Stuff you have made today

[mtt.tr]

Today I reached a bit of a landmark in my first proper wood-bothering project. I'm still finding this cellulose stuff a bit odd compared to metal, but I'm getting there.

This is just a dry fit to see how it looks; I still need to do lots of sanding, some gluing and lots and lots of coats of varnish/oil mix.

Need to work on my hand sawing accuracy: all the saw cuts have required a lot of tidying up with chisels and/or planes!

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in cabinetry its normal practice to finish shoulders and tennons off with a hand plane.

Very smart looking

 

[mtt.tr]

That's the funny thing about finishes: every one I've spoken to seems to have their own "best finish". I think I'm going to go with a thinned mixture of Tung oil and varnish for this one (although I might change my mind yet). I've been trying lots of different ones on bits of scrap and that seems to look good so far.



Not all by hand, sorry! I've tried to do lots of it by hand, but have cheated and used power saws (with cuts cleaned up with hand planes) for some of the cuts as my hand sawing skills just aren't good enough. Mortice and tenons for the legs were all hand cut, as were the tapers on the legs. I don't have a plough plane, so the long grooves in the top for the "breadboard ends" (as apparently they're called) were cut with a router.



That sounds like a really good tip: I'll give it a try, thanks.

Never varnish wood, its always looks awful. Danish oil and wax is just about the nicest most natural finish

Some of the professional cellulose finishes are nice, even sanding sealer can come up a treat

or keeping it traditional and shiny french is lovely option and pretty simple despite the claims on how hard it is

 

[Dr.Al]

in cabinetry its normal practice to finish shoulders and tennons off with a hand plane.

Very smart looking

Thanks! Getting some sort of shoulder plane is high on my list having made the tenons: it would be nice to have a plane that can go into the corners rather than having to use chisels (although I do really enjoy paring with chisels).

Never varnish wood, its always looks awful. Danish oil and wax is just about the nicest most natural finish

The varnish I was talking about was mixed into the oil: a recipe recommended on another forum of equal parts Tung Oil, varnish and white spirit. As I understand it, that's basically what Danish Oil is: oil mixed with varnish and some sort of thinner.

 

[mtt.tr]

Thanks! Getting some sort of shoulder plane is high on my list having made the tenons: it would be nice to have a plane that can go into the corners rather than having to use chisels (although I do really enjoy paring with chisels).



The varnish I was talking about was mixed into the oil: a recipe recommended on another forum of equal parts Tung Oil, varnish and white spirit. As I understand it, that's basically what Danish Oil is: oil mixed with varnish and some sort of thinner.

Look out for a record 311, makes a handy chisel plane

 

[nickk]

Here’s that grille I posted a couple weeks ago,now I just need to fab a guard.job No 121.

 

[nickk]

Why 2 photos?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Why 2 photos?

To be sure, to be sure...

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

The last of my current stock of 1/2" square bar ended up looking like this.



Using my recently acquired bandsaw made life a lot easier when it came to cutting. Prior to that it would have been marking off 18 pieces of steel and cutting them at 45 deg with an angle grinder.

There were some differences of opinion on the finish. I'm quite happy with it staying self-coloured but SWMBO wanted it painted although she wasn't sure of the colour. No problem with a compromise - it's now living up in my office.

 

[Fraserb]

Tuesday this was... my plough fell apart for want of a lousy circlip that must have popped off! Started ploughing funny, went to lift her out of work, and broke its back.

Thankfully the pin wasn't too bent, and all i had to fix really were two broken turnbuckles.

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Could have ended a lot worse, our 5 fur sheared off the top pin for the turnover ram the other day, went with some bang.

 

[Fraserb]

Nice manitou!

They do look good right enough, we never got on with them though, all jcb at the moment.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Made some mounts for my bodgit rack
Soldered up the new patchbay ready for installation.

Will add more inputs in the future.

 

[Brad93]

They do look good right enough, we never got on with them though, all jcb at the moment.

Really? I tried a new MX420 and thought it was fantastic.

 

[Fraserb]

Really? I tried a new MX420 and thought it was fantastic.

Oh theyre good enough machines to drive possibly better than the Jcb's but gave far more issues than the jcb's do, ours are worked fairly hard though.

 

[Hitch]

The cladding guys handed these back yesterday, so on with putting the basket and instruments on 2 of these today, and getting them into place ready for the pipework and pumps.

 

[DAPPH]

I looked at Excell rims but they were too expensive for my blood so these are just unbranded ones from eBay. It’s not a race bike or anything like that so they’ll do fine for my budget and requirements.

Those a bicycles hanging in the background. I could never figure out a unicycle.
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Uni cycles ........... like doing a wheelie but for much longer ?

 

[Steveblade]

Made some mounts for my bodgit rack
Soldered up the new patchbay ready for installation.

Will add more inputs in the future.

Looks excellent lots of work gone into it but I bet that would cost a fortune to buy if even available .

 

[Steveblade]

The cladding guys handed these back yesterday, so on with putting the basket and instruments on 2 of these today, and getting them into place ready for the pipework and pumps.

Nice looks like something out of Breaking Bad, you dont work for Guss the chicken man do you?

 

[Memmeddu]

Went to a customer of mine on the afternoon
Installed a timer for the lights ,then talked about other things to do.
Almost done something with her daughter
But thought that would be unprofessional sooo

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Looks excellent lots of work gone into it but I bet that would cost a fortune to buy if even available .

I paid 17 quid.
https://sxpro.co.uk/signex-isopatch...DAgt11KutaqK3x6246bmTKv1ClrS-1_xoC0uoQAvD_BwE

Wish I'd done it months ago. So much easier that diving behind the mixer to pull inputs out

 

[Tupers]

Uni cycles ........... like doing a wheelie but for much longer ?

I never managed wheelies much either. I’m more of a “bouncing off trees and into hedges” sort of cyclist.