This was my first one, which I mentioned in the "Today I acquired thread". It's a bit crude but it seems fairly effective.
It's just a bit of scrap wood from the woodpile with the middle drilled and routed out.
With a little bit of hammering and planishing I can make shapeless blobs like this one. Think of the potential though.
I mentioned in my original post that I wanted a bigger a stump. Unfortunately, 8ob the resident forum tree fella is at the other end of the country so I have to do with what I can scrounge locally.
I saw this video and started thinking about fence posts instead. This dishing stump is bit more refined in design than the last one. It has a very shallow dish which is used to mould and shape the metal. Karl's a very interesting and skilled bloke if you haven't seen him before. He's worth a sub.
A six inch square untreated softwood fence post from my local timber merchant is 36 quid. Fortunately, I remembered I had something cluttering up the garage that I could use.
It's an oak ( I think) mantle beam. It was left behind by the fella who fitted our wood stove a few years ago. I don't know if he removed it from a previous customer but some little horror seems to have cut the end off and signed his own work. Possibly it was scrap before little Jeffrey got his hands on it but it was definitely scrap afterwards. I've been waiting years to find a use for this thing. Too nice to burn, so it just lived under a workbench in the garage.
The end piece that's cut off is roughly 36cm long. This is pretty much a quarter of the original length so I can get four bits out of this to make a composite stump.
This is the other end and possibly why it was scrapped in the first place. I'll put this end at the base and put some long screws in to hold it together.
Lovers of oak, fine carpentry and or fine ratchet strapping, should probably look away now.
Marked up in the engineering vice. I've been meaning to get my hands on a record 52 and a half for ages. They still seem pretty cheap.
There's no power tool in my possession that's big enough to cut the beam, so it's out with the hand saw.
Surprised myself and kept to the line.
The cut still needed true-ing up, I guess the blade wandered at the back of the cut.
Out with the belt sander which is hiding from the camera. It's an old Black and decker 1020 watt thing of my Dad's. The belts are a funny size but can still be bought on ebay.
My brother has borrowed my electric plane which might have helped keep the dust down. Nevermind.
This intimidating beast will be used to make the dish. It's also more efficient at material removal than the belt sander. I used it with the cordless grinder. Less power and speed is possibly a good thing with something like this bought from the cheapest supplier on Ebay. The chainsaw helmet came out for it too. The grinder attachment was very handy for squaring things up quickly. It looks like it would rip my face off without a second thought. An arms length tool if ever there was one
This is where I've got to tonight. I want to make a couple of metal straps and get everything tight as possible before levelling the top properly and putting the dish in.
It's just a bit of scrap wood from the woodpile with the middle drilled and routed out.
With a little bit of hammering and planishing I can make shapeless blobs like this one. Think of the potential though.
I mentioned in my original post that I wanted a bigger a stump. Unfortunately, 8ob the resident forum tree fella is at the other end of the country so I have to do with what I can scrounge locally.
I saw this video and started thinking about fence posts instead. This dishing stump is bit more refined in design than the last one. It has a very shallow dish which is used to mould and shape the metal. Karl's a very interesting and skilled bloke if you haven't seen him before. He's worth a sub.
A six inch square untreated softwood fence post from my local timber merchant is 36 quid. Fortunately, I remembered I had something cluttering up the garage that I could use.
It's an oak ( I think) mantle beam. It was left behind by the fella who fitted our wood stove a few years ago. I don't know if he removed it from a previous customer but some little horror seems to have cut the end off and signed his own work. Possibly it was scrap before little Jeffrey got his hands on it but it was definitely scrap afterwards. I've been waiting years to find a use for this thing. Too nice to burn, so it just lived under a workbench in the garage.
The end piece that's cut off is roughly 36cm long. This is pretty much a quarter of the original length so I can get four bits out of this to make a composite stump.
This is the other end and possibly why it was scrapped in the first place. I'll put this end at the base and put some long screws in to hold it together.
Lovers of oak, fine carpentry and or fine ratchet strapping, should probably look away now.
Marked up in the engineering vice. I've been meaning to get my hands on a record 52 and a half for ages. They still seem pretty cheap.
There's no power tool in my possession that's big enough to cut the beam, so it's out with the hand saw.
Surprised myself and kept to the line.
The cut still needed true-ing up, I guess the blade wandered at the back of the cut.
Out with the belt sander which is hiding from the camera. It's an old Black and decker 1020 watt thing of my Dad's. The belts are a funny size but can still be bought on ebay.
My brother has borrowed my electric plane which might have helped keep the dust down. Nevermind.
This intimidating beast will be used to make the dish. It's also more efficient at material removal than the belt sander. I used it with the cordless grinder. Less power and speed is possibly a good thing with something like this bought from the cheapest supplier on Ebay. The chainsaw helmet came out for it too. The grinder attachment was very handy for squaring things up quickly. It looks like it would rip my face off without a second thought. An arms length tool if ever there was one
This is where I've got to tonight. I want to make a couple of metal straps and get everything tight as possible before levelling the top properly and putting the dish in.
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