Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You’re right..

Show us all your Brass to steel welds then,

 

[minimutly]

Show us all your Brass to steel welds then,

I can’t, don’t have gas, so no brazing for me.
Actually, it could have been soldered, with some bakers and a map torch. Keep practicing

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That is now sorted,

 

[Kram]

Cherry bark works great too. I always save it.

For what purpose? I have a huge cherry log seasoning nicely and some small bits.

 

[Prajna]

For what purpose? I have a huge cherry log seasoning nicely and some small bits.

Lighting fires. Works as well or better than silver birch bark even when damp. It has volotile oils in tge bark that burn great.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

alchemy, procurement of raw materials

 

[Kram]

This stump is a bit too low but I was too lazy to move the big one. Axe is too small for effiecient splitting but much of it is done.

Discovered old logs that have started to dry are hard work to split, better when fresh!

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

alchemy, procurement of raw materials

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let's continue

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

let's continue

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Let's set it on fire and then we'll see.

 

[magnet]

Couple of swivelling tilly lamp hooks. No welding all peened joints.

 

[Hood]

Couple more stainless keyrings

 

[DAPPH]

For what purpose? I have a huge cherry log seasoning nicely and some small bits.

If you haven't already done it paint the cut ends and any cut off branch stubs with loads of melted candle wax on and two inches or more up from the cut to slow the evaporation down to stop the wood splitting in hears aches .
I was given two lovely out door seasoned 8x8 square cut logs they looked good but now they have spent a year under cover slowly drying out they have split to buggery

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Slathered the freelander underneath and inside the sills etc with pressure sprayed thinned waxoyl before refitting the rear arch mud traps (ive put a few holes in them so I can insert the hosepipe )

 

[redlig]

Decided my fingers had survived long enough I thought I'd add wood chippings to my swarf making" skills" ( in the widest sense of the word ) So with the aid of a forum donated horse shoe , thanks HPS's , an axe head and a piece of a recently felled Ash tree I decided that an inverted kindling splitter was the safest way to go. Just a lump hammer from a bit more ash and installing the stove and 'bring on the winter'.

 

[DAPPH]

Decided my fingers had survived long enough I thought I'd add wood chippings to my swarf making" skills" ( in the widest sense of the word ) So with the aid of a forum donated horse shoe , thanks HPS's , an axe head and a piece if a recently felled Ash tree I decided that an inverted kindling splitter was the safest way to go. Just a lump hammer from a bit more ash and installing the stove and 'bring on the winter'.

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If the ash was not seasoned well ,,,,,,,say 10 or more years it's likely it will split down the grain . My first table lamp base was a similar size seasoned 5 years for the 10 inch wide log . it split in several places .

My big bro an accomplished wood turner laughed at me , " You need to slow season at least a year for every inch of thickness & by that I mean the diameter not the radius .

Apparently the ash used for cart wheel hubs was seasoned for at least 50 years before being worked

 

[redlig]

If the ash was not seasoned well ,,,,,,,say 10 or more years it's likely it will split down the grain . My first table lamp base was a similar size seasoned 5 years for the 10 inch wide log . it split in several places .

My big bro an accomplished wood turner laughed at me , " You need to slow season at least a year for every inch of thickness & by that I mean the diameter not the radius .

Apparently the ash used for cart wheel hubs was seasoned for at least 50 years before being worked

thanks for info .When it does I'll do another one and hopefully make a better job of it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

thanks for info .When it does I'll do another one and hopefully make a better job of it.

Ash takes a colored resin very well.

That looks good as a table display.

 

[selectedgrub]

Tapped for brass.

 

[MattF]

That looks intriguing. What's it destined to be?

 

[redlig]

Ash takes a colored resin very well.

That looks good as a table display.

All part of my Psychopath decor.