Dragon steam punk themed cabinet

[oscarl48]

Had a good Saturday. Started assembling the cabinet. It does not have the amount of carvings I initially thought I wanted. The wife stated, "it's too busy and you lose the figures". So I am going to listen and see how it looks (if I need to I can add appliques later). I have learned I am happier when I make her happy. Still have not thought out what the top will look like. Once complete I will post plans with dimensions since I am literally doing the design as I go.

Hopefully you can't tell the scales on the feet are opposite of each other after my glue up issue on I can't remember if its up or down...so I'll just wing it and guess...I have a 50/50 chance I am right. lol. Yup. I am one of them.

I can't wait to apply the poly and see what treasure I have in the wood pattern. I have bits and pieces of purple heart and paduk which I will be throwing in for visual impact.

[want2b]

Glad it turned out in the end. Detail looks great and should finish nicely. I will try to remember the seond carve as a fix.
Thx for sharing
Rick H

[mtylerfl]

That is looking really cool. I am enjoying following your build!

[oscarl48]

Thanks. I am hoping it comes out good in the end.

I am again rained out. It is supposed to rain all today and pretty much the rest of the week and then I am traveling the following week so I will have a pause in construction. Frustrating when I want to finish it now. So I am stuck indoors so I will make rosette patterns today for practice. I'll just load them as I finish them through out the day. Nothing special but want to play with basic 3d primitives and see what I can build with them.

[oscarl48]

I know the earlier patterns were on the funky side so here are more traditional ones but still funky.

Also want to share my growing amazement in Blender 3d. So made a quick and dirty tile with the blender mascot. It is a primitive in the program so its literally a one button push to create. The tile is made from a basic circle and two squares plus the model. I am including the model separately if you want to play with it for other projects.

[oscarl48]

I had a half hour this afternoon so jumped on my command emblem project. I am very pleased with how it came out. It is going on my love me wall.

I will be playing more with inlays in the future. I have built a few plaques lately but this one I believe really turned out nice. The maple and black walnut really give good contrast. The nice part is I still have the cutouts that could become a second plaque except for opposite colors. Maple in black walnut (though I will have to carve deeper to get contrast in the maple). Maybe this Saturday I'll give it a try. I know my buddies will be jealous of this one.

[mtylerfl]

That certainly does look really nice!

[oscarl48]

Edit: blah blah blah. I had a lot of stuff before you all don't care about so only kept main point (the pattern).

Enclosed are some wings. Many possible uses.

As an example I combined it with a flag I have shared previously for a simple design.

[oscarl48]

Deferred doing work I had to do to get the project a little further along before my trip. Put a lot of the piece parts together.

Still needs a little bit of detail work. Molding to cover all the inside joints and some reinforcing wood spars internal the case to hold the top. Still haven't designed it yet.

I am still on the fence whether it needs more carvings. At this point they would be appliques that would go on the flat blank areas.

Thoughts? Yes: more carvings! or No: enough is enough.

Once the oil/poly goes on the black walnut will be much darker and really provide good contrast with the maple. Steam punk is a mixture of primitive with modern but I may have missed the mark on the hinges. Maybe okay when the poly is applied.

[blhutchens]

You are truly an artist!!!! Maybe some hammered copper hinges, wrought iron, or wooden hinges shaped like a dragon head…….or wing

here are some I did a while back. I am sure you can do better……...