New URL and New Creations

If you haven’t heard or noticed, since obtaining my own website address outside the Weebly network I have shortened it to “byBuck.com.”  If you are looking for classic car related items, you can enter www.byBuck.com/automobilia.  If you wish to go directly to this blog: www.byBuck.com/bucks-blog.  And so forth for each site page.
 
Since the Craft Fair in March, I have completed a couple of ornaments that I am particularly pleased with the way they turned out.  Both required the use of a lathe for the recreation of original components of an ornament that were missing on the pieces that I obtained.  For both I used native Texas mesquite because it is tight-grained, hard and finishes well
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The first is something that an attendee at the fair had specifically asked about:  a late 1940s Lincoln hood ornament.  This 1946 Lincoln ornament required the turning of a perfectly spherical 2” ball, then the carving of the ball to mate with the ornament.  Also needed was a short, thin, vertical piece to act as the leading edge of the wedge-shaped chrome wings which form a sort of vee. above the ball   And then a long, thin base to sit on – for this I used bodark wood for contrast.  All of that set onto a plinth of oak

The second is an ornament I have long admired by Nash.  In the late 1950s Nash merged with Rambler and together they rambled on together for another decade and finally folded in the mid-60s.  The 1956 Nash Rambler ornament is a wide chrome oval with a pair of spears that pierce the oval, both supporting it while each is mounted to the hood.  Again, I was able to obtain only the oval and had to turn matching spears, flatten them slightly top & bottom and mount them to a plinth.  All these pieces I made of mesquite