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Valentines

For valentines day I sent Carmel a big package filled with amazing things, unfortunately it hasn't gotten to her yet because it takes forever to get anything there. So I've decided to give her a little preview of what she has to look forward too.

One of the things I decided to make Carmel involved the lathe that she got me for Christmas. It all started out with a rough blank of Redheart.

I then roughly carved it into a round dowel

Marked some cut off points

And started shaping

Trying my best to match both sides.

After I finished the shaping I started to sand before cutting the pieces loose

At this point I just kept cutting closer and closer until finally the piece just fell apart

I then just off the excess and gave it a quick sand and some oil and I came out with these

I saved one for myself and sent the other to Carmel. Now we have something that we can spin together even though we are both spinning on the opposite sides of the earth. Eventually they will spin together again.