Post a photo of the last thing you made

[AndyT]

That's a lovely box, especially the top. How hard was it to do the top? I'm assuming it's not your first go.

 

[Chris152]

Really nice - is the top ash, too? Beautiful piece to have chosen.

 

[sammy.se]

Here's what I made today: a stow away sheet cutting table to use with my tracksaw, to break down MDF, ply sheets etc. I aim to build a few cabinets over the next few months

Can be used on my saw horses or on the ground.


The first couple of parts were cut by hand, then a template bit in a router to make the rest of the pieces.

The goal was to have something that can be packed away in a small space (which is why I don't use a sheet of kingspan, for example.

Needless to say, OSB, splinters galore.
I also gouged my hand with a chisel :-( may need stitches but it has stopped bleeding now. It does ache though.

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[Lazurus]

Is that real grass ???

 

[sammy.se]

Is that real grass ???

Haha no! Fake grass. I need to hire a power brush to brush it up a bit , it has become a bit matted.

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[Blackswanwood]

That's a lovely box, especially the top. How hard was it to do the top? I'm assuming it's not your first go.

Thanks Andy. The top isn’t that difficult. I made this one using dovetails and As I don’t do them very often found them more taxing.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Really nice - is the top ash, too? Beautiful piece to have chosen.

Thanks Chris. Yes - it caught my eye and I bought it described as Olive Ash not really knowing whether it was Olive or Ash. I have subsequently learned curly grained Ash is Olive Ash! It has about 50 applications of hard wax as I didn’t want to risk using oil and turning it yellow.

 

[custard]

Ash keepsake box

Very nice job!

The escutcheon and the suede lining can be quite tricky to execute well, but they both look exceptionally tidy.

=D>

 

[transatlantic]

I see both an alien and a horse in that ash box grain

 

[MikeG.]

Ash keepsake box......

Super impressive. Not something I would even attempt. My nerves would be in tatters!!

 

[MikeG.]

I made a wall. Does that count?

 

[Woody2Shoes]

Very nice too. What kind of footings and what kind of mortar did you use? In the chalky bit of Sussex I think those would have been knapped in the old days. Cheers, W2S

 

[transatlantic]

I made a wall. Does that count?

Is it square?

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[MikeG.]

.......Is it square?....

:lol: =D>

Only if the house is*. The front wall is parallel to the front of the house, and the side wall is parallel to the side of the house.

*It isn't.

 

[MikeG.]

Very nice too. What kind of footings and what kind of mortar did you use? In the chalky bit of Sussex I think those would have been knapped in the old days. Cheers, W2S

I dug a shallow footing maybe 6 inches deep (to the clay layer) and laid concrete. The mortar is white sand, white cement, and lime in 6:1:1/2, gauged, and I used lots of crushed brick as a pozzolan. You don't find an awful lot of knapped flintwork around here. Laid to a line in courses, like this one, is the traditional way, but most new walls are done at random, stuffed in behind a pair of boards. It doesn't look quite so nice in my view.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks Chris. Yes - it caught my eye and I bought it described as Olive Ash not really knowing whether it was Olive or Ash. I have subsequently learned curly grained Ash is Olive Ash!

Not the curly so much as the very dark heartwood.

 

[Blackswanwood]

I made a wall. Does that count?

Is it just stone right through the wall Mike?

 

[MikeG.]

......Is it just stone right through the wall Mike?

There are two fair faces, and rubble in the middle......mainly small flints, but also lots of bits of broken brick. The mortar takes up to 6 or 8 hours to set ready for pointing when used with flint alone, so brick speeds that up lots.

 

[Woody2Shoes]

... Laid to a line in courses, like this one, is the traditional way, but most new walls are done at random, stuffed in behind a pair of boards. It doesn't look quite so nice in my view....]

Yes, I like the coursing - it reminds me of a Roman wall.

 

[sammy.se]

Simple Trellis, to cover up the neighbours ugly concrete wall:

Posts of 2x1 treated batons were attached to the back of the fence panels. The new slats are PAR redwood, rounded over with a 4mm gap between then, finished in Bedec MSP. Those colours are used in other parts of the garden to it ties everything together.