FANtasia

[Kepis]

This is something I've been playing with recently, I have to thank Sean Hellman for the inspiration to give this a go, these are made from Ash and some skanky old pine roofing battens that i had laying around after re felting the shed roof last year,, the small one is the Ash one.

At least i know that if im in a pinch for materials, all i have to do is run down to the Timber yard and get a bucket of offcuts and i can make some more in the absence of having other materials to hand

 

[Shewie]

Wow Mark those are stunning mate

Tutorial next time though eh ?

 

[Mesquite]

Those are amazing bits of work Kepis..

 

[Kepis]

Wow Mark those are stunning mate

Tutorial next time though eh ?

Sean is your man for that, he's the one who gave me the inspiration to try, he's a member here as well

 

[Kepis]

Thanks mate

 

[Tilia]

impressive, no idea how you did that

 

[v-ness]

Those look brilliant!
But what are they used for

Cheers
Ness

 

[ex member coconino]

Those look brilliant!
But what are they used for

They're like feather sticks, only fan-shaped. Should go up nicely!

(or you could fan your fire with one)

 

[Roy North]

FANtastic well done.

 

[Kepis]

Those look brilliant!
But what are they used for

Cheers
Ness

Just for looking at, got loads of em round here as decorative items, also pretty usefull for use as a fan in the warmer months

 

[Sean Hellman]

Looking good Kepis. All you need to do now is to carve a birds body before fanning out the feathers.

If you make the interlock bigger and deeper you will find that you can fit far more individual feathers into the fan. The interlock is the bit or groove near the top of the feathers. The aim is to rive or split the feathers under 1mm in thickness!

If anyone wants to find out a bit more have a look at my website or blog, I have some videos there. My web site is seanhellman.com

 

[Kepis]

cheers Sean and thanks for the info and the inspiration to try these in the first place, im hopefully picking up a load of Ash on Friday so this weekends task will be to make a bird.

Mark

 

[Neumo]

Thanks for sharing that. The video of Sean making them on his web site is inspirational. I like the idea of practicing the fan part of it on a block of wood, like you have done before going on to try a finished bird. I was surprised that you could get wood to bend like that without snapping, so may have to give that a go now that I have most of the tools.

 

[Kepis]

Cheers mate

You coming to the meet up in a few weeks Neumo?, if so I suppose we could make a few fans at there - just a thought.

 

[Whittler Kev]

Sean is your man for that, he's the one who gave me the inspiration to try, he's a member here as well

2nd that
He IS de Man (see youtube)
I went 140 miles just to see him make one