Yesterday I splurged out on an early Christmas prezzie for Nicola. She is always so good at bargain hunting and spending pennies, not pounds, so when she mentioned that she really wanted a Radley Messenger bag, but could not justify it, I told her to just get the bag...... she still searched the web, Ebay etc to find the best price.
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In the end we went to Blue Water, to the Radley shop and got her a different over the shoulder bag to what she had planned, but it does not come with the Radley dog tassle (Your girls, wives n women will know) so I decided that I would make her one in wood.
One very happy woman.
Started by Googling the shape of the dog and drawing one on paper...... then cutting it out with scissors.
Next up, found some wood, cut a sliver off it.
Followed by copying the design onto the wood.
Then onto the bandsaw, and again I realized, wood is unforgiving, with metal you can weld in some metal, with wood, if it is gone, then its gone.
Cut out the shape.
One dog cut out..... next up, hand sand and shaping.
Lastly a leash and collar made up from an old neclace out of my spares box.
I guess the most important thing to mention is that Nicola called me a "Clever Bear"
Looking forward to winter kicking in so that I can start working the wood again.