Handy gadget

[No skills]

I'm sure this is as old as the hills..

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/94594

So simple but so handy, must make one - one day.

 

[Berncarpenter]

Very handy just the job for marking out for door latches ,it always takes me three or four goes at adjusting the marking gauge to get it bang on. Thanks for sharing No Skills i think i will knock one off these up before i get stuck back into work , the phone has started ringing already so not much play time left

Cheers Bern.

 

[adidat]

You can get a router jig that does a similar thing by putting the router bit in the center of the wood. Clever stuff!

Adidat

 

[Grahamshed]

You can get a router jig that does a similar thing by putting the router bit in the center of the wood. Clever stuff!
Adidat

Beat me to it.

 

[Berncarpenter]

Knocked one of these gadgets out this afternoon out of some reclaimed hardwood block flooring that one of my clients gave me. The client told me that the timber was greenhart but i dont think it is ,anyone have any ideas on what it is ?

Thanks to No Skills for planting the seed

Cheers Bern

 

[Harbo]

Not Greenheart - I made these about 30yrs ago from the same sort I think?
Cannot remember what it is - but will look it up - I'm sure I found it in my Wood book?

Found it - It's Afzelia


Rod

 

[paulm]

Brilliant Rod, made me chuckle, and lovely work Bern, looks really classy as well as useful.

No idea what wood it is though, sorry !

Cheers, Paul

 

[Berncarpenter]

Not Greenheart - I made these about 30yrs ago from the same sort I think?
Cannot remember what it is - but will look it up - I'm sure I found it in my Wood book?

Rod

Cute little warriors Rod they remind me of some biker mates of mine , helmets are different but they have the same beards boots and weapons #-o

Cheers Bern.

 

[Berncarpenter]

Brilliant Rod, made me chuckle, and lovely work Bern, looks really classy as well as useful.

No idea what wood it is though, sorry !

Cheers, Paul

Thanks Paul i think the timber may be Ekki looking at the Wood Database site.

Happy New year Cheers Bern

 

[No skills]

Looks good Bern. One useful post in 1500 aint so bad

Rod,

Those little Vikings are excellent.

 

[rafezetter]

You might have inadvertantly answered a riddle for me; can greenheart (wood species I've never heard of before) be olive green? I have some wood that I got as part of a salvaged old wood filing cabinet and when I cut into it it was olive coloured right through, never seen anything like it, but on the outside it's dark like walnut, oxidised maybe? Cuts really smoothly (or that could just be a feature of hardwoods that I'm not used to yet).

 

[No skills]

http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-ide ... reenheart/

 

[custard]

Found it - It's Afzelia

Whatever happened to Afzelia, there used to be loads of it around but I haven't seen any for ages, like Macrocarpa it seems to have disappeared from timber yards.