Coffee coaster

[snikolaev28]

Coffee or tea cup coaster for workshop. Or sometimes can be used as a beer coaster, not very often. Made with fretsaw, Antilope #2 blades. An attempt to use celtic cross design.

 

[Scrappile]

Very nice, and isn't that a Swedish knife, I can't remember the name for them now.

[snikolaev28]

Dear Scrappile,

It is not a Swedish knife. This is a French made knife, it's name is Opinel. This is a folding knife, folder. The famous Swedish knives are fanufactured with name Mora. I have them too. Next time I will present a new pattern coaster with Mora.

[Gene Howe]

Thar coaster design is unique and very nice. And, your cutting is excellent.

[daveww1]

great job

[snikolaev28]

17 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

your cutting is excellent

Dear Gene Howe,

Let me disagree with you. I'm cutting with handsaws - jewelry saws and fretsaws (one was modified by me for better work) and cutting line sometimes is not straight, sometimes the angle is not strictly 90 degrees etc. All these defects were corriged with my 'helpers' - needle files, hand cut rasp needle file and coffee sticks with glued sandpaper. I will make the photo of these 'helpers' today.

Regards.

[wombatie]

Regardless of what you use, or how you use them, the finished piece is unique and perfect.  Most of what we cut is not perfect but only we know why they are not.
Excellent work.

Marg

[snikolaev28]

A new coffee or tea coaster. The last one I gave away to a my wife coworker. Again made from alder, with a fretsaw, scrollsaw blades Antilope #2, unfinished on the photos. And the knife is a real Swedish knife Mora.

I hope this coaster will stay with me a little more than one week as a last one.

[Dak0ta52]

I commend you Sergiy! Cutting those by hand? I'd be doing well to cut those so perfectly on my saw. I'm a bit of a knife buff also. Last I checked I had close to 300. My favorite, a swiss double edged boot knife with sheath, was stolen out of my set. The hardness of the steel in that one was unbelievable. You could tap it on a table and it would ring like a bell.

[snikolaev28]

Rodney, yes I'm cutting by hand. The main thing - fretsawing by hand for me it is a some kind of meditation. I can reach this only with hand fretsawing. But there are bad things - I've brought this last posted coaster to home yesterday from workshop. Just to show it to my wife. Yesterday! Today my wife goes to a work trip (she is associate professor) and coaster will travel with her, as a present to another colleague

[Charlie E]

Very nice! Might just inspire me to make one for my morning coffee.