so I could make the body and the legs with two different spraymounted patterns
5 - Wrap a dowel with adhesive sandpaper and use it to go over the edges
6 - Glue up the animals without the dominoes in place
7 - Finish sand with an oscilating sander
8 - Apply a base coat of poly to cover between the wood pieces of the legs
Make the base with 4" poplar:
1 - Cut to length
2 - Domino the two pieces together
3 - Finish sand the edges as above with ETS 150/3
4 - Roundovers were sanded on an oscilating sander
5 - Determine the location for the animal dominoes
6 - Cut the domino slots in both bases
7 - Glue up the bases once the slots are all cut
Base was 3/4 poplar. Animals were 1/4 Oak. Dominoes really make this kind of project easy.
Attaching the animals:
1 - Animals were attached to the base by using dominoes glued between the bottoms of the legs and inserted in domino slots.
2 - I sanded the dominoes so they would easily slip into the slots.
3 - Cut and sanded the profile to match that of the animal legs on the giraffe.
Painting and finishing:
1 - Painted the base with the base dark green
2 - Mixed lighter green and masked the stripes
3 - Did final touchup
4 - Glued the animals in the dominoes
5 - Touched up the paint
6 - Used black paint for the animal details
7 - Two finish coats of poly
8 - Attach rubber feet to prevent the bookends from sliding when holding books
Feedback / questions welcome -
neil
She was doing the baby's room in a safari theme and it gave me a great opportunity to have some fun with elephants, giraffes, Festools and a few other tools.
Festools used: Domino, ETS 150/3 sander, Circular saw & guiderail
Other tools: Scrollsaw, Oscillating spindle sander
Pattern designs came from a Patrick Speilman scrollsaw book.
Making these is really easy:
1 - Photocopy and reduce to the size you want
2 - Finish sand with an ETS 150/3 BEFORE cutting them out
3 - Mount with spraymount on 1/4 oak
4 - Cut on a scrollsaw. First time I had tried the multipiece animals and they really turned out nicely.
4b - I made two photocopies of each animal - so I could make the body and the legs with two different spraymounted patterns
5 - Wrap a dowel with adhesive sandpaper and use it to go over the edges
6 - Glue up the animals without the dominoes in place
7 - Finish sand with an oscilating sander
8 - Apply a base coat of poly to cover between the wood pieces of the legs
Make the base with 4" poplar:
1 - Cut to length
2 - Domino the two pieces together
3 - Finish sand the edges as above with ETS 150/3
4 - Roundovers were sanded on an oscilating sander
5 - Determine the location for the animal dominoes
6 - Cut the domino slots in both bases
7 - Glue up the bases once the slots are all cut
Base was 3/4 poplar. Animals were 1/4 Oak. Dominoes really make this kind of project easy.
Attaching the animals:
1 - Animals were attached to the base by using dominoes glued between the bottoms of the legs and inserted in domino slots.
2 - I sanded the dominoes so they would easily slip into the slots.
3 - Cut and sanded the profile to match that of the animal legs on the giraffe.
Painting and finishing:
1 - Painted the base with the base dark green
2 - Mixed lighter green and masked the stripes
3 - Did final touchup
4 - Glued the animals in the dominoes
5 - Touched up the paint
6 - Used black paint for the animal details
7 - Two finish coats of poly
8 - Attach rubber feet to prevent the bookends from sliding when holding books
Feedback / questions welcome -
neil
