Jewlery Box - Koa and Walnut

This is a Jewelry Box I made as a present for my wife.

I've Been making Jewelry for her for about 10 years and she needed a place for all of it.

It is made of English and Black Walnut, Koa, Mahogany, Cedar and Bubinga,

The English Walnut (left) has great curl to it and the Koa (right) is curly as well.

Construction pictures after the link below:

Coloring Contest

Ellensburg Blue Agate Pendants in Sterling

Two pendants in sterling - very high quality stones found and cut by a friend.

Blue and Silver just go together so well.

One has a window in the back to see the character of the stone, the other has fine silver on the back.

This picture shows the color of the stones most accurately.  Really good stones!

Construction and planning pictures

This one is faceted, cut like and emerald

Always remember to smile!

Wajs' - Automatic

Here is a watch from my collection.

This one is an Ollech & Wajs from the late 1990s.  This is a 7750 based watch.

I have placed an Omega 1150 movement in the case.  Some would say that this is a Franken-Watch, but the 7750 is the same, just a rotor that reads "Wajs" would be the only difference. This one keeps excellent time. 

I need to go back in and straight the sweep hand.

Omega Rotor.

To see more of my collection, click here:  watches

JV Monster - Digital Art from Sketch

 

Potted Flowers - Meeting Notes

These are pictures I drew while sitting through long meetings.  

Basically I feel like a potted flower, stuck....  in a meeting.

They are all named after the meeting I was in.

Services and Activities Funding Hearings

Gallery One Board Retreat

Finance Committee Meeting

Business and Financial Affairs Spring Retreat

Lodge Officer's Leadership Training

Dining Staff Mediation

Board of Trustee's Meeting

Student Union Bond Refinance

Housing and Dining Long-term Plan

Budget, Accounting and Reporting Group Meeting - This was my hotel room door

Oracle Software Meeting

Meeting Was Too Short to Finish!

Lego Cuckoo Clock

 

This is a project I made for the Gallery One resident artist's show in the fall of 2017.

It is based on the EV3 robotics platform.  The bird comes out about half way through the 2 minute video.

You can see the EV3 in the photo below:

The Brains - EV3 Lego Robotics

How the Clock Works

Views inside

How the Chicken Works

Construction Pictures Below:

 Planning and arranging parts.

My Drawing as a 6 year old - and my Grandpa's 1942 drawing

I got this back recently.  It was a picture that I drew while in kindergarten and my mom mailed it to my uncle.  He saved it for some reason, which is kinda cool.

Around the same time I found a picture that my grandfather drew while he was in training for his role in WWII

The funny part is that I can still remember getting really frustrated because I couldn't get Mickey's left ear (on the right here) on his head correctly.  That was about 43 years ago and it came right back to me.  Stupid ear.  Stupid perspective.

These are drawings of how a gasoline motor works.  I think they are really pretty darn good.