My Portfolio
By:Jonathan Ashton Eckert
Nantucket Bench
This maple hardwood bench was one of my first major projects completed. The design and layout of this bench were not my own, but were instead given to me by my teacher. The components making up the bench are maple, glue, finishing nails, golden oak stain, and three coats of polyurethane. Many machines were used to cut, resize, and assemble the bench including surface planer, wide belt sander, miter saw, table saw, band saw, disc sander, nail gun, joiner, router, and dado saw.
Wooden Cutting Boards
The cutting board above was made as a gift for a family friend. This was also self designed made with glue, finishing nails, walnut, red oak, cherry, mahogany, and finished with butcher block oil for food consumption. Finishing nails were required because a non water resistant glue was used creating a need for additional reinforcement. Many machines were used to cut, resize, and assemble the cutting board including surface planer, wide belt sander, miter saw, table saw, disc sander, nail gun, drill press, and router.
The cutting board below was one of my first wood projects I made. This was self designed using glue, walnut, red oak, and poplar, it would be finished with a coat of butcher block oil to make it food safe. Many machines were used to cut, resize, and assemble the cutting board including surface planer, miter saw, table saw, jig saw, disc sander, joiner, router, and drill press.
Striped Wooden Bowl
This bowl was self designed with use of food consumption in mind. The materials used in making the bowl were glue, walnut, cherry, and butcher block finish oil. Many machines were used to cut, resize, and assemble the bowl including surface planer, miter saw, table saw, band saw, disc sander, and lathe.
Wooden Painted Sword
A few Christmases ago I was gifted a bow and set of arrows for archery practice. The one thing I was missing however was a quiver to hold my arrows. Instead of going out and buying a quiver, I designed my own from scratch. Using some ideas I had seen from other quivers, I was able to construct my quiver using leather, brass tacks, oak, and a brass clamp. Many machines were used to cut, resize, and assemble the sword including surface planer, wide belt sander, miter saw, table saw, band saw, disc sander, oscillating spindle sander, joiner, router, and lathe.
Leather Quiver
After receiving a bow for Christmas one year, I soon realized I would need a quiver to store arrows in. Instead of going out and buying one I decided to make my own from scratch. To do this I took designs from previous quivers I had seen and made my own unique design from them. Materials used in the making of this quiver were leather, oak, brass tacks, glue, and brass clamp.
3-D Printed Jeep
While I would not consider myself an expert in this field, I have done some modeling in a computer graphics class. In class I modeled and 3-D printed this jeep. To do this my teacher gave me some physical parts from an example model and let me customize the dimensions I wanted. To digitally design this Jeep, I used Solid Works where I made all of the individual pieces. Upon completion the design file would be saved to a SD card to be 3-D printed from plastic.
Hylian Shield Ink Drawing
The Hylian Shield is an item in from one of my favorite video games series, "The Legend of Zelda". When asked to do a pen and ink drawing of a stationary object, I decided to use the Hylian Shield on my Link Amiibo as the basis for the drawing. The shield was first drawn out lightly in pencil where I then went over it in ink and shaded all of the areas. In order to add a splash of color to a black and white image, I lightly shaded the triangles in the middle yellow.
High School Perspective Drawing
While drawing is something I am new to and do not excel in, I have been working hard to improve on it for a good while now. The piece below was a perspective drawing of my school done on black paper with white charcoal. The blue highlight was done in colored pencil.
Pencil Dancers In Motion
As someone new to drawing, I am not afraid to admit that I am not very good at drawing other people. The figures drawn below were my first human drawing work I have completed. The subject of the piece was based off of images of dancers. This work was done with pencil and colored pencil.
