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My very first project..! The sister was wanting to make a Christmas Eve Box for the new arrival, so I somewhat foolishly said I'd make one (no bother says I). Got done, but only just (delivered Xmas eve..!)
Sister provided the lettering on the lid, care of Amazon. Pine from the most cupped board imaginable, finished in tinted danish oil, and paste wax.
Initially tried planing the board, but it would have wound up a third the thickness.. so cut it into 50mm strips, jointed and edge glued it back together. Pretty happy with how it all turned out, warts and all
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I got a decent pocket hole jig recently, so I'm looking forward to using it on... something
Also got a cheapo bench grinder and belt sander from Aldi - just used it to sharpen some stuff so far, but I may in the future have another go at knife making0 -
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Still pushing to get the cot finished.
Slats are now almost all done (the curved tenons at the top of the side slats are all that's left):
And the frame work is pretty much all done, bar the last two lap joints for the drawer runners and some rounding over, final finish planing and the drawboring holes; but all the major stuff is now done.
So my to-do list now looks like:- Curved tenons for side slats
- Final fit&finish trimwork on the frame
- Final finish planing/scraping on the panels
- Make a drawer (seems such a small task, doesn't it?)
- Drill drawbore holes
- Shellac walnut bits
- Paint poplar bits
- Assembly, drawboring, glue-ups (this is going to be done in a stage or two because it's an awkward sod to fully assemble)
- Osmo wood wax on all the bits, including the shellac'd and painted bits
- Deliver, lock shed, never touch a project with a deadline ever again
Oh, and I made fences for my #43 and #44 planes:
And a new, better shooting board for my new T5 plane (which is just so much better at shooting than faffing about turning my #5 or #7 on its side):
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What kind of wood is that delaney001? And where'd you get it?
I still only get timber from Woodie's/B&Q :-/ I don't really know where to get it (in Dublin) other than that!
Friend is a woodwork teacher, gets his timber from Strahans. Told me about these off cut bundles they have sometimes. About 2' x 2' square bundle made up of 4' lengths. Every kind of hardwood in them. Ranging from 2x1to 8x1.
Really lovely stuff, just short and all rough cut. Great for little projects tho. Think I got 6 for €160
Edit. Legs are mahogany. Top is ask I think. Cross members are Oak0 -
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Front panel for the cot all shellac'd, glued and drawbored.
And the mattress platform and its front support glued up and shellac'd and held together with wooden nails (there's a gap in there so the platform has some spring to it when you put a load on it).
That's the front, the back, the mattress platform...
...the cross rails and the slats, all done.
Next up is a final dry fit to get the position of the rear support for the platform, cutting the slot and drilling the mounting holes for that, then shellacing the last two parts of the frame, final assembly, making a drawer, and final finishing with osmo.
In the meantime, I ran out of shellac on saturday night and didn't want to wait a week for the next batch (waiting for buttons to dissolve in isopropanol took a week during the summer, at -1C I figure I'd be waiting longer). Leaving it in a warm place would speed this up, but you're warned not to try to dissolve it faster by direct heating because the gas on the hob would leave you holding a pot full of burning alcohol and resin in the kitchen while your wife looked on. However, we have more ways to heat things these days.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present....
Sous-vide shellac!
(And it worked, the shellac buttons dissolved almost completely overnight with only around a teaspoon left in the bottom of the jar).0 -
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Doing a few bits over the last week. Picked up a small Inca bandsaw last weekend and tried making a few small bits. I used dried beech logs that I had chopped and squared them off a bit using a mitre saw before shaping them on the bandsaw to make trinket boxes for my daughter.
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Also made a chessboard using light oak and mahogany. Might frame it off using some maple that I have in the garage
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mobfromcork wrote: »Doing a few bits over the last week. Picked up a small Inca bandsaw last weekend and tried making a few small bits. I used dried beech logs that I had chopped and squared them off a bit using a mitre saw before shaping them on the bandsaw to make trinket boxes for my daughter.
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Also made a chessboard using light oak and mahogany. Might frame it off using some maple that I have in the garage
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Nice work. Love the little drawer, artistic 😉0 -
The Master wrote: »Working on 2 new guitars at the moment.
A mini mustang for my nieces.
Sapele body and neck and a rosewood fretboard.
And a full sized mustang. Poplar body with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard.
NICE. I made a stratocaster for my son. I'll have to post a finished pic.0 -
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