Nothing fancy just a simple MDF fire surround using mitred corners to hide the edge because it's been painted.
Post a photo of the last thing you made
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Cam clamp for holding planes during mortise work. Seems to work! Needs a bit of fettling.
3d printed templates for marking up moulding planes and wedges consistently. Inspired by Norman Bayliss. Hopefully he’s smiling in his grave.
Cam clamp for holding planes during mortise work. Seems to work! Needs a bit of fettling.
3d printed templates for marking up moulding planes and wedges consistently. Inspired by Norman Bayliss. Hopefully he’s smiling in his grave.
Jarno
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Have my mother in law for this years secret Santa, and she has a vegetable garden/ allotment, so I assume she takes some tools back and forth with the car.
Made a japanese toolbox for her, so there is less muck (from the tools) in the car:
Pine, cut nails, a mahogany wedge, protruding greene&greene boxjoints. Had a few scary moments where the wood started to split, those cut nails are quite large.
It also has leather strap handles, those weren't fitted when making the photos.
Made a japanese toolbox for her, so there is less muck (from the tools) in the car:
Pine, cut nails, a mahogany wedge, protruding greene&greene boxjoints. Had a few scary moments where the wood started to split, those cut nails are quite large.
It also has leather strap handles, those weren't fitted when making the photos.
Jameshow
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Very nice!
what are cut nails?
Hand cut blacksmith made nails I like they used to make before wire drawn nails
robgul
Barry Bucknell is my hero
Nails which are "cut" from metal - rather than being like an extruded wire with a head - a couple of types I can think of:
1 A sort of rounded shape, but not smooth - often decorative for oak doors or chests - see Cut Clasp Nail Pack
2 A flat rectangular profile, traditonally used to nail floorboards down - see Timco Cut Clasp Nails 12mm x 75mm 1kg Pack - Screwfix
The box referred to has the type in 1 above
. . . the nails for horsehoes are another purpose specific type with a thin taper but a larger head to wedge in the hole in steel horseshoe
Jarno
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Thanks for the explanations above, they are indeed cut rather than drawn nails. I used these:
https://www.dictum.com/en/hammers-nails-pry-bars-accessoires/plank-nail-50-mm-830123
https://www.dictum.com/en/hammers-nails-pry-bars-accessoires/plank-nail-50-mm-830123
Dr Al
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A simple sliding lid box made out of a single plank of 22 mm thick rough-sawn Ash:
What makes it unusual is what it was made with:
Exactly 8 tools: a Stanley 4½, a combination square, a 3 mm chisel, an F-clamp, a pencil, a (poorly chosen) cross-cut saw, some glue and a leather strop. No vice, no bench dogs, no marking knife, no hammer/mallet, no sharpening stone, no cloths/rags: nothing but those 8 tools, the flat surface of the bench and the plank of ash.
More details here if anyone is interested: Minimal Tool Challenge
What makes it unusual is what it was made with:
Exactly 8 tools: a Stanley 4½, a combination square, a 3 mm chisel, an F-clamp, a pencil, a (poorly chosen) cross-cut saw, some glue and a leather strop. No vice, no bench dogs, no marking knife, no hammer/mallet, no sharpening stone, no cloths/rags: nothing but those 8 tools, the flat surface of the bench and the plank of ash.
More details here if anyone is interested: Minimal Tool Challenge
I completed a pair of number 11 hollows and rounds today. They cut beautifully, no clogging or chatter. Just need a bit of a cleanup and finish. Then they should look like the number 12s next to them.
With a new grandson just arrived I’ll be stealing this design.
Finished up a perch stool I’ve been working on for a couple of months. Elm seat, Poplar legs (they were going to be painted but I couldn’t settle on a colour!!). The seat outline was cut on the bandsaw, everything else done by hand.
A few errors along the way but we live and learn.
A few errors along the way but we live and learn.
Cabinetman
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Very nice shape to that seat. You didn’t fancy bringing the legs through and wedging them?
…some spice iroko or similar dark hardwood wedges would of looked really stylish.
I built a tambour door cabinet once in my distant youth and I remember it being a massive pain to get it sliding smoothly, so well done from me!
I can see three wedged tenons on the top surface
Cabinetman
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Silly me! I looked and looked just didn’t see them. OA catches up with the lucky ones!
feel free - I think it was a design I downloaded from Etsy...
Yes - wedged all 3 legs but that was one of my mistakes. Cut the slot for the wedge in the wrong orientation for the first back leg and had to repeat it on the other to match! Thankfully it didn’t split the seat.
