Some of my 2015 Challenges and Churnings.

[CHJ]

Forgot to put these up on Friday, not a turning subject but another way of using up the offcut wood rather than delving into the prime stock.

Walnut, Oak, Beech.

 

[beganasatree]

Hi Chas,
Looks like you found some holders??

Peter

 

[CHJ]

Hi Chas,
Looks like you found some holders??

Peter

Family brought me some from Germany where they were still available, search is still on-going to find an alternate source of similar small cups.

Amazon source at £8 to £15 or so a throw is not very attractive, maybe it's just my resistance to that tone of marketing.

 

[CHJ]

Another of those "can you just do me half a dozen? " little jobs.

Walnut light pulls.

 

[Dalboy]

Another of those "can you just do me half a dozen? " little jobs.

Walnut light pulls.

At least they are nice and simple to produce. Even then they are still well finished

 

[CHJ]

Sometimes the odd hour doing a little repetitive/batch job is just enough to break up the day, makes a change from dressing Pheasants, Ducks Pigeons etc. for the freezer which seems to be my all to regular day job this time of year.

One of the mixed benefits of living in a farming community that barters favours done, forget the agro. involved when they arrive on the plate though, just wish they did not arrive 8-12 at a time.

 

[CHJ]

Getting to that end of year clean up of the long term 'Hangers about' bits of part assembled stuff, must make a determined effort to reduce the remnant's of the various enthusiastic batch production stints that are awaiting 'A round Tuit' and are cluttering up the various niches.

Walnut and Oak, 157mm diam.

 

[Dalboy]

Another nice segmented box from your stable Chas.

I know what you mean about all the little started projects hanging around the workshop as i have a few.

 

[CHJ]

It's when the boss opens up a cupboard to reach for something else and sees bits like this you start hearing background mutterings.

 

[CHJ]

Started on the reduction of the above stash, decided to laminate all tops from now on to increase the yield from the time consuming segmenting.

Oak and Walnut. 117mm dia.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Lovely stuff chas. Trying to get my head round how those curved segments in the lid are glued up, computer says no!

 

[CHJ]

Trying to get my head round how those curved segments in the lid are glued up, computer says no!

You just have to spin the wood at high enough speed (an early version)

Easy if you have CNC, but can be done as mine are with a couple of aids made from shop scraps and a bit of perseverance to get the dimensions correct.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Aaah, as usual obvious when you know how

 

[CHJ]

About 20 more to go, some might be a while if I have to build the bodies with segments.

Oak, Walnut & Elm, 120mm dia.

 

[Dalboy]

They still look good without the segmented bottom. Will you still keep a couple for segmented bottoms

 

[CHJ]

No plans as yet Derek one way or the other, at the moment it's a case of what bit of suitable wood comes up first whilst trying to move stuff around the store.

Am beginning to lean towards 'less is more' and just keep the segment detail as a highlight to lid or body but that's again dependant on locating a complimentary bit of wood and not having too many species in the mix.

 

[John15]

Very nice indeed Chas. Like Woodmonkey I'm fascinated how you do the lids.

John

 

[CHJ]

Some of the roughly sliced and laminated lid blanks from the 'stash', doing them as an afterthought from thicker blanks presents some alignment problems due to sawn faces when remounting but I'm warming to the laminated lids as a norm.

 

[Dalboy]

Does the laminated lids give better stability over the straight segmented lids

 

[CHJ]

Does the laminated lids give better stability over the straight segmented lids

In theory it should do, although I have never had any warping of segmented lids, I've had a couple where they have been exposed to differing atmospheric moisture conditions that have developed radial splits in the wood. On the other hand two dissimilar woods may encourage bending, quite good humidity indicators can be made by gluing two thin strips of dissimilar woods together in a slim beam.

Perhaps the extra rigidity/strength of the adhesive in the laminate will help prevent splitting if placed in sunlight or near a radiator, although with the two failures I'm aware of it was increased moisture (damp room) that triggered the splitting.

Always a problem in closed segment work, cater for 12-15% home environment and someone will put it on a radiator shelf, window sill or sunlit cupboard, dry it to below 8% and it will be left on a shelf alongside a heated clothes airer.