Chopsticks

[BHuij]

These are a pain to turn - they're so thin that they flex and vibrate like crazy. I have to go real slow, take stupidly light cuts with the skew, and support the piece with my non-tool hand to minimize chatter. And honestly I still end up doing the final shaping with 80 grit sandpaper. That said, very happy with how these came out, and excited to try them out with some sushi on my newly painted sushi plate.

Claro walnut, finished with mahoney oil and beeswax. I am about to try another set from bloodwood and try a little segmenting with acrylic accents.

 

[Sataro]

Very nice!

 

[Mortalis]

Tomaslav Tomsic turning a toothpick
There's a lot of technique he uses to turn light delicate pieces.

 

[leehljp]

Very NICE chop sticks. You are right, it is difficult keeping a wobble out of something so narrow.
BTW, Who is Lekku Asutori-?

 

[BHuij]

Heh - I don't speak a lick of Japanese, but I wanted to put 'Rick Astley' on the plate as a joke - it holds sushi rolls and Rick rolls! Guess Lekku Asutori is as close as Google could transliterate.

 

[leehljp]

Heh - I don't speak a lick of Japanese, but I wanted to put 'Rick Astley' on the plate as a joke - it holds sushi rolls and Rick rolls! Guess Lekku Asutori is as close as Google could transliterate.

That was good Japanese but it (Japanese Alphabet) sure changes the American English pronunciation! My family and I spent 26 years over there (Tokyo, Osaka and Toyota City). Enjoyed almost every minute of it - except for the language learning!

 

[BHuij]

Glad I didn't commit a super incorrect translation to the plate then I served a 2 year church mission in Russia and picked up the language while I was there. Learning languages is HARD. There's no way I would have been able to do it if I wasn't immersed for months on end with almost nobody around me who could speak English.

 

[howsitwork]

Nice result and certainly a new challenge

 

[Baba Dev]

Heh - I don't speak a lick of Japanese, but I wanted to put 'Rick Astley' on the plate as a joke - it holds sushi rolls and Rick rolls! Guess Lekku Asutori is as close as Google could transliterate.

I love this! The first character is actually Ri, and the characters would be Rikku Asutorii translated to romaji (romanized characters). I studied both Japanese and Chinese in grade school, and the conversion of latin languages gets funky with those translations. Awesome job with the chopsticks, good luck with the next!