Mark Hepburn
Artist & Chef
Hi everyone,
Been a while and a tough year but good to be back on the forum. I posted a couple composite pix of a "victrola" I made for my dearly beloved for Valentine's Day. It's a music box with a little keepsake tray. A bit of context:
There is this room she calls her "whimsy room" that is unlike the rest of the house. A couple of the pictures give you the idea So I try to make things for her that go with that whole idea (sort of like the Vince Leman "Dust" furniture). The TV cabinet is one I made for her birthday so that's sort of how the whole room is.
Anyway, this is a representation of an old Victrola. The stem on the side winds it and the little turntable "arm" is the stop mechanism. To play, one lifts the arm and puts it on the record and that releases the little spinner on the movement.
The movement is a nice, 36 note Swiss. The song is one of her favorites "From this Moment" and the 45 on the turntable is that record.
The horn is a segmented piece (and I know the segmenters out there will say that I have serious grain orientation issues 😀. The wood was from a 150 year-old house we tore down and is old cypress that was cut on site at the time the house was built. The brass piece is just some tubing I cut, epoxied and polished (Beall buff with tripoli).
The red color is a dye and the rest is clear coat (except the horn interior, which is appliance epoxy spray).
Again, my apologies to those of you who know how to take photos (speaking of which, I just got a set of softbox lights and a background and tripod so things are looking up there!)
So anyway, there it is. She loves it but she's not a turner, so in the interest of improving my skills I would welcome any and all advice and insights. Thanks, and Happy Mardi Gras!
Mark
Been a while and a tough year but good to be back on the forum. I posted a couple composite pix of a "victrola" I made for my dearly beloved for Valentine's Day. It's a music box with a little keepsake tray. A bit of context:
There is this room she calls her "whimsy room" that is unlike the rest of the house. A couple of the pictures give you the idea So I try to make things for her that go with that whole idea (sort of like the Vince Leman "Dust" furniture). The TV cabinet is one I made for her birthday so that's sort of how the whole room is.
Anyway, this is a representation of an old Victrola. The stem on the side winds it and the little turntable "arm" is the stop mechanism. To play, one lifts the arm and puts it on the record and that releases the little spinner on the movement.
The movement is a nice, 36 note Swiss. The song is one of her favorites "From this Moment" and the 45 on the turntable is that record.
The horn is a segmented piece (and I know the segmenters out there will say that I have serious grain orientation issues 😀. The wood was from a 150 year-old house we tore down and is old cypress that was cut on site at the time the house was built. The brass piece is just some tubing I cut, epoxied and polished (Beall buff with tripoli).
The red color is a dye and the rest is clear coat (except the horn interior, which is appliance epoxy spray).
Again, my apologies to those of you who know how to take photos (speaking of which, I just got a set of softbox lights and a background and tripod so things are looking up there!)
So anyway, there it is. She loves it but she's not a turner, so in the interest of improving my skills I would welcome any and all advice and insights. Thanks, and Happy Mardi Gras!
Mark
