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Sparks · 05-04-2020 09:00PM

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

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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 · 06-04-2020 09:24AM

Very cool idea replanting them in the forest:)

Sparks · 06-04-2020 09:26AM

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

marlyman · 08-04-2020 03:21PM

Purple heart and Sepele lamp

Sparks · 08-04-2020 11:03PM

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 · 09-04-2020 07:44PM

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

mayo.mick · 09-04-2020 08:30PM

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 · 09-04-2020 10:00PM

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

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cletus · 09-04-2020 10:06PM

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 · 09-04-2020 10:14PM

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 · 10-04-2020 12:53AM

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 · 10-04-2020 08:13AM

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 · 10-04-2020 09:15AM

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 · 10-04-2020 09:19AM

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

Alun · 10-04-2020 09:26AM

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 · 10-04-2020 09:44AM

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

Bruthal · 10-04-2020 09:47AM

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 · 10-04-2020 10:07AM

Balance wheel clock in near finished cabinet

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

iamtony · 10-04-2020 10:45AM

Amazing! How many hours went into that:pac:

Bruthal · 10-04-2020 10:57AM

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 · 10-04-2020 11:14AM

Do you sell or otherwise distribute those plans?

Bruthal · 10-04-2020 11:20AM

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 · 10-04-2020 12:43PM

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 · 10-04-2020 12:56PM

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 · 10-04-2020 12:56PM

iamtony wrote: »

does the grasshopper keep you up at night:pac:

Not now that it works properly

Bruthal · 10-04-2020 01:22PM

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 · 10-04-2020 05:00PM

Bruthal, that's absolutely magnificent.

Sparks · 10-04-2020 05:02PM

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 · 10-04-2020 05:04PM

What brad gun did you get

Sparks · 10-04-2020 05:42PM

Makita AF505.

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Lovely solid thing.

What are you working on currently?

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