KaleidoScope: Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Grinchy

thank you @pollyanna1052, and @JaneCambs, i do love horses

davegregson40

 This is a wonderful idea and a really good opportunity for the community
my old cat 21 years old 

debbijane

My therapy is cake decorating, I call it cake art! I’ve been teaching myself since about 2014. Here are a few of my ‘creations’

Grinchy

@debbijane, those are fantastic, i passed a basic cake decorating course, but those are really fabulous, well done!

debbijane

Aw thank you!

Chloe_Alumni

I love these @debbijane! So detailed! 

davegregson40

These are fantastic and really enjoyable.Thank you so much for sharing 

stephvslife

Mosaic crochet I’ve been working on ??

debbijane

wish my fingers were so nimble ?

debbijane

This cake nearly broke me! I was having a real struggle putting this together in fridays heat. Luckily my friend didn’t need it until Saturday afternoon, so I left it overnight and went back to it so I didn’t get totally stressed out ?

adamskis

I have been at the guitar fixing, not making this time.
someone gave me a bunch of smacked up guitars. Most of them were in terrible condition, so I stripped them for parts...the various pieces for guitars are horrendously expensive, with back and side panels costing up to £400 depending on the wood and the beauty of the cut piece.
this guitar was made of decent wood, but someone had kicked a hole in the back, this happens more often than you would believe!
i put a couple of trial strings on, and had a quick plonk on it, everything else seemed fine, so I got to work.
I pulled the back off, cleaned the old glue off and traced the body onto the piece of wood I had ready to use (a lovely piece of Mahogany) and shouted at it while cutting it carefully out.
i re glued the support struts and clamped the body to the back with about a million clamps.
Then I went to bed.
when I came to it in the mornin,I pulled all the clamps off, put them back in the correct place (I am lazy, if I didn’t do it right away, they would sit for a month in the wrong place, then start hiding used random pieces of wood so I couldn’t find them again.

luckily the glue had done its job, there seemed to be no gaps, so it was finishing time!
The big, dangerous router was pulled from its shelf and fitted with, what I hoped would be, the correct bit. I lined the router up pulled the trigger, and got busy!
Nobody could be more surprised when, five minutes later, I re-appeared covered in bits of wood, with the back and sides of the guitar looking like they were meant to be together!
Then the sandpaper came out. I carefully sanded every rough edge into soft, rounded curves, and took the last of the raised spots from the new back.
once I had wiped it down to remove any oils from my skin. Or resin from the wood, then spayed the first two coats of lacquer, very carefully and well away from dust and dirt.it was looking good, and sounding great, so it was time for it’s very own set of skins, then leaving for a while to allow it all to settle in, and me to go on holiday.
these photos show a little of the process.

adamskis

Grinchy

looks great @adamskis, very interesting

adamskis

Grinchy said:

looks great @adamskis, very interesting

Thanks, I have spent today working on a Mandolin I am in the middle of resorting.
I am learning a lot.
later on I am starting another Cigar Box Guitar, and a soprano ukulele.

calicia

  hi im calucia. I volunteer with alzheimers day care since my condition got so bad i couldnt work. This is a glaswegian single end house (circa 1950 -70) the lovely ladies and gentleman i work with made. Im very proud of them and i deliberately did not do any research, i just followed their lead. Alzheimers cannot taks away talent x

colet

My latest cards 

Cher_Alumni

I love this thread.

I wondered if anyone had ever made a rag rug?  I started making one over lockdown out of old clothes and am thoroughly enjoying it  I will post a picture when its finished, which may take a few months still! 

Grinchy

very nice artworks, i love the variety, keep posting!

Chloe_Alumni

stephvslife said:

Mosaic crochet I’ve been working on ??

These are great!

Francis_theythem

I just started string art because I wanted to do something creative but I have really low energy so I can't do/learn anything elaborate. Here is my first one that I did today! The photo kind of flipped sideways though