Went for some of my shop supplies at my parents place today. This caught my eye and I picked it out of the fire wood. Oak with some beautiful figure. Wish I would have seen the bigger pieces before they made it to the wood pile.
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Couple Xmas presents finished today. First one: My 6 year old is into chinese checkers and has a crappy tin one that the marbles won’t stay on, so I made him a wooden one, with checkers on the back and … Continue reading
Made this square during the hurricane yesterday. Rived the wood from oak and mulberry firewood. Used all hand tools; hatchet, planes,saws, scraper. Finished with my day old walnut water stain before boiled linseed oil and wax. Just something fun. Still pondering what bigger project I should start.
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Finally finished and assembled my work bench. The ammonia fuming didn’t get the oak as dark as I expected, but it definitely highlighted the grain pattern. Finished with Linseed Oil, then a Boiled Linseed Oil, Turpentine and Bee’s Wax mix. … Continue reading
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Ok I lied. One more bench post before its finished. I planed and sanded everything and disassembled. Made a make shift tent to fume in. Wrapped it up tight and threw in three jars with 1/2” or so of 28% … Continue reading
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This should be my last post of my bench progress before its finished. I decided to make a chain drive vise on the end. Gathered some vintage pillow blocks that were laying around at work, along with some chain, sprockets, … Continue reading
Workbench… getting close. Made the vise face and mounted the vise. Made a walnut endcap with slots for holding tools that are in use. I’ll add a plane stop to that side as well. Working on the other end now, which I decided to fabricate and incorporate a twin screw vise. After that I’ll drill the holes in the top and face for the hold downs. Waiting for my industrial ammonia to fume the oak. Then an oil finish.
More bench progress. Mortised the top to receive the tenons on the legs. Attached the top with a threaded walnut “bolt”, strictly so the top doesn’t lift off if I move it. No metal hardware yet. But that will change with the vise, which is half mounted.
Bench progress. Top halves planed and glued together along with the face board. Need to mount the top onto the tenons, make vice face and mount it, drill holes for hold downs then finish. Played with fuming oak samples with ammonia. The 10% consumer stuff doesn’t work well. I’ll have some 28% industrial ammonia to try next week. Not that its needed, but fun to play with finishing techniques.
Bench top glued up. Made from more of those big white oak planks that were in storage. Center joint is not glued so it can be run through the planer in halves. Trying to finalize how I want to do the end caps and skirt board.
Looks like a huge cutting board now.
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