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[CJ Van]

So, I’ve finished another leather bag.  This one I made for my mom for her 60^th birthday.  This is made of a soft chrome tan leather with a bit of a pull-up effect.  The oils in the leather displaces when the leather folds creating if sort of destressed look.  For the handles and straps I used a thicker more rigid leather so the it does not stretch over time. 

I’ve changed my design slightly from my previous bag and did not think everything through properly.  Luckily everything worked out in the end.

 

 

 

 

 

Next project is a bag for a well know hubber around here in exchange for something that I cannot make myself.  I will have to ask him if he also wants flowers on the bag liner.  Hopefully after that I can start with something for myself again.  I think a laptop back is a good idea.

[CJ Van]

I’ve also made a few extra wallets.  If anybody is in the market for a minimalist wallet let me know.  They can take about 4-6 cards and one or two notes.  I have orange thread as well that goes really good with the light brown leather. 

 

 

[patches]

I have been keenly watching his channel and a couple of other carpenters in the timber home construction trade.

 

I am in the Architecture and Interior game in SA, and seeing as our buildings are traditionally brick and mortar with the NZ working in timber I thought I would educate myself a little RE the construction methods and tips/tricks. For a few years now I have toyed with the idea of possibly moving over to NZ, so the more I can learn now with no real pressure, the better I recon!

 

He does a good show, and I really really like his personality ..... he come across as the kind of person I could/would like to befriend.

 

Have you watched the Van vs Van episode?

 

 

Some serious kit in both his, and especially Kameron's van.

 

Quite different from the builders I met in SA, who had a single-cab, crusted with cement stains and a trommel with a handful of crude masonry tools.

 

As you say, the building materials and methods are different, and therefore dictate a different type of building skill, and tool.

Edited August 6, 2020 by patches

[Tothehills]

Some of my Coivid projects are eventually getting done

 

One thing about a Cruiser with 370,000km on the clock, every panel at the back is asymmetrical 

[Hairy]

 

Have you watched the Van vs Van episode?

 

 

Some serious kit in both his, and especially Kameron's van.

 

Quite different from the builders I met in SA, who had a single-cab, crusted with cement stains and a trommel with a handful of crude masonry tools.

 

As you say, the building materials and methods are different, and therefore dictate a different type of building skill, and tool.

Kameron is addicted to flashy tools!

 

What I really like about the work Scott does, is just how clean he keeps his sites. I have worked with a good few builders and carpenters that keep a clean site, but very rarely to the level that Scott does.

 

Granted, using a vacuum to clear up saw dust is far easier than the traditional brick construction we have in SA.

 

Of the very be joiners I have had the privilege of working with on our projects, I have not seen them with such a well arranged mobile storage setup yet either. They tend to have awesome factories/workshops though! 

[Hairy]

to add to the van storage ... my one neighbour is an engineer working on ships, and he has started his own mobile business now.

 

It took him a couple of days to sort his van out, but damned he did a great job with the fit out.

[Rocket-Boy]

Some of my Coivid projects are eventually getting done

 

One thing about a Cruiser with 370,000km on the clock, every panel at the back is asymmetrical 

Bob from I like to make stuff has the same car and also built an interesting storage solution for it. He has the build video on his youtube channel.

[Tothehills]

I was extremely fortunate to receive a Matumi slab.

It was an old Giant that got blown over, with multiple internal aging defects. So it was not deliberately cut down in case you are wondering.

I estimated the slab weighs over 120kg, so handling such a beast by a wannabe woodworker required some Tarzan bars swallowed down by a few Brakpan cappuccino's.

 

Somehow the river table concept did inspire me, but without the resin center.

The slab had a huge taper, so making a 10 seater with 800mm wide top end and 1200mm wide bottom end was too rustic for my liking.

 

So the the decision was taken to split the slap in the center, inverse one side to achieve a rectangular shape.

Only once the slab was split and and placed through a thicknesser, did many of the internal hidden defects came to light.

 

All the above was completed over a 2 year period.

 

Let's just say I have exhausted my swearword vocabulary, filling all the cracks with resin. Many school fees were paid, and I will do many things differently.

 

I wanted some industrial look to the table, so I resorted to my Grade 2 metalwork skills.

Welding square tubing to 10mm flat-bar without it pulling skew with my experience is impossible, while using a 25 year old arc welder.

 

All that's left now, is to get a glass company to cut the inner glass to the contour of the edge.

Not easy, as the table is 3.2m long.

I'm still wrestling what would be the best way of doing this, as I need to router the depth and contour.

 

Probable wisdom will come in time after a few Brakpan cappucijo's

 

 

    

[Hairy]

I am sure you lot will appreciate this vid

 

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

I am sure you lot will appreciate this vid

 

I love this guy's work

[stefmeister]

I am sure you lot will appreciate this vid

 

https://youtu.be/cisxRjsm0Kc

That workshop [emoji7]

[patches]

I am sure you lot will appreciate this vid

 

 

There's guys like this creating beautiful pieces with joinery by hand etc...

 

...then there's me who is either chuffed with his amateur attempts at coping a cornice

 

 

or devising ways not to lose an eye of fingers with hacked substitutes for a table saw 

 

[stefmeister]

There's guys like this creating beautiful pieces with joinery by hand etc...

 

...then there's me who is either chuffed with his amateur attempts at coping a cornice

 

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or devising ways not to lose an eye of fingers with hacked substitutes for a table saw 

 

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You should add a sacrificial fence to the mitre saw, will prevent the piece shooting off (kickback or kick forward in this case) into the next century.

[dev null]

I despise Meranti.

 

Don't ask. (Maybe do, a real sopstorie)

Edited August 17, 2020 by Moridin

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

I despise Meranti.

 

Don't ask. (Maybe do, a real sopstorie)

go on, you know you want to

[dev null]

go on, you know you want to

 

So, I made an assembly table, to use as an outfeed table and a building table for my RC models. Top needs to be flat. Usual type of construction. Meranti base using stretchers and cross-braces with 21mm Birch ply top. Only to find the middle sagging by 5mm. 

 

Did not want to use Pine because our Pine these days are so damn wet. The Meranti I used for the strecthers were 69mm by 32mm. Thought that would be strong enough. Never though Meranti had such low bending strength. 

 

So my solution now is to build a storage bay in the middle using Birch ply to support the middle.

 

If I think about it now I should have used Spruce for the base. More expensive than Meranti or Pine but cheaper than Beech or other hardwoods. Or would have used much wider strechers. You live and learn.

 

Oh, BTW, the top is 1m by 2m.

Edited August 17, 2020 by Moridin