Thanks: 0
Likes: 0
Needs Pictures: 0
Picture(s) thanks: 0
Results 1 to 8 of 8
-
31st July 2010, 08:37 AM #1
Help choosing from the timber pile...
I'm after some tips from the collective woodwork forums on timber selection.
I find it challenging to determine the underlying grain in rough sawn boards without planning them first. And I don't want to plane them until I roughly cut out the size piece I need to ease the process. So I usually select the piece the best I can and just do it.
Does anyone have an tips, or is it just a matter of looking at what grain you can (face and end), planning little patches to get an idea, and that's that.
The reason I ask is that I'm about to make the legs on my table... which will look like this...
... and I want to maximise strength in the leg, but finding some timber that follows that curve at least a little.
The timber I have to selection from is below...
Picasa Web Albums - Dan - Anniversary S...My blog: ~ for the love of wood ~ - http://theloveofwood.blogspot.com/
-
31st July 2010 08:37 AM # ADSGoogle Adsense Advertisement
- Join Date
- Always
- Location
- Advertising world
- Posts
- Many
-
31st July 2010, 06:57 PM #2
Why not do a bent lamination for the curved piece? No short grain issues, much stronger, and you could put a veneer on the face to hide the glue lines.
Cheers
-
31st July 2010, 11:32 PM #3
Only method I know is to check small areas with a block or smoothing plane
regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
-
1st August 2010, 12:55 AM #4Banned
- Join Date
- Jun 2007
- Location
- Otautahi , Te Wa'hi Pounamu ( The Mainland) , NZ
- Age
- 69
- Posts
- 2,114
By the look of it , none of those slabs have a curves sharp enough to do those feet ,
in fact they have no curved grain to speak of at all.
It could be an idea to go searching to a bent branch or two of a suitable wood that will machine down to do that job .
-
1st August 2010, 09:33 AM #5
-
7th August 2010, 09:42 PM #6
Woe is me.
I can't decide on the legs. The ideal plan would be to steam bend, or laminate the legs.
If I laminate I don't think I could to the tight curve of the foot and would need to attach a foot... which would be obvious.
If I steam bent and then laminate I could make all the curves... but I can't think of a mould to do it...
It is possible to do all of this... but I only have 4 days to do it... no steaming gear.... and no success on the first mould...
At this rate... I may end up cutting it from straight grain solid timber... drilling up the leg and inserted an unglued steel rod... that'll fix it... but it ain't classy.My blog: ~ for the love of wood ~ - http://theloveofwood.blogspot.com/
-
7th August 2010, 11:58 PM #7
Boz
this is my suggestion
make the feet oversize from straight grained timber, with the grain running horizontally
saw the feet in half longitudionally -- so you have a front and rear face for each foot
thickness each piece so that it's thickness is approximately 3/8ths the finished thickness of the foot
choose a contrasting timber, thickness it to 1/4 the thickness of the finished foot
rip 4 strips long enough and thick enough to insert as thick "banding" into the edges of the legs
cut 4 pieces of the contrasting timber sized so the grain runs at approximately 30° to the long edge
glue up each foot sandwitching the contrasting timber between the show faces with the gran in the "filling" reinforcing the grain on the show faces of the foot
shape the foot using your template
here's a sketchLast edited by ian; 8th August 2010 at 12:28 AM. Reason: add diagram
regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
-
11th August 2010, 03:52 PM #8
Thanks for the feedback ian. I ended up joining two pieces to maintain the long grain strength. Seems to have been a good solution.
Read more about it here https://www.woodworkforums.com/f187/d...ml#post1192867My blog: ~ for the love of wood ~ - http://theloveofwood.blogspot.com/
Similar Threads
-
Two off the wood pile
By CV3 in forum WOODCARVING AND SCULPTUREReplies: 6Last Post: 19th March 2010, 09:11 PM -
the sand pile
By dennford in forum WOODIES JOKESReplies: 1Last Post: 31st July 2009, 03:50 PM -
pile of fig, and other stuff
By astrid in forum WOODTURNING - GENERALReplies: 2Last Post: 22nd January 2008, 03:00 PM -
Put that in .......' Jakes pile '
By JDarvall in forum HAND TOOLS - UNPOWEREDReplies: 29Last Post: 11th March 2007, 10:11 PM