What are you working on currently?

They came out really well nice job just one thing don't put the handles on the center panel next time, it can make them a little hard to grip.Now theirs nothing wrong with where they are.

..Brian.. wrote: »

Thanks and that's definitely one of the mistakes I mentioned! I drilled the holes and the minute I put the first one up I knew it was a mistake, they are very close to each other. Would you just attach them straight into the the panel?

Yes the top rail of each drawer is where they normally go. But look it came out really well

magicbastarder wrote: »

just turned a small burl bowl the other night - still quite thick, it's full of voids and i wasn't sure how well it would hold together. i may stick it back on the lathe and turn the walls a bit thinner.

the source of the burl was a little unusual - cycling home from work on griffith avenue about six months ago, i was passed by a high speed car chase where the chasee clipped another car at high speed, spun, and slammed backwards into one of the london planes lining the avenue. and promptly drove off at high speed, i think with both rear tyres blown out. he knocked the burl off the tree in the process, so i took it home.

not sure I'd risk it..! looks great as is, with loads of character - and a cool story to boot

Another youtube inspired box. Last box for a while I think, all boxed out! This one was all about the joinery, took time but worth it.

https://youtu.be/4W-9_P_ZRck

delaney001 wrote: »

That is absolutely top grade work. Do you work machine or more hand tools style? A++

Thanks! Bit of both tbh, depends on what I'm doing. In this case all the milling done by machine and joinery by hand...

That's a nice bit of work i like them protruding dovetails something different i know you said you are all boxed out you could have a go at this https://youtu.be/9vqeBoe3y1Y sorry you have to copy and paste the youtube link

magicbastarder wrote: »

rough turning some cedar. not my first choice in wood for turning, but i promised my father in law (well, i was told to) i'd try to make something from the atlantic cedar storm doris toppled in his garden.
had to remember that baby oil is a little easier on the skin than acetone, for getting the sap off your hands.

Not fine joinery related but does baby oil work ? Sap's a bugger when it gets on your hands find it worse with rough first fix timber and the odd bit of pao 2nd fix .
Used to find a particular brand of wipes decent for it

Finished up a few very quickly made bandsaw boxes for an xmas bazaar being held at my son's school for fundraising. The oak ones were a total disaster, the ebonising went badly wrong and they had to be scrapped:



But some of the rest turned out okay, considering they were all made in a week from scraps and ends of boards that had been lying around getting underfoot:

Bandsaw box for necklaces (or keys I guess) made from a walnut offcut, some brass and pewter hardware and some felt.
Didn’t turn out too badly.

I've got this one Wossack. Wrote about it when I got it here and I've since replaced the guides and the thrust bearing (for about €15 in total). I also bought some extra blades from tuffsaws (an eighth-inch blade, a fine-tooth quarter-inch, a general purpose three-eighths blade and a heavy-duty half-inch blade that I thought I could resaw with but I haven't even undone the cable ties on that one because the three-eighths is about the limit of what the machine can accurately drive (and even that one needed a bearing replaced first).





I don't have room for a mobile cart, I put it on a piece of ply and I was putting it on the ground beside the bench. Then I got a sander and I had to build a very rough frame from 2x4s to stack them on:





It's not a bad little machine. I wouldn't push it too hard, it's got a 75mm capacity and when you get over 25mm it's a slow feed rate; the blade guide mount is plastic so don't expect much from it and the fence... well, throw it way with the box when you unwrap things, it's absolutely ****e. Clamp a length of wood or (what I do) extruded aluminium box section on the table, that makes for a far better fence. Glad I got it; it's a real timesaver for long rip cuts during the rough-cut phase and bandsaw boxes are a nice way to use up scraps. But I wouldn't try to push it past its comfort zone. I only expect to get somewhere around three years of life from it, anything more is a bonus.

About the only thing about it that I wish was better is that it's not able to even try resawing anything wider than 75mm. But I plan to get a bigger bandsaw for that at some stage, and the nice man from An Post just delivered my new frame saw today which I'm hoping will ease the resawing a bit. It's not a roubo frame saw, it's an english frame saw, but according to Richard Maguire they do just as well.

np. BTW, the frame saw? Makes resawing easier but it's still a pig of a job even on modest sized boards. I have to do a siven-inch wide poplar board tomorrow, I fully expect it'll take an hour to do.

Sparks wrote: »

I've got this one Wossack. Wrote about it when I got it here and I've since replaced the guides and the thrust bearing (for about €15 in total). I also bought some extra blades from tuffsaws (an eighth-inch blade, a fine-tooth quarter-inch, a general purpose three-eighths blade and a heavy-duty half-inch blade that I thought I could resaw with but I haven't even undone the cable ties on that one because the three-eighths is about the limit of what the machine can accurately drive (and even that one needed a bearing replaced first).





I don't have room for a mobile cart, I put it on a piece of ply and I was putting it on the ground beside the bench. Then I got a sander and I had to build a very rough frame from 2x4s to stack them on:





It's not a bad little machine. I wouldn't push it too hard, it's got a 75mm capacity and when you get over 25mm it's a slow feed rate; the blade guide mount is plastic so don't expect much from it and the fence... well, throw it way with the box when you unwrap things, it's absolutely ****e. Clamp a length of wood or (what I do) extruded aluminium box section on the table, that makes for a far better fence. Glad I got it; it's a real timesaver for long rip cuts during the rough-cut phase and bandsaw boxes are a nice way to use up scraps. But I wouldn't try to push it past its comfort zone. I only expect to get somewhere around three years of life from it, anything more is a bonus.

About the only thing about it that I wish was better is that it's not able to even try resawing anything wider than 75mm. But I plan to get a bigger bandsaw for that at some stage, and the nice man from An Post just delivered my new frame saw today which I'm hoping will ease the resawing a bit. It's not a roubo frame saw, it's an english frame saw, but according to Richard Maguire they do just as well.

I've been on the lookout for the Aldi one myself after looking at Peter's review. Would you recommend the Titan for some small project work? Looking for one for cutting acrylic, corian and timber pen blanks.

Wanted to get a proper PC desk but could not afford what we wanted so I just tried to do it myself with pine boards:
I used a free online software to measure and plan it:


and here is the result:

the right part is for the printer (and needed the extra 10cm!

I'm not an expert so the lines are not 100 straight, the measures were good but not perfect, and it took me a good week to do it but well it's a first one and costed me 250 between wood boards and varnish VS too expensive through any shops! plus I'm quite happy of the accomplishment !

feel free to comment positively or negatively all is good when learning!

jewelery box/chest for mrs.D cut the veneers on bandsaw from a piece of flame grained oak that i had for 15 or 16 years hard as the hobs of hell

Small little table I made from Oak. the legs are also turned from Oak. I used Lacquer to give the top a hard wearing finish. Was fun to make...:D

That's SketchUp

galwaydude18 wrote: »

What thickness did you cut the veneers at?

i cut them about 3mm thick. i have a startrite 352 bandsaw and made a tall plywood fence. rough sanded them with orbital sander to remove the saw marks before i used them

That's very fine work Dathi!

They came out nice MB.