Thread: Tools to create a scoop in a chair?

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Such wonderful tools and so much fun to be had, but I revisited the original thread and I notice that AA's comments included that she is a Uni student and the solution should not be expensive.....

Correct Paul.

The choice of tool generally comes down to a preference for working with hands or power. There is no doubt that power can be cheaper and easier if done with an angle grinder and sanding disk. Small grinders may be had for $50. The downside is they are noisy and dusty, and one must take precautions to guard lungs and ears.

Going down the hand tool route is quiet and more relaxing. However, it requires more gear, some of which may be cheap - such as a shoemaker's spokeshave. These are available in different curvitures, and can replace all the other hand tools. I don't think that Peter Galbert sells travishers any longer. However his protege Claire Minihan does and, better still for those with a go-for-it attitude, she has a video on building spokeshaves and travishers (for Peter's design). This is sold by Popular Woodworking magazine, and may be downloaded. I have it and plan to build a couple of travishers in the near future. Perhaps I'll make a pictorial and post it here. The point is, that hand tools can be shop made, and this is a great learning experience on top of acquiring the good tools.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Derek

I don't disagree with anything you have said. I was merely offering an alternative and particularly taking into consideration the constraints of time, budget and existing skills, which may indeed be far more than I have imagined. The first two, time and budget are the major hurdles. Of course as more elderly woodworkers (not me naturally, just you old blokes ) we are not limited by those constraints to anywhere near the same extent. In fact we are far removed from such a place.

I will be interested to see which track is taken.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

I notice that AA's comments included that she is a Uni student and the solution should not be expensive.

Paul

I think Paul is correct as Amanda's tools are very limited as she only has a couple of bench planes, a drill, jigsaw, random orbital sander and a trim router.

From reading her post I assume that she is making only one chair and with limited tools, space and finance so I wonder if a forum member can lend her the tools to make this chair. Surely someone has these wonderful tools that are needed.

Ideally someone local can help her, not only with the tool but show her how to use it .Unfortunately I can not help her as I don't make chairs, only repaired too many of them, but I know that there are local forum members that make chairs and I'm sure many have various spoke shaves etc that can be used as well.

So let's help rather then pontificate.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Luke Maddux

I'd be careful with this. My uncle has been a woodworker for 30+ years and this is the tool (it was actually a Lancelot, which, admittedly, is different) that took part of his finger off. You're taking a dangerout tool (angle grinder) and putting something on it that's more difficult to control and more damaging if it gets you.

Just something I felt needed to be said.

Luke

That is a good point. I have a work colleague who is missing his little finger as a result of an accident with an angle grinder ( with a circular saw blade in it and that is a very poor application for an angle grinder).

Something I should have mentioned is that the side handle should also be attached as far more control can be applied in my view. It is an indicator however that the sanding disc does not throw the machine around much. The sanding disc can give an unpleasant abrasion should it contact skin but at least it will not remove a finger.

The sanding discs are a lot cheaper than the two carbide impregnated carving discs previously mentioned.

Regards
Paul

Just reading Peter's post I became aware that Amanda has posted information about her situation on another thread so rather than have to repeat herself, this is the thread


Uni Student Setting up a small Wood-Working shop

Clearly, Amanda is a little mor involved in woodworking than I, at least , first thought.

I also took a comment from Dibbers out of that thread:

"While opinions on forums are valuable and should be considered, i think it's important not to feel like its the only way of doing things."

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Colin

Thanks for getting us back on track. Digressions are a little failing of mine as you may recall. In my defence and to mitigate the fallout I would humbly mention that it was raised as a possibility in the OP.

Also I think the dark siders are more able to cope with a few electrons than the electron fraternity with a push and pull tool .

Regards
Paul

Hi Paul

I couldn’t agree more, I own and use plenty of power tools too, so I hope my gentle teasing didn’t come across as sanctimonious. I thought your post was a lot more helpful for Amanda than much of the discussion that preceded it, which while educational and interesting probably wasn’t going to be the route she chose.

I hope she come back and tells us how she did it in the end, and shows us how it turned out.

Cheers

Colin

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

......I had to look up lye. I suspected it wasn't lumped in the skin care and beautification section.....

Yeah, a strong NaOH solution certainly does a number on tissue. Please don't anyone take my advice seriously!

Cheers,

Hi Everyone,

I'm sorry for my lack of presence recently as uni has been extremely chaotic. First of all, I want to just say thank you to everyone as I am honestly so overwhelmed with the amount of help and responses from everyone, its incredible. I had no idea how helpful this would be as i'm still fairly new to this whole forum thing and i'm so glad I took the initiative to ask. I ended up getting my scoop done, for those interested I attempted to use the Luban carving spoon which honestly wasn't great (not sure if this was because I didn't exactly know how to use it) in the end I ended up using my router and sanded it down. It was a very simple design just a circular dent. Ill post some photos of my final stool design which I finished for my furniture elective for those interested. Thank you all so so so much again for all your help again!


P.s Unfortunately, these photos are coming out strangely and i'm not quite sure how to rotate them so im sorry for that hopefully when i post this they fix themselves


Kind Regards,
Amanda

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Amanda, that is very nice work! Your designs?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Thanks so much Derek, i'm pretty pleased with the outcome for my first real furniture piece. Yup, both the stool and table were made for my furniture elective and are both my design


Kind Regards,
Amanda

Very nice work, Amanda

Can you post a few more photos of your table?

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Looks good

Originally Posted by ian

Very nice work, Amanda

Can you post a few more photos of your table?

Thanks Ian! Here are some more photos of the table and stool if you'd like.

My Table was made before my stool and was my first real furniture piece i've made, as you can tell the joinery isn't perfect but it definitely improved when I made my stool woo! My table was made out of American black walnut with Tasmanian oak accents (dowels) and the stool was purely made out of Tasmanian oak.
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Amanda

I'm really impressed by both the simplicity and visual impact of your design.
The stool and desk go together very well.

if you can keep to that standard I think you have a good future in the industry