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[matmac]

That’s some beautifully scribed sides against the stone there matmac. What method did you use to achieve such accurate results?

Thank you, just a compass and lots of patience. Took me about about 14 hours to fit the whole thing. Way longer than I expected.

 

[MikeG.]

.......Timber is Sapele with Heritage glass.........

Heritage glass? What do you mean by that?

 

[Doug71]

Heritage glass? What do you mean by that?

Sorry, I meant the low sight line/ slimlite type double glazed units, a few people I deal with just refer to it as heritage glass. The Heritage putty the manufacturer specifies from Hodgson Sealants is a bit sticky to deal with, even using beads I end up with it everywhere

 

[Rich C]

I am planning to make a frame for my mother's birthday; she asked for a nice framed photo, so I thought I'd go with a hand made frame (in walnut) to boot.
This is not that, this is a practice frame I made from some oak offcuts I had lying around. A useful learning process, I'm fairly happy, but there is room for improvement.

I went for contrasting splines in birch. They are not contrasting once finished. They probably would be against walnut though. Also, I think I will mark for my splines with a pencil not a knife next time as removing the marks was a pain.

 

[MikeG.]

I rather like those knife marks.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I think they look awful.

 

[Rich C]

I too am not a fan. But this is why I made a test piece first.

 

[NickVanBeest]

As my shed is a wee bit small, I needed to get the shopvac out to have room to maneuver a bit more, so whipped up this little side-shed yesterday:

Made with left-overs from the shed build, glad I hadn't yet got rid of it!

Busy padding it with acoustic foam, so neighbours won't get too much noise (and neither will I!)

 

[Droogs]

nicely tied into the original design. Looks very good

 

[NickVanBeest]

nicely tied into the original design. Looks very good

Yup, made sure that the cladding lines up properly...

 

[Dominik Pierog]

Wolf

 

[Doris]

Zigby The Rocking Zebra

 

[Cabinetman]

Nice one Doris, I wouldn’t have the faintest idea where to start on making something like that, I think it’s worth a load of photos on how you made it if you have them, How to hold it for one thing – or is that why you’ve always got your blood on everything (previous post somewhere) ha ha
Ps just realised that’s Zigby on your profile photo – he is a full-size one isn’t he!

 

[Beau]

Bit of an odd one but got asked to make part of a praxinoscope and incase you like me you dont know what they this is one I found on youtube . Someone had a go but it wasn't even remotely true when spun so I had to get it spot on to make a happy customer. I only made up the rosewood and cherry surround and client did the rest. Not my taste but they were happy

 

[Nigel Burden]

Sat here resting a badly sprained ankle done yesterday whilst exercising the daughters hound, I thought I'd post a photo of a Spear & Jackson tenon saw that I cut down, filed off, and resized the teeth to 16 tpi, and re handled, making it into a dovetail saw. Setting the teeth was a slow job as they're about on the limit for my aging eyes.

Nigel.

 

[Doris]

Nice one Doris, I wouldn’t have the faintest idea where to start on making something like that, I think it’s worth a load of photos on how you made it if you have them, How to hold it for one thing – or is that why you’ve always got your blood on everything (previous post somewhere) ha ha
Ps just realised that’s Zigby on your profile photo – he is a full-size one isn’t he!

Thanks. Unfortunately no consistent WIP photos of this one but this one was using method from the past two rocking horses I built they're on instructables and the woodworker magazines a few years back. He was indeed full size. The customer (who commissioned it) quite easily rode it before he went off to his new home

 

[Cabinetman]

Wonderful, isn’t it a terrific feeling when your customer claps eyes on the finished project. I shall have to look that up as I have a grandson on the way, my first. I know it’s difficult to say, approximately how many weeks work in one of these rocking animals?

 

[Doris]

Wonderful, isn’t it a terrific feeling when your customer claps eyes on the finished project. I shall have to look that up as I have a grandson on the way, my first. I know it’s difficult to say, approximately how many weeks work in one of these rocking animals?

Approximately a month if you work 5 days on it

 

[sammy.se]

I needed something very simple to hold workpieces when sanding or cutting with the track saw, that didn't get in the way:

Made from scrap:

25mm hole for the top half of the bench dogs:

Add dowels as a lever:

And done in about 15 mins!

Lesson learned: The offset of the 25mm centre hole is too big, and sometimes you don't get that nice tight friction cramping action - it just pushes the workpiece. The next iteration will have the offset only a few mm off-centre.

 

[NickM]

A while ago I posted a photo of tool cabinet I'd made.

Since then I've been gradually fitting it out with tool racks and internal panels.

First was a chisel rack:

I then made an internal hinged panel. It's just 12mm ply with oak lipping.

I put some of my measuring tools on the panel:

Next were a couple more hinged panels with places for saws, marking gauges, spokeshaves etc.

The most recent addition is a little drawer section. I made it as a separate unit which can be slotted in. This is the frame:

And with the drawers in:

There are a few more things I'll add (some dividers to the left of the drawers for example), and you'll notice that there is space for some additional tools which I don't yet own!

It's great being able to keep my bench clear of tools whilst having them all in easy reach.

Although I designed this to fit the space I had, the inspiration (especially for some of the details like the hinged panels and tool racking) was this article I found on line: Cabinet plans. It might be useful for anyone else embarking on this kind of thing.