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Just Winging It posted:You do stick it in a hole to have a good root around. If you don't bottom out your wood, you won't have a good finish.
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I’ve got a 2HP Harbor Freight dust collector with an aftermarket canister filter, along with a cyclone. They work fine, but they take up an ungodly amount of space. The cyclone is an inevitability to catch chips, but I’ve been wondering if there’s a better way to handle fine dust. Could I put a vent in the side of my garage and blow fine dust out that way, and maybe lose the canister? Or is this a bad idea?
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tracecomplete posted:I’ve got a 2HP Harbor Freight dust collector with an aftermarket canister filter, along with a cyclone. They work fine, but they take up an ungodly amount of space. The cyclone is an inevitability to catch chips, but I’ve been wondering if there’s a better way to handle fine dust. Could I put a vent in the side of my garage and blow fine dust out that way, and maybe lose the canister? Or is this a bad idea? You could certainly extend the hose that goes from the fan blower to the bag and stick that out the window or something. You could also lose the cyclone and just stick a trash can under that hose outside, or just let the chips pile up, but it’ll make a big mess. Keep the run from fan to outside as short as possible especially if you’re using flexible ducting. Depending on how long your duct runs are and how much you’re sucking up you may see a biiiig drop in suction running it to the edge of the garage instead of 4’ to the dust collector. 4” flexible hose is a major suction killer if the run is more than a few feet.
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Thanks - that tracks. The collector already sits next to the wall and if anything moving the hose up 4’ onto wall mount might make it moderately shorter a run for the most common tools. My garage is pretty narrow and the bigger tools are used right next to the collector as-is. It's a 2HP collector on a single hose that rarely if ever stretches more than about 6' and goes to one tool at a time; I designed and printed some magnetic couplers that I use instead of a lot of ductwork. I’m not super worried about losing suction, was more worried about whether I wasn't thinking about something important with just blowing the fine particles out. I wish I could just blow chips outside, but I live near other people. Maybe I’ll test it before hooking up the cyclone though, and see if I can wrangle it to be a minimal-ish mess with the barrel outside.
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At least you managed to free the wizard that was trapped in that tree
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Use it artistically, please I beg of thee
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When you walnut but she keeps routing
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Since we’re posting trapped souls
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Stultus Maximus posted:My latest project is one I'd have preferred not to have to make so soon after the last one but you gotta do what you gotta do. In late with sincere condolences, Brother. I had to do one 5 years ago for my wife, and couldn't come up with an idea. I ended up hating the result, but it was going back East to her origin fam. Same sort of base, and I like yours. Now that I view it again, it was too tryhard, but I'm okay with it. Striped maple, walnut, padauk, rosewood corners I think. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLb1nThRds
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Grumio posted:When you walnut but she keeps routing Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses › Woodworking:
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Grumio posted:When you walnut but she keeps routing
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I had scrap left over from the last one and the handles I had ordered finally actually arrived so I made another little cabinet for under my fish tank. Mostly Oak and Maple; the darker wood is a chunk of Beli I pulled out of a closeout bin at Woodcraft. Still need to fix the door alignment a bit. 
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That looks super nice! I see the door alignment issue but that shouldn't be too hard to adjust. What kind of finish did you apply? It looks very light colored so no stain I assume.
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Wallet posted:I had scrap left over from the last one and the handles I had ordered finally actually arrived so I made another little cabinet for under my fish tank. Mostly Oak and Maple; the darker wood is a chunk of Beli I pulled out of a closeout bin at Woodcraft. Still need to fix the door alignment a bit. I really like the use of chamfering on the drawer fronts and the interior of the frame. Gonna steal that for a project sometime soon.
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Leperflesh posted:That looks super nice! I see the door alignment issue but that shouldn't be too hard to adjust. What kind of finish did you apply? It looks very light colored so no stain I assume. It's just General Finishes water based poly; I think they call it topcoat or something.
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I built a clock. Curly maple and waterfall bubinga. Finished with shellac, 18" (45cm) diameter. 
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Meow Meow Meow posted:I built a clock. Curly maple and waterfall bubinga. Finished with shellac, 18" (45cm) diameter. That looks great! Did you do the Krenov thing and only put an hour and a second hand on with no minute hand?
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Meow Meow Meow posted:bubinga! 
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I made a scaffolding board desk for my office back at the start of the pandemic and now I want to remake a new, slightly better, slightly shorter one. One thing I want to do this time is smooth it out a bit more and I wondered if giving it a resin surface was a good idea to fill any little gaps and make it smooth. Baring in mind I only have hand power tool, so no surfacers or anything like that. I'm not wanting a deep pour of resin or anything like that, just something that will give me a nice smooth surface.
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A good poly coat would do that
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Resin is pretty hard to work with, in my experience. But I agree that a simple polyurethane finish would do something similar, much more easily. But also, remember to sand the wood. If smoothness is important, I'd do 100 grit, 200 grit, then 400 grit. The 100 grit is where you spend most of your time, the other two are just to remove the scratches made by the sandpaper.
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Ghostnuke posted:A good poly coat would do that Would a poly coat take out relatively deep features, im thinking 4-5mm indentations etc?
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Aramoro posted:Would a poly coat take out relatively deep features, im thinking 4-5mm indentations etc? No--what are they from? You can steam dents out, but if we're talking about filling divots half a cm deep you either need to resurface or fill with something. Filling the holes with epoxy will work fine, but I don't imagine you want to do the whole surface because finishing it afterwards would be a nightmare with hand tools. Wallet fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Aramoro posted:Would a poly coat take out relatively deep features, im thinking 4-5mm indentations etc? not even a little
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:That looks great! Did you do the Krenov thing and only put an hour and a second hand on with no minute hand? No, just the traditional hour & minute hands.
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Dang it is insert imgur broken? I finished my dog pen.
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I use the imgur upload plugin (and log in, so all my uploads are in an account) but you can always just go to imgur.com and upload there. Are you using the SA mobile app or something?
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Leperflesh posted:I use the imgur upload plugin (and log in, so all my uploads are in an account) but you can always just go to imgur.com and upload there. Are you using the SA mobile app or something? Yeah. The sa mobile app has always been my go to for adding pics because it kept me from having to make more accounts and install other apps, which is my top priority.
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CommonShore posted:Yeah. The sa mobile app has always been my go to for adding pics because it kept me from having to make more accounts and install other apps, which is my top priority. If you're on Android: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3571717&pagenumber=210&perpage=40 You'd have to click over to the beta. And you'll need an imgur account because imgur now deletes anonymous uploads after "some time".
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Uthor posted:If you're on Android: Ah well I'll just like... not post images then. Too much effort. But here's a discord link that'll probably also expire after "some time" but I didn't have to make a new account for it: 
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CommonShore posted:Ah well I'll just like... not post images then. Too much effort. Ngl, I thought you meant you’d carved a pen that looked like a dog. This is also pretty cool and has the added bonus of getting to pet the dog.
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I use imgbb for uploading images on mobile. https://imgbb.com/upload
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My cousin is asking me if there's anything she can do about the particularly noticeable fading on her teak dining room table (it's in quite a sunny room) I haven't really worked with teak, is there anything relatively straightforward to do to balance this out a bit?
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Toast posted:My cousin is asking me if there's anything she can do about the particularly noticeable fading on her teak dining room table (it's in quite a sunny room) If you hadn't said anything, I would have just assumed it was a nice looking table made of two contrasting types of wood.
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Give it a 180 flip once in a while so the sun bleaches it evenly 
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