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Malc2098 said:
I really like the idea of using up offcuts of timber that has gone into my instruments and other timber that I have acquired. And the CNC machine helps me to do that.

For instance, that Cherry was from my old kitchen cabinet doors. Beautifully stable and figured timber. The Sycamore, even more beautiful and figured was an offset from three ukulele I have made, but was originally from @NickM 's elliptical dinner table. The Padauk was from a slab I bought, but not all of it was stable enough to manufacture bindings and purling for the instruments. And I've collected Sapele over the years, some of it joiners offcuts that have become necks on my instruments.

I hate wasting good timber.
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I don't know how I missed this post from you Malcolm - having reacted to you little *diamond* boxes... A bit of English yew would look nice in amongst that lot 😎.

Like you, i hate wasting good timber. Back in 1993 I made a desk with cupboards and shelves above from oak and yew. I'd forgotten the date until a couple of days ago when I was ripping the jointed yew apart on the joint lines and removing the Oak molded edging strips and came across my initials and date.

I'd dismantled the unit some years back ('95~97 🤷) as it was far too heavy to take upstairs to the small bedroom I started using as an office. Been moving the bits backwards and forwards in the shed/workshop since so FINALLY decided it was time to *recover* and *recycle*. Maybe small boxes... but I've lots of yew to sort and decide what to do with.
 
I haven't photoed the next 6 tooth fairy boxes I milled today, but I did photo the gold leather lining of the trinket boxes.

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BTW, I'm still having trouble uploading my photos. The original of this was 4.5mb, and I've had reduce it to 215kb to upload it.
 
Drawer number 4 in the making. Now, before I started attempting these drawers (of which I've always been slightly afraid) I'd read Pekovich in his brilliant book, say that 'only introduce one new technique to your woodworking, per project'.

Well, drawers one and two had grooves for the ply base. Jointed pine boards (getting better, to which I'm coming) for the front and sides. But for the back, some plywood. 4 screws for the front after glueing in a recess. 4 or so screws at the back.

Drawer number 3, became a refurb of an old drawer I'd saved. Been sat in the shed for many years, awaiting to be used. Removed the pine tongue/groove drawer bottom. Added a ply bottom instead which was thick enough to go into the already grooves of 3 sides (7mm or so). Front got sent to the back, and a few messups, fixed and fixed again.

Front was a hidden set of dovetails, which is now at the back. Some more jointing and repair or the mess ups, and all was well. Now drawer number 4 in the making and I've decided its time to add some lovely dovetails. This will be my 4th set of dovetails (to a project) and I thought I'd earned the ability to take extra care/attention time.

But, thats not what my new 'techniques for this 4th drawer was to my woodworking arsenal. No, that would be, jointing the plywood dryer bottom. 7mm or 7 ply, jointed with end grain to end grain 😆, and I'm really not sure if I'm earning a pultizer prize here or a kick in the teeth. Am not a specialist at ply (other than stayed away from it all my life, and that apparently beech is good... this isn't beech) but am hoping the 2 sandwich layers of ling grain might be enough to hold it all together for years to come!!

Sorry for all the talk...

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Oh, and the latest jointing (for drawer number 4) with/from the pine skirting me and my little one had rescued from a local dumpsite (well, ok, someone garden but when we managed to find the owner we asked and he said it was ok). After I'd completed one of the sides (back or front, I forget which) he saw it and was mighty impressed. Told me it looked shop bought pine board.

Hopefully an indication that the 'jointing' perseverance is paying off...
 
Nothing too exiting, first, a cribbage board, drew up a drilling hole template, printed it off, and just laid it over the wood, used a small punch to set the hole positions, drilled on the drill press, don’t look too closely, then thought about where do I keep the pins, in the end…

Got the Domi 700 machine out plunged a deep hole, made a domi shaped plug and turned a small pull on it:

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And, made this for storing the Tassimo coffee things, has bit of a water stain as it got put into service before I had chance to oil it:

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And also, I picked this idea up from @AJB Temple How would you make this yonks ago which got me thinking as to how to go about make something similar, so I developed a fairly simple method and this is one of the results:

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My next door neighbour popped by the other day and asked if I could put some new handles on a pair of blades where the old ones had broken off. Once the blades were thoroughly cleaned, a couple of Bubinga blanks were epoxied to each side using proper, 'old skool' Arladite:

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Once set, the handles were shaped with a variety of rasps, files and sandpaper to the required profile:

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Finished with a coat of Odie's Oil with wax over the top - Rob
 
I made this/ these today:

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I'm actually rather proud of that achievement! I'm sure you'll soon guess what it is, and why it couldn't wait until I could walk.
 
Pete Maddex said:
soft fruit
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Yep. It's to cover the cherry tree. Blackbirds will strip it long before the cherries ripen if it isn't netted. Crawling around on my hands and knees for an hour or two, and having my wife fetch and carry everything.....well, put it this way.......I expect a bit more than a cherry cake as reward.
 
I have three nascent peaches on the tree I planted in spring last year. But the tree also has a red fungus growing on the leaves. I've bought the right fungicide to treat the problem, but it is the wrong time of the year to apply it. So I'm having to remove the affected leaves and spray the tree with nothing more than a detegent (savon noir)
But I am delighted to report that I have several Bramley apples on the tree I planted at the same time. You don't see Bramleys in the shops over here, so this is my only chance of a decent apple pie.
I also have goosberries cropping nicely. But after losing the rhubarb I brought from the UK, I've planted 4 French ones and already lost one of them :(
This gardening lark is difficult, isn't it?
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Nice job Malc. I don't think I ever would have thought of making something like that! There were many pleasant hours wasted learning to do various tricks with Yo-Yos when I was a lad.
 
Proper job!

I'd imagine that machining them like that was a really smart way of getting them all to balance nicely.
 
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Window ledge, jointed (I onow you're thinking 'where's the joint', well its slightly to the left 😆). Hopefully it passes the 'wife test' tomorrow and I can get on with shaping it later tomorrow. If not, I'll probably get some mdf sill board and make an ugly one out of that... then tell her its made of saw dust just for maximum 'grump' impact.

Skimmed all the epoxy off the right side board and seems to have done the trick of filling up them cracks nicely. Hope that whoever uses the toilet room after its in, will appreciate the artistic detail - from tree (on the way to Leeds one day, lumberjacks gave it me after I'd asked) to window sill.
 
Mike G said:
How long ago?
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About a year now Mike. But the lumberjack had told me at the time that its dry wood (tree been dead for years apparently). So I had sealed the end grain and let it in the airing cupboard under the porch at the front of the house (well, its just a cupboard outside front door really, under cover of rain etc and a door that let's the cupboard breathe).

After reseting the pieces before this one I'd weighed them and let them in a closed room with dehumidifier on for about 48H. Only lost 6g from a total of about 2.5kg, so I assumed they'd been spot on about it being dry (almost brittle). Hope that answers your Q but am still all ears...
 
Pictures of it and its family over the couree of the year. First pic of it in the yard where I met the lumberjack is from April 2025 and it felt (IMO) dry then. The 'smack it against itself' test yielded 'no boggyness) but I'm not expert. Just a learning curve.20260506_122708.jpg20260211_191213.jpg20250825_111331.jpg20250825_111326.jpg20250825_090322.jpg20250825_090310.jpg20250824_160334.jpg20250825_222605.jpg20250718_195826.jpg20250615_212030.jpg20250604_090831.jpg20250529_234649.jpg20250529_172534.jpg20250502_232101.jpg20250416_144614.jpg
 
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