Two All Beef Patties on a Sesame Seed Bun
Bulletin From Muse: Two All Beef Patties . . . On A Sesame Seed Bun
For the first time since I got a lathe I couldn't come up with annihilation I wanted to plough. The Well had run dry - Inspiration Cake had set in.
I of my neighborhood kid muses decided "we" should plow a hamburger - an Oak Burger. And not simply the burger, just also the bun AND the metling cheese AND the pickles AND the tomato plant piece AND the onion rings AND a couple of pieces of bacon- oh - AND the lettuce - of course. The sesame seeds for the top we're notwithstanding negotiating.
As you lot may know, if yous show a kid a bowl or vase or whatever you lot've turned, they look at information technology - say something like "absurd" and they're done - critique over.
But show a child the hamburger bun you've just turned as the outset part of an idea THEY came up with - and you lot get a 15 minute analysis of Top of Bun to Bottom of Bun Proportions, suggestions for texturing the within confront of the 2 bun parts, ideas for getting the Toasted Bun Look - the list goes on and on.
If you turn them loose with the "cooked hamburger patty" y'all turned out of oak and that you spent an hour texturing - and some painters oil paint, a tooth castor and give them fifteen minutes - they'll hand y'all back a piece of wood that looks real enough to kick your salivary glands into high gear.
I've got the tomato piece done, including the curve of the love apple, and I figure if I dampen a slice of ribbon mahogany veneer, it'll warp and hopefullly distort plenty to await lettucey.
The metling cheese took some thinking, but I call up I've got one that'll pass The Muse'south inspection, though turning with foursquare edges to wait like the cheese was drooping was "interesting".
It'due south the onion rings that's are the adjacent "challenge", I've already figured out how I'll practise the two bacon strips - using tulip forest - carved not turned
I've probably seen, and if I see one I eat it, hamburgers - without ever actually thinking about all that goes into one - until now. Had I thought this one through the projection would probably not even take gotten off the ground - a phrase I think NASA came up with cause it doesn't make any sense in any other context. Well maybe it made sense to the Wright Brothers too.
So we've got"
Bun - top
Bun - bottom
hamburger patties
cheese slice
love apple piece
onion slice
pickles - 3
lettuce
two strips of salary
toothpick to hold things together?
That's thirteen parts to come up with a way of making - and that's without the paper plate for the Oak Burger to be presented upon.
And I've got to wonder.
Would I take ever come upwardly with this thought?
Maybe, but probably non.
Would I take thought virtually what would be involved?
Certainly.
Would I have dismissed it as non existence worth the effort?
Probably.
Will I disappoint a muse?
I sure promise not.
The wait on a kid collaborator'south face up when his or her idea becomes a reality, and he or she not just concieved of the idea, but worked on the components - priceless.
So hither'due south what I've got so far sort of clockwise from the "burger"
burger, pickels, top of bun, onion rings, tomato slice, melting cheese - on a walnut plate.
Still accept the lettuce to practice.
And here'due south the stacked parts
And if nosotros can find the colors - the look we're shooting for - washed with the wizardry of PhotoShop 5.5 (I haven't tried using Adobe Elements 6.0 for this blazon of thing - however)
OK - with a trip to a pretty big hobby shop (D&J Hobby in Campbell CA), a one-half an hour with their models painter - and almost $30 worth of minor jars and three spray cans of enamel, along with some really thick clear stop I already had - and a one-half day of painting and texturing and "charring" of the inside faces of the bun - I'm getting closer to something that looks like a double cheeseburger. Surprisingly, when I told the guy at the hobby store I demand "purple onion" purple, he pointed me to the racks of model enamel paints and said "It's chosen Napoleonic Purple and it'south in there somewhere." Damn if he wasn't right.
Still take to make the 2 bacon strips. Accept ane started out of tulip woods that has the reddish and whitish streaks like salary. With a coat of garnet shellac should come out shut plenty to fool the center - simply long enough.
Gauge I should grit off and polish up the claro walnut plate before taking pictures. Perchance I'll turn a maple "paper plate" as that would be more plumbing fixtures for this Off The Wall Piece.
I know you're probably wonderng about the lettuce. It'due south really a stale loquat leaf - but I'grand still working on a veneer leafage. For some weird reason, veneer, especially "ribbon figured" veneer volition pucker and bend and distort similar hell - when you DON'T want information technology to - and remain perfectly flat and acquit like the perfect niggling affections when y'all WANT it to deform. In the world of wood, veneer seems to exist the cute, all the same petulant, kid, a source of wonder and anaesthesia 1 moment and the spawn of a devil the adjacent.
I took this piece to my oldest's birthday barbecue. The ii 1/2 year old grand daughter, iv 1/2 year old grandson and a 6 yr old cousin played Build Your Ain Burger for about a half an hour - earlier two older cousins bagged it from them. They (sixteen and nineteen) played with it - 'til the 79 year one-time cracking grandmother said "It'southward MY plough." She in turn had to let her daughter have information technology, who and then had her husband insist on "MY plough" - 'til his brother-in-law took it from him and so he could play with it.
Folks played with this matter for pushing ii hours. And each person had his / her ain unique order of stacking things. I didn't know there were so many combinations. I figured the little ones would take fun playing with it but was surprised that The Adults go just as much of a kick out of Build-A-Burger.
When you were a child - somebody said "DON'T PLAY WITH YOUR Food." I think part of the appeal of this piece is that it gives you permission TO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD!
At present I COULD have stopped here. Simply of course THERE'S MORE ----->
Source: http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/Turning/Burger/TwoAllBeefPatties.html
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