I Made This

Ebony Looking Glass

This past weekend my family and I celebrated my mom's birthday and I decided to make her something. I decided to make something special seeing how it was her 97th birthday. I came up with a new design based off of my looking glasses but instead of having a metal backing it's a solid wood frame.

I took pictures at most steps while I was making it.

Here is the rough blank of ebony that I started out with. Kind of looks like a brownie.

I then roughly drew out the shape and drilled a center hole before I sawed the piece in half.

Once it was cut in half I used the hole I drilled earlier as my guide when carving out the cavity for the lens. So now when I put the two pieces back together the wood grains should line up close together.

After the piece was glued and clamped together I redrew the design for the pendant.

Then I roughly cut it out.

And then started to shape it.

And then after sanding, sanding, sanding, and then sanding it some more I started to get this.

And the final result was this. I drilled a hole through the top and hung it with a sterling chain.

Here's looking through the looking glass.

And looking closely you can see the seam where the two pieces of wood were glued together.

This was a fun little piece to put together. You may even see some pieces like this in my Etsy shop in the not to distant future.