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[opr1945163 49]

Yup. Characters are to high on board. I might cut board to improve appearance, centering characters.

On the jpeg file the characters apparently have a fixed ratio to each other. That is they are not individual characters the can be adjusted. All the characters are one item (picture), not like letters in word processing app. As you make the picture wider you also make it taller. So what the staff does is project the complete image on the board and then makes it fit one dimension say top to bottom and the width adjusts in the other direction, in this case width. I should have been paying closer attention to what she was doing. I was multi-tasking at the time. Bad idea.

I expect the last piece of bloodwood shortly. Then I need step back and look at the whole project.

 

[opr1945163 49]

Went to see new to me Dr. yesterday. gave me flu shot, covid, tetanus shot, shingles shot, RSVP shot. Now I am sicker than a dog. Chills, aches & pains all over. can hardly walk. Balance no good. My next appointment for engraving at library is Monday. Don't if know if I will make it?

I now have all of the hardwood I ordered. Just need to figure out which saying goes on which board.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

Went to see new to me Dr. yesterday. gave me flu shot, covid, tetanus shot, shingles shot, RSVP shot. Now I am sicker than a dog. Chills, aches & pains all over. can hardly walk. Balance no good. My next appointment for engraving at library is Monday. Don't if know if I will make it?

British doctors/pharmacists usually space these out over a few weeks to reduce the effects. Rest in bed, drink lots of tea, abstain from sexual activity (yes, even that), read an holy book of your parent’s choice and you’ll be fine by Monday. Did you know the shingles vaccine is showing to protect the recipient from dementia? Astonishing!

I have my Flu and Covid vaccination in a couple of weeks after the gym so I’ll be unable to tell if my feelings of being unwell are due to my workout or the immune system in overdrive.

I now have all of the hardwood I ordered. Just need to figure out which saying goes on which board.

Leave it until Sunday when you’re beginning to feel better.

 

[opr1945163 49]

In Japan, they blackout carved kanji with a shiny, glossy lacquer, which looks really nice when the light reflects off it. You could try gloss paint instead of matte.

I found this interesting clip. At around 15:00 they show the process of lacquering the bowl and hand rubbing it. I am reminded in the 1950's and 60's on the west coast of US car painters would use lacquer to paint custom paint jobs on custom hot rods and hand rubbing it. Sometime 30 coats or more. The result was absolutely gorgeous. The bowl in the video are also.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

Are you feeling better?

 

[opr1945163 49]

Yes, thank you. Actually by 5pm yesterday I was feeling quite good. Well, for me. My shoulder is still sore, but improved. I think it was a reaction to shots.

 

[opr1945163 49]

Here is yesterdays result. I know it is slightly off center. The machine needed to be recalibrated and the staff member I was working with did not know how to do it.

The board is 5.5" wide and the column is also 5.5" wide and I wanted the boards to be slightly narrower than the column so I needed to narrow it anyway. I like it a lot.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

Looks good. You could just plane the right side down a little to get it centralised.

 

[opr1945163 49]

This is sort of a preview of my plan. Obviously, I have more than four signs so some will probably end up on a privacy fence. Kinda got out of control!

 

[opr1945163 49]

PS I use a power miter saw to narrow boards. I never had good results with a hand plane. although my dad did.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

Will you remember what each one says in say, 8 months time? Make sure you write their meaning down somewhere.

 

[opr1945163 49]

Certainly. Thanks.

 

[opr1945163 49]

This project seems to have taken a back seat to the weights. Oh well....all in good time.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

One is for fun, the other is for your future healthier life!

 

[opr1945163 49]

Thanks. I need to focus on priorities. First things first.

 

[opr1945163 49]

I recently put together a 3' and a 4' 4"x6" and ended up with about 7' 4"x6". Today one of my sons came over and dug a hole to set post in. It was slightly over 1' deep. So I now have a 5'8" column. Next is picking out signs attaching them.

 

[opr1945163 49]

I was watching a video on General Yamamoto from world 2. And came across this picture from his home town. The "garden column" that I am making for my yard Is very similar. I have the column set in the ground and the engraved saying boards selected, Just have to put it together.

 

[opr1945163 49]

I found this in background.
And my garden column.

 

[Gyakuto165 174]

You know it’s attributed to Roman, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus? ‘Si vis pacem, para bellum’.

 

[opr1945163 49]

I always thought of spears as being 7' or longer in length. Now you tell me they are very short.

I always thought of spears as being thrown now you tell me they weren't.

My world is falling apart.

Next you are going to tell me the Pope is not catholic and that a bear does not defecate in the woods?