Post a photo of the last thing you made

[Puggers]

@Lee B that's lovely!

Tell me, are the small blue compartments in the final photo flocked? I can't quite see when expanding the image.

Cheers

 

[Eshmiel]

Here is the first and last thing I made, it’s been a massive learning curve over the past couple of weeks but was keen to make this display and storage case for my metal detecting finds. It’s made out of Solid Oak, finished with a thin layer of osmo and 2 applications of finishing wax. I am surprised at how this turned out with it being my first project with my new router and table saw plus a few hand tools.

That's a very handsome thing and a great example of what an added bit of motive and ambition can do to push the learning experience. You must be very pleased with that and with good reason.

Mind, you'll be addicted now. The metal detecting may have to take a back seat to the making of handsome wooden things.

 

[Lee B]

@Lee B that's lovely!

Tell me, are the small blue compartments in the final photo flocked? I can't quite see when expanding the image.

Cheers

They are inserts for coins. You can buy them in different coin sizes. I bought these from .arrowfile.com

 

[Lee B]

That's a very handsome thing and a great example of what an added bit of motive and ambition can do to push the learning experience. You must be very pleased with that and with good reason.

Mind, you'll be addicted now. The metal detecting may have to take a back seat to the making of handsome wooden things.

Thankyou, yes totally hooked, just planning on making a stand for it and the wife now has a list of things. I must admit there was a lot of wasted wood from mistakes but very pleased with the end result.

 

[Eshmiel]

Thankyou, yes totally hooked, just planning on making a stand for it and the wife now has a list of things. I must admit there was a lot of wasted wood from mistakes but very pleased with the end result.

Wasted wood can become feedstock for other things. They have to be smaller other things, naturally.

I do have things that are made of third-stage wasted wood. First thing, say, a double bed. Second thing: a smallish cabinet with plenty of small frame & panel parts; third thing, a small cupboard, ignoring things like shakes and knots (they're features!) Even that left a few waste bits. I suppose I could try to carve a netsuke thingy.

It feels sinful to burn oak. A vengeful Druid might appear.

 

[BentonTool]

Eshmiel,​

Very handsome and innovative designs (IMHO)! Re: the bed, you have solved the problem with wood movement at the headboard that has troubled me for a long time!
Do you do the glass work as well?

 

[Eshmiel]

Eshmiel,​

Very handsome and innovative designs (IMHO)! Re: the bed, you have solved the problem with wood movement at the headboard that has troubled me for a long time!
Do you do the glass work as well?

Hello B,

I'm feeling guilty now for thread-jacking. Can I send you a PM or start a new thread instead?

PS Thanks for the compliment.

 

[BentonTool]

Hello B,

I'm feeling guilty now for thread-jacking. Can I send you a PM or start a new thread instead?

PS Thanks for the compliment.

Yes, of course. However, I doubt many will complain...

 

[Fred48]

Wasted wood can become feedstock for other things. They have to be smaller other things, naturally.

I do have things that are made of third-stage wasted wood. First thing, say, a double bed. Second thing: a smallish cabinet with plenty of small frame & panel parts; third thing, a small cupboard, ignoring things like shakes and knots (they're features!) Even that left a few waste bits. I suppose I could try to carve a netsuke thingy.

It feels sinful to burn oak. A vengeful Druid might appear.

They're beautiful items you've made @Eshmiel and excellent craftsmanship.
Fred

 

[JohnerH]

It feels sinful to burn oak. A vengeful Druid might appear.

Here here!

That cabinet....ohhhh... Your giving me ideas.

 

[Toomuchwood]

Here is the first and last thing I made, it’s been a massive learning curve over the past couple of weeks but was keen to make this display and storage case for my metal detecting finds. It’s made out of Solid Oak, finished with a thin layer of osmo and 2 applications of finishing wax. I am surprised at how this turned out with it being my first project with my new router and table saw plus a few hand tools.

 

[Toomuchwood]

Here is the first and last thing I made, it’s been a massive learning curve over the past couple of weeks but was keen to make this display and storage case for my metal detecting finds. It’s made out of Solid Oak, finished with a thin layer of osmo and 2 applications of finishing wax. I am surprised at how this turned out with it being my first project with my new router and table saw plus a few hand tools.

 

[SammyQ]

Eshmiel, those are just lovely. As we used to say in N.I.: "yiz hiz a quare eye, Boy". If your own creations (that bed!) and the bathroom ironwork are anything to judge by, you must have a visually stimulating home.
I applaud different thinking.

 

[BentonTool]

I made these two draw-bore pins from salvaged worn-out items.
The one at the top is made from an old round file, and the one below from an old worn-out butcher's steel. The removed handles are reversed. Additionally, they are much closer in size than the photograph would lead you to believe. And who said "the camera does not lie"?

 

[BentonTool]

Here is a coach/carriage maker's router that I made from a rough casting, a spare blade, and one of "WOODYAH'S" Stanley Router Plane Blade Collars:

 

[Eshmiel]

I made these two draw-bore pins from salvaged worn-out items.
The one at the top is made from an old round file, and the one below from an old worn-out butcher's steel. The removed handles are reversed. Additionally, they are much closer in size than the photograph would lead you to believe. And who said "the camera does not lie"?

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Pinned tennons ocassionally get used in my pieces but I have no proper draw bore pins. Ray Iles sells them but at £75 a pair, which seems a bit expensive for two tapered steel rods with handles on. I keep meaning to grind some steel bar then make the handles meself but the grinding time would be long and I have no means to do it other than by-eye so they'd be wonky. Still, one day.

I like them handles. I've just got into carving handles albeit with proper brass ferules mounted on the handle ends, cut with a dowel maker in the drill press on the handle blanks before I start knifin' at them.

 

[BentonTool]

Pinned tennons ocassionally get used in my pieces but I have no proper draw bore pins. Ray Iles sells them but at £75 a pair, which seems a bit expensive for two tapered steel rods with handles on. I keep meaning to grind some steel bar then make the handles meself but the grinding time would be long and I have no means to do it other than by-eye so they'd be wonky. Still, one day.

I like them handles. I've just got into carving handles albeit with proper brass ferules mounted on the handle ends, cut with a dowel maker in the drill press on the handle blanks before I start knifin' at them.

Old round files and butcher's steels are commonly found inexpensively at tag sales. Sometimes they have an appropriate taper, so it takes little work with some sandpaper (or better yet, on a sander) to condition them and then perhaps also buff them a bit as I did.
A lathe is a wonderful machine to have...

 

[jb94]

My first chair, made from English oak.
I used the plans for the captains chair from the Stick Chair Book (lost art press).

The back spokes and braces were bought in lengths of dowel but everything else made from scratch.

Finished with beeswax oil.