Some projects are obvious. Others are simple puzzles. Then there are brain twisters. This one had me scratching my head. A happily-married couple had a pair of angels in a display on their headboard. The plaque on the display read: “Let not the sun go down on your anger.” Their daughter was getting married. Their wedding present to her was for me to create a tabletop display stand of kissing-rotating angels, with a plaque that had the same statement as their headboard angels. The parents bought the angels and gave them to me and said “It’s all yours!” I took on the project and said “thank you,” thinking what have I got myself into? My challenge? I could not see their headboard display as a guide, there were no photos, they wanted something original that would characterize the statement but differ from their headboard, and the display stand I created must have an animated aspect. Another one-of-a-kind project that found me. I should change the promotional inscription on my truck to read: Ron Renner...“I Solve Problems.” It has become one of my specialties.			Home HANDY LINKS All Projects On One Page About Me Business Card For You Email Me PROJECT INDEX...A-to-Z Albatross Altar Amboyna Turning Angels Ash Sphere Beds For My Boys Big Woody Bookcase Brass Balls Church Windows Dovetail Box Gold Dolphins Grandfather Clock Hope Chest Hope Chest Testimonial Jewelry Store Jewelry Store Testimonial Lacewood Bowl Lacewood Desk Mendocino Vessel Pipe Smoker's Table Plant Stand Pocket Watch Case Predator Rickshaw Rocking Chair Rocking Chair Frame Rolltop Desk Spalted Vase Stagecoach Chest Stopper & Vessel Telephone Stand Telephone Table Violin Case Walnut Vase X-ray Devices Ron Renner Geppetto's Woodworks Vancouver, Washington 360-606-2949 Website by ~ Neal Lubow
			ABOVE---The angels are in front of the block of Honduran Mahogany, which has an oval missing. That’s the finished stand you see on the table. Between the tape measure and the stand is a piece of curved black rubber...a bicycle tire tube that I fashioned into a mount for each angel. The mount makes them stable and means no metal will touch the porcelain, to preserve their value and protect them. The mounts (which I put inside the angels’ hollow base) are attached to a spinnable base. A phase you don’t see is the dummy phase. I created one of those to calibrate how close I could get the angels to barely “kiss” without breaking.
			ABOVE---In this angled view you can see the slots cut into the circles that are the mahogany cylinders. The slots allow me to adjust the distance of the angels to one another when they rotate. I can slide them forward and backward—a fine-tuning detail. The round lines between the cylinders and base is to allow for temperature variation when the pivoting bases rotate. The tolerance is small, but without it, they might get stuck (and then I’d be stuck).
			ABOVE---The workings of the spinning device. Down In the well of the base’s cut-out there are center buttons. These are rare earth magnets that allowed me to solve the problem of how to pivot the angels so they could swing to and fro, smoothly. In the front of the base there are machine screws sticking up from the center cylindrical cut-outs. The screws are adjustable up and down, so I could assure an exact “lip-fit” of the angels. The holes bored into the base of the well (on either side of the magnets) are to allow me to push up each of the the two cylinder angel bases with push pins, from underneath the display. I needed a way to access the cylindrical cut-outs and angels without damaging the work that I’d done while I was fine-tuning the solution.
			ABOVE---It turned out very nicely. The angels spin on the screw-magnet interface almost effortlessly and I’ve provided for any adjustments that might be required. Each angel is perhaps 3 inches tall. The Honduras Mahogany has Walnut accent lines.
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