Todays woodworking

[Mr Ed]

OK well its tenuously woodworking, but it will be starting the home fires burning here for a few weeks. I quite enjoy chopping kindling actually...

Ed

 

[jimi43]

MAN!! There has to be about three chair's worth there Ed!!!

Ever since the green woodworking show...I keep seeing trees as Windsor chairs....



Jim

 

[Paul Chapman]

This winter's been so cold that most of my woodworking over the last couple of months has been cutting wood for the fire.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[xy mosian]

Mark Twain said:-

" If you cut your own firewood, it warms you twice. "

xy

 

[MikeG.]

:shock: :shock: You chop your firewood indoors?! :shock: :shock:


Wimp.

Mike

 

[Mattty]

:shock: :shock: You chop your firewood indoors?! :shock: :shock:


Wimp.

Mike

And sitting on a stool- Double wimp

 

[woodbloke]

Don't start on axes Ed...you'll set Steve M off :lol: - Rob

 

[Max Power]

Cleaving is a very important stage in the production of wooden items where the strength advantage of straight grain is required , for example wooden spokes, which are traditionally cleaved from oak

 

[Mr Ed]

:shock: :shock: You chop your firewood indoors?! :shock: :shock:


Wimp.

Mike

Damn right, theres about 6 inches of snow here this morning.

Ed

 

[Harbo]

Well that's more woodworking than I've done today - no snow but it's still cold!

In between preparing the Sunday roast I've taken my old 3 phase Meddings Pillar Drill apart to install a single phase motor. The hard part was removing the pulley from the spindle - to be bored out tomorrow on my friends Myford.

Rod

 

[chingerspy]

Nice, I love like kindling too. No need to do it anymore, but I'm contemplating a wood burner for heat in the garage Not sure that throwing MDF on it is a good idea though :?

Today's woodworking for me was finally clearing the crap from the garage so I can kind of work in there now yay!! Now to build the shelving to replace the falling apart stuff in there. Plus cabinets underneath which will be topped off with my worktop, getting there Oh yea I did make a couple of jigs for the router, just to play with my new space.

 

[wizer]

sod that. If I has a wood burner I'd be ripping the kindling on the bandsaw!!! :lol: :lol:

 

[Smudger]

I do...

 

[Mr Ed]

Well I must admit I have done, but splitting kindling with an axe is a simple pleasure and quite a bit quicker when you get your eye in.

Ed

 

[MikeG.]

I do...

:shock: :shock: :shock:

What? I do solemly swear to take thee, Wizer, as my lawfully wedded bride?

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[Jake]

Using a bandsaw would be insanely tedious given that zero accuracy is required.

 

[LocalOak]

I have a bandsaw. I have an ax. I have a need for kindling. Ax wins hands down! :lol:

 

[Smudger]

EEEuuww!!!! Ptah! Ptooii!

Nah.


Whips off-cuts through the bandsaw. Though I'm not all that happy about using them as firewood, may be too resinous. Old doorframes (and unwanted new ones) burn well...

 

[Jake]

Much more fun, cleaner, less wasteful (and light years faster) thwacking them off with a hatchet. I'm chicken and hold the piece upright with one of the earlier splinters.

 

[Karl]

Old doorframes (and unwanted new ones) burn well...

True - I turned the old stud wall which I removed between kitchen and dining room into kindling for a friend of ours who has a woodburning stove. Very dry timber (as you'd expect for a modern house) so takes light easily.

Don't have an axe, so used a 2" wide jap chisel and a mallett (after chop sawing the timber down to 12" lengths).

Cheers

Karl