"Yesterday a friend yanked out a hairpin and brutally attacked me ninja style... "
Ok, ok, nothing quite that dramatic. She did yank the pin out, shove in before my face and demand to know if I could guide her to making it. It was a simple 2 pronged rosewood hairpin and like all hairpins it was thin and delicate.
Rosewood is a great choice, its dark brown grain looks superb and it is dense enough to take the strain of holding back falling tresses.
I didn't have rose wood, and I wasn't about to break out the ebony, so good old burma it was. Burma teak if well chosen has the color to rival rosewood (over small pieces) and is probably as dense.
Without further ado, I pulled out a bit that I had lying about (waste from the Basic woodworking class last month) and proceeded to make a blank in under 2 minutes.
The construction is simple enough if you can cut straight. I'm not going to get into it but I wanted to see just how delicate these furniture hands could take me.
I also felt like fooling around with carving hence the strange top. You cant see it in the image but its tear drop shaped in 3 dimensions, with the edges being nearly sharp.
What do you think, delicate enough?
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