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[Ed-Zulu]

12 hours ago, phenning said:

second antique plane resoted. this one was missing the wood wedge thingamagigy. i did  not have beatch, so used a hard wavey wood

Hardwood thingymajig is called a "frog"

Plane knife with card-breaker, latter is attached with a screw to the knife, seated with a frog in the body.

Very nicely restored!

[phenning]

latest scrapwood box almost ended in the fire since it took 5 iterations to get the hinges right and an embarrassing amount of time

[andrecapetown]

My carpentry team, how do you like our birch panelling, oil came out a bit dark, ‘not my choice’.

15mm birch, got quite a bit of offcuts if someone wants to purchase for a reasonable price.

[patches]

Out with the old (left). In with the new (right).

Now to set aside some time to actually make something 😅

[patches]

On 4/15/2024 at 4:23 AM, andrecapetown said:

My carpentry team, how do you like our birch panelling, oil came out a bit dark, ‘not my choice’.

15mm birch, got quite a bit of offcuts if someone wants to purchase for a reasonable price.

Looks awesome! Reminds me of some South Island batches (kiwi for holiday home) I've stayed in. Very cool!

[patches]

Not the finest craftsmanship, but this weekend's assignment was some sort of "screen to stop the baby falling off the back deck" in a number of places.

I looked at pre-made trellis from the local big-box hardware store and was shocked at the price (about R1500 equiv. for the smallest on that would do the job)! Like seriously, I should quit my day job and start making trellises.

So I wandered over to the lumber yard, looking for inspo on an alternate option when I noticed this...

And that's per length (5m), not per metre. So I bought 2, and a bunch of trellis battens, which cost twice as much per 2.4m length, but still way cheaper than the premade trellis, which I would still have to modify to fit the gaps along the deck.

Some quick work with the circ saw and brad nailer and tadaah... 

...the result (well one of them)...

For a change, it's nice to have a project that I could start AND FINISH within 1 day (he says while glossing over all the unfinished projects) 😅

 

Edited June 30 by patches

[alleyne]

Hi All 

Quick question for those who know these things. 

I'm looking to make a key holder for the front door with my boys, I have access to a full workshop at work.

The questions are:

1: What would be the best kind of wood to use? (Ideally a nice dark brown wood)
2: Where to in CT Southern Suburbs to get it (size roughly 300x300x20-40mm)

Thanks!

[Jehosefat]

10 minutes ago, alleyne said:

Hi All 

Quick question for those who know these things. 

I'm looking to make a key holder for the front door with my boys, I have access to a full workshop at work.

The questions are:

1: What would be the best kind of wood to use? (Ideally a nice dark brown wood)
2: Where to in CT Southern Suburbs to get it (size roughly 300x300x20-40mm)

Thanks!

300x300 is going to be an odd size to get. Might need to buy a whole 160x3000x25/38 plank (what the lumber yards usually sell) and laminate/join it yourself. Some lumber yards might have an offcut bin you can look through but I've never had much luck finding what I want in those. Best bet might be to look for a laminated pine/saligna shelf and stain it.

If you really want a dark hardwood you're probably looking for Walnut (stupidly expensive) or Wenge (can be very hard to find). Others that could work are Rhodesian Teak or Blackwood but it depends on the colour you want.

Unfortunately I'm in JHB so I can't give you pointers on where to go in the cape. 

Edited July 8 by Jehosefat

[alleyne]

1 minute ago, Jehosefat said:

300x300 is going to be an odd size to get. Might need to buy a whole 160x3000x25/38 plank (what the lumber yards usually sell) and laminate/join it yourself. Some lumber yards might have an offcut bin you can look through. Best bet might be to look for a laminated pine/saligna shelf and stain it.

If you really want a dark hardwood you're probably looking for Walnut (stupidly expensive) or Wenge (can be very hard to find). Others that could work are Rhodesian Teak or Blackwood but it depends on the colour you want.

Unfortunately I'm in JHB so I can't give you pointers on where to go in the cape. 

Thanks for the answer, I can make the size work depending on what I get. I was thinking of using offcuts ideally. 

[Jehosefat]

1 minute ago, alleyne said:

Thanks for the answer, I can make the size work depending on what I get. I was thinking of using offcuts ideally. 

Like I said, a lot of the lumber yards will have an offcut bin (I know Country Woods up in JHB has one so I'd be surprised if their Cape Town place doesn't). https://www.countrywoodscpt.co.za/contact-us/

[DJR]

Rarewoods in Epping has an offcuts shop where you will be able to find something unusual and beautiful.

[alleyne]

On 7/14/2024 at 8:59 PM, DJR said:

Rarewoods in Epping has an offcuts shop where you will be able to find something unusual and beautiful.

Thanks!

 

[DJR]

I have often bought offcuts from Rarewoods for very simple projects like a quick no-frills cutting board as a quick unique hand made present for someone. What makes it special is the wood and not necessarily the complexity of how you make the cutting board. A simple piece of wild olive, nicely sanded and oiled, will (to my taste) be as beautiful as the fanciest end grain pattern cutting board that takes incredible skill and much time to make. I think the same principle will apply to a key rack. Find a nice piece of unusual wood and you won't have to do anything fancy to make something very special. You will also see Rarewoods........and that is a bit like the "cathedral of wood" in Cape Town.......almost? a spiritual place to visit, even if just for the smells and to look at "unobtanium" (price wise) wood.

Edited July 16 by DJR

[PhilipV]

Has anyone used airless paint sprayers? 
I have a medium sized compressor, but I can buy an airless gun for the price of a water trap and spray nozzle. 
I want to respray a bunch of cupboards, a few photo frames, and whatever my wife can think of on the meantime. 

[patches]

Not really woodworking, more carpentry, but recently I was faced with the challenge to create a very specific transition between my garage and courtyard (where I plan to put down some nice 35mm long artificial grass). The transition piece needed to be a very shallow wedge/tapered shape to allow the garage door to open, and span the width of the threshold (approx 2.7m).

If I had a bandsaw with a tilting table, this would have been relatively easy, but as I don't, I had to devise another method. This was that:

The "sled" with packers to angle the workpiece, and send through the planer.

The workpiece on the sled, with the waste side marked.

The 3m long sled and workpiece after a few passes through my little Dewalt lunchbox planer.

The end result...

 

 

So not the most elegant or efficient solution, but it got me there in the end... albeit after creating a lot of sawdust and noise. 

[DJR]

Woodwork on a different scale.

Ds final thesis project is all about re-use, repurposing and recycling. So, naturally, he wanted to build as much as possible of his models from old balsa wood scraps and, suckers that we all are, he got the whole family, a few friends and even a couple of undergrads (as punishment for mishandling the laser cutters) to lend a hand. Frankly, if I never have to endlessly cut, glue, paste and sand balsa again in my life, it'll be too soon. But I think the end result will be worth the massive effort and save at least a plank of two from a balsa wood tree somwhere.