Bucket list

[Palletmangler]

Very nice! I like playing rock stuff like guns n roses etc so I'm imagining a single cut away derivative. I don't mind it not being very original, there's only so much scope for variety of shape but if it makes the right noises and plays well then I'll be happy. Of course in my head it has the finished quality of a PRS and I'll be the founder of a world renowned British manufacturing brand everyone wants to own but in my head is probably where that will stay...!

 

[thick_mike]

Very nice! I like playing rock stuff like guns n roses etc so I'm imagining a single cut away derivative. I don't mind it not being very original, there's only so much scope for variety of shape but if it makes the right noises and plays well then I'll be happy. Of course in my head it has the finished quality of a PRS and I'll be the founder of a world renowned British manufacturing brand everyone wants to own but in my head is probably where that will stay...!

There was a bloke who used to post on Harmony Central that showed some great WIP guitar builds called ajcoholic. He made a Les Paul Jr and some other pretty inspiring stuff. Might be worth googling his build threads to give yourself some impetus.

 

[John15]

i always wanted to make a chessboard
one day

Steve

Paul Sellers makes a beautiful chess board in his Masterclass series.
https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/ca ... ?order=asc

John

 

[monkeybiter]

Roll top desk [including tambour]
Four poster bed with carved posts and head/footboards [a lot of beds in this list]
Carved bust that looks like the model.

 

[Ali]

Milkman's bench.. so beautiful and portable

 

[Biliphuster]

George I style chets on stand in Walnut. No veneers but I might crossband the drawer blades, six turned legs rather than cabriole.

I think it's achievable, The bulk of it is square, slap on some mouldings, mortice and tenon the stand together.

To be honest though, I would be happy if anything I made ended up in a (non charity) shop after I'm dead.

 

[whiskywill]

Guitar for me too, (an electric bass) but the recent uke build thread has got me thinking i should try one of those first (although I'm thinking that a solid body electric instrument is actually probably easier?)

If you are tempted to make a guitar, have a look at these. His precision is amazing.
http://www.luthiercom.org/phpBB3/viewto ... 133&t=5116
http://www.luthiercom.org/phpBB3/viewto ... 133&t=3843

 

[Cordy]

I would like to make this

However...... As a novice I don't know where to start

more photos

 

[Racers]

I would like to make this

However...... As a novice I don't know where to start

more photos

I would start by not making that! its designed by a designer who doesn't understand the property's of the materials used.
It won't just last.

Pete

 

[Jelly]

I have two things on that list, one if which is tangential to Woodworking

A versatile wide-band bandsaw, I would like to own one, if I had space... but a big part of me would like to build one; i've been increasingly drawn away from woodworking in the last year to machine maintenance/rebuilding/upgrading and this idea fascinates me.

Based on everything I've learned, they're relatively simple beasts, but by necessity big with rather substantive straining forces applied; which demands real attention to detail in achieving effective alignment of the wheels when tensioned.


A timber framed house, might be traditional oak framing, or modern engineered timber methods; but a lifetime of being shown all the most amazing bits of contemporary timber construction has sold me on it, and I'd really love to do it off my own back as much as I can.


I'd also (and this is something which I can be more certain of being achievable without considering external factors) like to build a set of curved leg chairs... The challenge is not in making one (well it is, as that's no mean feat), but a set which match identically; I reckon there must be a good 5-8 years work and many mismatched chairs in learning to do that.

 

[ED65]

As a novice I don't know where to start

Probably best to begin with a scale drawing to work out the angles. Then decide on what joints to use (I'd suggest going with dowelled butt joints).

The close-up photos really help you here in seeing some of the key details if you wanted to do a faithful copy, and for that a router would be extremely helpful in case that's not obvious.But just from the main photograph it wouldn't be too hard to make something reasonably similar. Think of it as a picture frame sawn in half and attached to two leg frames.

Build it, then measure the space in the rebates and get the glass cut to size.

I would start by not making that! its designed by a designer who doesn't understand the property's of the materials used.
It won't just last.

Aren't the pieces small enough that movement isn't an issue?

 

[Cordy]

Cheers ED65
Looking at this on Inkscape suggests the angle is 65 degrees

Butt joints; is that my excuse to buy a Festool Domino 500 ?

Might be a costly table :roll:
Using a home-built jig I made some mortise and loose tenon joints but tedious and fiddly with a router; needs lots of adjusting;
have made some mortises plunging down onto router table - came out well - but I consider it too dangerous

Think of it as a picture frame sawn in half and attached to two leg frames.

Good idea

 

[monkeybiter]

I wondered if it may be significant that for each wooden unit the foot is directly under the centre point, but considering the assembled whole probably not.
If I was brave enough to attempt this I think I would hide a steel reinforcing bracket within each of the four acute joints.

 

[Racers]

What happens if some one sat on it? would the joints break, or the thin top edge of the rebate, or the glass?


Pete

 

[MatthewRedStars]

Glass looks around 10mm thick - would be virtually indestructible.

 

[Eric The Viking]

I'd like to build a really nice set of library steps, collapsible and spiral. I'm still trying to find a design I like, and I'm years away from having the skills (we'll have moved to a low ceilinged cottage by then, I fear).

Meanwhile, every NT property we visit has its library steps inspected and photographed and ranked. The winner so far is the set at Stourhead house, but only for scale (huge).

I'd like to do something like these, but am trying to devise a way to make them collapsible (safely, I mean!):

Then there's the demilune inlaid console table...

... sigh.

E.

 

[DTR]

Wow :shock:

 

[ED65]

Butt joints; is that my excuse to buy a Festool Domino 500 ?

No :mrgreen:

A drill and a few bits sized to common dowel diameters and you're sorted. Not noticeably weaker, can probably be just as fast with a bit of practice.

 

[Cordy]

....but I want one

 

[MattRoberts]

Cordy - if you want to make something, then make it. There's no law that says every piece of furniture needs to last 50 years and take the weight of a rugby team standing on it.

Delicate furniture that is more about aesthetics is just as valid as solid functional furniture