Originally published on March 4, 2014
Disaster! Why me? I blame it on the cold weather or my not warming up the shop before applying the mirror as it cracked! You know what they say about breaking a mirror so I don’t know what the future of this piece will be but, so far, it’s not looking good.
I waited to the very last minute to add the mirror as I knew it would be the most important step to the piece. I think the reason it broke was because the heat from the epoxy going off and the coldness of the shop just didn’t cooperate with the glass. If you were in a 50 mile range of my shop you probably heard the scream at about 8:30 yesterday. I haven’t really decided on whether to try and remove and replace the mirror. In a way it kind of adds to the piece. Fishing out the broken pieces could easily destroy the mirror frame. Will have to think about it for a while.
Aside from broken glass, the piece really turned out well. I used trimmings from a paint brush and some horse hair to make the clippings. Sprinkled them on while the first coat of varnish was wet and then came back and sprayed on several additional coats to lock them in place. I did this on a bottle stopper I made quite a while back and it worked out pretty good so doing it on a larger scale was fun.
Anyway, I hope you like him…even with his broken mirror. Comments welcome.
Ha, that probably fits the guy, one look at that face of should break the mirror 😭
I read in one of your posts where you commented on Christmas, I’ll tell you one I have always wanted to do, it’s the cowboy Santa dressed in his red flannel long John’s with trap. Door buttoned standing with his horse and a big bag of gifts with a tag hanging out with a name instrived on for someone special.