Made my wife a corner desk. It started as oak kitchen top, cut to two wings, with profiled edge to have comfortable cotact with forearms. Metal box sections and plates, welded up and powder coated. One of the leg footers got a little shelf for a printer. The two wings are held together with bolts, and aligned with dominos. Used Indian Ink to stain it black, so it would match rest of the furniture. Then treated with Odie's oil. Wood texture still comes through nicely. It's quite sturdy, very heavy as well. And now we shall see how's it going to do against a test of time.
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First drawer made... the scrap wood is difficult to work with, but I will try to discard my type-A tendencies:
This box made for a friend uses 2x10 structural lumber. I found a cupped board in the store and hoped it would cup additionally at home after being resawn. It did not, so I had to shape a concave top with a scraper and convex sides with a plane.
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Jameshow
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Crafty use of cupping!
treeturner123
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I did post this in the wood turning section, but thought others might like to see. It is one of 3 pieces of sculpture I am putting in to the 6 week outdoor sculpture exhibition at Showborough House near Tewkesbury. I'm still working on the other two but this is based on the Skylon from the 1950 Festival of Britain. It is in Holm Oak (evergreen oak), finished with several layers of Danish Oil. When in place it will be mounted on a steel rod in the base which sticks in the ground.
Web site for Showborough is https://www.showborough.com/. Well worth a visit anyway.
Web site for Showborough is https://www.showborough.com/. Well worth a visit anyway.
Update: most of the shelves and drawers are now completed. A very versatile design. The shelves and drawers can be moved around to wherever they might be needed.
Cabinetman
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Interesting, but I don’t think I would put much weight or action on it though tbh.
Kids used it for about 3 hours, not huge kids nor too vigorous but it was actually more robust than I expected. The beach is super nice for digging so the uprights were 3ft in the sand. One of the adults got a bit carried away and the uprights had to have the sand packed back behind them afterwards.
lee1596
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First workshop stool made with the just finished workbench, and only the tools on the bench used to make it.
It needed to be done this afternoon, use what scraps I had left and take up minimal floor space as i have very little storage. One peice of cupped board for the seat, the shape used to help angle the legs, and 2 peices of 1.5x3 for the legs, one of which was ripped and planed into 2 bits of 1.5x1.5 with angled ends.
It is only glued and screwed with no real joinery so it won't be very strong, but as a 45 minute project it will do until I can upgrade it. The next stool will have tenons for the legs and slightly more shape to it and probably use nicer wood. I can't wait to compare them once I've got a bit more skill and time to plan.
It needed to be done this afternoon, use what scraps I had left and take up minimal floor space as i have very little storage. One peice of cupped board for the seat, the shape used to help angle the legs, and 2 peices of 1.5x3 for the legs, one of which was ripped and planed into 2 bits of 1.5x1.5 with angled ends.
It is only glued and screwed with no real joinery so it won't be very strong, but as a 45 minute project it will do until I can upgrade it. The next stool will have tenons for the legs and slightly more shape to it and probably use nicer wood. I can't wait to compare them once I've got a bit more skill and time to plan.
city17
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Little oak stool that I made this weekend. I used some epoxy resin to close the knot you see on the bottom left (bit hard to see on this image), first time trying that. I'm not a big fan of river tables etc. but found out that clear epoxy actually looks quite nice. Next to it is a lime tree waiting for warmer weather to go outside.
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lee1596
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That looks really good, I didn't even think of using 3 boards to make a stool
Very clever! I really like it, but fear that if I sat on it, it would come crashing down. Yes, I am somewhat rotund!
Stigmorgan
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A busy day at work today, needed a solid base for 2 toy sheds, had 14no 610x610x50mm (uckin heavy) concrete slabs so convinced school to order a bulk bag of sharp sand and 4 XL bags of cement, 7am this morning I was straight out there setting up lines and levels, digging out ready to lay the slabs, felt great to back at "construction work" got it all done and tidied by 3.30. My back is wrecked and my hands have gotten very soft but I'm pleased with it.
My final post on this floor cabinet. All the drawers and shelves are done.
Yesterday, I mounted the tool chest on heavy-duty Accuride full extension slides,
so I could open the top w/o removing the drawer above it.
Yesterday, I mounted the tool chest on heavy-duty Accuride full extension slides,
so I could open the top w/o removing the drawer above it.
Owd Jockey
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Oh to be that tidy and organised, something that I aspire to be...............but I see I still have a long way to go!
J-G
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!! Standard old 2 X 2 pressed concrete slabs aren't 'heavy' --- Many years ago I bought an existing Garden Supplies shop and the previous owner left me a job to deliver 10 3 x 2 Slabs which he had sold (and been paid for!) - I'd previously been in an 'office' job.
My weekly order for slabs was at least 7 tons and 'Ben', the delivery driver, would pick up 2 2x2s at a time (he was a big chap
) - I never ordered any 3x2s after that first delivery experience.
Tris
What am I doing here?
One landscaping company I worked for had an apprentice who weighed less than a 3x2 slab
J-G
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For much of my life I was close
- During my 'dancing days' I was 8st 4lb and IIRC a 3x2 was ~1cwt ie. 8st.
