gregmcateer
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Nice stool and nice quilt stand 
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Not to everyone's taste, but it's different. A lamp. designed with a heavy narrow base to stand where space is restricted. Made from firewood (it's for me), the base piece is like lead. The knot is stuck in with two part filler. The bulb was chosen to avoid buying a shade - it works shape wise quite well - and is 2w.
Dice tower? Never seen one before!
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A few shots of kitchens we did in the later part of the year
Very nice!A few shots of kitchens we did in the later part of the year
Dr Al
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I had a couple of thin pieces of cherry that I wanted to rip in half so I made a tool to help me rip them accurately.
Here it is:
I guess you'd call it a kerfing saw or something like that. It's made out of oak, about 200 mm long and about 90 mm high; the spacers and clamp pieces are 60 mm high. I've made spacers in 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm and 8 mm thickness at the moment; I'll probably make some more in due course - they're very easy to make. The 8 mm one has more dramatically rounded edges than the others as I'll generally use that as the outer clamp piece when using thinner spacers and it makes it more comfortable in the hand having rounded edges.
The idea is that you fit a spacer about 1 mm thicker than the thickness of wood you want and then press the fence against the side of the wood while taking cuts all the way round the edge of the board. You then get a saw out and it's fairly easy to follow the pre-cut kerf.
Another view:
and another:
The flange-button head M5 screws you can see in this picture are held in place with 5-minute epoxy, so dismantling just involves the knurled brass knobs and no tools.
Finish is four coats of Shellac and one coat of paste wax. This was the first time I'd used Shellac. It isn't as nice to apply and doesn't look quite as good as the Tung Oil/White Spirit/Varnish mix recommended to me by @MikeG., but I love the fact the coats dry so quickly so I don't have to spend several days applying finish.
It all started with this saw blade, which I spotted on ebay for £10 (someone had bought the wrong blade for their saw). I don't have the saw but I saw a potential use:
I snapped off the tang and drilled four holes in it - I was a bit worried about how easy it would be to drill, but it was quite straightforward.
Here's what it looks like inside the saw:
Here's what the result looks like with a 9 mm thick bit of cherry and the 4 mm spacer (this was done as a test before I applied the finish or made the knurled brass knobs):
The saw then follows the cut easily:
The result:
Planed to 3 mm and looking good to me:
I think this saw is going to get a lot of use, which is really satisfying, especially since I started and finished making it (including the knurled knobs and all four coats of Shellac) all in one day.
Here it is:
I guess you'd call it a kerfing saw or something like that. It's made out of oak, about 200 mm long and about 90 mm high; the spacers and clamp pieces are 60 mm high. I've made spacers in 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm and 8 mm thickness at the moment; I'll probably make some more in due course - they're very easy to make. The 8 mm one has more dramatically rounded edges than the others as I'll generally use that as the outer clamp piece when using thinner spacers and it makes it more comfortable in the hand having rounded edges.
The idea is that you fit a spacer about 1 mm thicker than the thickness of wood you want and then press the fence against the side of the wood while taking cuts all the way round the edge of the board. You then get a saw out and it's fairly easy to follow the pre-cut kerf.
Another view:
and another:
The flange-button head M5 screws you can see in this picture are held in place with 5-minute epoxy, so dismantling just involves the knurled brass knobs and no tools.
Finish is four coats of Shellac and one coat of paste wax. This was the first time I'd used Shellac. It isn't as nice to apply and doesn't look quite as good as the Tung Oil/White Spirit/Varnish mix recommended to me by @MikeG., but I love the fact the coats dry so quickly so I don't have to spend several days applying finish.
It all started with this saw blade, which I spotted on ebay for £10 (someone had bought the wrong blade for their saw). I don't have the saw but I saw a potential use:
I snapped off the tang and drilled four holes in it - I was a bit worried about how easy it would be to drill, but it was quite straightforward.
Here's what it looks like inside the saw:
Here's what the result looks like with a 9 mm thick bit of cherry and the 4 mm spacer (this was done as a test before I applied the finish or made the knurled brass knobs):
The saw then follows the cut easily:
The result:
Planed to 3 mm and looking good to me:
I think this saw is going to get a lot of use, which is really satisfying, especially since I started and finished making it (including the knurled knobs and all four coats of Shellac) all in one day.
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Amazing, and great looking bit of kit!
billw
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That's such a great idea, would be brilliant for boxmaking.
I’ve been meaning to make something like this for ages. Very nice job and a very useful tool.
Chip shop
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That really is lovely work, but who wee'd themselves on the herring bone in the last pic?A few shots of kitchens we did in the later part of the year
Orraloon
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Nicely done. Would be very handy for box makers or those that dabble with luthiery.
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John
A lovely and well made tool. Would have come in handy for some bits I’ve had to cut recently.
Catch 22 with making the spacing pieces though? Did you not need a tool like that to make the spacers for the tool?
Dr Al
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Catch 22 with making the spacing pieces though? Did you not need a tool like that to make the spacers for the tool?
The advantage there was I had a lot of oak lying around, so I didn't mind being significantly more wasteful (for which read inaccurate) with the cutting when preparing the pieces. The tool comes into its own when trying to minimise the cut width, either to save material or to make sure the grain on the two pieces matches as closely as possible (for box making or whatever). I've got a lot of short offcuts of oak so I could be much less careful with that.
I guess if I was needing to be more careful with making the spacers, I could be wasteful for making the biggest one, then use that to make the next biggest one (1 mm smaller) and so on down to the smallest one.
Doug B
Shy Tot
Turned a couple a of new to me Delta pen kits from Taylor’s Mirfield, finished with acrylic lacque, one Brown Oak the other Rippled Sycamore
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A car park, I'm the one in the silly hat.
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Did you notice the slight difference in size (about 25thou) between the pairs of bushes? I didn't at first and wondered why I was getting a step at the business end. They are nice kits, though.
Doug B
Shy Tot
Yes @Phil Pascoe i always double check bushes relative to component sizes with callipers as in the dim distant past I’ve been caught out before, plus I’ve that many bushes these days even though I keep them in small component boxes there’s still a chance I’ll have mixed them up.
