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Making a ZigZag wall piece
January 25, 2016
After having found the perfect piece of Ponderosa pine in the firewood pile, this is how I start a Zigzag wall piece. With an axe working my way in to a square piece of wood.
With my japanese precision saw I start cutting out the first triangle.
This wood has such a beautiful color. The heartwood in the middle is a nice pinkish color while the sapwood has this darker blue gray tone. This blue gray color comes from blue stain fungus. It's really beautiful and will not decay, now that I have taken it out of the rain to dry properly. The wood comes from a dead tree, and sometimes one can be lucky to find the wood when it has exactly this color. Not to much and not to little.
After having shaped the wood into a ZigZag wall relief by cutting from both sides, and sanded it smooth and nice, I let it absorb lots and lots of linseed oil. That will prevent it from drying to fast and cracking.
Close to finished ZigZag piece.
Making another Ponderosa Pine wood ZigZag relief. This one is made with heart wood only, no sapwood.
Working with my amazing new japanese saw.