I’ve finally found some time in the shop to make something for myself. Something nice for the office to put pens, notes etc in.
And while I had the space in the shop, something for the littlest Irons due April.
12 Likes
That little mobile is beautiful, our little one came in July and I kept planning to make one and it just never eventuated… he’s almost past them now so I’ll start making plans to make little pull along cars and such
1 Like
A long time in the making, I’ve finally had some time spare to knock this together. Hallway shoe rack with a top made from reclaimed wharf timber. I designed it during a 48hr fever dream I had after a bad case of food poisoning. It’s incredible it came out as good as it did.
10 Likes
It’s fair to say this is going to be a long winter. So best get stuck into some other interests for a while.
I needed a new way to spend time in the workshop that is less noisy as Irons Jnr is soon to be here, so I’m teaching myself (poorly) how to turn
4 Likes
Another project completed. This one for the train room for me to store my trains. Won’t put a finish on it.
I like the accidental shadow on the handles that make a train track!
7 Likes
Looking for a tip.
I need to trim down a 2400mm x 500mm x 16mm piece of wood to 2.2m. Would I be better off running a track saw (i.e manually) or using the table saw to trim it down?
In addition I will also need to trim about 50mm off the width (so the 500mm to 450mm). Is that safe enough to run through the table saw?
Thanks!
The first answer is yes, track saw over table saw, but for the rip cut, it’s again easier with the track saw but you’d have to have someone with a long enough rail to do it.
It’s a large piece of material to be feeding through a job site table saw. A panel saw would be different where the material can be supported on all sides.
If you need a hand cutting it down PM me.
Edit: to add to the above, feeding it through any table saw assumes you have one jointed edge. This isn’t required for the track saw cut.
1 Like
I’ll find someone to help me do the sideway shuffle on the rip obviously not standing in line of the wood, those kick backs on youtube vids are brutal.
I got a couple of these for ripping down longer pieces of timber in the table saw.
3 to 4m floorboards. Works well and can do myself. About $40 each from Vevor.
1 Like
You could fit quite a lot of LPs in those racks.
3 Likes
What? Both of them? (only have two).
All in place now. Just need to do some touchups with regards to lighting and also the cabinet door alignments.
3 Likes
Nice work. What’s it for?
Figurines!
1 Like
I figured there wasn’t much to be gained by watching the whole game tonight so I turned and carved a little dish on the lathe. Something tells my I’ll be churning out a few more of these this season
6 Likes
I’m looking to join two pieces of pine that is 1200 x 400 x 18mm to make a wider piece (so 800 wide) for a table top piece. It will end up sitting on top of a frame. I was thinking dowels. Could do it as a lap joint but I don’t want lose too much of the final width doing it that way.
Thoughts?
(My car can’t find a full sheet of wood and 900mm wood is pretty much impossible to find)
Additional. Could also pocket hole it as well on one side as it won’t be seen from the top anyway.
Joint the edges and wood glue will suffice. No need for dowels. Biscuits can help with alignment but you’ve just jointed both edges so it won’t matter. Dominos can make a strong joint but are overkill in most applications. The glue will hold together that panel just fine.
2 Likes
I’m impressed the glue will hold!
I think dad had a domino cutter. I’ll have to search his garage again.