New video.. Making up small panels without any cramps

[scrimper]

My latest video filmed this morning.
this one shows a way of making up small panels for fretwork/woodwork if you don't have any clamps at hand.

https://youtu.be/sV9xjbO_Z-s

Hope it is of some interest to someone.

 

[martinka]

Great video, John, I love your presentation style. Do you take requests? How about video of how you prepared the boards before you had a table saw and planer/thicknesser? Preparation is the thing that puts me off a lot of the time.

 

[donwatson]

Another spot on video John. Thanks for showing.

 

[scrimper]

How about video of how you prepared the boards before you had a table saw and planer/thicknesser? Preparation is the thing that puts me off a lot of the time.

OMG don't remind me, in my early fretworking days I used old tea chests for the plywood and those those lovely orange boxes we used to be able to get off the grocers shops.
Many of the younger members will probably not know what either an orange box or a tea chest is! :shock:

 

[martinka]

How about video of how you prepared the boards before you had a table saw and planer/thicknesser? Preparation is the thing that puts me off a lot of the time.

OMG don't remind me, in my early fretworking days I used old tea chests for the plywood and those those lovely orange boxes we used to be able to get off the grocers shops.
Many of the younger members will probably not know what either an orange box or a tea chest is! :shock:

I can just imagine you gluing pieces of old tea chest together to get thicker ply.

 

[Claymore]

what's a grocers shop John? lol aye only kidding but as a mere youngster at 21 (ok we can all dream) always wondered about tea chest and did they really fill them up with tea?
Regarding recycling I was recently offered a load of parquet floor pieces (enough to do our home) and then they said "your for £500 " lol i nearly died I said I'd want them fitting and a fortnights cruise for that........ apparently they paid a local company £4800 to do their lounge and hallway..... in a small bungalow. Its nice stuff but abit overkill for walking on.
Now I'm waiting for your next video

Cheers
Brian

 

[AES]

Thanks for the videos scrimper (the 3 in total that I've only just got around to watching). Really well explained, and the next best thing to having an experienced mate just around the corner and sitting in with him for a while - a great way to learn.

A bit of thread drift - one of the bits of calendar that you cut up to stop the glue sticking to the clamping bars looked like a Playboy or Pirelli calendar!

And for Brian (Claymore), yes I think they actually did have tea in tea chests. As a kid when moving house, the removal firm delivered empty tea chests for packing china crocs, etc in before the actual move day. Looking inside there were always a few grains of loose tea leaves skulling around, and also, the insides were lined with a thin layer of tissue paper covered with "silver paper" (which I suppose must have been very thin ali).

Great videos scrimper, thanks again.

AES

 

[scrimper]

Thanks for the kind comments.
Lol the bit's of calendar I used are actually my wife's old German Shepherd calendar she binned, and being a scrimper found a good use for them.

Regarding tea chests, my late dad was a barrack warden at an RAF base and he had a plentiful supply of tea chests which he used for his fretwork in the 1950's and 60's. they were made with fairly decent plywood.

 

[AES]

QUOTE: ...... the bit's of calendar I used are actually my wife's old German Shepherd calendar ....... UNQUOTE:

LOL, you know the rule here scrimper "no pix = we don't believe it" :lol:

When I saw tea chests as a kid I think I was too young to notice if the ply was good or not. But I do remember the lovely tea smell when you stuck your head inside them.

AES