Ebonizing wood: carbonisation
My schoolmate tried one way of ebonising wood. I will show you the process and the result.
The main thing in this process is carbonisation of the wood in linseed oil without access of oxygen. During this process, water from the maple wood evaporate. Surprisingly, the result is still flexible. We think that oil maybe replaced moisture of wood. Despite the use of oil, gluing this wood is possible after oil dries.
Ebonizing wood: Ironing
Method of the iron ebonisation is based on the reaction between tanins and iron ionts.
In my case I used walnut wood (naturalyl full of tanins), iron wool, iron leavings and vinegar at the beginning. After some time I added the ferrous sulfate for acceleration of the reaction. I found out that slow reaction of the wood soaked only in the water with the iron is the best way, but it takes a longer time.
Another way is soaking wood in the broth of strong tea or in the solution with iron galls and after that in ferrous sulfate. It’s quick, but the shade of black is a little bit blue and the wood is blackened mostly only on the surface. The heartwood is very quickly black, but unsuitable for the soaking of solution, so it’s blackened only at the surface). The sapwood is easily colored trough very soon, but not stained black enough.
Restoring: eagle statue
During my studies I participated on restoring of this eagle belonging to statue of St. John from 17th century altar originating in Moravian city Mikulov (Czech republic).
The eagle’s wings were lost and replaced with a paper ones during a history. When the paper have been removed, I noticed some signs of letters. My class, motivated by curiosity, began with separating each layers of paper. After some time, notes and the music sheets were discovered in it. My schoolmate Petr Kolář did some research with professors from the local university department of music history and they think it could be from ca. 1630.
Statue itself was consolidated by acrylic resin. I carved a right wing and foots, left wing was made by other schoolmate. Finally, wings and foots were mounted with the animal glue and the back of eagle, damaged by insects, was filled with the putty.
Iron Gall Ink
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Replica of historicism table
This is an article about my final work for practical exam, as a part of maturita exam (at High school of furniture and trading). I was working on it with my schoolmate Jan Hruška. We have got a task to make a replica of the historicism table from Bruntál castle. That table is part of furniture set with armchairs. History of original Habsburg’s archduke Eugen of Austria (1863-1954)…
Table in the style of Louis XV.
This is a process of working on table I made during my studies of cabinetmaking at high school. It’s basic, small table with typical rocoque shapes, made of walnut. It’s foots are decorated with carvings and the topdesk with intarsia, finished with wax coat.
Fansite of Moonspell band
I made a fan page of the Portuguese doom/gothic/black metal band Moonspell. Site runs on WordPress with the addition of BuddyPress, which adds user interface, forum and chat. Link to website.
Buddypress a qTranslate plugin
I created a plugin for a menu with languages to AdminBar of plugin BuddyPress.
Epica Sony ericsson theme
Theme for Sony Ericsson with singer Simone Simons from symphonic metal band Epica.
Resolution: 240 x 320
Soutěž o propagaci na Maggots-lair.com
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