Thread: Denailing floorboards - current project

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Originally Posted by Wongo

I've done many project out of old floorboards. All cabinets in my new bathroom are made from Tas Oak floorboards. The 2 bedside table are Kauri.

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great stuff Wongo they look pretty good

I did this from Baltic floorboards a while back . It was to fit a space in a rental we lived in and the boards came from a big bin out back of a house nearby that was being renovated.

It was 25 years ago, just at the end of the time that such boards were still being thrown out sometimes.

15 years before that I remember seeing front yards having all the timber thrown in a heap out the front and burnt.

The legs are floor boards boxed up , so there is a square hollow up the middle. The upper and lower base rails had to be dovetailed into the front and sides because of that. And the pegs line up with the edge of the side stick in the leg.

The work top was a recycled scrap of Kauri Pine .The cornice moulding was cut from a heavily painted door architrave I found walking to work one morning outside another house being renovated in Prahran.

The back boards are lining boards from the house where the floor boards came from.

The shaped top and bottom front horizontal rails were cut on the band saw and the bevel chiseled in by hand . Pretty easy to do on the old Baltic.

The nails for hanging pans on the front were made on my forge and anvil.

Its a workshop piece now holding my Beeswax and Pearl glue and a place where I can make a cuppa or heat up blocks of wood in the microwave for Hot block clamping.

Rob

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My technique is:
Small holes - drill out the hole and glue in a plug of the same timber, aligning the grain as far as possible.
Larger holes - drill out sequentially and insert a "plug centipede" - see photo.
Large holes - Chisel out section and insert Dutchman. hells bells how big are the holes. I know a few pollies that I would love to insert into timber, or rather insert timber into.
Plane and sand after doing above.a D

Well done!

So all up I managed to save around ~220lm, 100lm of 1.2-1.5m, 100lm of 2.0-2.7m and a few small off cuts. Can hardly wait for my thicky to arrive.


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Originally Posted by Tonto

........Large holes - Chisel out section and insert Dutchman. hells bells how big are the holes. I know a few pollies that I would love to insert into timber, or rather insert timber into......

Sorry, Tonto, but pollies don't work.


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