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After starting the design for this one, I wanted to go bigger than I have before. I printed the knot out on one large piece of paper so the alignment wouldn’t be dependent on my ability to tape tiled sheets of paper together.
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Then I needed a giant hexagon for it to go on. After planing some boards down and gluing them up, I made a giant rectangle and cut the ends off at angles.
I really do love it when I get to use a circular saw to make something that counts as fine art.
This is one of those stages where I think, “I mean, it looks pretty cool. Maybe I could just stop here.” But, no.
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Actually before I got to this point, I practiced using the same 1/8″ copper strip I used for my tercet chain knot. The technique I used on that piece was hammering a modified X-acto blade to make the grooves. It took forever, so I thought I might be able to just sort of cut it into a softer wood just using the knife without hammering. This was a terrible idea because the wood I used had a really open grain and my design was mostly curves. Utter disaster. Laughably so.
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That’s when I completely changed everything, working much larger and using a design with only straight lines. Still not wanting to take an actual year to cut all those little lines, I further simplified the design. I also got my hands on a cute little router base for my Dremel tool. Finally, I used wire instead of strips.
Matching the depth of cut to the thickness of the wire was a little tedious. Each line took several passes because the bit was so tiny.
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And now everything was set up to actually being really working. Hammering the wire in really is so satisfying. Unless you mess it up, in which case it’s terrifying.
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