{"id":117,"date":"2014-12-10T04:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2014-12-11T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:09:36","slug":"wooden-bow-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Bow-Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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fig. 1: A hasty tie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christmas party at work, and someone had the idea of all the guys wearing a bow tie on that day. \u00a0I only have two ties, and neither of them bows, so I figured I’d either stop at Goodwill before then for one, or come up with a solution of my own to this tie problem.<\/p>\n

Welp, the night before, I still have no bow tie. \u00a0So I got online and google “how to make a bow tie”. \u00a0I’ve got some fabric scraps around, and I could come up with something. \u00a0However, much to my delight, I see that there are some hipsters who have come up with the idea of making a tie out of wood. \u00a0Much easier for me to make a wood tie than a fabric tie.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t have an actual tie to work with, I need to find out what the dimensions of a bow tie are (fun fact: 4.5″ x 1.75″). \u00a0Sketched out \u00a0a bow-tie shape in Illustrator, then\u00a0overlaid\u00a0a stylized silhouette of Portland from Google image search. \u00a0Sent the pattern to my Silhouette, pulled a thin piece of oak ply out of the scrap bin, then cut the pattern out on the band saw.<\/p>\n

Rattle-can of black paint over the stencil, and then a light wash of wood stain. \u00a0I noticed that the wood stain started smearing the rattle-can paint, so I used that effect to have the city fade out at the bottom. \u00a0The edges of the ply are pretty\u00a0light, so I used\u00a0a sharpie around the outside edge. \u00a0Finish it off with a light spray of matte clear coat, and the hard part is done.<\/p>\n

Found a scrap of black paracord I haven’t found a use for yet, wrapped it around the middle, and then put some side-release buckles on the ends. \u00a0All done!<\/p>\n

Got plenty of compliments at work about the tie, and it did look pretty alright. \u00a0But with the party over, I don’t really have a good use for the tie. \u00a0I thought about just pitching it back into the scrap bin, but I found a better use for it: The Collar of Shame.<\/p>\n

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fig 2: One (1) disobedient cat experiencing everlasting shame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christmas party at work, and someone had the idea of all the guys wearing a bow tie on that day. \u00a0I only have two ties, and neither of them bows, so I figured I’d either stop at Goodwill before then for one, or come up with a solution of my own to this tie problem. … Continue reading Wooden Bow-Tie<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,3],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cameo","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}