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Guru Maith Agut wrote: »That is fu#*ing class Bamayang!!!! Perfect look for a candle holder. Fair play
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obreathnach wrote: »Hi all, been looking for an irish woodworking forum since I deleted Facebook. Just finished my first chess set. I've completed a few chopping boards, a table and my workbench
who needs facebook with this on boards
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116165349#post116165349
stumbled across it today
“I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.
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I got tired of working off a set of trestles, so I had a go at a work bench. I used 10x 4.8M lengths of 4x2 C16 pine, not the toughest of wood but good enough for my first attempt… used a bit of oak for the jaws of the vice.
Planed everything down to begin, then glued up the top in two sections (so I could fit them through the planer)
No fancy joinery, just lap joints used, cut on the table saw and tidied up with hand plane & chisels:
Then on to assembly of the frame:
Fitted the top with metal L brackets if I need to disassemble, made up a flattening jig for the router to level off the top using some coated MDF left from the kitchen units & tidied it up with a plane:
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I've seen a few people turning 3 sided bowls and tealight holders, so, I thought I'd have a go meself. First though I had to make up a jig for the lathe. I'd ordered some m33 nuts long before Christmas, ideal for a project like this.
I glued one into some Ash with epoxy for the drive, turned down and bored a 20mm hole approx 30mm deep. Used some Ash again for the live centre, 20mm hole 30mm deep. I had no arbour for the tailstock so I thought I could mount it in the jacobs chuck. I epoxy a 22mm bearing, rebated into the block of wood, with a 6mm gutter bolt fastened with a nut, to fit into the chuck in the tailstock.
This one was slightly off, not running quite true. However, once I got the blank mounted, lined up and tightened, it was running pretty true!
Just turned a 125mm cube, to try it out. Cut a tennon on the bottom to remount. So far so good, we'll see how it finish's!0 -
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Right. Posting this to draw a line under it, because I've never come to hate any project so much ... :mad:
It started as a simple idea: make good use of a cold wall. I didn't have quite enough insulation to hand to dry-line the whole rear (north) wall of what we'll call a utility room; and, for reasons that no-one in the locality can explain, this French country house has no cellar. So, waaaaaaay back in 2018 :eek: I decided to replace this mess (and the rickety shelves in particular) with a snazzy new wine-rack and vegetable store.
Inspired by the great work exhibited on this thread, it was going to be my pièce de résistance ... Well, the rest of the room got done by early 2019, while a gaping unfinished hole in the drylining stared at me and quietly started gathering junk again.
The plan was to make it entirely out of salvaged timber (of which I have a barnful) and to go for a "rustic-chic" rough-ish look, reminiscent of the boxes that fine wines come in. Won't be doing that again! It's bad enough dealing with walls (and floors and ceilings :rolleyes:) that are distorted in three dimensions without deliberately adding imprefections.
Anyway, as of Sunday, and even though it's still missing doorknobs and catches, in the words of the great Frodo Baggins: it is done!
If you look closely, you can see blood on the floor, where right up to the last minute, the f****kin thing was still fighting me. :mad:
The workmanship is nowhere near what I was hoping for (I gave up trying to do it "right" after the errors, miscalculations, tool failures [thanks, Lidl] and sheer fedupness got the better of me) - but it's fully functional, rodent proof, and - the one thing that did work out as planned - used only scrap wood.0 -
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Started quite a simple little project.
It'll be a storage unit for my boy's consoles, games and accessories.
It's the first project I've started in my new shed, and it's great not to have to pack everything away when I'm finished for the evening
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I'm insanely jealous of your barn...A barnful of scrap timber, oh joy.
Well ... as I've been using the better quality timber from my stock, the pile of rejected rubbishy pieces inside the door has increased to "better do something about that" levels. So, at the start of the week, I picked out the worst that I could find ...
... and (despite still suffering PTSD from the wine-rack project :pac: ) went for an all-out "rustic chic" look and an extreme salvage operation:
30cm/5litre pot of tulips for scale.
Extreme salvage, as this time even the nails were pulled out of the timber and reused, and the varnish is a mix of the dregs of all the different tints that were well past their use-by date (the two planters are the same colour in real life - the difference in the photo is just a trick of the low evening sunlight).
The corner posts were planed and 80-grit sanded, as many of them had blue dye on them, and a lightly chamfered on all edges; the horizontal pieces were simply cut to the right length, but otherwise left in their rough state, complete with bark, nail-holes, sawmill markings and miscellaneous artefacts.0 -
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