Woodworking

[Ed L]

Ripping cottonwood on the ts tonight, nothing like stressed lumber!

Holy crap, at least it was going away from the blade, lol. Kind of neat to watch.

Ed

 

[Hobby Climber]

I asked my eldest daughter what she wanted for her birthday, she shocked me with her answer.

She asked to build her a Bat-House !

At first I thought she was kidding, but she was serious.

So being the good dad that I am...

(See pics.)

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Now my youngest asked me to build her a Blanket-Ladder for her Birthday.

I'd be happy to make one for her but first I need to figure out what a Blanket-Ladder is !


LOL

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[Raj]

Look what the GF found me. 20" thickness planer. Real cheap. Didn't feed. A little work, now it feeds. Fast.

 

[ruel]

That's a serious machine!

 

[pigwot]

What make? Looks like a Bridgewood

 

[Tommy_B]

Thats very cool!

 

[Raj]

Thanks all!


It's just a General planer.

 

[pigwot]

Anyone seen this type of joinery? Norway? Sweden? How is it slid together, at a 45* angle? Sorcery?

 

[stikine]

Wow, no idea...never seen that type of joinery before!

 

[Tree09]

Yeah that's awesome!

 

[lxskllr]

Looks like it's stacked. Just like doing a Lincoln log house, but with fancier joints. Not sure how you get the joints so perfect, unless it's just as time consuming as it looks.

 

[ruel]

Good call John. Was definitely thinking it was some crazy joint, but the end grain suggests it's a stacked log cabin

 

[Fiddler]

the "logs" look more like beams/panels and I'd guess they are started at a more severe angle and the tails close/lock as they assume 90 degrees.

 

[pigwot]

Ah yes, I see it is stacked. Crazy amount of work if it is a hand cut joint to get them that accurate !!

 

[flushcut]

Awesome!

 

[Ed L]

Got the daughters breakfast bar installed, 2nd coat of finish put on, it'll be satin when it dries. Made from red oak, golden oak stain.
Pardon the mess, still waiting for the backsplash to get tiled.

Ed

 

[T Collins]

my dinner table.

 

[Raj]

Nice bar and table!

I did a little fooling around in the shop today. Testing out a chain drive on my router sled. Hope it will speed things up, or at least easier on my back pushing and pulling the router sled.

 

[Dave Shepard]

The log joinery is from slovenia.

 

[Raj]

Works pretty good. I'm surprised. Now to fine tune it, hope in the near future I'll stick a gear motor on it and all I'll have to do is push buttons.

 

[BlackSmith]

Looking good. I’d put a piece of teflon on the off side of the chain for the slack to ride on.

 

[Raj]

That was just a mock up to see if my idea worked. I set the sprockets in their final place and tightened the chain.

 

[Fiddler]

 

[Raj]

I milled some willow last year, pulled it out of the kiln. I milled it 4" thick, came out 3 1/4". Doesn't look bad. In the old country it was called gypsy wood (good for nothing wood). I have some smaller pieces that I am going to sand and see how it takes oil finish.

 

[lxskllr]

I'll be interested in seeing how it finishes out. looks like it has a bit of a satiny thing going on.