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Some actual.....you know........woodwork.

Mike G

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Is anyone doing any at the moment?

I ventured into the workshop yesterday and today, and will report the outcome here in the next few days. It's for fitting on the house, so it will be in my big renovation and extension thread, but it is, at least partially, proper woodwork. Yay!! It's been a while. :eusa-dance:
 
Not really. I am caulking around oak framing in the traditional way - but it keeps chucking it down with rain.
 
I'm in Wales and it's coming down like stair rods. :shock: long trip home tomorrow though.
 
A favour for a friend of my Wife today. I ended up making a base for an extending with the random legs he bought with and some bits of beech from the workshop. I wasnt prepared to use the bits of a pallet for the aprons though. For the first time in yonks the morticer was used, cut some tennons as well. Its not the prettiest but it was never going to be, a coat of paint will work some wonders on the different timbers. He stood about looking sheepish because it took the best part of the day. Wife has been told off for volunteering me and not listening to what I said last week - she was of the opinion it just needed a few holes made.
 
Actual woodwork? God no.

I mean, with the price of timber and the quality of it at the moment who would want to? Here's some Accoya that we had the other day, bearing in mind this stuff is knocking £4,000 a cubic metre now depending where you get it.

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American White Oak has been appalling in quality with unavoidable splits an knots, so has Joinery Grade softwood deals, and so has any African hardwoods with many large planks being unusable due to massive amounts of shakes. The only thing that has been decent quality for a decent price is American Ash.
 
I've had a productive day - not far from finishing my pub games board !
 

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That accoya looks dreadful! Given how it’s processed I imagined it would me lest wasteful than standard timber. Why did they even bother with that piece in that last photo??
 
I'm planning to make a bed. There'll be a proper post soon if I manage to get the wood, otherwise there won't!
 
Well I suppose it’s wood related but I wouldn’t call it woodwork, helped build a new front on a 1940’s sears tin double garage here in the US, timber framing in 2x4, fitted a double set of French doors and two windows, ply sheathing then Tyvek ready for the shingles or siding. Did learn a lot about Codes though! Ian
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I'm trying to finish my latest box. Its like mr myagis karate lesson,
Wipe it on, sand it off, wipe it on, sand it off.
I need someone i can deliver my boxes to for them to apply any polish, wax, varnish, poly, etc etc. :eusa-doh:
 
Lons":3642gl2x said:
I'm in Wales and it's coming down like stair rods. :shock: long trip home tomorrow though.
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Well, if you wanna cuppa before you head further East ...
 
I'm still luthiering, but that's not proper woodwork, is it. ;)

Actually, there's less hardware and more species of timber in my instruments than some of the other woodwork on this forum.
 
sunnybob":dsj0iydy said:
I'm trying to finish my latest box. Its like mr myagis karate lesson,
Wipe it on, sand it off, wipe it on, sand it off.
I need someone i can deliver my boxes to for them to apply any polish, wax, varnish, poly, etc etc. :eusa-doh:
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You don't seem to be having much success with that box Bob, but it's not for the lacquer of trying.
 
Just come in from the workshop finished a small project & gave it its first coat for oil, amongst other things I’ve got to do next week is a cupboard to cover a load of underfloor pipework, manifolds & associated underfloor paraphernalia.

Nearly woodwork, well tree related & bloody hard work the GLW had me move one of her favourite Acers this morning.
It started the day looking like this

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& after a lot of judicious pruning & digging finished the day looking like this

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Fingers crossed it takes or I’ll be in the dog house……..again :lol:
 
Lurker":1aycml88 said:
sunnybob":1aycml88 said:
I'm trying to finish my latest box. Its like mr myagis karate lesson,
Wipe it on, sand it off, wipe it on, sand it off.
I need someone i can deliver my boxes to for them to apply any polish, wax, varnish, poly, etc etc. :eusa-doh:
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You don't seem to be having much success with that box Bob, but it's not for the lacquer of trying.
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:eusa-doh: :lol:
 
I’ve been trying to make a fiddly little set of drawers that would sit on a desk for a couple of weeks now. Sadly I have cocked up my measurements somehow and it has made making the drawers a little more challenging.

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woodstalker":2bcbciaw said:
Sadly I have cocked up my measurements somehow and it has made making the drawers a little more challenging.
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It's not a problem, it's a solution opportunity! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
I've had no access to my bench for a few months now as I am in between residences. However, my offer for a flat has been accepted, so I could be bashing away by the end of November. It's been and still is a very frustrating period.
 
Peri":1it6s82y said:
woodstalker":1it6s82y said:
Sadly I have cocked up my measurements somehow and it has made making the drawers a little more challenging.
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It's not a problem, it's a solution opportunity! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Yes it involves turning on its side and having a good old think!
 
Not much "proper woodwork" over the past couple of weeks.

I finished this oak/maple/walnut box a few weeks ago.

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Since then, I've been refurbishing this rather nice walnut rifle stock. It had some very dark (almost black) stain/oil on it which I've scraped and sanded back to reveal some lovely grain. This is for what is called a
"match rifle"; a discipline which involves trying to hit a bullseye about the size of a dustbin lid from 1,200 yards.

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The current project is to repair (i.e. eliminate) a cat flap in our kitchen door. I had hoped to be able to remove the panel, but it's actually held in a groove rather than a rebate. I'm therefore cutting back the panel (leaving about 10mm all round) and will fit a new panel to be held in by the moulding. Stupidly, I cracked on before I figured out how I would make new trim but I think I've found a router bit which is close enough on Wealden.

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Another job I have on the list is to make a better, dedicated, router table.
 
Just had a knock on the door, the chap from yesterday turned up with a bottle of whisky. Bonus.
 
A lot more woodwork going on than I’ve managed in the past 6 months.

Closest I have come is putting together an ikea gate leg table. No my daughter could not wait THAT long for papa to make one and my idea of touring the local brocantes for a bargain to refurbish went down like a lead ballon. The ikea table is solid but laminated beech and as KD furniture goes very sturdy and heavy. I will be adding glue to the drawers as I put them together.
 
NickM":uvcfdvoz said:
.....I finished this oak/maple/walnut box a few weeks ago.

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That's a really nice box, Nick.

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It seems that we have a lot more woodwork going on than there are threads about woodwork! Come on people. It only takes a few minutes to post a few photos, and it gives us all something to talk about which isn't doom and gloom.
 
Mike G":1ktnzq92 said:
NickM":1ktnzq92 said:
.....I finished this oak/maple/walnut box a few weeks ago.

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That's a really nice box, Nick.

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It seems that we have a lot more woodwork going on than there are threads about woodwork! Come on people. It only takes a few minutes to post a few photos, and it gives us all something to talk about which isn't doom and gloom.
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Thanks Mike

You're right. I really love the WIPS people do on here and have tried to do a few myself in the past. The trouble is that I forget to take pictures as I go along! Must try harder!

I'll try to do one for the router table/cabinet I'm planning. I've been flip flopping between making it out of ply and pocket hole screws, or making it like a traditional cabinet (I guess like a chest of drawers with some odd sized drawers). I think I'll do the traditional route so perhaps it's worth sharing.

I found this online (apologies, don't know who to credit for it) which will be roughly the layout, although my joinery will be different.

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Finally got some time to convert a pile of sawn ash pieces into legs and stretchers for two side chairs. Two different windsor chair designs, one will be a bow back and the other a comb back.

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Forgot, I'm trying to carve spoons more regularly as well, these are all copper beech and have been made during August and September, easy thing to pick up and some of these were made while on holiday. Got a bit of chestnut which had dried too much but is currently in saw water seeing if I can revive it to carve.
 
Last interesting thing I made was some oak feet to hold a piece of 10mm toughened glass.

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& the other week I gave Bungle a hand with this Oak frame.

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& when time allows in between other jobs that come in I’m in the process of making a MFT torsion box style bench

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I've been in sunny Scotland for most of the year but I've just got back home to my workshop a couple of weeks ago.
First on the agenda is refurbishing a backgammon board I bought about 30 years ago in Egypt. It has bone and mother of pearl inlay. Well, I say inlay, the inlay was glued onto the box panels and then the gaps were flooded with resin or similar which is nasty when sanded. A lot of the decoration was falling off and more fell off as I scraped and sanded so there was a lot of delicate reconstruction. It was also covered in dull brown paint and a thick coat of very yellow lacquer. Ready to redo the finish once I've filled a couple of gaps and done some more sanding!
 
I have officially given up before i got too many headaches....will sit watching the rain and contemplate my life choices, possibly followed by a stern talking to.
 
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