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Few bits I got done in the last few weeks:
Some shelves for the kids room, most of a sheet of ply used, rabbets, biscuits & glue for the joints:
I made it as large as possible for the space, needless to say It covered both sockets in the area..
I upgraded the first woodworking project I did a couple of years ago, a floating bed made out of pine & veneered with some Teak on the visible edges.
Basically I changed the 3 x 2's on the outside to oak to match the lockers, (will also be insulating and cladding the rear wall with wood panels, so it should look well...)
The joints came out OK, round-over bit on the edges, sanded to 320 and some finish.
And some chopping boards, we'll not be short of these for a while
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Just did my first bit of woodturning for several years. A shallow 11" diameter bowl in yew, finished with Organoil Hi-Speed finishing oil, my favourite finish. Turned (!) out quite well IMHO.
Yew'll be happy with that! :pac:0 -
Yes, very happyYew'll be happy with that! :pac:
It's a lovely piece of wood, had it for ages sitting in the workshop. Dry as a bone and verrrry hard. The thing I love about yew is that you can get a really glossy smooth finish on it without too much effort using only natural things like oils and waxes. 0 -
Yes, very happy It's a lovely piece of wood, had it for ages sitting in the workshop. Dry as a bone and verrrry hard. The thing I love about yew is that you can get a really glossy smooth finish on it without too much effort using only natural things like oils and waxes.
I love Yew too! Yeah, you can get a brilliant finish on it alright. But you'd need to be careful when sanding and polishing though, not to build up too much heat (can happen quite fast!). It can cause little hairline cracks, happened me a few times till one of the lads in our chapter put me wise to it!
I find it very difficult to get much Yew around these parts, I got some lovely blanks off home of wood in uk. I'd like to get my hands on some bigger spindle lengths for making some lamps.0 -
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had an old tropical hardwood blank that i won in a raffle at a chapter meet. it had some fine cracks in it, so i decided to just have a bit of fun with it. it held together, anyway.
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BackInTown wrote: »Finished a small coffee table yesterday. It’s been a learning journey including a major mess up during glue up
In the end pleased with how it turned out. Sorry to see it go (a gift for my ma).
Very nice! Have you any WIP photos? No such thing as a "major mess up", its called the *design process* !!!0 -
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Maintenance day in the shed yesterday. Finally put the aftermarket fence I bought for the Titan bandsaw on it:
And broke down my lathe's chuck because it was a shop demo model bought in a sale and it's been binding a little so I took it to pieces, deburred everything with 1200 wet-n-dry paper, cleaned everything with acetone, blew all the gunk off with compressed air (that new air compressor is just getting used left, right and center now), lubed everything back up with PTFE lubricant (I don't have any moly grease to hand) and reassembled it.
And I tried adding the new jaws and yup, they fit:
So small PSA there - if you bought the 3" Xact chuck from Rutlands and you were wondering if any other jaws fitted it because Rutlands don't sell the bowl reversing jaws for that chuck seperately (which means if you didn't buy the full kit on day one you can't get them at all), yes, the Viper2 jaws will fit the chuck correctly. I got mine here but you can buy them in a few places (and on ebay) because the Viper2 is moderately popular.0 -
Very nice! Have you any WIP photos? No such thing as a "major mess up", its called the *design process* !!!
Thanks mayo.mick. I've too many WIP photos:)... Here's an link for those interested, please excuse the random background items, footballs, bicycles, etc:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qZY2kNw7BRxpTirA8
And if that's all too much (and it probably is for most
) here are a select few
In this one you can see the way the table top is held off the frame0 -
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Little vase (drilled out with the jacobson-chuck-in-the-tailstock approach rather than being hollowed out on account of me having no hollowing tools or knowing how to use them ). Spalted sycamore with tung oil, lemon shellac and beeswax. Loads of room to improve, but this is the first vase I've ever turned.
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I have a couple of Robert Sorby hollowing tools (one straight, the other s shaped) for making those kinds of small vases / boxes, although I often use a forster bit in the chuck to do the bulk of it first to save time The hollowing tools I have are actually a bit on the big side for the smaller items like boxes, and I could do with a couple of smaller ones for those.
As far as tool rests go, I also have the Sorby modular tool rest system with a number of rests, including a rectangular flat one for getting into the inside of pieces like that.0 -
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