While I Was Working

Below is something I posted to my Dorset Custom Furniture blog on Thursday. Here on the Guild blog, I thought it would be interesting if other Guild members added their images to this post ... It's always interesting to me to see what other artists do with their (and sometimes my) scraps ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...

A James Montague Sculpture made from stuff in my scrap box

From my blog ... 'I have always wanted to do a little show of stuff that happens while I'm working ... Not of the stuff I make intentionally, but of the scraps, side effects and by-products of the stuff that I'm making. The unexpected interesting little visual bonuses . Will was planing some edge inlay last Friday and handed me a little piece of the shavings that came off the hand plane and it made me think of that show concept again. Somewhere, I have a cardboard box of stuff I've saved, waiting for the show to happen, but today I couldn't find it .... In the meantime, I looked around the shop a bit and there were plenty of items there in plain sight, accumulated over the years ... decorations with a story .... '

Metal drill chip and cherry/walnut edge curl .... Click to the photos to enlarge them

Offcuts of tapered table legs and a bowl on the sawdust shed

The shape over the door of the finishing room is the plywood left after we cut two 32 x 64 1/2 circle mockup parts for a table we were building

The table mockup mentioned above

The bird on the porch ... more scraps from tapered bench legs ...

ALSO .... Be sure not to miss THE AMAZING HAMMER JUGGLER

Don't try this at home

I leave you with the shape over the red arow to the left of the door ... I plucked it out of the scrap pile to the left ....