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[Dr Al]

Today I declared finished a project that I've been working on since January: a travel tool chest & workbench.

The primary reason I did this project was to practice hand tool woodwork without having to worry too much about aesthetics (which are not my forte). Less significantly, I also wanted the ability to take a tool kit on holiday and be able to make small boxes and such-like. Since Carolyn has had M.E., she often needs to spend a reasonable amount of time resting and I'd go spare if I just had to sit around reading all day, so having a little project kit with me helps keep me sane.

All the woodwork (with the exception of a few "resawing" cuts on a bandsaw) was done with hand tools. All of the metal bits were also made by me, but not with hand tools

Anyway, this is the chest closed...

... and opened (the front doubles as a shooting board):

Rear view with a leather-jawed vice (which can also be turned round and used as a stop, or removed completely to allow clamping to the uprights on the back):

More photos and details in this project thread: Travel Tool Chest / Workbench

 

[steve355]

#4 Hollow plane finished… well almost. It works. Need to harden the blade and apply finish.

 

[paulrbarnard]

#4 Hollow plane finished… well almost. It works. Need to harden the blade and apply finish.
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I’ve always wanted a set of H&R. Perhaps when I retire…

 

[Adam W.]

I am doing the online stereotomy course and noticed the book in the photo. Are you able to read it? The majority of books on the subject are in french, which I have, but Google translate or even fluent French speakers have trouble with them due to the terminology. Do you have a method for working out exactly what is meant?

It's early days for me and it's a progression of a fan vault project that I have been looking at for the last couple of years.

I'm interested in the palimpsest created during the drawing process and the methods used to transfer information from master carpenter to journeyman and apprentice during the Gothic period, when few people were able to write or read. I have some friends who are Compagnons de Devoir who lent me some books on masonry stereotomy, which contained ancient systems of setting out for complex vaulted structures and that got me going.

I am able to read some of the text but it's not as interesting to me as the drawings are. It's not a secret even though Steve thinks it is, but I like to encourage others to go on their own geometric journeys instead of writing about mine on here.

What stage are you at on the stereotomy course?

EDIT: Shonky spelling.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

created?

 

[benitod]

Over bench organiser. Crappy construction lumber and Sapele

Is that your crappy construction? I want to see your good one.

 

[MF1000]

after 3 coats of my home brew bee/carnuba/micro crystalline wax here is the finished table

Delivered this to a very happy new owner today

 

[thetyreman]

here's my first scratch build guitar, I have dreamed of making one for many years, it needs a minor adjustment to the nut and final setup but other than that it's done, my own original design and entry for the great guitar build off 2023 scratch build.

 

[steve355]

here's my first scratch build guitar, I have dreamed of making one for many years, it needs a minor adjustment to the nut and final setup but other than that it's done, my own original design and entry for the great guitar build off 2023 scratch build.

Wow. Hugely impressive. So many questions!

Is the F hole a real F hole or is it inlay? I.e. is the Guitar semiacoustic?

It looks like it has a through neck like a Jackson? Initially it looked like the neck was laminated, however, the laminate does not appear on the front of the headstock! So is that an inlay too? Where is the truss rod?

If the guitar is semiacoustic, how on earth does that work with the through neck?!

Didn’t Rickenbacker make some similar style 12th string semi acoustic guitars? I seem to recall that.

Awesome job, you need to post a sound file!

Edit …. Looking at the pictures more closely, it does appear that it is a real F hole, and the guitar has one semi acoustic side above the neck and an electric side below the neck. That’s a really interesting design, I’ve never seen that before.

Edit edit …. The more I look at it, the more innovative and insanely well-made. It appears to be. for example, the blending of the neck into the back. Once again, like a Jackson. The innovative positioning of the Jack socket. Steve Vai would be proud of that one if he thought of it. If you’re saying this is the first guitar you’ve ever made, you’re having a laugh!

 

[thetyreman]

Wow. Hugely impressive. So many questions!

Is the F hole a real F hole or is it inlay? I.e. is the Guitar semiacoustic?

It looks like it has a through neck like a Jackson? Initially it looked like the neck was laminated, however, the laminate does not appear on the front of the headstock! So is that an inlay too? Where is the truss rod?

If the guitar is semiacoustic, how on earth does that work with the through neck?!

Didn’t Rickenbacker make some similar style 12th string semi acoustic guitars? I seem to recall that.

Awesome job, you need to post a sound file!

Edit …. Looking at the pictures more closely, it does appear that it is a real F hole, and the guitar has one semi acoustic side above the neck and an electric side below the neck. That’s a really interesting design, I’ve never seen that before.

yes real f-hole, it's semi-acoustic, the headstock is veneered with flamed ash, truss rod is a barrel type so you adjust it at the end of the fretboard with a metal barrel/spoke wheel, yes it's a through neck, the right side of the body is also semi hollow to bring the weight down.

 

[steve355]

yes real f-hole, it's semi-acoustic, the headstock is veneered with flamed ash, truss rod is a barrel type so you adjust it at the end of the fretboard with a metal rod, yes it's a through neck, the right side of the body is also semi hollow to bring the weight down.

Ok I can see how you did it , through neck, glue on 2 routed boxes, then glue the top on.

 

[Harry581010]

It's early days for me and it's a progression of a fan vault project that I have been looking at for the last couple of years.

I'm interested in the palimpsest created during the drawing process and the methods used to transfer information from master carpenter to journeyman and apprentice during the Gothic period, when few people were able to write or read. I have some friends who are Compagnons de Devoir who lent me some books on masonry stereotomy, which contained ancient systems of setting out for complex vaulted structures and that got me going.

I am able to read some of the text but it's not as interesting to me as the drawings are. It's not a secret even though Steve thinks it is, but I like to encourage others to go on their own geometric journeys instead of writing about mine on here.

What stage are you at on the stereotomy course?

EDIT: Shonky spelling.

I am on stage 3 so no vaults yet but things are getting interesting with lots of diverse pieces. I got into it after getting curious several times I on site when I was realising that noone really knew what they were doing while roofing and it has snowballed since. I can't get enough, just very difficult with minimal information in English.

 

[Doug B]

I need a pair of track saw guides for a job in a couple of weeks, they aren’t something I’ll get a lot of use out of so figured I’d save my money & make some. I’m guessing something like these would fit to quite a few brands of track.

The two clamps were machined from a block of aluminium.

They were then cut to shape & cleaned up.

I planed up some scraps of oak to act as rods, the little clamping plates were off cuts of steel tapped to accept a 5mm counter head screw the rods where bolted on again with 5mm countersunk machine screws.

The stop blocks are oak & ash scraps made to fit snugly around the rod with a 6mm screw in insert for the locking hand bolts.

 

[steve355]

I need a pair of track saw guides for a job in a couple of weeks, they aren’t something I’ll get a lot of use out of so figured I’d save my money & make some. I’m guessing something like these would fit to quite a few brands of track.

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The two clamps were machined from a block of aluminium.

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They were then cut to shape & cleaned up.

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I planed up some scraps of oak to act as rods, the little clamping plates were off cuts of steel tapped to accept a 5mm counter head screw the rods where bolted on again with 5mm countersunk machine screws.

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The stop blocks are oak & ash scraps made to fit snugly around the rod with a 6mm screw in insert for the locking hand bolts.u

I need a pair of track saw guides for a job in a couple of weeks, they aren’t something I’ll get a lot of use out of so figured I’d save my money & make some. I’m guessing something like these would fit to quite a few brands of track.

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The two clamps were machined from a block of aluminium.

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They were then cut to shape & cleaned up.

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I planed up some scraps of oak to act as rods, the little clamping plates were off cuts of steel tapped to accept a 5mm counter head screw the rods where bolted on again with 5mm countersunk machine screws.

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The stop blocks are oak & ash scraps made to fit snugly around the rod with a 6mm screw in insert for the locking hand bolts.

Good thinking. I was going to say that with the price of aluminium today, it might be cheaper to buy such things from the appropriate manufacturer. But with Festool, maybe not!

it turns out that having a milling machine and a block of aluminium is the solution to many problems! Last week I made a jig for making plane blades using almost exactly the same technique. Note, the jig is underneath, the mill is about to cut the plane blade.

 

[steve355]

Good thinking. I was going to say that with the price of aluminium today, it might be cheaper to buy such things from the appropriate manufacturer. But with Festool, maybe not!

it turns out that having a milling machine and a block of aluminium is the solution to many problems! Last week I made a jig for making plane blades using almost exactly the same technique. Note, the jig is underneath, the mill is about to cut the plane blade.

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And here are a pair of tapered moulding plane irons I made with the above jig today. These will go in a pair of #6 H&R. Can you tell I don’t have a job?

 

[rob1693]

Incense box and burner stand made from reclaimed bed leg and offcuts, burner stand made from reclaimed copper pipe, leather lining and pouch are reclaimed sofa leather
Made for a christmas present

 

[scooby]

I needed to drill a load of pocket holes today and didn‘t fancy using the face clamp so made this. This is the kreg kphj320 pocket hole jig and with preset depth stops removed and the jig bottomed out it works out right for 3/4” material.

With a bit of modding it’d work for thicker/thinner material but I only tend to use pocket screws with 3/4” and even that isn’t often. Worked surprisingly well and the extraction also has a slight work holding effect.

 

[scooby]

Still working my way through the ipe decking my neighbours gave me. Latest order were 3 planters and a small outdoor table (to go with the numerous adirondacks) for my mum. Table has a bit of staining that just wouldn’t plane/sand out so that’s a feature and it needs another coat of osmo. Planters are progressing slowly due to not much free time at the moment.

 

[rob1693]

Wax/oil burner made from recycled copper pipe turned base from an off cut burnt and oiled

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

Finished my screw dispenser/caddy. Hung on the first French Cleat I've ever tried. Each section is a different diameter screw. Just have to look to find the length I want.