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[Stuart]

Oak worktop offcuts.

I saw something similar a while ago and thought it was one of the few useful things I’d seen made from worktop offcuts so gave it a go.

Not sure now I’ve made it but wife is happy!

 

[Cabinetman]

As any married man will tell you, that’s a success, nice shape overall.

 

[MattS]

Just to prove I do actually do some woodwork - here’s a photo of a batch of Christmas presents. Hastily made after a month or so of illness I made 4 sets which were completed just as they were gifted which for one set was the 27th! Didn’t take any photos of them before giving so this set which went to my wife has been used.

Sweet chestnut with iroko (I think, old drawer side) dowels made with the dowel plate purchased from this parish.

 

[AndyT]

Matt, they look nicely made, but what are they?

 

[9fingers]

Toast(er) tongs

Bob

 

[MattS]

Yes, as Bob says toaster tongs but can be used on any hot item which isn’t too heavy! They have quite a bit of flex in them.

 

[Steve Maskery]

It's not workshop, but I'm quite proud of this. All from scratch (although my vegetarian partner did not take kindly to me boiling up a trotter on the stove for several hours). It's not the first one I've ever made, but the last one was probably 25 years ago.

20cm dia, over €20 pork in it, 3-day process, 4 including resting.

It's for a party tonight. Good job I got it finished before the oven packed up, 2 days before the warranty ran out. Amazon want me to crate it up and ship it to Scotland (I'm in SW France at the mo). Crazy.
Anyway here it is:




I'm not sure if it looks better with or without the paper.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My late friend, a pub landlord used to do all the pub baking, bread, pies, pasties, quiches the lot. He gave up on proper pork pies as he kept getting them sent back because they weren't pink.

 

[Lurker]

Pink ( made with cured pork) pie are disgusting and taste nothing like the real thing.

 

[Jonathan]

Steve, I can almost taste that pie.
For me it used to be Colman's with pork pie, until I was introduced to Grey Poupon.

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[Steve Maskery]

I've never been a fan of any kind of mustard as a condiment, although there are several types in the fridge for culinary use.
I'm serving this with genuine Branston and home-made pickled red onion.
And I've just realised we don't have enough cutlery.

 

[Cabinetman]

Good looking pies Steve, enjoy your party (love a party) just warn you there’s a lot of cold bugs going round, best kill them with liberal doses of whiskey imo.

 

[Steve Maskery]

I'd give it a solid 7/10

Flavour was excellent, properly seasoned. Pastry was a good texture, not very even though. Too thin and too thick in places. It had cracked and I had to bandage it all in cling film in order to fill it with jelly.

Good texture to the meat, but, if I am honest, it was a bit dry, which I think means it was overbaked.

Still, thiere is only a small portion left, so somebody must have eaten it, and it wasn't all me.

 

[Alasdair]

That's a lovely looking pie Steve. :text-bravo: bscene-drinkingcheers:

 

[Tiresias]

Oh well, if we’re going to have a pie-off, may I respectfully submit:



Pork shoulder and smoked pork belly. It was going to have a partridge in, but it hadn’t taken kindly to the freezer. Seasoned with sage, thyme, mace, cayenne, black and white pepper, bay leaf. Shoulder cut, not minced, into 5mm cubes. Belly minced. Jelly made from the pork bones.

None left…

 

[Steve Maskery]

Very, very nice. And served with integrated chips, I see
Excellent.
S

 

[RogerS]

....Grey Poupon.

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aka Pooh Upon or even Poop On........bit like Marmite ...ghastly stuff.

 

[Dr.Al]

A simple Japanese style lamp thing. It's from an Axminster design: I followed the design but not the method, although my method wasn't especially different (it just made use of a router plane and I used a different jig to help cutting the half-laps for the slats). I also modified the bottom of it so that it had a cross-piece to support a bulb holder.

American Black Walnut and Obeche (the latter was chosen because it was easy to buy as 5 mm square strips). The paper is "proper" shoji paper, but I was lazy and used normal wood glue instead of rice glue.







It was nice to do a relatively short & simple project after the epic that was the tool chest!

 

[Malc2098]

Nice.

 

[Steve Maskery]

That is very nice indeed. I like.
S

 

[thetyreman]

beautiful lamp!

 

[Woodbloke]

Nice lamp; I've made a few of those and they're very effective. The genuine rice glue is readily available In the UK though and very easy to use; I've still got a fair bit in my original bottle - Rob

 

[Cabinetman]

Yes very nice Al.

 

[Mike G]

.......The genuine rice glue is readily available In the UK though and very easy to use; I've still got a fair bit in my original bottle - Rob

It's only white rice and water. Why wouldn't you just make it yourself?

 

[johnward]

Very nice indeed Al. Well done.

 

[AndyP]

Very smart Al.
I have never seen, felt, shoji paper? How robust is it? How easy to dust?

 

[Dr.Al]

Very smart Al.
I have never seen, felt, shoji paper? How robust is it? How easy to dust?

It feels similar to cheap printer paper, for want of a more calibrated reference. Fairly robust I would say. After gluing it in place, it gets sprayed with water, which (presumably) makes it shrink a bit and it becomes tight on the frame.

As for how easy to dust, I don't know yet. All the little gaps will probably fill up with dust eventually, but when it gets a bit overly dusty, I'll just take it out to the workshop and blast it with the air compressor

 

[9fingers]

Im very tempted to try something similar as lamp shades. Trouble is the I’ll need 6 small 1 medium and 1 large

I my mind clearly a wood machining job with only hand tools under extreme duress!

Just to keep it interesting I’ll possibly make them hexagonal or even octagonal.

Im still waiting impatiently for my mojo to return following hormone based cancer treatment so I'll need to get back to normal before starting this project!

Where did you get the paper Dr Al? Was there any choice of opacity? One of my niggles about lampshades is their tendency to block light but I have been relaxing over this as I get more ancient. :lol:

Bob

 

[Dr.Al]

I my mind clearly a wood machining job with only hand tools under extreme duress!

I would imagine that making the half-lap joints would be a lot easier with a cross-cut sled on a table saw. That still doesn't tempt me to get a table saw again though!

Where did you get the paper Dr Al? Was there any choice of opacity? One of my niggles about lampshades is their tendency to block light but I have been relaxing over this as I get more ancient. :lol:

This is the stuff I bought. There wasn't any choice of opacity, but I didn't spend any time shopping around, just bought the first stuff I found.

 

[9fingers]

This is the stuff I bought. There wasn't any choice of opacity, but I didn't spend any time shopping around, just bought the first stuff I found.

Thanks for the link,
The listing seems ambiguous as it refers to a roll (11" X 118")
and then further down says "Sheet count 15"

Did yours come on a roll or discrete sheets and if so what size were they?

Sorry to be a PITA

Bob

 

[Woodbloke]

I've had a couple of Japanese style floor lamps for severial years now and thus far the shoji paper has lasted quite well, but....there are no little hooligans/dogs/cats charging around the lounge. The stuff is fairly tough but could quite easily be pierced with the poke of a finger; if that does happen it's easy enough to replace the damaged section - Rob

 

[Cabinetman]

This is the stuff I bought. There wasn't any choice of opacity, but I didn't spend any time shopping around, just bought the first stuff I found.

Thanks for the link,
The listing seems ambiguous as it refers to a roll (11" X 118")
and then further down says "Sheet count 15"

Did yours come on a roll or discrete sheets and if so what size were they?

Sorry to be a PITA

Bob

Yes a bit confusing, I think it will be a long roll though.
Further down the page was this, I like the look of this as it seems to be semi translucent with a texture/pattern.
Ian

 

[9fingers]

Thanks Ian

I'll stick some of that patterned stuff on my wish list as well for when the round-2-it comes to the surface.

Bob

 

[Dr.Al]

Did yours come on a roll or discrete sheets and if so what size were they?

It was a roll. 280 mm wide.

 

[9fingers]

Thanks.

 

[Doug]

I’d had my monies worth out of my old router table made many years ago with a Trend T11 router, the bearings & speed control had packed up again & I had been fortunate enough to pick up a an unused woodpecker unilift about a year ago.
It wasn’t worth replacing the bearings or speed control on the T11 again & although the unilift was 20 years old it was in excellent like new condition plus my DeWalt 625 fit it perfectly.

The new table was based on my old table design as it had worked more than adequately & stored nicely under my bench. I reused the old fence & NVR switch, made a new MDF box to house the router & melamine covered MDF top, a friend cnc’d me a 120mm dust extraction port & to complete the set up I bought a Muscle Chuck from Peter Sefton which works excellently & makes bit changing a doddle.

https://woodworkersworkshop.co.uk/musclechuck-quick-change-chuck-type-2e/

Here are a few photos

 

[9fingers]

I 've had the same lift from the days when it was 2-1/2 dollars to the pound. A work mate had a girlfriend in the states and he was over there on business and got it shipped over on some inter company shipping scheme that I did not ask about!!

It has been excellent overall. the chain brake broke and I made a new part for it but otherwise no issues.
I've got a Flex router in there which is a european badged version of one of the Porter Cable machines. Its a beast. Can't recall the make (US) of the shaft extension/chuck I have but its been fine too.

Bob

 

[Doug]

Good to know Bob

 

[Dr.Al]

I've been suffering from a distinct lack of mojo/muchness/oomph/whatever-you-want-to-call-it recently. However, I did manage to turn a very simple little top-hat shaped thing out of some 40 mm EN1A:



It ain't much, but it'll be useful as it'll drop into any one of the myriad dog holes in my bench (which are currently filled with non-magnetic stainless filler pieces) and allow me to plonk a magnetic-base light down wherever I need it:

 

[Malc2098]

Neat.