I have also dabbled in a little wood work this last couple of months. I made 4 lucets, a medieval tool for making cord, If you are familiar with making rats tails where you use 4 prongs to make a hollow cord. This is the same thing except with two prongs.
Here are the four lucets two of which are the same. The swan I did two of I also have a design for a dog and a dragon that I haven't yet finished
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These two photos show the swan heads. this is where you work your thread
in a figure of eight type pattern in to a cord which you thread through the hole in the bowl of the tool.
The wood I used for the lucets is rimu. I used a pyrography tool to add more detail to the carved heads and finished the tools with danish oil.
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| Close up of the Horse heads |
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| Whole tool |
I will post photos of the Dragon and dog heads as I finish them.
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| Close up of the pyrography on the bowl of the tool |
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| Whole tool |
These tools fit neatly in the palm of the hand and are turned as you work the thread around to create a cord.
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