What are you working on currently?

Sparks

Fernhill is within our 2km exercise limit, so we wander around there when we need fresh air, because, well, look at it:



They do the fae-folk-doors-in-the-trees thing for the kids, but they don't have any toadstools (and I've always seen toadstools with those before). Also, they had the tree surgeon in before the lockdown but haven't removed the logs yet, so I...er... liberated one



Hacked off a lump, put it on the lathe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ew_tbZd2oY

Turned an okayish toadstool from it.





The second one.... well, I'm glad I was wearing the faceshield, or I'd be going to the dentist to have some bark removed round about now



Off-center turning is fun but scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7DKEqukWg

Two more chunks of log to go, then I'll stick some dowels in the bases of them and Calum and I will go plant them back in Fernhill by the doors in the trees for the other kids.




I might liberate another branch if nobody's looking...

iamtony

Very cool idea replanting them in the forest:)

Sparks

Well, technically I stole the log, so that's just me trying to stay out of the pokey for looting in a pandemic

marlyman

Purple heart and Sepele lamp

Sparks

My first bowl



Not sure of the wood (it came from one of homeofwood.co.uk's variety packs and the miniatures in those aren't often labelled), but it's finished in poppy seed oil and a single coat of blonde shellac.

cletus

So, my boys asked me if I had an elastic band to keep their UNO cards together...

mayo.mick

Sparks wrote: »

My first bowl



Not sure of the wood (it came from one of homeofwood.co.uk's variety packs and the miniatures in those aren't often labelled), but it's finished in poppy seed oil and a single coat of blonde shellac.

Nicely finished! Looks like Beech?

I'm waiting on (yet another) sack of blanks from home of wood. I find them great as I've np space here for milling my own timber, as I'm in the middle of the town.

mayo.mick

Finally got around to doing this little project. Hopefully that the end to me losing any more router bits :pac:

cletus

I was going to ask what the rubber bungs were, but on close inspection, they look like they might be made for this job

mayo.mick

cletus wrote: »

I was going to ask what the rubber bungs were, but on close inspection, they look like they might be made for this job

That's exactly what they're for! They take both the 1/4" & 1/2" bits. Got 2 packs off amazon last year sometime. 10 in a pack, I should have got a few more packs. I didn't try any forstner bits, would look neat on that rack.....

Sparks

mayo.mick wrote: »

Nicely finished! Looks like Beech?

Spalted sycamore apparently. Definitely not beech, I have some of that in the shed and this looked nothing like it.

chillyspoon

mayo.mick wrote: »

That's exactly what they're for! They take both the 1/4" & 1/2" bits. Got 2 packs off amazon last year sometime. 10 in a pack, I should have got a few more packs. I didn't try any forstner bits, would look neat on that rack.....

I was going to ask about them too - they look very handy, a quick search on Rockler's site turned up the link: https://www.rockler.com/rockler-router-bit-storage-inserts-10-pack

Thanks Mick.

Bruthal

A clock designed 4 years ago, I decided to do a sort of cabinet for it. Not finished yet, but not far off.
Corner moldings too short etc. Then varnish at some stage.

Bruthal

Clock itself: (I could have done with reducing image sizes)

Alun

Sparks wrote: »

Spalted sycamore apparently. Definitely not beech, I have some of that in the shed and this looked nothing like it.

Definitely sycamore. Sycamore does get affected by fungus just like beech, but it's often much finer and subtle, often called lacey sycamore because the lines resemble lace.

cletus

Bruthal, that clock is fantastic. Did you design it from the ground up, or did you get plans from somewhere

Bruthal

cletus wrote: »

Bruthal, that clock is fantastic. Did you design it from the ground up, or did you get plans from somewhere

I designed from scratch. Based on a remontoire movement, spring driven. I have designed a few, that one is the most interesting though. 2016 I did that one, and still the odd slight modification comes into mind and I do it.

Didnt think the balance wheel idea would work as I had not seen any wood clocks with a true balance wheel, but it did. The balance wheel is good in that the clock keeps going even when way off level, which a pendulum one can not when only slightly moved off its set level

Even on the passenger seat of the car, the balance wheel one will keep going.
I might put up a video of it in a few minutes.

Bruthal

Balance wheel clock in near finished cabinet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MnzU_sPX1E

iamtony

Amazing! How many hours went into that:pac:

Bruthal

iamtony wrote: »

Amazing! How many hours went into that:pac:

Its hard to say, but if i built another one now, it would be working in a few days, as the drawings are there. That one being a new design at the time, took a while.

cletus

Do you sell or otherwise distribute those plans?

Bruthal

cletus wrote: »

Do you sell or otherwise distribute those plans?

I have never intended selling them. I have given away plans for the simpler clocks once or twice. Never heard how they got on. They are sort of easy and not easy at the same time. It is 8 years since I did the first one I designed myself. A lot has been learned since then. That one is still in the hall. Again I modified that one this year, replacing the graham escapement with a grasshopper.

iamtony

Bruthal wrote: »

I have never intended selling them. I have given away plans for the simpler clocks once or twice. Never heard how they got on. They are sort of easy and not easy at the same time. It is 8 years since I did the first one I designed myself. A lot has been learned since then. That one is still in the hall. Again I modified that one this year, replacing the graham escapement with a grasshopper.

em....yeah....yeah....the Graham escapement for a eh... Grasshopper...good call:o does the grasshopper keep you up at night:pac:

cletus

iamtony wrote: »

em....yeah....yeah....the Graham escapement for a eh... Grasshopper...good call:o does the grasshopper keep you up at night:pac:

That was my initial thought too. Methinks this thread could inspire many questions in the "no such thing as a stupid question" thread...

Bruthal

iamtony wrote: »

does the grasshopper keep you up at night:pac:

Not now that it works properly

Bruthal

cletus wrote: »

That was my initial thought too.

Here is the one in question from 2012, original (25 seconds in to see the escapement), and after the modification is second video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdJQRwJG8g0

Sparks

Bruthal, that's absolutely magnificent.

Sparks

Got an 18g brad nailer the other day (to go with the cutest little 6L draper air compressor which is the biggest one that'll fit in the shed) and knocked up a *very* quick-n-dirty planter today out of offcuts - since there'll be no visits to the garden center with the lockdown extended, we're making do







Granted, not fine furniture but it beats what we were using till now

cletus

What brad gun did you get

Sparks

Makita AF505.



Lovely solid thing.