What are you working on currently?

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.

mayo.mick wrote: »

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.

That's class - lovely work - I'm a big fan of spalted beech, we've got a couple of 8 foot spalted beech slab steps in our living room and I salvaged too 36"x18"x2" spalted beech kitchen dresser tops a few years ago that are going to end up as coffee tables, that's if I ever actually finish the bed I'm chipping away at .

Speaking of which here's the dry fit in progress:

mayo.mick wrote: »

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.

Won 1st on Thursday night for my piece! Chuffed

Been decided to postpone future chapter meetings for the time being too.

I’ve been working on a test run end table ahead of building one in walnut. This is sapele stair threads from a strahans off cut bundle and some left over pine from making my bench. Learned a lot along the way. Won’t have the through tenons and will probably add runners/stretchers in a square (what’s the right term?) to stiffen legs and support table top...

Edit - struggling with images sorry...

Got some white oak last week and built a pair of bedside lockers:








I glued some oak to the tops to cover the plywood ends and rounded over with the router.


I started with the legs first, I wanted to taper the legs on the inside but I don't have a table saw and it was too much fluting about with a track saw; angles I cut at 34°.






For the drawer fronts, I used a round-over bit on the outer faces.



I used 10 & 6mm birch ply for the drawers:


The radius of the round-over on the top and bottom panels is 9.5, using a round-over bit again, plenty of practice with the router on this one...


Used a rabbet bit for the 6mm plywood back.


Sanded to 320 grit, used clear matt osmo oil for a finish and all done. The drawer runners and aluminium knobs I got from Hafele.

Amazing how fast you can get through stuff when stuck at home, need to find something else to build now

They are beautiful pieces all right.

I've been following this thread on and off. Not sure if its really the place for some of the projects I'm working on, they're much more rough and ready than most of what's here, but I figured I'd throw them up, and let the internetz decide

Steel frame for a side table (there will be timber set into the frame on both sides, and across the top, just not sure what yet. Will probably add a drawer too)



Pallet bar, obviously not finished yet



And just to show not everything is rough and ready...

Love the bedside lockers above and the chess board. The pallet bar is a great idea.

In toying with the idea of making an outdoor kitchen at the moment. I've always wanted to do it.

Right now I'm fixing up the greenhouse and building some staging for inside and a pallet freestanding strawberry planter.
P.s if you want a good quality pallet try get your hands on an Irish cement one they are strong and heavy.

iamtony wrote: »

Have you a pic of the cat work bench? Only thing I hate about pallets is taking them apart, they can be stubborn:pac:

Here you go! https://www.chillyspoon.com/blog//2018/10/pallet-wood-kitty-condo-for-two-cats.html

cletus wrote: »

Unfortunately, the words "thicknesser" and "cheap" don't seem the crop up together on Google...

I've spun up a new thread for that- it's an interesting topic

For cleaning up pallet wood, a good old cheapo belt sander (Parkside for the win) with 40->60->80 grit progression does the job nicely too!

chillyspoon wrote: »

Here you go! https://www.chillyspoon.com/blog//2018/10/pallet-wood-kitty-condo-for-two-cats.html

Very cool thanks

Guru Maith Agut wrote: »

Really excellent work Glynf!

How do you find these guys for price and quality versus companies on Amazon? I've been looking for a reliable source in Ireland but hadn't come across Hafele before.

Thanks

Thanks. I find they are good to deal with, pricing is reasonable as well-think the four sets of 250mm ball bearing drawer runners & four knobs worked out at <€20. Theirhave a place in Kilcoole is not too far from me and just off the N11, which is handy. They have a huge range, great for any kind of hinge fittings, drawer runners etc.

They do a lot of kitchen fittings, I also bought some per-assembled drawer units for floating drawers I built for our spare room. They worked out at about 30-35 a unit and came with runners and mounting lugs-all I had to do was mount the bamboo ply I used for the wardrobes/Murphy bed to the front. Brilliant piece of kit, saved me a lot of work-especially bloody painting:)

glynf wrote: »

Theirhave a place in Kilcoole is not too far from me and just off the N11, which is handy. They have a huge range, great for any kind of hinge fittings, drawer runners etc.

They do a lot of kitchen fittings, I also bought some per-assembled drawer units for floating drawers I built for our spare room. They worked out at about 30-35 a unit and came with runners and mounting lugs-all I had to do was mount the bamboo ply I used for the wardrobes/Murphy bed to the front. Brilliant piece of kit, saved me a lot of work-especially bloody painting:)

Thanks that's also really useful for me (I'm reasonably nearby too). I knew about them but thought they were trade only - thank you!

I got a small neje laser engraver about a year ago for doing some engraving on some of my pens. I only got the rotary jig working right the other day. Pretty happy with the results so far.

mayo.mick wrote: »

I got a small neje laser engraver about a year ago for doing some engraving on some of my pens. I only got the rotary jig working right the other day. Pretty happy with the results so far.

Brilliant. I'd say alot of work went into getting that jig set up perfectly.

chillyspoon wrote: »

Excellent! - I want to get a laser engraver that can sit directly directly onto the workpiece for engraving onto large and panel workpieces so I'd be really interested to know which model of the Neje you got, and how you've found it so far, ease of set up etc. PS - just got yourself a new YouTube subscriber!

The one I have is the neje 1500, its a bit small but fine for pens. Max it can do is 42mm x 42mm. I do up my logos on 30mm discs.

I'm thinking of getting the bigger one the neje master, it will engrave 6" square but you can fit bigger pieces under it. After doing a bit of research though, I'm more inclined now to go for the oture 3500 15w laser. Seems to be the best out there. Only place I can get it though (no one will ship from America), is on gearbest. I've never delt with them before some I'm holding back a bit to read up a bit more on them.

That laser is some setup. Will it read the diameter of the piece itself, and scale appropriately, or do you need to do that yourself?

Considering my last set of photos are relatively well received, I said I'd do a quick update on the bar

Ripping some stock to make trim pieces (mostly just to show off my startrite bandsaw )



First coat of paint on the frame. I think it makes the counter stand out nicely

Ah, I wasn't sure if the initial process on the video was taking a measurement, or setting the edges of the eork

Sparks wrote: »

I finally used some time to do the world's fastest shop tour.
Not a useful bit of furniture, but it might be worth a grin compared to all the big lads' shop tours on youtube

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

And I thought the kids bikes were in the way...

Sparks wrote: »

I finally used some time to do the world's fastest shop tour.
Not a useful bit of furniture, but it might be worth a grin compared to all the big lads' shop tours on youtube

'Oh sh*t fixer'

I was going to say I'd give my left testicle for a workspace like that, but I've got two boys now, so I'd give both testicles...

My "workshed" (stretching the term) is an 8"X6" barna shed. It's even more crammed than than Sparks' workspace above. I'd be embarrassed to even show the inside of it

Sparks wrote: »

I finally used some time to do the world's fastest shop tour.
Not a useful bit of furniture, but it might be worth a grin compared to all the big lads' shop tours on youtube

Love the "sarlacc pit" - brilliant

Sparks wrote: »

I finally used some time to do the world's fastest shop tour.

Hey Sparks does Boards support the ability to pull out a series of posts from one thread as a new thread? - it'll be cool to kick off a "My 'WIP' Workshop" type thread from this whole set of posts.

bamayang wrote: »

Haha it’s a good size, I’m going to use about 2/3 of it for woodworking, with the rest for garden crap. Next on the list is a bit of mitre station along the long wall and some storage.

This thread has really highlighted the brilliant use of spaces people work with. I won’t go as soppy as saying inspiring but it does motivate you to stop looking for faults with what you have and just get on with what you have.

You might have already seen it, but there's a channel on youtube, the 8x6 workshop. Some genius ideas there on space saving. He also has a lot of build video's, though I havn't seen anything from him lately.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8SLw_zYEappZL5rROwvZ1w

Yeah, I've seen some of his builds. I envy him his focus - half my problem is constantly wanting to try new things, which is the exact opposite of what you need to do to readily make the most of a small space