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fatjames World Chat Champion
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Posted: 09:28 - 26 Sep 2017 Post subject: |
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This is cool!
How many pallets did it take? Did you take any photos during construction? |
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Posted: 09:52 - 26 Sep 2017 Post subject: |
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fatjames wrote: |
This is cool!
How many pallets did it take? Did you take any photos during construction? |
https://imgur.com/a/s6Ldu |
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+1 for cyclone. I've bought a Chinese one from ebay for £20 or so, connected up to a Karcher vac and it's pretty amazing.
I also have a much bigger one with 5" inlet and outlet for a big extractor, but I haven't built that one up yet. |
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Spent the weekend working on it... Must have lost 3Kg in sweat alone..
Glue up was difficult, things started to get heavy pretty quickly..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1cc5dakzigwl81/benchyg1.png?raw=1
Just a bit of flattening, trimming and finishing to do, but it's essentially done and rock solid. I haven't glued the legs into the frame either, the weight of the top is holding it together. Legs are flush, just lifted the base for planing.
I did get a bit worried that I'd made it too tall but it worked out perfectly. I see a vise and dogholes in my future.
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In my house we have a Mezzanine level in one of the rooms. The rooms is little and there isn't much space for stairs. It was dominated but an ugly Staircase/Ladder thing that was big and not very nice to use. (only photo I have sorry!)
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12189589_10153676889578476_9050145658901099942_n.jpg?oh=c248e3d0be012dd1e7f7b3096c4b3a56&oe=5A727D23
Thinking about how to make it better I thought it would be cool to have it doubled up as book case to make the most of the space.
I had no idea how to go about this, I enquired with a couple of joiners but none got back to me. My Dad suggested a good friend of his. This friend was one of those people who was VERY practical and could do anything he set his mind to. Just this year he'd made (smoking)Pipes, Jigsaws, Kitchens from scratch, bathrooms, laid gas pipes and rebuilt the top end of a BMW 6 cylinder engine. Couple of years back he rebuilt an old Tiger 500 from the ground up. All the while he had a lot of physical problems, bad back and hips etc. I didn't want to ask him partially because I knew he would happily do and I was worried about impact it would have on his health.
Anyway dad mentioned it to him and he seemed keen to do it. He came round and measured up. A couple of days later he came back with drawn up plans, cutting lists the works.
I took the week off work and together we built this (I say together I was little more than a labourer it was all him!)
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16938987_10154995534038476_4442118953835987722_n.jpg?oh=9c0f71b2dc7e504835cf6604fc3a0c97&oe=5A714B4B
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16830928_10154995534043476_911580024237189343_n.jpg?oh=564f6c2d0a0937688579e3cea3d06f1c&oe=5A7CEA94
This was all done with only 3 Power tools, a router, a circular saw and a biscuit joiner. It cost less than £300 in materials.
The result is fantastic, afterwards I thought one day I'd ask him to to do something with the unit by the hall."
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/22424514_10155698323848476_3977874279335699694_o.jpg?oh=4daa19aee0fad43ddf42783bfbf6cea3&oe=5A3CED7B
It always looked shit and just had a pile of shoes/bags by it.
I waited for months and never brought it up because he always had loads of stuff on. I didn't want him worrying about something else.
Sadly he died unexpectedly a couple of months ago. I was totally gutted. I had always gotten on well with him and we had become good friends while building the 'Stookcase'. He had even gave me the circular saw we had used to build the Stookcase as he had a new one.
At some point I decided I was fed up with the old cabinet and needed to replace it sooner rather than later. I thought I would have a go myself. In a stupid way I thought it would almost be a testament to his life and skills that I could design and build something that I could never had done without the skills/techniques I'd learnt 'apprenticing' for the week we worked on the Stookcase.
It was hard work (mainly because I'm not very good) and it's a bit rough around the edges but it is solid, square and functional.
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22365579_10155698323338476_7556086793362305472_n.jpg?oh=f0af5d81a16abf424139843de8c9ac8b&oe=5A6AA515
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I hope to try to build things from wood more often and to get better at it. ____________________ Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
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Not sure how many of you have experienced a Japanese pull saw but I've just trimmed off 3 1/2 inches from my workbench with a Hassunme cross cut saw. Trust me the cut is smoother than the planed surface.
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Good work and all that, but have to say, cool doormat is cool. ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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Well wood workers, recently I've been amassing some tools, including a bandsaw, a thicknesser, a pillar drill, various chisels and gouges, a thumb plane and a few other bits and bobs.
We're currently restoring a house, so I've been doing odds and sods around the house, made a bookcase, fitted a porthole in a door, new skirting boards, door hanging, that sort of thing.
My table saw has come in handy.
However, if you've got a table saw, you're using for wood working, ditch the blade that came with it do yourself a favour and buy a proper blade. I bought one of these:-
Freud
The difference is astounding, quieter, cuts quicker, stays sharp and leaves a fantastic finish, as good as a plane, well worth the money, i'll be getting the same blade for my mitre saw when it blunts.
Anyway, one of the reasons for splurging out on tools is my next project, building a Les Paul type guitar from scratch.
Currently, I have two slabs of mahogany for the body, two book matched pieces of flamed maple for the top and a very nice, quartersawn, piece of mahogany for the neck. I've jointed the mahogany body pieces and the maple top, probably going to glue them up tomorrow.
If there's any interest in this, I'll document it all here.
Never built a guitar before, what could, possibly go wrong?
So has anyone else got any projects on the go? ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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Freud stuff is awesome. Got one of their blades in my Skil saw (actual Skil, not generic). Good router bits too. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Here's my "bookcase":-
https://i.imgur.com/4FhPKlP.jpg
It's made from 190 x 20mm, (7 1/2 x 3/4"), reclaimed, pine boards.
It's mostly just glued and screwed together, there are a couple of rabbet joints in there. It's finished with grey chalk paint.
I'm going to make another, the same design, but with one extra layer at the bottom. This will go in another room!
That saw blade comes, highly, recommended for table saws, after all a table saw is just a circular saw, mounted upside under a table! ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Here's my "bookcase":-
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It's made from 190 x 20mm, (7 1/2 x 3/4"), reclaimed, pine boards.
It's mostly just glued and screwed together, there are a couple of rabbet joints in there. It's finished with grey chalk paint.
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That's nice, in a modern (or vintage/'60s) way. It might be good to use stopped housings throughout. What did the legs come off/from?
Suntan Sid wrote: | That saw blade comes, highly, recommended for table saws, after all a table saw is just a circular saw, mounted upside under a table! |
I've got an old circular saw, which came from the USA, which my grandfather used for part of his business. I think it begins with "D", but I'm not ging to struggle out into the workshop to look now! 1930s I think. It needs a new drive belt. I don't know whether metric blades could be adapted, 'though I've got some to play with when I can get in there. TCT ones seem rather thick. |
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See that door, with the porthole, it's an original 1950's door.
Prior to tarting that door up I'd removed another, and thought I'd have a go at deconstructing it.
Basically it was a hardwood ply sandwich, 6mm hardwood mind you. However what was unusual were the four internal vertical braces. What I was expecting were either block board strips or some chip board strips, what was actually there was strips of compacted straw wrapped in cardboard, glued to each piece of ply!
It was the same in the door with the porthole.
And you wonder why houses burn down! ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 79 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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