What are you working on currently?

mobfromcork · 08-12-2019 11:49pm

Haven't gotten the chance to make anything nice in ages but put this mini workbench for the kids together a few days ago. Used legs from an old kids' school table rescued from a skip, an old solid wood countertop and a Record no 50 vice. Got holdfasts from John in Waterford. Waiting on bench dogs to arrive tomorrow to finish. Will sand it all down and give it a few coats of BLO if I've time during the week.

chillyspoon · 09-12-2019 8:16am

mobfromcork wrote: »

Haven't gotten the chance to make anything nice in ages but put this mini workbench for the kids together a few days ago. Used legs from an old kids' school table rescued from a skip, an old solid wood countertop and a Record no 50 vice. Got holdfasts from John in Waterford. Waiting on bench dogs to arrive tomorrow to finish. Will sand it all down and give it a few coats of BLO if I've time during the week.

That's really great - love it.

magicbastarder · 10-12-2019 9:39pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

the main issue was that i lifted some of my planes down (not used in at least six weeks) off a shelf to find several of them with a decent amount of rust on the soles; the shelf they're sitting on is sodden.

trying to figure out how best to store planes; a lot of the options you see would be ruled out by several of my planes (mainly the no. 4s) having the handle mounted right to the back of the sole, so i assume would not be suited to the sort of storage where the heel sits in a lip, while the plane is stored vertically?

Sparks · 10-12-2019 9:43pm

I don't have that problem with my #4s or #3. Build the heel up around the handle.

http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2017/04/29/tooltris-continued/

Sparks · 10-12-2019 9:45pm

Avoid the green felt you can see there btw, that was a bad mistake, it soaks in any moisture in the air and holds it against any metal you rest on it. I wound up with more rust on my tools after a week resting on that stuff than they had when I got them, and some of them were older than I was.

10-12-2019 11:30pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

trying to figure out how best to store planes; a lot of the options you see would be ruled out by several of my planes (mainly the no. 4s) having the handle mounted right to the back of the sole, so i assume would not be suited to the sort of storage where the heel sits in a lip, while the plane is stored vertically?

Working through the same issue myself at the moment. I'm basically finished assembling the set of planes/spokeshaves etc that I want. At least for now.

Here's what I have to store, except for the transitionals which are a novelty, but won't be kept in the long term:

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So I grabbed a few boards and scraps and some clamps just to assemble a rough mockup of a layout, so see what would make sense. All propped on the kitchen countertop so I could drink a lot of tea and do a bit of thinking.

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Some descriptions might be helpful. Sorry about the wall of text that follows if it's not 'your thing' fellas.

This is a long enough list, but that's a 3, a pair of 4's, 4 1/2, 5, 5 1/2, 6, 7, 62/LAJ bench planes, 10 and 10 1/2 bench rebate planes, 78 fillister and 79 side rebate planes, 101, 103, 60 1/2, 9 1/2 block planes, Large & Small router planes, Combo and Small Plough planes, small/medium/large shoulder planes, bullnose plane and a 80 cabinet scraper all fitting comfortably inside a 90cm x 90cm internal dimensioned 'carcass', at 30cm depth including an allowance for an 18mm rear panel.

The space below the Combo plane will accommodate the full set of cutters for that. I'll divide the bottom with 3 drawers to take spare blades in one, spokeshaves in another and various spare parts for the planes in the last one. There's some space there if I want it beside the 78, maybe to add a block of scraper cards or whatever, although I'll most likely mount those on a rail packed with magnets for convenience on the inside face of one of the doors.

The vertical planes will sit into divided locations on a till board, pitched at 70 degrees, with the bottoms just resting on a cambered rail. The longer planes all have plenty of mass that at 20 degrees off vertical, they need to be acted upon to move off the board. A bump or vibration won't move them.

Above the vertical planes, there's space for a horizontal shelf, centred and not full width. I won't do anything with it now, but sometime in the future I'd plan to add a Veritas shooting plane, which can be stored there.

Where the router planes and the 7 are now will be inside that carcass dimension I gave earlier. Resting on its side it will easily leave space for some more frequently used small planes to be stowed.

I'll put dividers between the planes in the lower section, with a radiused clearance to make it really easy to pick one and take it out.

magicbastarder · 10-12-2019 11:36pm

goddamn, i need a bigger shed.

magicbastarder · 12-12-2019 12:32pm

youtube just decided to serve this up to me:

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

iamtony · 12-12-2019 12:45pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

youtube just decided to serve this up to me:

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

big brother is watching you.

bamayang · 30-12-2019 10:00pm

Making this for nephews, Is it made out of tongue and groove timber lats? Would It be best to make it out of veneered mdf or panel glued timber?

recipio · 31-12-2019 11:50am

Finished softwood or Baltic birch ply. Needs to be water resistant.

bamayang · 15-01-2020 10:16pm

Finally finished the table. Hard going moving the slabs around, around 80kg a piece. Happy enough but plenty of mistakes.

pnecilcaser · 10-02-2020 10:09pm

pakman wrote: »

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

Can you talk me through what you did here? are the pieces glued? what tools did you have to use?

pnecilcaser · 10-02-2020 10:11pm

Just finished this a little while ago, bit of an experiment and certainly not a great outcome but at least I did something bigger for once.

full article and more photos here

pnecilcaser · 10-02-2020 10:13pm

this is amazing well done

bamayang · 10-02-2020 10:36pm

Coffee table nearly done.

bamayang · 11-02-2020 10:21am

pnecilcaser wrote: »

Just finished this a little while ago, bit of an experiment and certainly not a great outcome but at least I did something bigger for once.

full article and more photos here

Your blog is great!!

pnecilcaser · 12-02-2020 11:30pm

Did you do the metal work youself?

bamayang · 13-02-2020 8:10pm

pnecilcaser wrote: »

Did you do the metal work youself?

Is that for me? Ya, did em over the weekend. Some day I’d like to be consistent at welding.

glynf · 16-02-2020 7:57pm

Been lurking here a while, about time I posted

Coffee table I built using 20mm PAO walnut sanded to 240 finished with two coats Osmo wood wax.

iamtony · 18-02-2020 9:58pm

They table is beautiful. Only issue I'd have is it's very similar to the colour of the floor and I'd probably walk into it and wreck my shins after a few beers:pac:

Sparks · 18-02-2020 10:44pm

Slightly larger than normal sawhorse with birch laminated 3"x2" legs, pine footing, poplar 2"x4" crossbar and 1" thick oak top put on top of the crossbar.

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And now I have a lathe stand

First chips. And now I have an oak dowel (because I didn't have any other smart ideas for something to do and I really just wanted to gauge where the chips were going to go and what the vibration was like).

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And for the next week or so, my main goal in the shed will be to somehow tidy all this stuff.... somewhere. Not sure where, exactly....

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magicbastarder · 18-02-2020 11:05pm

one comment on the positioning of your lathe - i would often find myself standing at the end if working on a deep bowl or doing some hollowing.
doesn't seem like you've much spare space but you may find not being able to stand further to the right, or at the end of the lathe, limiting.

Sparks · 18-02-2020 11:30pm

True, but if I put it across the other wall, it'll block the door, and if I can't step outside the shed, I won't have room to change my mind

Having to cut my cloth according to my measure at the moment I'm afraid

MickeyShtyles · 19-02-2020 1:23am

Sparks wrote: »

True, but if I put it across the other wall, it'll block the door, and if I can't step outside the shed, I won't have room to change my mind
Having to cut my cloth according to my measure at the moment I'm afraid

I must say though, Sparks, I’m impressed with the space yer using.

19-02-2020 5:12am

How about a wheelie bin outside the shed to put the offcuts and short boards into?

chillyspoon · 19-02-2020 10:52am

Sparks wrote: »

True, but if I put it across the other wall, it'll block the door, and if I can't step outside the shed, I won't have room to change my mind
Having to cut my cloth according to my measure at the moment I'm afraid

+1 - sometimes we've got to compromise! .. I have the older version of the same lathe and a similar footprint stand, which I just drag out a bit further into the floor when I need to work around it.

Interested to see the PBD40 on your bench, I've been considering one but hesitating with the mixed reviews about quill tolerance; how has your experience been with it? (if you prefer; spin off a separate thread or PM so that we don't send the "currently" thread off on a tangent!

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23-02-2020 6:51pm

JayZeus wrote: »

How about a wheelie bin outside the shed to put the offcuts and short boards into?

BTW, not being a smart arse. A spare wheelie bin is fierce handy for a bit of weatherproof storage!

Sparks · 23-02-2020 9:26pm

JayZeus wrote: »

BTW, not being a smart arse. A spare wheelie bin is fierce handy for a bit of weatherproof storage!

It's an interesting idea but for the wood that's eating most of the room it'd have to be taller and for the shorter stuff, it's not wide enough. I have a garden box we stuffed the mower and other bits into when I converted the shed from a place where we stored rust and spiders and half-full tins of paint into what it is now (slightly fewer tins of paint). I'll move some of the larger containers of BLO and the like in there and just keep a few of those squeezy condiment bottles in the shed with the stuff I'd use and I can refill as needed.

I do wonder about getting a second garden box though, that would be nice for storage of wood, it certainly wouldn't be any less dry than the shed. Not that much more expensive either if you get the front-opening ones, and actually cheaper for some of the simple box ones.

Sparks · 23-02-2020 9:29pm

chillyspoon wrote: »

Interested to see the PBD40 on your bench, I've been considering one but hesitating with the mixed reviews about quill tolerance; how has your experience been with it? (if you prefer; spin off a separate thread or PM so that we don't send the "currently" thread off on a tangent! )

I've not used it much so far, less than 20 holes so far, haven't had much of a problem with it but haven't pushed it hard enough to notice any. Sorry

Better than doing it with a hand drill -- but I wouldn't use it for anything that needed a tilted table or that would put sideways pressure on the quill, like sanding bobbins. There doesn't seem to be a ready way other than custom jigs to get a tilted table in there (maybe one of those cheap rutlands tilting vises?) and it doesn't seem to be built tough enough to take a lot of lateral pressure.

chillyspoon · 23-02-2020 11:00pm

Sparks wrote: »

I've not used it much so far, less than 20 holes so far, haven't had much of a problem with it but haven't pushed it hard enough to notice any. Sorry
Better than doing it with a hand drill -- but I wouldn't use it for anything that needed a tilted table or that would put sideways pressure on the quill, like sanding bobbins. There doesn't seem to be a ready way other than custom jigs to get a tilted table in there (maybe one of those cheap rutlands tilting vises?) and it doesn't seem to be built tough enough to take a lot of lateral pressure.

Thanks Sparks - at this stage anything will be better than my Parkside drill press, which wanders all over the place on the most basic of holes, it ruined a couple of 15mm Forstner countersinks this afternoon. I like the idea of getting away from having to change belts for speed changes (because I'm lazy tbh). Another option I've been considering is a Wabeco stand with a variable speed corded drill, they have a great reputation for being solidly engineered.

magicbastarder · 23-02-2020 11:32pm

just don't do what i did, and absent mindedly grab a piece of wood you're trying to run a forstner bit into with a hand drill, only for it to scoot off into your thumb.
i got off lightly, to be fair, it hit my thumbnail first and kicked my thumb out of the way slightly so it didn't do nearly as much damage as it might otherwise have done.

Double Barrel · 24-02-2020 2:25am

OUCH!!!!!!

chillyspoon · 24-02-2020 9:45am

Ouch indeed, close call! - I try to avoid hand drill Forstnering (new word!) as much as possible for that reason!

chillyspoon · 24-02-2020 9:55am

Here's what I'm working on currently, gigantic loft bed build continuing very slowly because I'm only getting to do a couple of hours a week at the moment.

BarryD2 · 24-02-2020 10:04am

Sparks wrote: »

I do wonder about getting a second garden box though, that would be nice for storage of wood, it certainly wouldn't be any less dry than the shed. Not that much more expensive either if you get the front-opening ones, and actually cheaper for some of the simple box ones.

Go on - you know you really a second shed

In fact, you can never have enough sheds!

The Master · 24-02-2020 10:46am

dathi · 25-02-2020 11:56am

a pair of wall shelves in elm and mahogany for my growing kilkenny design workshop collection

The Duk · 25-02-2020 1:58pm

The Duk wrote: »

Currently working on a new desk, using 18mm birch ply. The top is 2 panels glued together. The bottom panel is inset by 10mm. Its my first project to really use my palm router for rounding corners and i even managed to round over the edges. I still gotta learn how to avoid burn marks, slow speed quick movement?

Im thinking of using liberon medium oak wood dye (water based) to stain it so it fits the room. Any advice on a finishing coat that will stand up to wear?

Just finished my desk, staining birch ply is a pain ðŸ‘

bamayang · 02-03-2020 4:55pm

Finished the coffee table. Stole it off the wifes instagram, hence the filter!

mayo.mick · 04-03-2020 12:56pm

I find it harder and harder to get time in the workshop (being a full time carer). Started sometime before Christmas, took it off the lathe to do something else and forgot about it. Only finished it last week. English Yew with a roses pewter lid.

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glynf · 07-03-2020 2:51pm

Made some wall units to match my coffee table. I hung them with french cleats, and finished them in osmo.

Made a chopping board out of some of the off cuts, no way I was throwing this wood in the fire

chillyspoon · 07-03-2020 4:29pm

glynf wrote: »

Made some wall units to match my coffee table. I hung them with french cleats, and finished them in osmo.

Lovely work!

timfromtang · 07-03-2020 6:44pm

@glynf Lovely bit of work, lovely timber too... where'd you get the timber from, was it dear? what is it called?
tim

glynf · 07-03-2020 7:13pm

timfromtang wrote: »

@glynf Lovely bit of work, lovely timber too... where'd you get the timber from, was it dear? what is it called?
tim

Thanks, it's PAO walnut, 210 x 20mm, 2.4 meter lengths, bought from Strathans in Rathcoole.

iamtony · 07-03-2020 11:03pm

As great as alot of stuff is on this thread, theres not much I'd actually have in my sitting room and this is one item I would have. Beautiful, well done;)

brane.nikic87 · 09-03-2020 12:02pm

Daddy built a bed for his princess ::):):)

awec · 09-03-2020 4:57pm

That's class brane.nikic87.

Out of curiosity, what sort of timber did you use?

brane.nikic87 · 09-03-2020 5:38pm

Is is a 18mm WBP plywood and pine for square legs.

mayo.mick · 10-03-2020 10:49pm

I'm trying to get a bit of time in the workshop. Its seldom I get to make a piece for our monthly chapter challenge. Got a few hours in over the weekend and got a piece done for this months challenge, a ceiling rose.

I'd a bit of a battle with this piece, was pretty out of balance. 12" x 2" spalted Beech.

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What are you working on currently?

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