tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47478349706607280942024-03-05T09:59:26.824+00:00wobblybloga hotch potch of work and life eventsJeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-17044992367905155932015-01-20T10:19:00.001+00:002015-01-20T10:19:11.528+00:00Cutty Sark off-cuts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a lot of off-cuts and fragments from my making of various objects from the ships timber.<br />
Some of these I have found difficult to use in the usual way so I have created some other things that might appeal to the visitors.<br />
The two seascapes utilise the hull timber immediately below the muntz metal that clad the ship, This has a wonderful crusty verdigris texture which looks just like a rough sea. The addition of some burnt timber for rocks and a turned lighthouse cut in half and skies using the more grained wood complete the picture.<br />
I have bought a small lathe in order to turn the handles of the magnifying glasses. I lost my original lathe many years ago in a workshop fire. and never bothered to replace it but it has been good fun re- discovering the world of woodturning.<br />
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At last, the completed Yoga studio.<br />
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Three panel birch plywood wall. Enough for 4 and a half students according to yogawall.eu!<br />
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Maple floor, a reclaimed Nokia stand from the NEC Birmingham finished in white Osma hardwax oil.<br />
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Lovely dimmable-to-almost -nothing perforated plaster pendants.<br />
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The original Victorian fireplace now contains a Jotul woodburning stove on a Mexican handmade tile hearth.<br />
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The fish eye lens makes the space look narrower than it is. The space is 6x4 metres enough for 8 students.<br />
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The fittings for the wall are from <a href="http://www.yogawall.eu/">www.yogawall.eu</a> and consist of plates with a spring loaded socket that receives the ball of the other components. This system was designed by Kedric Wolfe in the early 80's after he injured his foot on one of the older system's wall hooks.<br />
Each one of the 27 plates has been set into the panel in a routered recess and bolted through to a larger plate on the back.<br />
After watching a number of videos of the wall in use I became aware of rather disturbing creaks so I mounted the panels onto wall battens with rubbercarpet underlay and introduced a 3mm gap between the boards so that nowhere is wood rubbing on wood.<br />
The wall now will have to be tested before use by an expert on climbing walls. Fingers crossed. No make that legs crossed!<br />
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Now does anybody know any half students interested in Yoga!<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The original is a beautiful domed object about 40 cms in diameter which I hadn't seen before I made this version. A new one has been made for the stern of the ship and has the look of a jelly mould and is much deeper than the original. I did this from the original drawings so has a much sharper edge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">A portrait of Captain Woodget painted on a piece of the hull material which is rock elm. It is studded with brass nails which were used to hammer on the muntz metal which covered the hull and was one of the reasons the ship recorded such high speed</span><span style="color: #666666;">s.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is the first painting I have done in many years.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Captain Woodget was much loved by the crew, fearless and eccentric he roller skated on board, was a phographer, bred Collies and took them to Australia. He was born on November 21st 1845, one hundred years to the day before my own birth. </span></span>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-243865622752609452012-10-29T21:49:00.001+00:002012-10-31T19:06:41.357+00:00Circumnavigating E14<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This is Cito, a Thames Waterman Cutter. A solid 300kgs of GRP, ten metres long; she has six oars in line; six rowers sit on fixed seats, there is a cox in the stern to navigate and steer and room for one passenger. I was invited to join the crew to row from Greenwich Yacht Club across the Thames to Bow Creek and Bow Lock and then down along the Limehouse Cut to Limehouse Basin and back out onto the Thames returning on the long loop of the river to Greenwich.<br />
I found it easier to pull in time when I could hear the oars dipping and the regular rhythm of the oars in the rowlocks. It was extremely satisfying when the six of us became a single unit working in unison. It was much more difficult with the noise of the river and wind and the choppy water of the Thames to keep in time.<br />
Rowing, they say exercises 85% of the bodies muscles. I asked Peter Waugh the cox which were the muscles that weren't involved and he indicated the ones between the ears!<br />
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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was presented with a seal made from Cutty Sark teak at a dinner to celebrate the many years of his association with the clipper.<br />
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On Tuesday evening 8th May the sun came out after many days of rain and I just had to photograph the strange ripple of high cloud. Also odd is the way the panoramic reduces the huge sky to a such a small circle!<br />
There is a little black triangle where I missed in the overlaps.Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-8843150172252002232012-03-12T20:37:00.003+00:002012-03-12T20:45:47.396+00:00Seastar tricksProbably best seen in full screen to catch some of the more subtle movements<br />
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I'm always gazing at and sometimes photographing birds on high. Here is a crow in a recently pruned tree in my neighbours garden. I've tweaked it in Picasa as I wanted an illustrative effect rather than a photographic one<br />
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The most renowned of the Cutty Sark's captains was a keen photographer and loved collies some of whom made the voyage to Australia. This collie is made from oak from work done in the 60's but she has a collar with original hull planking<br />
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Playing with ICE, a free programme from Microsoft has resulted in these images. The top is composited from a 360 degree movie in my local park, Hilly Fields</div>
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This view is from the top of the house after the recent snowfall.<br />
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Below is my office taken from the centre of the room<br />
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The creatures seen here are all from the teak decking. The ship carried chickens and pigs all part of my usual repetoire.<br />
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There are a lot of smaller pieces and my own offcuts from making the creatures which I wanted to try and use so I have moved out of my comfort zone and produced a small automata of the Cutty Sark at sea. This is a mixture of timbers. The sails are from an oak refit in the 60's.<br />
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I am planning a colllie dog that Captain Woodget travelled with and no ship would have sailed without a rat or two!</div>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-66055847601619656992011-09-12T10:19:00.016+01:002011-11-04T22:11:06.470+00:00behold the dodo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/dDC66biwtLM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discarded doors found in the mews and a tidy up for the Open Studios has brought a renewed affection for my lovely shed. The Virginia creeper has crept to places it has never crept before and rounded all the sharp edges with its cloak of green.</span></div>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-36509369676234642012011-06-24T21:00:00.014+01:002011-07-10T13:53:32.287+01:00wooden pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OQ_Z8Ovt0c8/ThmeLZQHX3I/AAAAAAAACek/foqjkkY_dLQ/s1600/Graphic1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OQ_Z8Ovt0c8/ThmeLZQHX3I/AAAAAAAACek/foqjkkY_dLQ/s400/Graphic1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love sifting through all my offcuts and waste bits of wood and seeing the possibilities of them becoming something else. I have been making these little houses with bark roofs for some time but the opportunity to exhibit one at the local eatery <i>Toads Mouth Too </i>focussed my efforts. The picture on the left has sycamore from my garden and elm bark from Nunhead cemetery. The one on the right has pieces of oak from old doors from Goldsmiths College</span></div>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-25058036799309561512011-05-15T13:10:00.002+01:002011-05-15T13:11:22.663+01:00craft&design selected (wood and metal)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xIONiHLsofw/Tcr9xfkTZHI/AAAAAAAACZE/BMVrhwVGSYY/s1600/gold%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xIONiHLsofw/Tcr9xfkTZHI/AAAAAAAACZE/BMVrhwVGSYY/s200/gold%255B1%255D.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xIONiHLsofw/Tcr9xfkTZHI/AAAAAAAACZE/BMVrhwVGSYY/s1600/gold%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francisco visited the workshop for a few hours recently. He is a warm, open and very interesting man. He is working on a personal project capturing images of arts and crafts people in their workshops with their tools.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm just amazed by the quality of Francisco's work.</span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have never seen my fish look quite like this. It looks vivid but at the same time skeletal and transparent and.. magical. I look very much part of my world, proud Lord of my small, dusty domain, and just look at those hands, oversized because of the wide angle lens and strong and capable. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When he visited he told me his wife was due very soon to give birth and they are now the proud parents of Orson, born on St Patrick's day and doing well. On the same day Francisco was diagnosed with a tumour in his mouth. He wrote: </span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You know this is the stuff of life and you can only deal one day at the time. Sure, it would be a personal tragedy not to see my baby son grow up, but I try to stay positive and deal with things as they come.</span></i></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has an operation due on 8th April. I hope everything goes well for him.</span></div>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-71027125056651732462011-02-24T17:59:00.014+00:002011-02-26T10:59:36.847+00:00Woolly Drawers aka black faced sheepy thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oSa-x1l4dRw/TWad513IOzI/AAAAAAAACUM/EQHNI-OSKIM/s1600/Desktop1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oSa-x1l4dRw/TWad513IOzI/AAAAAAAACUM/EQHNI-OSKIM/s400/Desktop1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first made woolly drawers 20 years ago. The name was never quite right as there was only one drawer at the head end. This recent version has a drawer both fore and aft. The drawers are lined with wool waste so that the name fits even for those who have never known the joys of woolen undergarments. It was bought by a very nice man for his wife who both likes my work and loves black faced sheep so was a perfect present. He re-named it the black faced sheepy thing.</span></div>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-9674996950954346652011-02-18T10:45:00.016+00:002011-02-26T10:50:59.532+00:00seal in elm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQ1aNH-igdo/TV5OIGM208I/AAAAAAAACSs/Zn6blu2sKnU/s1600/elm+seal.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQ1aNH-igdo/TV5OIGM208I/AAAAAAAACSs/Zn6blu2sKnU/s200/elm+seal.JPG" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This seal is unusual. It is made from a plank of elm which was part of a groyne washed up on Mersea Island in Essex </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I use the planks as part of my display stand at shows. One of the planks was badly split and has been lying around for years until this week when it became this, slightly smaller version of the usual seals I make.There is a very strange aroma when you cut wood that has been immersed in seawater. Very unpleasant in the case of pine but elm was quite interesting.</span></div><br />
<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incidentally I was the winner of a lovely award one year from the <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">British Toymakers Guild</span> </span>for the Best Dressed stand. It was an automata of a pair of disembodied clapping hands. When the prize was presented, Robert Nathan, the manager of the Guild announced " The award this year goes to Jeff Soan for his best dressed Groyne"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Made of oak and leather and very lively this little marbled gecko was born in the workshop today. I have hooked it on pegs in a piece of driftwood so it can be wall hung and can be easily removed.</span>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-52657702742085896662011-02-01T20:30:00.006+00:002011-02-01T20:41:37.764+00:00Baby Iguana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KVFNAuTJ06c/TUhs26h02RI/AAAAAAAACH4/OCdkFFn326Y/s1600/iggy+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KVFNAuTJ06c/TUhs26h02RI/AAAAAAAACH4/OCdkFFn326Y/s400/iggy+%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a baby iguana completed this week. Quite by accident his tail, if free to dangle counterbalances the body so that the legs lift and the body moves. I'm not particularly good at getting the look of the young of the species but this little fellow with his slightly over sized feet definitely helps give that youthful look.</span>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747834970660728094.post-48793286283074914612010-11-03T19:41:00.007+00:002010-11-03T19:47:35.242+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KVFNAuTJ06c/Sob-qbf99hI/AAAAAAAAAzU/gfjKIlILTPw/s1600/IMG_9602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KVFNAuTJ06c/Sob-qbf99hI/AAAAAAAAAzU/gfjKIlILTPw/s400/IMG_9602.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">This is my brother, Chris. He died on November 2nd. He was a courteous, loving and caring man, a real gentleman.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">He was full of life and fun and jokes. He loved to talk and tell stories. He was a very practical person, very organised. We were very different in outlook but had a huge respect and love for each other. My big brother was always there for me and now he isn't. He leaves a big hole in my life.</span></span>Jeff Soanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092684790431839563noreply@blogger.com0