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I've ripped single pieces of mahogany into thin strips, and kept them sequences and aligned after bending, such that the grain lines up. If your glue lines are perfect, you literally cannot tell it's not a single piece.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Great news everyone, Matthias released the color code for his Wandel Green Yess! Now I'll know the exact colour not to order when I paint things in my shop.
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Speaking of Matthias, has anyone here made his Thickness/Drum Sander plans? If so how is it? Anything you would improve or change? I might start making it this week but modify it like Marius Hornberger has so you can also sand from the top. Without an auto feed the top sanding seems a lot easier to manage. I'm gearing up cutting board production to try and attend some shows in the fall and sanding is my real bottleneck. Drum Sanders retail for crazy amounts. North of 2k new in Canada. Even on Craigslist the cheapest I've seen is $600 or they are absolutely enormous for my small shop and not viable. Here is the best I've found. Having the auto feed might be worth the price though. I might make Matthias' one till I can sell a few boards and then buy a nicer one to really ramp up production.
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Jul 11, 2016 16:12
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Shopsmith had a nice plan for a drum sander. Theirs runs off the motor on a contractor saw but it would be trivial to attach one.
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Preparing to replace about 10% of a 17 year old Douglas Fir deck and restain it, hoping to get a few more years out of it as we just bought the house and probably should avoid replace the whole thing for now. Any opinions on TWP stains, or is there a better choice? This is in Colorado so fairly dry most of the time besides snow, but tons of UV. I kept coming across people recommending TWP 1500, but now I'm a little paranoid after noticing they run not just twpstainhelp.com but also deckstainhelp.com, which pretends to be an independent site but gives them great reviews. Maybe Cabot but I don't really trust consumer reports either and they recommend it 
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Jul 11, 2016 17:40
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I bought the plans for the stumpy nubs thickness sander but I haven't gotten around to trying to build it yet
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Jul 12, 2016 01:03
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Squibbles posted:Yess! Now I'll know the exact colour not to order when I paint things in my shop. BTW, does anyone know how to convert those numbers to a RAL equivalent? EDIT: Just using photoshop, the image & the eyedropper tool to get a hex-color code, I was able to convert it to RAL 6017. Probably won't be exact, but close enough I guess. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Jul 12, 2016 09:19
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Just scored a cheap Ryobi table saw from Craigslist! Now I have to keep an eye out for all of the free scrap lumber that gets posted up. Any good ideas for babby's first project?
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Jul 13, 2016 16:57
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Tool tote.
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Jul 13, 2016 17:05
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I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives.      secret drawer:  Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BHyM8_Gg1bp/
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Jul 13, 2016 17:18
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mds2 posted:I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives.  I hope his knives are worthy :bow:
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Mr. Mambold posted:
$1000+ for each knife.
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Jul 13, 2016 17:46
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mds2 posted:I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives. Wood selection is outstanding. Fit and finish appear to be well executed. Overall very impressive. edit; and I just watched the video. Gobsmacked.
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Electric Shoes posted:Just scored a cheap Ryobi table saw from Craigslist! Now I have to keep an eye out for all of the free scrap lumber that gets posted up. Thinking about redoing mine actually. I got an Incra gauge and kinda tried copying their sled thing, but due to some unexpected friction my sled more or less ended up being an expanded table top. Course it's a small job site saw type, so that wasn't necessarily without its benefits. mds2 posted:I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives. quote:Video: 
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Jul 13, 2016 20:05
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Moved to a new house out in the country, the house being in various stages of needing repair, so of course I started out with the most important task: build a tree house for the kid!    Took about 5 days to complete, made a whole bunch of mistakes along the way, but it was fun :-)
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Lucky kid. Good dad.
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Thanks! The son was very pleased and is planning to sleep up there. But when I woke this morning I could hardly bend my left knee. Wood working up in trees requires way too much bendiness from my old limbs... I'm still debating what to install as a ladder. A rope ladder would be cool, but I think too risky for a 5 year old to use at that height... Perhaps if I tethered it to the ground, but that would negate what makes a rope ladder cool, namely the ability to pull it up into your tree fortress of ultimate parent denying doom...
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Hinged gangway with 2x4s laid flat for "steps" that can be retracted via pulleys so it's easier for a kid  . I would have killed for that. Hell I want that now.
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mds2 posted:I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives.
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Target Practice posted:Hinged gangway with 2x4s laid flat for "steps" that can be retracted via pulleys so it's easier for a kid That would indeed be awesome, we'll see if my ambitions reach that level
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Jul 14, 2016 19:19
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That case is beautiful and super-inspiring! Also, let me make sure I parsed this: mds2 posted:$1000+ for each knife. correctly... The case will be holding more than $10k worth of pocket knives? I don't even know how to react. And this is from someone who hangs out in the watch thread and is used to hearing about and seeing people spend real money on silly things.
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Trabant posted:That case is beautiful and super-inspiring! Yes, super expensive knives. I didn't even know such things existed until he contacted me. I was telling my coworker about it today, so we looked up one of the knives I know he has: $4800! 10 knives in the tray, then smaller "old timer" style pocket knives in the drawer.
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Rnr posted:I'm still debating what to install as a ladder. A rope ladder would be cool, but I think too risky for a 5 year old to use at that height... Perhaps if I tethered it to the ground, but that would negate what makes a rope ladder cool, namely the ability to pull it up into your tree fortress of ultimate parent denying doom... Two fixed lines to the ground and the steps have guide holes in them. That way you can pull the ladder up and down like a set of blinds, but the whole thing is more stable.
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Jul 15, 2016 01:49
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Climbing wall to the tree house.
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Does anyone have advice for making and using shellac from flakes?Trabant posted:correctly... The case will be holding more than $10k worth of pocket knives?
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Parts Kit posted:Does anyone have advice for making and using shellac from flakes? This is the video that convinced me to go for it and switch to flakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlsmnXBo-M I've been keeping around garnet and blonde, and it keeps in a ball jar for a good long while.
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mds2 posted:I made a display box for a collector of pocket knives. That is really really sweet. I hope we end up at some point getting pics of it with some hardware.
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Rnr posted:Moved to a new house out in the country, the house being in various stages of needing repair, so of course I started out with the most important task: build a tree house for the kid! This kicks rear end.
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So, after moving I finally have a workbench in a garage. It's kind of crappy and leftover from the previous owner but I want to get started with some woodworking and the thing my wife is pointing me at is picture frames. I want to work with hand tools; right now I've got a decent to good carcass saw (UK-made, it's essentially a large miter saw with a reinforced back) and a variety of crappy tools and want to stick with hand tools. The part I'm getting stuck on is the rabbet in the back to hold in the picture frame backing material. I know where to buy nice tools (Lee Valley) but I'm not sure I want to drop $250 for a specialized plane for my very first project. I watched Paul Sellers do a demonstration of a picture frame using hand tools and he just cut the rabbet by eye with a dovetail or other small reinforced back saw. Since I know he makes things look easy, anyone have experience with reliably cutting flat rabbets this way or should I be looking for a secondhand rabbet plane or something on ebay? Alternatively are there other methods to do this? I honestly haven't found a decent tutorial on this that doesn't bust out a table saw as the first step.
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I followed a Paul sellers video on making a rebate plane out of a block of wood and a chisel. It was surprisingly easy and worked perfectly well. I'd highly recommend it especially if you aren't sure you'd need it for heaps of other projects. Only took me an evening and I'm an absolute beginner.
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Hypnolobster posted:This is the video that convinced me to go for it and switch to flakes I did mix up some shellac last night (totally grab rear end on the mix though) and got a nice higher build friction polish setup going with it, but now this morning the assembled pen has gunk in the open grain. I'm hoping it's just the carnauba wax and I can warm it up with a hair dryer. It would suck to have to chuck this otherwise gorgeous (and fully assembled) pen into the reject pile as it would take an absurd amount of time to pick all of the gunk out by hand.  Fun plus side to wet sanding padauk (which is what last night's pen is) on a lathe is my hands are covered with red stains that makes it look like I jacked off someone with ebola.  ed: Oh yeah, also wet sanding wood with tung oil is giving me nice results. Much nicer than dry sanding with the same 220 and 400 grit papers. Forget where I heard about doing that but if you guys haven't tried it you should consider it. Put some oil in one of the $1 generic condiment bottles from walmart and go to town. Parts Kit fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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Falcon2001 posted:I want to work with hand tools; right now I've got a decent to good carcass saw (UK-made, it's essentially a large miter saw with a reinforced back) and a variety of crappy tools and want to stick with hand tools. The part I'm getting stuck on is the rabbet in the back to hold in the picture frame backing material. I know where to buy nice tools (Lee Valley) but I'm not sure I want to drop $250 for a specialized plane for my very first project. Instead of cutting a rabbet, you can build up the frame out of two layers of wood, one of which is narrower than the other. Of course that means you'll want to start with thinner wood, unless you like the idea of having really thick picture frames. I suppose you could also cut out the rabbet with a chisel, using it like the blade of a plane without having all the rest of the plane components to help guide you. That'd be a lot of chiseling though. Fortunately, minor irregularities won't be all that visible in the finished piece.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Instead of cutting a rabbet, you can build up the frame out of two layers of wood, one of which is narrower than the other. Of course that means you'll want to start with thinner wood, unless you like the idea of having really thick picture frames. Oh hey, that's a great idea. I should look into that and make sure I can make the frame look fine still but it should be okay. Thanks! Granite Octopus posted:I followed a Paul sellers video on making a rebate plane out of a block of wood and a chisel. It was surprisingly easy and worked perfectly well. I'd highly recommend it especially if you aren't sure you'd need it for heaps of other projects. Only took me an evening and I'm an absolute beginner. I might check this out as well.
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Went to a market today and I noticed some pretty cool chairs being sold, outrageous prices IMO (200 bucks per chair almost), but they where comfy. And also very simple in design, I think I could make these quite easily:
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How are they joined?
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Jul 16, 2016 21:48
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MetaJew posted:How are they joined? I'm going with "rope"
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His Divine Shadow posted:Went to a market today and I noticed some pretty cool chairs being sold, outrageous prices IMO (200 bucks per chair almost), but they where comfy. And also very simple in design, I think I could make these quite easily: Looks like it's called a "stick chair". Google searching that gives a lot of options / plans. E: https://youtu.be/IbTZPaPufAY Hubis fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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Jul 16, 2016 22:07
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I'm all for building your own furniture. But how exactly is $200 an outrageous price for a chair?
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GEMorris posted:I'm all for building your own furniture. But how exactly is $200 an outrageous price for a chair? How is $200 not at an outrageous price for a chair??
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