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JAMES BOND FRETWORK
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to share this VERY special Birthday gift I received from my Brother-in-Law, Tony Kunz.
He’s been secretly working on this for months!!! At first, it appears to just be a drawing on wood under a frame but it’s hardly that at all. You can see by the steel 12-inch ruler under the first photo that it’s quite large.
Each one of the various actors to have played Bond was meticulously cut out of wood. This type of woodworking is called FRET work. In this the negative space is carefully cutout with a scroll saw.
The second set of photos taken at an angle better illustrates how this was made.
A plain black vinyl backing behind each of the portraits is the black that you see show through the missing spaces.
I think it’s amazing that someone can do this let alone achieve a likeness. Some of the parts are so thin that it’s hard to believe that he was able to do it without the wood cracking. The scroll saw blade he used was approximately the width of a human hair!!!
I was extremely surprised to have received this. He is a true Master woodworker and this shows you the amount of talent he has as well as the kindness to have spent such a looooong time to get this made for me.
Ed
I convinced my Brother-in-law to try making larger 8x10 versions of the ones he presented to me. Here is the first ones.....
He will be entertaining commissions.
Ed
If anyone has any questions I can be contacted directly at: [email protected]
Ed
Just wanted to share this VERY special Birthday gift I received from my Brother-in-Law, Tony Kunz.
He’s been secretly working on this for months!!! At first, it appears to just be a drawing on wood under a frame but it’s hardly that at all. You can see by the steel 12-inch ruler under the first photo that it’s quite large.
Each one of the various actors to have played Bond was meticulously cut out of wood. This type of woodworking is called FRET work. In this the negative space is carefully cutout with a scroll saw.
The second set of photos taken at an angle better illustrates how this was made.
A plain black vinyl backing behind each of the portraits is the black that you see show through the missing spaces.
I think it’s amazing that someone can do this let alone achieve a likeness. Some of the parts are so thin that it’s hard to believe that he was able to do it without the wood cracking. The scroll saw blade he used was approximately the width of a human hair!!!
I was extremely surprised to have received this. He is a true Master woodworker and this shows you the amount of talent he has as well as the kindness to have spent such a looooong time to get this made for me.
Ed
I convinced my Brother-in-law to try making larger 8x10 versions of the ones he presented to me. Here is the first ones.....
He will be entertaining commissions.
Ed
If anyone has any questions I can be contacted directly at: [email protected]
Ed
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