dev null Posted July 28, 2017 Share what oils/fluids y'all use to keep your hand tools, blades etc rust free? Any WD 40/ Q20 users?What about jojoba oil? I also would like to know. Here in Strand WD40 or Q20 helps close to buggerall. I have now resorted to store my tools in plastic containers with lids. My planes all live in a cupboard in our home. Wifey don't mind. Edited July 28, 2017 by Moridin Rocket-Boy, DJR and Hairy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pants Boy Posted July 28, 2017 Share Q20 works for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-Boy Posted July 28, 2017 Share I also would like to know. Here in Strand WD40 or Q20 helps close to buggerall. I have now resorted to store my tools in plastic containers with lids. My planes all live in a cupboard in our home. Wifey don't mind. IMG_1547.JPGMy woodwork teacher in my school days would have bliksemed you flatout for putting them face down even if the blades were retracted! Aluman, Ed-Zulu and Steven Knoetze (sk27) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev null Posted July 28, 2017 Share My woodwork teacher in my school days would have bliksemed you flatout for putting them face down even if the blades were retracted! Could never figure that one out. My houtwerk onnie also. His nickname was Besembek, but hell, he could swing a lat and get moerig easily. Don't the blades take a harder beating from planing the wood? I can understand if the bench was made from anything but wood. Edited July 28, 2017 by Moridin Capricorn, Amberdrake and Rocket-Boy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberdrake Posted July 28, 2017 Share Could never figure that one out. My houtwerk onnie also. His nickname was Besembek, but hell, he could swing a lat and get moerig easily. Don't the blades take a harder beating from planing the wood? I can understand if the bench was made from anything but wood. I am sure its a habit building event. Bad habits translate to all surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted July 28, 2017 Share Recon I need to do this with my garage and tools dev null and Captain Fastbastard Mayhem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev null Posted July 28, 2017 Share Recon I need to do this with my garage and tools I have done this. Used bunch of pine lap boards, fastened to the mating cleat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hickley Posted July 29, 2017 Share Does anybody maybe have plans for a tri fold futon frame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrera4s Posted July 31, 2017 Share I made some upgrades to my pool table over the weekend: 1. I added a drawer to store all the cues, balls & table tennis stuff; and2. Replaced the "string" pockets with leather pockets. The drawer extends out fully, and once closed, it can swing up and away with two gas lifts. Rocket-Boy, mon-goose, DJR and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted July 31, 2017 Share Very impressed with how the drawer moves up and hides away carrera4s, Long Wheel Base and Hairy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmycool Posted July 31, 2017 Share So my latest woodwork related project has been replacing the pin block of an 1880's Bechstein concert grand piano. The whole pin block has to be almost completely hand shaped out of 40mm multi-laminated beech plywood which I airfreighted in from Germany. Almost every surface of the plank is either curved, shaped or tapered with no two faces being parallel with each other. Once fully shaped to exactly match the existing pin block so that it mates perfectly with the underside of the cast iron frame then the 240 odd holes for the tuning pins are drilled at precisely 2 degrees off of square to counter the roughly 100kgs of tension from each string and at precisely 6.8mm in diameter to prevent the 7mm tuning pin from slipping due to the tension of the string. Finally the plank is lap jointed into the existing pieces of the old plank which are let into the edges of the piano. Hairy, DJR, Stretched@Birth and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmycool Posted July 31, 2017 Share The end result Stretched@Birth, Hairy, Grebel and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted August 1, 2017 Share Holy piano! That is seriously impressive. I always appreciate people with the skill & the love to restore old things and give them a new life. Capricorn, Hairy, jimmycool and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmycool Posted August 1, 2017 Share Holy piano! That is seriously impressive. I always appreciate people with the skill & the love to restore old things and give them a new life. Thanks. I will take some better quality pics once it is all cleaned up and ready to go. Hairy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanJan Posted August 1, 2017 Share Did anyone here visit NAADA at Mall of Africa this weekend? Some really crazy carpentry items there! I saw a simliar piano like the one Jimmycool posted above selling for R 400k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrera4s Posted August 1, 2017 Share Next project is for some cabinets under and next to the built-in braai. I plan to use birch ply for the carcasses and the African Rosewood for the doors / drawer fronts & side panels. Which thickness do you suggest for the plywood? 15 mm / 18 mm? Suppliers of plywood in Pretoria / JHB? (I only used chipboard for previous cabinets but definitely need something better for this!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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