What are you working on currently?

chillyspoon wrote: »

That's cool - his intro is straight from the Frank Howarth school of workshop stop frame animation. What a great space.

Frank Howarth's videos are brilliant. ViTTEN is well worth a look-he does some amazing stuff, I got a few great tips from his videos.

I am hoping to extend my work space a little as it has got so tight in my garage space now with wide shelves for wood etc. Sadly getting the job done now will be virtually impossible given all the restrictions that this pandemic has created.

But I'm not complaining, just happy me and all my family are safe and well still. Small mercies.


I have made a few small things over the past few months but it had just been too cold outside (my one car garage) to even think about spending a half day out there (without any heating at all). Here's a few things I made. Hope they are of some interest to the group.


A cribbage board I made for my Dad using oak barrel stave and cross inlay of walnut strips


A barrel stave table lamp


A barrel stave tealight candle holder

Running out of ply at this stage, knocked together a bookshelf to go where a toilet door used to be.

The Duk wrote: »

Running out of ply at this stage, knocked together a bookshelf to go where a toilet door used to be.

Does it make using the toilet a bit awkward 😂

So, while not exactly a woodcraft project, this will help with woodcrafting.

For those few of you who were subjected to photos of my shed, you might have noticed I have a couple of machinist bench vices, but no woodworking vice.

I'm making up a set of soft jaws for one of the no. 4 vices (and possibly the no.1 as well) to hold material that would otherwise be damaged

Fernhill is within our 2km exercise limit, so we wander around there when we need fresh air, because, well, look at it:



They do the fae-folk-doors-in-the-trees thing for the kids, but they don't have any toadstools (and I've always seen toadstools with those before). Also, they had the tree surgeon in before the lockdown but haven't removed the logs yet, so I...er... liberated one



Hacked off a lump, put it on the lathe...



Turned an okayish toadstool from it.





The second one.... well, I'm glad I was wearing the faceshield, or I'd be going to the dentist to have some bark removed round about now



Off-center turning is fun but scary



Two more chunks of log to go, then I'll stick some dowels in the bases of them and Calum and I will go plant them back in Fernhill by the doors in the trees for the other kids.




I might liberate another branch if nobody's looking...

Well, technically I stole the log, so that's just me trying to stay out of the pokey for looting in a pandemic

My first bowl



Not sure of the wood (it came from one of homeofwood.co.uk's variety packs and the miniatures in those aren't often labelled), but it's finished in poppy seed oil and a single coat of blonde shellac.

Sparks wrote: »

My first bowl



Not sure of the wood (it came from one of homeofwood.co.uk's variety packs and the miniatures in those aren't often labelled), but it's finished in poppy seed oil and a single coat of blonde shellac.

Nicely finished! Looks like Beech?

I'm waiting on (yet another) sack of blanks from home of wood. I find them great as I've np space here for milling my own timber, as I'm in the middle of the town.

I was going to ask what the rubber bungs were, but on close inspection, they look like they might be made for this job

mayo.mick wrote: »

Nicely finished! Looks like Beech?

Spalted sycamore apparently. Definitely not beech, I have some of that in the shed and this looked nothing like it.

Sparks wrote: »

Spalted sycamore apparently. Definitely not beech, I have some of that in the shed and this looked nothing like it.

Definitely sycamore. Sycamore does get affected by fungus just like beech, but it's often much finer and subtle, often called lacey sycamore because the lines resemble lace.

Amazing! How many hours went into that:pac:

Do you sell or otherwise distribute those plans?

Bruthal wrote: »

I have never intended selling them. I have given away plans for the simpler clocks once or twice. Never heard how they got on. They are sort of easy and not easy at the same time. It is 8 years since I did the first one I designed myself. A lot has been learned since then. That one is still in the hall. Again I modified that one this year, replacing the graham escapement with a grasshopper.

em....yeah....yeah....the Graham escapement for a eh... Grasshopper...good call:o does the grasshopper keep you up at night:pac:

Bruthal, that's absolutely magnificent.

What brad gun did you get

So if I had my pick of kitchens, it would be a http://www.kerfdesign.com Kitchen. I've decided I'll try make a basic cabinet with 3 drawers. Not having ply to start I've decided to make a few jigs to pay homage to Kerf. First up is a trench jig, it'll give me the look I'm going for as I'm only armed with a track saw, mitre saw and router. My plan is to have a flush panel between each drawer. Next up will be a jig for the handle cut out.

The Duk wrote: »

So if I had my pick of kitchens, it would be a http://www.kerfdesign.com Kitchen. I've decided I'll try make a basic cabinet with 3 drawers. Not having ply to start I've decided to make a few jigs to pay homage to Kerf. First up is a trench jig, it'll give me the look I'm going for as I'm only armed with a track saw, mitre saw and router. My plan is to have a flush panel between each drawer. Next up will be a jig for the handle cut out.

Looks great!

mayo.mick wrote: »

Yew'll be happy with that! :pac:

Yes, very happy It's a lovely piece of wood, had it for ages sitting in the workshop. Dry as a bone and verrrry hard. The thing I love about yew is that you can get a really glossy smooth finish on it without too much effort using only natural things like oils and waxes.