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[Belgian biker]

another great thread on this forum

 

I just finished my first year of woodworking's course and I love it! I missed quite a lot of classes (that's what happens when you spend 3 weeks in SA and get knee surgery afterwards)

This is my best work so far: a shoe kabinet! The doors will be painted white 

 

The lamps are a little project I made with my 12-year old nephew. 

[Kalahari Vegmot]

Because I had sell all my bass fishing stuff just to buy 1 bicycle...I only need a small space above the window for what is left of the rods [emoji12]

Some of the bicycles now take up the rest of my office...

Busy designing a unit to support the bicycle wheels with a lock on the pedal and crank arm...so you just hook the pedal into the lock and the wheels are supported...no need for chains ...straps and wire.

[Capricorn]

yea, seems so, US sellers and a branded item.

 

 

 

 I'll work out a provisional , will put through my business, so there will be shipping & VAT but myus.com shipping costs / options are quite reasonable.

 

still going for this? I'm still onboard if you are. hopefully there are others?

[kosmonooit]

yea - just missed a consolidated shipment of IT goodies though. Let me get this one out the way then I will do the costing, there's a few other things on my shopping list.

[mon-goose]

I'm wanting to make a fold out sleeper couch that is big enough for two people. Has anyone made something like this and have ideas to share. I saw this picture which looks really cool. Would need to sources some decent wood for the frame. The top half folds over to form a nice big bed

Edited June 19, 2017 by mon-goose

[porqui]

So the other day I buy some prime American Cherry at a company that sells rare woods and pay about R34k per cube (rough) and that was einas. 10 x 1.8m planks R3k.

 

Then last week I go to a warehouse that sell builders material and looked at some Meranti - need some to repair a window frame.

 

Nearly had a stroke on the spot.

 

Meranti off the shelf - yes it was PAR but that softish stuff not the hard red one.

When I converted the price it worked out to R39 000 per cube.

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Am I missing something - am I getting old or am I just plain nuts?

Edited June 19, 2017 by porqui

[porqui]

No I did not buy any I will get it rough at that rare wood place.

[DJR]

............Am I missing something - am I getting old or am I just plain nuts?

No, salted nuts!

[Stretched@Birth]

So the other day I buy some prime American Cherry at a company that sells rare woods and pay about R34k per cube (rough) and that was einas. 10 x 1.8m planks R3k.

 

Then last week I go to a warehouse that sell builders material and looked at some Meranti - need some to repair a window frame.

 

Nearly had a stroke on the spot.

 

Meranti off the shelf - yes it was PAR but that softish stuff not the hard red one.

When I converted the price it worked out to R39 000 per cube.

.

Am I missing something - am I getting old or am I just plain nuts?

Somebody is smoking some good stuff, I just had a look at our prices, 38 x 152 Meranti (rough) is around R11 600 per cube.  I wish we could get R39 000 per cube!

[porqui]

Somebody is smoking some good stuff, I just had a look at our prices, 38 x 152 Meranti (rough) is around R11 600 per cube.  I wish we could get R39 000 per cube!

 

2.4m x 44mm x 69mm R358

[DuncanCT]

another great thread on this forum

 

I just finished my first year of woodworking's course and I love it! I missed quite a lot of classes (that's what happens when you spend 3 weeks in SA and get knee surgery afterwards)

This is my best work so far: a shoe kabinet! The doors will be painted white 

 

The lamps are a little project I made with my 12-year old nephew.

 

Nice. What stock did you use. Is that birch or pine ply. What joinery method did you use?

[Rocket-Boy]

Firstly get this book: Woodturning, A Foundation Course by Keith Rowley. It is very good at teaching the basics. The book has a DVD as well to demonstrate the basics.

 

Then have a look at mrwoodturner.co.za for the Hamlet chisels, or at toolcraft.co.za and look at the Narex chisels.

 

Robert Sorby chisels are also very good, but a bit more expensive. You can find them at strandhardware.co.za and hardwarecentre.co.za in Randburg.

 

A set works out cheaper per chisel than loose chisels & gouges etc. But it will set you back R 3500 to R 4000.

 

Unfortunately the very cheap Chinese sets are shaped all wrong with incorrect bevel angles etc. It is very difficult to learn with incorrect tools, so stay away. Hardware Centre sells a 'cheap' Chinese set, but at least those are shaped correctly. I think they are around R 2800 for a set, but maybe 8 chisels rather than 5 or 6 in the other sets.

 

Or, if you have friends visiting from the UK, you can get a set of Robert Sorby for around R 2200.

Awesome, thanks for the info. Busy looking at what is available, seems its a slippery slope once you get into it but looks like a ton of fun!

[Rocket-Boy]

my advice would be to join the wood tuners guild/ association in his area...the fellas have a wealth of information and offer really good first hand experience...good chance he could get a chiesel or 2 from one of them.

 

there is one in east london.

 

he will also need a good chain saw to keep in his car

Good advice on the chainsaw! I had to get a really big genny on to the back of the bakkie yesterday to run my electric chainsaw on some left over wood from a tree the municipality cut down. As luck would have it the genny wouldnt start on the electric start so I pulled for a solid 10 mins before I got it going!! one of my shoulders is barely functional today but it was fathers day and some nice wood was handed over after that.

[Belgian biker]

Nice. What stock did you use. Is that birch or pine ply. What joinery method did you use?

Pine ply and joined with biscuits

[Pants Boy]

Somebody is smoking some good stuff, I just had a look at our prices, 38 x 152 Meranti (rough) is around R11 600 per cube.  I wish we could get R39 000 per cube!

Do you guys do MDF at all? I might be looking at getting a bunch of 6mm MDF (as used for laser cutting stuff) soon-ish.

[Ed-Zulu]

Lucky me - went for lunch, new Café being built next to my lunch spot, ripping out old counter top, scored a section of solid oak about 1.8 x 650 x 20 for mahala!