What are you working on currently?

kadman · 15-08-2021 2:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117757261#Comment_117757261

Handles for handsaws,

http://www.disstonianinstitute.com/quickglance.html

magicbastarder · 15-08-2021 5:01pm

fork handles?

Esel · 15-08-2021 7:18pm

Four candles, surely?

magicbastarder · 15-08-2021 10:40pm

no, four candles.

Esel · 16-08-2021 1:37am

Doh! 🤤

mayo.mick · 16-08-2021 8:33pm

Some nicely figured Ash planks I got recently.

16-08-2021 11:12pm

Some lovely tool handles in waiting there.

Foggy Jew · 16-08-2021 11:24pm

The kitchen table.

Oops. Sorry. Though I was on the “Working From Home’ thread. My bad

cletus · 17-08-2021 11:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117695430#Comment_117695430

Back home for a few days, and I finished this piece off. Worked out grand

Dunno why it came out sideways

Esel · 18-08-2021 12:01am

^ Chinese saw? 🙂

cletus · 18-08-2021 12:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117769715#Comment_117769715

????

Esel · 18-08-2021 8:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117771023#Comment_117771023

A bad attempt at a joke - saw cutting horizontally instead of vertically, so out by 90⁰.....

cletus · 18-08-2021 9:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117773561#Comment_117773561

😀😀

The Duk · 28-08-2021 1:25pm

New Drawers

magicbastarder · 03-09-2021 9:43pm

just faffing around making christmas decorations out of odds and ends of wood and bits of branchwood to make mushrooms .

kadman · 04-09-2021 10:58am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117844103#Comment_117844103

Nice job there magic. I think its confirmed, you are definitely a woodturning addict😁

glynf · 05-09-2021 6:48pm

Hello all, I built another sideboard since I was here last, got some 8 x 1 and 4 x 2 oak planks for relatively reasonable money (reason being most of them were like feckin bananas 😐️):

Started by planing them, then jointing them with a table saw & low angle jack plane:

A lot of the boards ended up as thin as 16mm when I got them flat, I used the thinner ones for a coffee table:

Glued up carcass/frame, 1800W x 400H x 380D:

Fitting the doors, 4 inset & 4 full overlay hinges:

Routing for the back panel, made up of 16mm scraps from the coffee table:

The legs/frame-I angled them about 8° Front to back:

6mm threaded inserts to fix the frame to the carcass:

After much sanding (up to 220) and two coats of osmo poly-x matt, the finished item:

Delighted overall how it came out, I still need to plug the countersunk bolts, and I’m not completely happy how the full overlay hinges left the center gap 1.5mm more than the gap between the doors so I might epoxy a strip of brass into it eventually. It nearly took me as long to figure out how to upload the pics as to build this...

glynf · 05-09-2021 7:17pm

The coffee table; I got the legs for €50 online a while back. I don't need a coffee table, so will end up selling it, I just couldn't stop after the sideboard😁

The Duk · 06-09-2021 1:56pm

Fantastic job Glynf, re. the sideboard legs are they just glued up? Are there domino's, screws or dowels involved?

glynf · 06-09-2021 3:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117853605#Comment_117853605

Thank you. I used two 8 x 40 dominos & glue at each joint, worked out plenty strong enough.

magicbastarder · 08-09-2021 10:11pm

tree surgeons taking some dead standing elms down today in the grounds of DCU, so i snaffled a bit. i was sweating buckets onto the inside of the face shield processing these.

kadman · 09-09-2021 7:16pm

Nice little capture there magicb, I am jealous for sure😀

magicbastarder · 09-09-2021 8:43pm

btw, my chainsaw work leaves a bit to be desired. i usually end up making curving cuts - as in they curve back in towards me.

bamayang · 22-09-2021 8:03pm

Jesus Glynf that’s another level with the sideboard!! InCredible craft, love the bevel on the internal edge of the front frame.

bamayang · 22-09-2021 8:23pm

Have a table top (made of 2 joined slabs) that has partially split. Going to rip it in half and rejoin it properly, got a track saw to do it. Very nervous about doing it, has anyone attempted similar, any advise before I make a complete mess of it?

is the track saw likely to leave two jointable edges?

glynf · 23-09-2021 5:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117925929#Comment_117925929

I don't have a jointer, so have used a track saw a few times to joint longer boards-usually 19-20mm thick-with no issues. I tidied up the glue faces with a low angle jack plane that has a fence. Works well for me especially if the track saw blade is nice and sharp; the fence keeps the edge perpendicular to the front if the board, maybe a bit harder to free hand it without one. I have seen a video on youtube of a lad making one from 12mm ply as well.

edit:

Here's the one-odd choice of music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJDWxY0sNqA

Wossack · 23-09-2021 7:21pm

Paul sellers howto on edge jointing, may be of use

https://youtu.be/h-vMtS_j4cY

Do you have enough clamps for the glue up afterwards? That can be a bit of a stumbling block

Halycon · 08-10-2021 2:42pm

Been working on a farmhouse style table, mostly with hand tools. Its been slow and tedious, but very rewarding when it goes right

I love drawboring

Not sure why this wont rotate

Breadboard ends with more drawbores and allowing for wood movement

The joinery is nearly done, I need to plane, sand and finish now. Having trouble getting tinted hard wax oil though. Would like a few samples to test, as I want a more grey colour than the yellow that pine tends to go.