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Feenix posted:72 hours of a point-blank fan over my smelly charcuterie board. I mean, I think it smells IMPROVED, but it could be my mind playing tricks on me. How long should I expect to run air over it before I realize it's not the solution I seek? If you keep doing things to that board, it's going to get a restraining order.
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Hypnolobster posted:If you keep doing things to that board, it's going to get a restraining order. My board, my rules. :p Good points all. It's been like 2+ months, I think, at this point? I just didn't know what to consider normal for offgassing. (Not that anything about what I did to that board is normal...) in other news, my end grain cutting board is great, just.. really, REALLY dark (the black walnut, when oiled, got really dark, and the purpleheart was already a rich dark color.) Is there way to fade it or something, in the sun? Is that a thing? Is it safe? (other than to the color, that is...) Feenix fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Feenix posted:My board, my rules. :p It is called black walnut for a reason. Purple Heart will go more brown than purple over time, and walnut also does lighten somewhat with age. Some sunlight would probably accelerate that process somewhat. End grain is also always darker too. Kiln dried/steamed walnut tends to be a little lighter, but also kind of grey and boring. Peruvian/South American walnut is even darker than black walnut!
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His Divine Shadow posted:Today I made a couple of jigs for the grinder. An extremely simple one for the chisels, just two pieces of wood, cut threads right into the wood on one piece. You rule, dude
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GEMorris posted:Sharpening is a critical part of using any bladed tool, so yeah youre going to need a solution for sharpening as well. K I'll take a look at some stuff and practice on some old kitchen knives I don't use anymore.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:It is called black walnut for a reason. Purple Heart will go more brown than purple over time, and walnut also does lighten somewhat with age. Some sunlight would probably accelerate that process somewhat. End grain is also always darker too. Kiln dried/steamed walnut tends to be a little lighter, but also kind of grey and boring. Peruvian/South American walnut is even darker than black walnut! Yeah it’s totally just an aesthetic error on my part... but black walnut (pre oiling) was fairly different (lighter) than Purpleheart. I got duped. :p
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Thrasophius posted:K I'll take a look at some stuff and practice on some old kitchen knives I don't use anymore.
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Jhet posted:I had a stool that I expected to be done in a week and it took well over a month. It helped that I moved to a warm place with good ventilation, but aside from that it was mostly just the time. Dear God, man, see a doctor
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Dear God, man, see a doctor 
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Quick and possibly silly question for you guys and gals. I am making a circular black walnut table, and am planning on using a router to cut the circle out of my glued up boards. I want to give the edges a nice roman ogee profile, and was wondering if I can use that bit for cutting the circle out or will the profile somehow lack the cutting power and need to do the cutting with the straight bit and then do the edging?
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The edging bit needs to remove much more material, so you need to move the router slower to let it cut, and then you have higher risk of burn marks.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:You can do a ton with just a plain Sloyd knife or similar. Would a mora 120 be a good starting point? I'm seeing that recommended a lot for a beginner and it says it's a kind of sloyd knife.
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Putrid Grin posted:Quick and possibly silly question for you guys and gals.
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Made a smaller moxon vise, because big ones are dumb. I made a 26" capacity moxon like 2 years ago and I never ever use the thing because it's enormous. This one is just some ash I had sitting around and $30 in hardware from eBay. I didn't even measure, but it's somewhere around 17" between the screws. I just made it to what felt comfortable/what I had material to make.   Knobs out of black locust because it's heavy as hell, and now it does the Benchcrafted spin all the way in deal. Hypnolobster fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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Aug 5, 2018 03:40
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Bandsaw turned up  With original typed manual and brochure, also an unopened 1/4" axminster blade. I cleaned it up, freed up the table tilt, cleaned up the 1/2" blade that was in there, made the electrics marginally safer. Ordering a replacement 1/2" blade and drive belt soon and I need a bigass ripping blade to take advantage of that 7"+ height capacity. I'm now going to have a hell of a lot of fun making bandsaw boxes because why not.
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That is awesome
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Hypnolobster posted:Made a smaller moxon vise, because big ones are dumb. I made a 26" capacity moxon like 2 years ago and I never ever use the thing because it's enormous. This one is just some ash I had sitting around and $30 in hardware from eBay. I didn't even measure, but it's somewhere around 17" between the screws. I just made it to what felt comfortable/what I had material to make.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:That looks great. Pretty curl in the Ash. Ash is one of my very favorite woods to work with, but not always to look at and yours is gorgeous. What wood is your bench? Almost looks like walnut. How’d you make your knobs? Something with the toolmarks in the last picture doesn’t look like it was turned on a lathe. Thanks! I really like ash, and with the ash borer stressing and then killing every single one we have here, it's making for some really striking grain in most of the trees I mill. The bench top is black locust, legs are red oak and the stretchers are ash. I roughed out the knobs round on the bandsaw, and then made a tablesaw sled with a 5/8 pin and did a sort of rotary cove cut to carve out that part of the knob you spotted with the weird toolmarks. Turned them round/beveled with the same jig on the disc sander. I really don't want a lathe because I don't have the space, but at the same time I really need a lathe.
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Everyone really needs a lathe.
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I'm replacing a table top on a Wayfare cheapo table with slightly less-cheapo pine and I'm not sure the best way to finish it. It needs to be black, which means paint, but there has to be something better for this than interior latex from Lowe's that's been sitting in my garage for 2 years. Also, I know pine is soft and is going to dent all to hell, which is fine, but is there anything I can do to make it stand up to little people a bit better? Just poly over the paint or is there something better?
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Phone posted:SHOU SUGI BAN https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/shou-sugi-ban-black-waterproof-wood-furniture Any of you actually done this because ... hell MAYBE?
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Not yet.  It probably won't turn out black black, but I think you can control the color with how long you torch it and how aggressive you get with the brushing.
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Or alternatively just a good hard enamel paint. A water-based alkyd paint, or an oil-based enamel, not a soft latex "enamel" paint. I've read that a factory-tinted paint will be better than one that is mixed in the store, because it will contain more resin? Something like that. e., but the torching thing would be hella cool, I just wouldn't use my first try at it on something that I was making for someone else, vs. experimenting on my own stuff at home where if I ruin everything I'm OK with throwing it all out.
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Huxley posted:I'm replacing a table top on a Wayfare cheapo table with slightly less-cheapo pine and I'm not sure the best way to finish it.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Sherwin Williams ProClassic is a good water based alkyd enamel that should hold up well. Listen to this man
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I told my wife about our options, and she was much more enthusiastic about the option where I buy a $20 quart of paint than the one where I buy a $40 propane torch. Though she did finally say, "you do what you gotta do."
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Huxley posted:I told my wife about our options, and she was much more enthusiastic about the option where I buy a $20 quart of paint than the one where I buy a $40 propane torch. She might also be shocked at the cost of good paint.
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I've painted my house and all trim and I'm still shocked at the cost of good paint.
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Ok so I have my carving knife now and have carved a simple handle for it to get used to the different cuts and it turned out good and is really comfortable to use. Started my next simple little project but had to stop due to the blade not being as sharp. I cannot for the life of me find sharpening compound. I've searched all hardware stores near me and everything online that can be delivered in a reasonable time is super expensive or will take 4-8weeks at the usual price. What are some good alternatives for stropping compound?
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Mike_Clarke/status/1025771089627164672
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Hit a big milestone on the TV console today, the first dry assembly of the major case components. I was pleased that all the joinery lined up great. I decided to add shelves to the left and right compartments. I thought I would, but I wanted to assemble it before I did the work of making those panels. The center shelf ended up a good 3/16" too short, so I'll need to re-make it. Luckily I can cannibalize it to turn into one of the narrower shelves for the sides, so that work won't go entirely to waste. After the shelves, I need to make the toe kick and the similar piece for the back of the top. Still hoping to have at least the case finished and glued up before winter. The doors will likely have to be finished and installed in the spring at this rate.
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Thrasophius posted:Ok so I have my carving knife now and have carved a simple handle for it to get used to the different cuts and it turned out good and is really comfortable to use. What you want is green polishing/buffing compound, technically called chromium oxide paste. It's sold in ridiculously large blocks on Amazon. Honestly if you're in the US and you PM me your address I'll drop a hunk in the mail for you, it would take fifty lifetimes to go through the brick I bought.
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im youtube famous
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ColdPie posted:What you want is green polishing/buffing compound, technically called chromium oxide paste. It's sold in ridiculously large blocks on Amazon. Honestly if you're in the US and you PM me your address I'll drop a hunk in the mail for you, it would take fifty lifetimes to go through the brick I bought. Thanks for the offer I really appreciate it but I'm all the way in Japan at the moment. I've managed to find some though. Found it in a tiny little independent hardware store so I'm pretty happy. Just gotta strop my knife and I can get back to carving. I'm gonna post a picture of the finished result. If it isn't horrendous that is.
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Thrasophius posted:Thanks for the offer I really appreciate it but I'm all the way in Japan at the moment. I've managed to find some though. Found it in a tiny little independent hardware store so I'm pretty happy. Just gotta strop my knife and I can get back to carving. I'm gonna post a picture of the finished result. If it isn't horrendous that is. Did someone say knife sharpening in Japan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbzAxxflO8
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Another table top question. I'm gluing up two "stain grade" preglued panels from Lowes, a pair of 24x48s to make my square. So I'll only have one seam and the wood will be pretty flat from the go. I don't need to true flat and surface the whole thing, I'm going to sand up to 200 once I get that seam leveled out, but I know from previous glueups, there's going to be some wobble down that line that the sander won't get rid of to my satisfaction. Would a little block plane be enough to get that one seam down or is that asking for trouble? Is it just going to leave a weird stripe down the middle of my table that I also won't be able to sand out?
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Mr Executive posted:So I made a thing you guys might like, but I kinda hosed it up, and now I need some help salvaging it. Hey, remember when I did this dumb thing? Well i finally got around to finishing it. I sanded the door to rough up the poly and put a couple more coats of white paint on top. Then I applied some brand new, untainted poly and.....it yellowed again. So I sanded it again, and put on a couple more coats of paint. I'm leaving it like that for now. I also got my first taste of installing crown molding. That was fun.     
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MetaJew posted:Did someone say knife sharpening in Japan?
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No, unless I linked the wrong video, he literally used a ceramic bowl as a sharpening stone. Edit: I think I linked the wrong video of his.
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