Your favourite thing you have made from reclaimed timber 🤔 📸

[stuart little]

Can we have some pictures of the ships please, the one we can see looks really good.

Thanks Fergie, will do ASAP, but suffering from a virus at mo. "Keep 'em Peeled" or "Watch this space". It's a French 75 gunner, 50% scratch built, waiting to have the yards and sails fitted.

Stuart

 

[stuart little]

Managed these: Spanish 75; the Nina; French 75; & USS Constitution.

 

[Thingybob]

Beautiful work Stuart. What thickness of wood is the hull planking and what species I just love to see miniature workmanship it's a credit to you

 

[Indiana]

Managed these: Spanish 75; the Nina; French 75; & USS Constitution.

This is incredible

 

[Jester129]

You must have the patience of a saint. Still can't 'get' jokes though!
Terrific work sir.

 

[stuart little]

You must have the patience of a saint. Still can't 'get' jokes though!
Terrific work sir.

Me mum used to say the same about me, but not the joke bit.

 

[stuart little]

Beautiful work Stuart. What thickness of wood is the hull planking and what species I just love to see miniature workmanship it's a credit to you

Thanks 'Thingy', first planking is 1.5 mm bass wood, second is 1.0mm walnut. The decking is 1mm maple & tanganyika. I use some pear wood to replace grotty stuff in the kits. It's an old hobby started in '83, then set aside for 3 decades, along came model railroading & full size carpentry (hobby). Eventually, my legs called, 'enough' to climbing loft ladders, so the railroad got the 'Beeching Chop', which funded the 'Model Shipyard', & the full-size carpentry became too much. Only drawback with ship models; "Where to put them?" The present one is the penultimate, with a 1:72 scale HMS Victory as my final one (all being well!). If time, I 'has' 3 completed hulls awaiting masts & rigging.

 

[stuart little]

Thank you all for your kind words.

Stuart

 

[Fred48]

Managed these: Spanish 75; the Nina; French 75; & USS Constitution.

Beautiful work Stuart. Do you buy in the very thin wood or produce it yourself?
Fred

 

[stuart little]

Beautiful work Stuart. Do you buy in the very thin wood or produce it yourself?
Fred

Thanks, Fred. It's what's supplied in the kits, I do buy extra when necessary, & produce some, again as required.

 

[Thingybob]

As with both our hobbies /pastimes the graining is detrimental finding pieces of wood with the finest of grain , yours must be harder at that scale . I get given a lot of wood now the daughters boyfriend is a joiner he gave me an offcut of very fine grained Meranti it measured 400x200x50 like some one had said to me here's a forest as it will be sawn in 1mm,2mm,3mmand 4mm planks to make miniature furniture , fantastic find for bass wood was IKEA slatted blinds 2.5 mm thick 40mm wide if you know anyone getting rid of any run mine through roller sanders to remove finish I also get a great amount of point 6mm ply in 1mt lengths up to 75 mm wide that would normally be thrown in a skip from a Lazer cutting print firm pitty you weren't closer

 

[Peri]

I posted this up a few years ago - but it's still my favourite piece.

I found these old fire doors and desk legs and runners in a skip.



Took 6 months of weekend woodworking to make my desk.






And in the last month made a simple set of desktop speakers from the same firedoors (with purchased zebrano for the fronts).

 

[toolsntat]

12x5 pitch pine to racksaw rollers
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/racksaw-rollers.83520/

Cheers, Andy

 

[stuart little]

As with both our hobbies /pastimes the graining is detrimental finding pieces of wood with the finest of grain , yours must be harder at that scale . I get given a lot of wood now the daughters boyfriend is a joiner he gave me an offcut of very fine grained Meranti it measured 400x200x50 like some one had said to me here's a forest as it will be sawn in 1mm,2mm,3mmand 4mm planks to make miniature furniture , fantastic find for bass wood was IKEA slatted blinds 2.5 mm thick 40mm wide if you know anyone getting rid of any run mine through roller sanders to remove finish I also get a great amount of point 6mm ply in 1mt lengths up to 75 mm wide that would normally be thrown in a skip from a Lazer cutting print firm pitty you weren't closer

Thanks for the 'idea of ikea!' I have got a small stock of box, pear, maple & walnut, all selected by best price from ebay sellers, before everything went south. Plenty to keep me going - I hope! I've got some 0.6 maple veneer, which is good for decking - model ship's, that is, before the 'comedians' reply ! It's cut easily using a simple jig, Maun safety rule, & scalpel.

 

[kinverkid]

Managed these: Spanish 75; the Nina; French 75; & USS Constitution.

They are amazing. If you need or want to replace the black pieces with Ebony give me a shout. I always have 50mmx50mm short pieces on offer. Some 300 or 500-year-old (I can't tell which is which though) oak offcuts too.

 

[kinverkid]

Plant stand made from some more of the 300 or 500-year-old oak floorboards.

And some more stands made from reclaimed Teak lookie-likey decking. The Oak sideboard behind is mainly Mom's old folding table and veneered ply. The blue glass inserts were given to me by a late friend Paul who was killed along with his wife on his boat in Florida when a storm hit the coast about ten years back.

 

[duke]

Made a coffee table for a friend using Fir which was milled in late 1800s. Found the wood under a pile of rubbish. Used left overs for this.

 

[duke]

Lumber was in a room in basement at his house, due to the history etc. of when the house was built , mid 1800s and the owner at that time ran a lumber mill. Luckily we were shifting stuff to renovate said room and found the lumber.

 

[kinverkid]

Made a coffee table for a friend using Fir which was milled in late 1800s. Found the wood under a pile of rubbish. Used left overs for this.View attachment 188107View attachment 188108View attachment 188109

I like how you kept the patina.

 

[stuart little]

They are amazing. If you need or want to replace the black pieces with Ebony give me a shout. I always have 50mmx50mm short pieces on offer. Some 300 or 500-year-old (I can't tell which is which though) oak offcuts too.

Thank you very much, & for the offer, which I shall bear in mind.

Stuart