{"id":947,"date":"2010-07-14T01:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=947"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:10:14","slug":"driftwood-8-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 8 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the delay &#8230; ;_;<\/p>\n<p>The reasons are that I have some kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/event.php?eid=134844446538537&amp;index=1\">&#8220;live drawing&#8221; performance<\/a> coming up on Friday that I&#8217;ve been required to rehearse for, besides the fact that it&#8217;s infernally hot. I have never before tried to draw comics in heat like this. Today, as I was inking, it was somewhat bearable for a change (just 25 degrees centigrade or so), but I still had to correct a quite extreme amount of things in this page, and it&#8217;s overall really sloppy and crappy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, over to hand tool pr0n: The little saw in panel 5 is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feinewerkzeuge.de\/kugihiki.htm\">kugihiki nokogiri<\/a>, a Japanese saw made <em>especially <\/em>for sawing off trunnels neatly. \u00a0It&#8217;s not really suitable for anything else, but for that one purpose they say it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>most excellent<\/em>. *drool*<\/p>\n<p>I recently found that I needed a saw (I&#8217;m building a small light table for a hand lettering job), so I \u00a0got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feinewerkzeuge.de\/kataba.htm\">kataba<\/a>, as they are small, lightweight and supposedly far superior to Western hand saws in the same price class. I totally underestimated how the blade of the kataba I got is specially designed for either sawing across or along the grain, so I got a cross-grain kataba, which proved to be truly amazing when sawing across the grain, and a total pain in the arse when sawing along the grain. :o) Most of the sawing I did was across the grain, anyway. And since the blades are interchangeable, it&#8217;s no problem to at some point get an extra blade for sawing along the grain &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the delay &#8230; ;_; The reasons are that I have some kind of &#8220;live drawing&#8221; performance coming up on Friday that I&#8217;ve been required to rehearse for, besides the fact that it&#8217;s infernally hot. I have never before tried to draw comics in heat like this. Today, as I was inking, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-8","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}