Todays little project!

[Chrispy]

Well now the 12mm ply has arrived a bit more pressing, red laminate one side only I like to use Cascamite for this.

left over night and fresh out of the press this morning

Then on with notching this lot

With this jig and the over head pin router, I had a small brainwave here, I used to flush off the two reinforcing dowels first the rout the slot but realized with a small alteration to my jig I could do both operations at the same time

That's that bit done

Still plenty to do though, hope your not getting bored, there's a lot of that to do later!

 

[Monkey Mark]

Giant wooded mechano set!

 

[Chrispy]

don't know what it is yet, but I hope you got paid up front ;-)

Not sure how to break this to you griggs but your paying for it, well as long as your a UK tax payer that is.

 

[griggs]

don't know what it is yet, but I hope you got paid up front ;-)

Not sure how to break this to you griggs but your paying for it, well as long as your a UK tax payer that is.

Local authority commissioned, It's bound to be a waste of money then :wink:

I am intrigued though. I assume you Have bought the dowels in?


Having just re read that, please take the joking humour on board

 

[devonwoody]

Still no knots

 

[Water-Mark]

Bunk beds for the new MP accommodation as they cant be trusted with housing expenses?
Though more likely for the camp in Calis.

 

[Chrispy]

I am intrigued though. I assume you Have bought the dowels in?


No griggs I have machined them all (and there's more to do yet) all odd sizes 15mm 25mm 32mm 44mm and 100mm all in Tulip wood except the 15mm which is Beech.

And for once this may not be a total waste of our money!

 

[Chrispy]

Still no knots

Sorry DW I will try harder.

 

[griggs]

How do you go about machining that volume of dowels and keeping them all the same?

Thanks

 

[devonwoody]

New immigration fence ordered by Mr. Cameron.

 

[Chrispy]

Just for you DW a small scrapbook of knots.

This one went in the bin.

And this is this mornings progress at glueing up.

griggs to make nice round dowels I like to machine the stock up square first and then spindle mould the corners off one at a time.
I used to do this with half round cutters and run them in just two goes but the top and bottom of the knives are mainly scraping and blunt very quickly and spoil the cut so now I use a radius cutter and cant the spindle over to 45d rather than a round over at 90d if you see what I mean.

 

[devonwoody]

I'm back, so what timber are you using? It seems to have no colour variation.

 

[Chrispy]

I'm back, so what timber are you using? It seems to have no colour variation.

It's all Tulip wood or to be more precise North American Yellow Poplar and of coarse Birch plywood

 

[Chrispy]

First off a picture for griggs I found while having a tidy up a test piece from setting up the spindle moulder for the 32mm dowel, kind of shows how it goes.

Anyway back to today, a bit of gluing up of some of yesterdays production.

And then on to a different part of the project using 9mm birch plywood, some square holes cut on the router using a template.

a look at the underside of the jig.

Then some round holes 26mm on the pillar drill

Followed by rebates on the router again.

I hope to glue this lot up later today.

 

[Bm101]

Have to say I'm very intrigued by this.

 

[griggs]

Thanks for the piccy Chris, makes perfect sense seeing that. What sort of length of timber are you running through? You have certainly got a good few hours invested in it, still haven't a clue what it is yet

Your workshop seems to be fairly industrial, is that an overhead router your using in the latest pics?

Thanks

 

[Fatboy]

Bespoke adjustable desk/table design?

 

[Chrispy]

You know what, I'm really surprised that no one has got this yet, I've been making these for at least 13 years OK not many per year but neither was I the first to make them.

 

[AndyT]

I'm really enjoying this, and I'm entirely baffled by it.

What do we know so far?

- Chris has been making them for years and was not the first so it's presumably not his design.
- We've only seen one size of dowel and two sizes of holes but they run from 15mm through to 100mm.
- It's nicely finished as if it was going to be on show.
- The long notched pieces have cross dowels to reinforce the ends, implying that the notches will hook over suitably sized dowels, suggesting that all the bits will fit to together to make something big.
- It all looks like something which could be easily assembled without tools, so maybe it's for temporary use in a one-off event and then gets stored away.
- It's public sector funded.
- Chris is not far from Oxford.

Could it be some sort of demountable staging kit? Used for May Balls, graduations or some other sort of big, smart shindig at the university?

 

[Fatboy]

I'm really enjoying this, and I'm entirely baffled by it.

What do we know so far?

- Chris has been making them for years and was not the first so it's presumably not his design.
- We've only seen one size of dowel and two sizes of holes but they run from 15mm through to 100mm.
- It's nicely finished as if it was going to be on show.
- The long notched pieces have cross dowels to reinforce the ends, implying that the notches will hook over suitably sized dowels, suggesting that all the bits will fit to together to make something big.
- It all looks like something which could be easily assembled without tools, so maybe it's for temporary use in a one-off event and then gets stored away.
- It's public sector funded.
- Chris is not far from Oxford.

Could it be some sort of demountable staging kit? Used for May Balls, graduations or some other sort of big, smart shindig at the university?

And the large dowels are table legs according to Chris's website (I know, its cheating!)