What are you working on currently?

Dave!

Hey folks,

Not sure if there's a thread for this already, but direct me to it if there is!

Thought it'd be good to share what we're working on currently and our progress, etc.

After all sorts of problems I've completed the build of a BBQ side table for my friend. Gonna finish it during the week and then get rid of it! The frame ended up a bit twisted which has meant I had to hack the sh*te out of the legs to get them even. Just hoping my friend's patio is flat, or we'll have to stick a few beer mats under it! Got quite acquainted with my new circular saw today, wasn't as intuitive as I assumed to get a clean straight cut with it, but I'm quite comfortable with it now!

https://twitter.com/davemcginn_ie/status/772535698939383813

Next project is a quite narrow hall table for my sister's house. Been looking forward to starting on this one! Was browsing Pinterest the last few days for ideas. Bought the timber today, have a good idea how I'll do it.

magicbastarder

eh... tidying the shed.

rich.d.berry

I'm making some Christmas gifts. Yeah, I know it's early, but there's a lot to do. I'm making a chisel and mallet gift set in a hardwood carry case for the two sons-in-law. I'm replacing the plastic handles on the chisels with wooden ones (not sure of the wood I'll be using yet) and making the mallets using beech for the heads and white oak for the handles. I have re-sawn a nice piece of elm for the box sides and have managed to get three boards out of it. some figured maple for the tops (still to be re-sawn) should give a nice contrast to the elm.

I'm not sure what to do for the daughters yet, but between the four projects I'll be kept out of mischief for a couple of months at least.

Gryzor

Making this coffee table from white oak. Source material is rough sawn 1x6 boards, and it is pretty rough in places! Handtools only for me at the moment, so it's slow going dimensioning everything, but it's coming out ok so far.

mayo.mick

magicbastarder wrote: »

eh... tidying the shed.

Same here, getting ready to re roof my workshop too. Been a few years away from my woodturning and workshop (through illness) hoping to get back doing a bit

Sparks

Just finished lining the shed with OSB, painting it and fitting LED T8 lights. Have to finish wiring it up still for sockets and the consumer unit and the power line
back to the house (not on a seperate circuit, the biggest draw it's ever going to see is a router). Need to paint the outside as well.






Almost done with building my workbench (which has dragged on thanks to weather and other things eating up spare time). All joints cut, just making drawbore
pegs at the moment. Hoping to get it into the shed before the weather closes in for winter.







And just finished knocking together a small sharpening station with diamond plates.

fergal.b

The total refit and adapted 34 foot cruiser http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057583016 putting in mahogany double doors to open up the back.

RobAMerc

built a book/tv case and some built in units. the bit in the corner will eventually be a seat with more book shelves over it, similar to the one over the telly

at the moment it houses a lot of toys !

andy125

Just finished as cheval mirror with jewelry storage, must have been at it over a month but got there in the end,

She's happy, i'm happy

Bonzo Delaney

andy125 wrote: »

Just finished as cheval mirror with jewelry storage, must have been at it over a month but got there in the end,

She's happy, i'm happy

Happy wife ... happy life.
Looks tasty nice work

Sparks

Glued up and drawbored all the undercarriage for the workbench, then the next day trimmed everything flush, fitted the face vice (a record 53A which is a monster of a thing that damn near doesn't fit in the bench because the bench is almost not wide enough), fitted the planing stop, fitted the aprons and glued them up. Curing away under a tarp as we speak, and should only need one more dry day to finish. Have to flatten the top and cut the mortice for the end vice, which will be easier outside; and then I can move it to its final resting place in the shed and do all the little bits like fitting the front face of the face vice, making a jaw for that, fitting the inset vice and drowning the whole thing in BLO and turps.

rich.d.berry

That looks very good and very solid. Was it necessary to glue it or could the drawbores have been sufficient? I've a workbench in the pipeline but I want it to be able to be disassembled if ever I need to move it. I'm not sure if it's practical for a workbench though.

Sparks

I've not heard of anyone using drawbores without glue before - I don't think it'd work in construction grade timber, too much tension on the tenon and you'd be in danger of either snapping the peg, or - and more likely in this godawful cruddy whitewood - breaking the tenon with the peg. So the tenons are all glued up (as well as the benchtop and aprons which are laminated from 2x4s). Used titebond II throughout, it's not coming apart anytime soon.

Honestly, I was considering making a knock-down version of it when I started, but while something like the morovian design is very very suited to a knock-down build, the english and ruobo designs aren't as easy. Paul Seller's design of the english bench (just youtube, it's probably the most popular workbench video on there) is a knock-down one, but I wanted the flush front face of the bench that you get with the roubo so I made a mongrel out of his design, Richard McGuire's and the Stumpy Nubs Roubo design. Half of me is surprised it hasn't fallen apart yet.

I will say this - if I was starting over, I would not do it like this. I'd go to Quinns, buy some 3-inch thick red deal planks and those for the top and the legs, and be done in a weekend (and for about the same price really), and if I was putting on aprons and trying for the flush front face, I'd just add another board to the front legs below the apron instead of cutting that weird joint on the front legs.

Yelnahs

Just finished a very cheesy red 'love shelf' with back-lit LEDs, it is similar to this:

pakman

My attempt at reusing some pallets to spruce up that grey wall you can see which is at the back of my garden.

Yelnahs

Very nice^^^ We bit the bullet this summer and painted our grey cinder block wall, took forever but made a huge difference

Sparks

...and finished. Build log.

Sparks

Found that if I tried to plane on the bench in its current location (up against the side wall of the shed), I'd run the #7 straight into the back wall of the shed. Way too close. $DAYJOB gives time off in lieu if you get called out-of-hours when on call and I got called at 0300 one day last week for three hours work, and then after work that day, got called again at 2300 for more work, and there was some time on the weekend too, so I get today off.
So, out to shed, pull everything out including spare tyres (don't ask) and a tumble drier (don't ask), moved the bench against the back wall so it had two feet between either end and the side walls. Knocked up a quick shelf for under the bench, and finished the last two panels of soundproofing (echo absorbers? still don't have a word for it) and moved everything back into the shed.



I really need to build that 8x4x2' shed for the lawnmower and patio furniture and garden tools and stuff, just to get more room in the shed for proper stuff.

Then I got the 8' boards that weren't fitting in the shed properly and just roughly broke them down (these are the ash, walnut and poplar boards for the sidecar cot project I'm trying to get done for xmas).







15 minutes work, stretched to an hour by sitting staring at the plans in my notebook trying to figure out how long I needed the rough-cut planks to be to not pineapple my design irreparably. I need to learn to work faster
But at least it's all tucked away in the shed relatively tidily now, and I can now work in there even when it's raining (instead of having to stack 8' boards outside in the rain which I didn't want to do really).
Need to fit the new stronger hinges and hasp on the door now (the ones there now wouldn't give me a lot of confidence about keeping opportunistic burglars out) and then I can start moving tools from boxes in the kitchen into the shed and getting on with things.

Sparks

Reground the #4½ from 25 degrees to 40 degrees. That was a hell of a lot easier with the bench to clamp the bench grinder and sharpening stations into.

kadman

Most recent woodwork topic for me, were these Yew hollow forms.
About 10 inches high by 5 inches diameter.

Sparks

Damn, but that's pretty.
I'm busily trying to resaw an 8x1 ash board with a ryoba at the moment. If I can get two 3/8s boards out of it, I'll be happy. The ryoba (even the giant one I got) does not feel like its the best tool for this job. I need to get out my S&J and Diston saws today and resharpen them.

magicbastarder

it's hollowing that deep which i can never seem to do. too much chatter/vibration with the gouge extended that far over the rest. maybe i just need heavier gouges.

kadman

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's hollowing that deep which i can never seem to do. too much chatter/vibration with the gouge extended that far over the rest. maybe i just need heavier gouges.

I made up special deep hollowing jigs and tools to do this.
Strong gouges wont do. You will have to make special heavy long length
hollowing tools.

My deep hollowing tool is 5 feet long, and probably weighs 25+ lbs.
Along with steady jigs to run on the hollow form.

If you are ever in the area, you are welcome to call in.
Kettle is always on

These items were never collected at all, and have recently taken up residence in
the sitting room

magicbastarder

kadman wrote: »

If you are ever in the area, you are welcome to call in.
Kettle is always on

much appreciated, but i'd like to hone my talents a bit more before embarrassing myself in front of someone else!

kadman

magicbastarder wrote: »

much appreciated, but i'd like to hone my talents a bit more before embarrassing myself in front of someone else!

Call in for a chat, and a look at what I made for the tools.
Not work related at all. Might be something that helps you out.
Deep hollow forms are a new thing for me too, I,m just venturing
out on it.

If i can help at all, let me know. I,m in the midlands .

delaney001

Friend gave me a block of wood so turned this yesterday. Not sure of the species? Anyone familiar.

Dave!

I finally got around to staining my outdoor table today. Also stuck a couple of horizontal pieces between the legs to stabilise it. Turned out pretty nice, happy with it given all the problems I had to overcome with it!



Also put a stain on a narrow hall table that I had built for my sister. Happy enough with that too.

Got rid of both pieces today, so there's a bit more room to move in the shed now! Onto the next project... not sure what that will be yet

Dave!

Think I'm gonna do a nest of tables for my next project... Something like this would be quite cool!

Sparks

My next project...

kadman

delaney001 wrote: »

Friend gave me a block of wood so turned this yesterday. Not sure of the species? Anyone familiar.

Larger image wont load for me, but it looks like ash from the thumbnail.

Sparks

Well... that turned out to look a wee bit odd...

woodturner

kadman wrote: »

Most recent woodwork topic for me, were these Yew hollow forms.
About 10 inches high by 5 inches diameter

Wow they look great Tim. I take it you got sorted with a chuck to suit your lathe?

kadman

woodturner wrote: »

Wow they look great Tim. I take it you got sorted with a chuck to suit your lathe?

Chuck never happened, as i had two or three multijaw lathe chucks.

So a bit of ingenuity and re tapping chuck mounting back plates,
and job done.

Yeah , they are not bad at all, but yew is hard to beat really, its a
class timber.

delaney001

Roughing turning before putting it into the kiln.

Dave!

Finished this little table today, really happy with it! Was just doing it for the laugh, but it's actually the perfect size for next to my bed, I have somewhere to leave my phone and laptop now instead of the floor





I was originally intending on doing a fancy nest of tables, but I needed more wood than I had thought, so said I'll just do the one instead and a simpler design.

I had also attempted a box joint with the legs flush to the sides, but made a hames of it so it's just screwed. Next project I have to use some joinery!

Sparks

Finished the first white coat and the two fiddly-bits willow-colour coat on the shed:



And got the last of the slats for the current project roughed out:



This week will see a lot of planing to thickness in a thicknessing jig...

Gryzor

Nice jig, how wide is the track on it? Will the place ride the rails parallel or will you have to skew it across the rails.

I made a smaller one for my no5 a while back, worked a treat. Much smaller pieces than you're dealing with though!!

Sparks

Ah, it's larger in the photo than real life
It's just wide enough for my #5½ plane + ¼" so it'll ride parallel readily enough. The slats are mostly around 11-12mm thick and they're being planed down to ⅜" (so about 9.5mm) thick each, and they're only around 1¾" wide. The real pain was the rough-cutting because resawing 8x1 ash boards by hand is not as much fun as it sounds.

Donal94

Building a playhouse for my son made some windows today.

Sparks

Finished my "rustic" cheese press.

It's not exactly fine furniture, but to be fair, it was a pair of 2x4 offcuts and a length of threaded rod last Thursday, so I think it's okay for a cack-handed amateur.

raspberrypi67

I'm working on a Fender Stratocaster for my son. Its nearly finished. I'll have to post a photo soon if anyone
is interested....

raspberrypi67

Here is I piece of wood I had to have and made this table
from it, I love the wood colours ....

delaney001

raspberrypi67 wrote: »

Here is I piece of wood I had to have and made this table
from it, I love the wood colours ....

Lovely stuff.
How are the legs joined?

raspberrypi67

delaney001 wrote: »

Lovely stuff.
How are the legs joined?

Thanks. Its a tennon join into the table. Simple enough..

Sparks

Simple maybe, but beautiful work...

raspberrypi67

Here is something else I made during the summer. I love lights from Veneer and always
looking for different ideas, well, here is something I came up with , I had shells in my head
while thinging this one up...

raspberrypi67

Currently here is how my Stratocaster looks like, all the hard work and calculations are
done, phew! Nearly done ....

And yes, my shed is a mess...lol, my wife never comes in !!!!

The Master

raspberrypi67 wrote: »

Currently here is how my Stratocaster looks like, all the hard work and calculations are
done, phew! Nearly done ....

And yes, my shed is a mess...lol, my wife never comes in !!!!

Awesome stuff mate,

What wood do you use for the body and neck?

raspberrypi67

The Master wrote: »

Awesome stuff mate,

What wood do you use for the body and neck?

Thanks a lot. Well, its a bit of a mixture. The Neck is Maple. The body is actually 3 pieces of Iroko that I had around in the shed for 12 years plus...well dried out for sure! The pick board I made from solid Walnut I had and just sliced it with the bandsaw.
If anyone is into the guitar , give me a shout, I'd be interested to talk..

Dave!

Putting the rest of us to shame!

magicbastarder

raspberrypi67 wrote: »

If anyone is into the guitar , give me a shout, I'd be interested to talk..

you mean in terms of purchasing it, or just learning from your experience making it?