groping
some point we should light the way to the tulip house ...
Seen In daylight, it looks like this:
Fast it is ready, our first bamboo lamp. My lesson. Working with her has taught me that the bamboo is actually not wood. Wood can be beschnitzen easier. No, the statement is not really. Probably the Beschnitzen of bamboo is also quite easy, once I know its idiosyncrasies better. For wood white I forked branches, deposits, roots, since breaks around the wood. When it comes, however, bamboo cracks quickly when I carve vertically. He is a little brittle. Almost like elm. Vertical sashayed carving knife better. Since then I have to extra careful that there are no cracks.
edit I have the bamboo in green condition, I need less power than when it is already almost dry. This has the disadvantage that leaner spacers bend later on drying in any direction. The picture that comes out maybe not, but by bending, the right blade a little shifted to the inside. Three break points, all on the right side, almost on each other located, but not yet exactly one above the other, I have the hammer out of the hole structure caused. I'll stick with wood glue afterwards.
The light will be colored red. For this I must first grind a little. The skin is like a bamboo treated with wax or shellac surface, it is smooth and wasserabweusend, takes so little to color. Some mix of fine sand into the paint to achieve so that the color is not just dripping, but can be spread evenly. I'll try it first with roughening. A color I would like to use a mixture of linseed oil and pigments. Maybe I will Add the egg yolk with, so that the pigments better with the linseed oil mix. We'll see. The pigments I bought but not yet, but already selected. My choice has fallen on the "Urucum. A shrub-like plant that grows here in the Atlantic Forest and is used by the Indians to paint the body, and to keep away mosquitoes.
Here is a photo of Urucum (Bixa orellana
) that I have made near São Paulo ...
With our history it is home this week, unfortunately, did not go ahead. The Office of colonization has not yet summoned our request. Sigh. In addition, the rainy season started and changed the access to the property in a several decimetres deep mud road. We absolutely have to install a drainage or drainage channels. For a few hundred meters and very clayey, compacted soil is no fun task. However necessary.
I have finally managed to program the home page for a friend and ready to install, including database. If everything goes fine. The Seppl me spoil the soup but still quite nice. No "thank you", not "feeling it has come", no nothing. On the contrary, in the tone of an ancient ruler, he has demanded changes petty and large additions. First, I have given in, because the Courtesy of many people who live here on the coast, not so. Especially if they already have a little more money than the average, forget you ever fallen into the polite and rule. When, however, always arrived early morning calls from the Lord Ruler, I made my courtesy back and explained that I will take any calls because I namely at night on its site work and so late go to bed and generally do not one before that I should keep to his "waking hours". For I have mine, and if he wants something from me, he must abide by my waking hours. This has been sitting. After that it was only afternoon Calls. After the two-thousandth of Rulers call me last night but still cracked the collar, which meant that I've blocked a couple of applications on the site simple. He promptly called today, without saying "good day". Instead of "Excuse me, I would have got a question," he bleated into the phone, but now that I should change everything, because nothing more inputs. In a very polite tone, I explained to him that the reason is because I have blocked the sites and I would lift the blockades again only if he has learned to behave. Then I hung up. Since then, radio silence and me and my peace of mind it's damned good again.