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magicbastarder · 10-05-2017 8:09am

what method did you use to char it?

Magic ]=) · 10-05-2017 9:09am

magicbastarder wrote: »

what method did you use to char it?

Traditional way. Three boards tied with wire and fire started inside with just newspapers. See the videos it's all there.
Link to youtube below first three photos

Sparks · 14-05-2017 7:13pm

Finally got my chisel rack done. Slightly different design to the normal one of a series of holes and slots cut to the holes from the edge of the board. This way, I can get a lot more into a smaller space without coming too far out from the wall, and I don't have the short-grain problem you get between the holes in the normal design.

..Brian.. · 15-05-2017 3:43pm

The headboard of a super king size bed I'm making. Going to trim out the panels with some cove molding and paint it all dark grey. Then I need to find a nice piece of spalted sycamore or beech with a live edge for the top.

The Master · 17-05-2017 6:49am

Got myself a new band saw the other day, so working on more guitar bodies

Gryzor · 16-06-2017 11:24pm

Just finished this walnut headboard for a 6 foot bed. Headboard panel is floating in 20mm housings routed in the legs and top rail. Glued up the panel in three sections and then glued the three sections. still struggle a bit trying to keep the panel sections flush when gluing up...worked out well in the end.

Finished headboard

Miter glue up

Raw Material

Zebbedee · 17-06-2017 10:46am

Gryzor wrote: »

Just finished this walnut headboard for a 6 foot bed. Headboard panel is floating in 20mm housings routed in the legs and top rail. Glued up the panel in three sections and then glued the three sections. still struggle a bit trying to keep the panel sections flush when gluing up...worked out well in the end.

Superb. How did you get it looking so smooth?
How did you get that finish on it?

Gryzor · 17-06-2017 6:13pm

Zebbedee wrote: »

Superb. How did you get it looking so smooth?
How did you get that finish on it?

Used a planer\thicknesser, and sanded to 120. Finished with 3 coats of a clear satin varnish, sanding lightly with 240 between each coat....

Sparks · 18-06-2017 9:27pm

http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2017/06/18/off-the-shelf/

Father's day gift (dad's been doing a law course so there's a lot of books scattered on his desk).
Walnut and oak (after the sapele-and-oak idea fell victim to my discovery that sapele is a bastard to plane without a toothed iron). Some detail carving and some cut nails to go with the whole "ancient legal library" sort of vibe. Garnet shellac on the walnut and lemon shellac on the oak to finish.

Gryzor · 18-06-2017 9:57pm

Looks the business, well done.

Never heard of a toothed iron before. Have the same woes with sapele. Where did you pick your up from?

Sparks · 18-06-2017 10:11pm

From Dictum : https://www.dictum.com/en/tools/woodworking-metalworking/planes/plane-blades/703160/toothed-blade-for-kunz-fore-plane-no-6

It's a drop-in replacement for any #7, #6, #5 1/2 or #4 1/2 and they also do blades for the #5/#4 and various block planes.

raspberrypi67 · 19-06-2017 7:40am

Very nice, love walnut myself, easy to work with unlike Oak!!

Gryzor wrote: »

Just finished this walnut headboard for a 6 foot bed. Headboard panel is floating in 20mm housings routed in the legs and top rail. Glued up the panel in three sections and then glued the three sections. still struggle a bit trying to keep the panel sections flush when gluing up...worked out well in the end.

Finished headboard

Miter glue up

Raw Material

Zebbedee · 19-06-2017 7:52am

Sparks wrote: »

It's a drop-in replacement for any #7, #6, #5 1/2 or #4 1/2 and they also do blades for the #5/#4 and various block planes.

What's that green club like tool with the wooden No.12 handle beside the blade?

Sparks · 19-06-2017 8:34pm

Zebbedee wrote: »

What's that green club like tool with the wooden No.12 handle beside the blade?

It's a carver's mallet. I have a heavier one with a lignum vitae head, but it's a bit heavy for lighter work, so I got this one. The green is polyurethane, so it's pretty robust.

Dave! · 27-06-2017 9:57pm

Finished building this bench over the weekend - oiling it up currently!

Gryzor · 08-07-2017 12:35am

...well, first successful one! Tight curves on the bandsaw take some practice..
Anyway, well happy with this one...walnut and oak, and flocked inside.

Gryzor · 21-07-2017 9:59am

Making two of these nightstands out of walnut to match the headboard I posted earlier...well happy with the first one.

peter bermingham · 21-07-2017 10:02am

Nice job that turned out really good

Sparks · 21-07-2017 10:50am

Nice clean lines there Gryzor.

kadman · 21-07-2017 11:25am

Revved up the chainsaw for a bit.......and made a start on this..

MickeyShtyles · 22-07-2017 11:22pm

Just finished this. Started the 28th of June. A nice learning curve to it. Very happy with it.

delaney001 · 26-07-2017 11:06pm

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Just finished this. Started the 28th of June. A nice learning curve to it. Very happy with it.

Very nice. How did you flatten the top?

MickeyShtyles · 27-07-2017 9:17am

delaney001 wrote: »

Very nice. How did you flatten the top?

Router with a flattening/planing jig.

peter bermingham · 27-07-2017 10:48am

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Router with a flattening/planing jig.

That's a handy way off doing it, i done the same with a work bench i made saves a hell of a lot of planing by hand. Oh nice little table looks good

Wossack · 27-07-2017 2:16pm

I shudder at the thought of trying to hand plane all that end grain - def the way to do it

..Brian.. · 02-08-2017 9:21am

Spent some time knocking up a jig to sharpen turning chisels so I can finally mess around on the lathe. Jig turned out well, just need to cut a channel and get a few bolts and wing nuts to replace the clamps, but it works well. Turned a little person and tried some spindle work. All that tear out on the spindle, are my chisels not sharp enough or is pine just a bitch to turn?

magicbastarder · 02-08-2017 9:50am

the growth rings on that pine at the end are very far apart - it's probably ludicrously fast grown and not very dense at all.

..Brian.. · 02-08-2017 10:10am

It's just a cheap bit of pine from the builders merchants. Think it's was originally a 3 x 7 I got off a site. Is that why it's tearing? I was hoping to practice on pine before butchering any nicer wood!

magicbastarder · 02-08-2017 10:13am

i had the same experience when i took up turning - i bought wood like that and it was so soft i could tear it with a fingernail.
you can see the photo above that, the growth rings are probably a quarter as thick.

kadman · 03-08-2017 9:17am

Are you using the right chisels.

Most of the turning there would get a good result from a skew.

But the most difficult chisel to use in such a case. A wide skew of course.

But as has been pointed out, timber choice is not great, last piece looks like

white deal, which is a bitch anyway to get a good finish on.

Try some fresh cut beech, ash, sycamore small logs if you can get some, would make things easy to

sharpen your skills on, excuse the pun.

tim

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