speaker stands and chest, my recent work

[stef]

as a newbie:
a couple of speaker stands for surround speakers. I couldnt find anything sturdy enough which followed the shape of the bipolar speakers.. so i made these. very simple design, but i think they work.

The chest was a project i picked up in a mag. a simple wax finish.
This used to be a set of Ikea shelves !

 

[dedee]

Stef, those speaker stands may be a simple design but those angles must have complicated things and making a pair is never easy.

I Like the toy box too.

Andy

 

[nickson71]

I like both ...... nice idea with the speaker stands

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think those stands will stay upright for long with a toddling baby.

 

[Anonymous]

I like those Stef. I hope to build some speakers this year which will be a similar shape to your upper boxes but full height (no stands)

 

[Anonymous]

Very nice pieces , they have an individual character already, the shaped feet on the chest especially look great. How did ye do the finger joints for the corner's? You could do a trip trap type chair easily I reckon :wink:
Have you visted John Boddy's timber yard at Boroughbridge? Its ages since I was last in, but they have huge loads of timbers from all over the world, aired and kilned, and a good quality tool store, and (at last) a web site

www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk

Shouldnt be too much of a run out from Leeds :wink: :lol: Pour acheter des outil's de menuisier, oui, c'est tres bon etat, magnifique Aussi y est un ecole pour aprendre les travails en bois. Votre Pere ou Grand-Pere, est-il un charpentier ou menuisier?

Enchante, Mr Spanton

 

[PowerTool]

Very nice chest - lots better than Ikea shelves

C'est trés bon (if we are all trying to remember French from school - only 26 years since I left :lol: )

Andrew

 

[promhandicam]

. . . Pour acheter des outil's de menuisier, oui, c'est tres bon etat, magnifique Aussi y est un ecole pour aprendre les travails en bois. Votre Pere ou Grand-Pere, est-il un charpentier ou menuisier?

Enchante, Mr Spanton

Merde ! Bientôt il nous faudra des pages spéciales en français ! Félicitations Stef – j’aime beaucoup le mal et apparemment ton fils il aime ca aussi. Peut-être la prochaine fois essayer de mettre les charniers a l’intérieure.

Well that’s enough of that - I use French all the time and am more or less bilingual but have always had someone else to type my letters. I can just about get by with the use of the French grammar checker in word.

All the best, a bientôt, et bon soirée.

Steve

 

[stef]

oooo very good there Mr Spanton !
no, grandads were farmers and roofers, dads an engineer, but i have 1 cabinet maker and 2 joiners for uncles.. so i was thrown in at an early age, playing about in workshops..i'd like to take it more seriously though. lack of space is a bit of a problem at the moment. the garage is too damp to setup a proper workshop.
i'll try to check out that store, i need somewhere decent around leeds..

thanks for all the comments.. the stands are screwed to the wall (simple metal braket on the underside of the top shelf !) as i preempted an obvious accident here !

honest, those angles were not difficult.. you can do one piece, and just use that to cut the others. then the assembly is straight forward, since the face of the uprights lies on the edge of the inner supports.
you could also easily integrate some shelves for CDs or niknak.

the finger joints were pretty easy too. measure, mark with a gauge and cut with the jig saw (band saw would have been better)
ease off with file or rasps (they call me the butcher!)
the moldings are just routed from some old piece of pine i had lying around.

 

[Anonymous]

I knew there was some carpentry skill somewhere in your ancestry, you have an eye for wood and form, just like the traditional French charpentiers.
When you say your grandad was a roofer, did he do full timber frame trusses off of full size floor drawings (French scribe-Traites de charpente?) with the round plumb bob etc? That is just a superb way to set them out so you can include wany (bent) wood. Was that steep Northern pitch roofs or shallower pitch in the South? My Dad lives in Charente, his roof is rafters (oak and chestnut) 2 courses of poplar boards, then 2 layers of roman tiles, its only about 30 degree pitch. Did they ever do thatch at all? Fascinating stuff 8)

 

[Fecn]

I like the speaker stands - Nice simple and clean.

I like the toychest even more... Not least because the missus has tasked me with making a toychest for our 9-month old's increasing collection.

I think I might have to clone your work in my workshop.

 

[stef]

I didnt have the pleasure to know my granddad for long enough before he died (i was 6 or 7 i think) so i am not sure what his work really involved. i dont think he was a carpenter though.. more of a slates layer (if there is such a word!)
but i see where you are coming from with roofs..they are pretty damn impressive. if this is your things, you ought to be interested in traditional boat making too. i like roofs, but i like boats even more, for the sam reason i like roofs... boats are basically like a roof upside down, but stronger, more intricate, more complex, and prettier ! i recomend taking a look at the work of H. Underhill.

i started a scale model of a traditional sailing trawler years ago, around 50cm long, completely in pear three (i obtained a few logs which i had sawn at a local mill in Brittany. I'll have to put some pics up.. keep a look out for it !
thank, prom !
well, for the hinges on the inside... it started like that. (in fact, i did a much smaller chest on the same plans a couple of years ago, which had them inside)
but i just couldnt manage to screw the hinges accurately enough so that the lid would line up properly when the chest was closed. after three attempts (already a lot in soft pine !) i decided to put them outside....much, much easier !

Fecn, i'll try to find the mag again, and if not, bug me enough and i'll do a quick write up.

 

[scotswood]

Hi Stef,
Cracking job on the chest.....and a timely one too as my good lady has requested just such a thing for our wee ones. So if you could help with plans it would be a massive help. Lovely job mate.
Cheers,
Graham

 

[GCR]

Very nice work, I particularly like the look of the chest.

Bob

 

[stef]

Hi Stef,
Cracking job on the chest.....and a timely one too as my good lady has requested just such a thing for our wee ones. So if you could help with plans it would be a massive help. Lovely job mate.
Cheers,
Graham

i'll try to do a write up...
is there a section on the forum for those ?
(it doesnt need plans as such, because you can give it the proportions that suit you...)

 

[George_N]

This used to be a set of Ikea shelves !

So that's where babies come from!! :lol:

Nice work by the way.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi again Stef

This is a favourite site of mine

http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/index.htm

When I see the form and structure of those craft I am almost overwhelmed they have to be probably the best boats in the world :lol:

But then theres these as well on another favourite site

http://www.traditionalkayaks.com/Kayakr ... licas.html

Which are also breathtaking. If I was ever to build a boat it would be one or the other of these 2 type's. But despite the fact that my surname means "place of boats" or boatyard" in old norse, that I was born on the East Yorkshire coast, and that Captain James Cook was an ancestor, I am a total landlubber. Water illiterate!! Apart from a bit of river canoeing at school 30 years ago. What I like about the baidarka/kayaks is the fantastic form's each of which is aparently perfectly suited to specific weather and hunting conditions. And they use any old driftwood that turns up, bits of boxes, logs, scrap etc and assemble it using very basic tools (axe knife saw, hot iron to burn lashing holes etc) with superb skill, they have the form totally there in their mind before they start, just as the charpentier does before he begins to cut a roof :lol:

Have you seen the mastermyr tool set? Some poor Norse tradesman lost them over a thousand years ago in a bog. (Or threw them in for some weird religious reason) The quality and state of preservation is fantastic.

Cheers Jonathan

PS I just came across this fantastic little model.

http://www.grenda.no/nyhende/1095/

Perhaps I should start with something on that scale if I decide to build a boat? I was on the look out for a project to do with my 8 year old boy

 

[RPM]

Hi Stef,
Cracking job on the chest.....and a timely one too as my good lady has requested just such a thing for our wee ones. So if you could help with plans it would be a massive help. Lovely job mate.
Cheers,
Graham

i'll try to do a write up...
is there a section on the forum for those ?
(it doesnt need plans as such, because you can give it the proportions that suit you...)

I will be interested in that too!

Great work! well done. :wink:

 

[stef]

Hi again Stef

This is a favourite site of mine

http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/index.htm

When I see the form and structure of those craft I am almost overwhelmed they have to be probably the best boats in the world :lol:

But then theres these as well on another favourite site

http://www.traditionalkayaks.com/Kayakr ... licas.html

Which are also breathtaking. If I was ever to build a boat it would be one or the other of these 2 type's. But despite the fact that my surname means "place of boats" or boatyard" in old norse, that I was born on the East Yorkshire coast, and that Captain James Cook was an ancestor, I am a total landlubber. Water illiterate!! Apart from a bit of river canoeing at school 30 years ago. What I like about the baidarka/kayaks is the fantastic form's each of which is aparently perfectly suited to specific weather and hunting conditions. And they use any old driftwood that turns up, bits of boxes, logs, scrap etc and assemble it using very basic tools (axe knife saw, hot iron to burn lashing holes etc) with superb skill, they have the form totally there in their mind before they start, just as the charpentier does before he begins to cut a roof :lol:

Have you seen the mastermyr tool set? Some poor Norse tradesman lost them over a thousand years ago in a bog. (Or threw them in for some weird religious reason) The quality and state of preservation is fantastic.

Cheers Jonathan

PS I just came across this fantastic little model.

http://www.grenda.no/nyhende/1095/

Perhaps I should start with something on that scale if I decide to build a boat? I was on the look out for a project to do with my 8 year old boy

Hi Johnathan
Funnily enough the norsemen long boat doesnt float mine.. (vive la difference !) i find the "border a clin" or clinker (i beleive) too "simplistic" eventhough it isnt. i am much more in favour of the sturdier plank on frame boats. But it's probably also from my upbringing on the coast of Britanny. up to a few decades, we had fleets going to the northern atlantic (island) to fish "la morue"... The place still holds big festivals with traditional pieces every other years...that, and i worked as a harbour master for a few summers.. so spent many hours drooling over fully restaured wooden ships...

I've just posted a new thread on the model i was telling you about..

 

[Anonymous]

I just saw your other post first :lol:
How DO they get the clinker planks just the right length AND with just the right angles to butt against the front post AND overlapped evenly all along??

What amazes me is that the norse sailors crossed the North Sea in those little craft :shock: 8) then sailed up relatively shallow estuaries to find farmlands to settle, the ships could go well in both environments. To this day theres dozens of place names ending in "by", kexby, Skidby, Grimsby etc they are originally viking settlements

La Morue is Halibut oui?? BIG diamond shaped flatfish? Where I was born in East Yorkshire, (Hull) there used to be a huge fishing fleet there too, they used to go for halibut Cod Herrings around Greenland, Iceland etc.

I bet you do a mean bouillabase :wink: