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Thread: Grey Ironbark dining table WIP
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11th January 2011, 04:13 PM #31Skwair2rownd
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11th January 2011, 09:28 PM #32
Hi Everyone, I can hardly see you guys in the back row. I hope you have saved me a bicky artme.
Jill, its all about being organised and don't rush, think out what you are doing. Set up and if you're still not sure do a test cut or whatever you are trying to do. Mind you its easier when you have experience to fall back on.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Wheelin. Its not what you've got but how you use it ay.
Nick and Pete, a couple of photos of "The Dog" it was born about 5 years ago when I first started this caper. I was in the middle of a job and needed one NOW. I grabed the hardest piece of timber in the workshop, an offcut of Red Mahogany old and dry and very hard. I hacked a hole down through the top and stuck in an old rusty bent Stanly No4 blade and drove in a rough wedge (build time, about 30min). I had rubbed a flat across the blade so it was like a hand scraper blade. I also put a back angle on it like you drag a hand scraper.
It worked and I got the job done. Each time I used it after that I would do a little more to it and it got better still. It needed a more robust blade though, I called my mate So from Japan Tool and said, So I need a blade 4-6mm thick 60mm high to use in a scraper plane. A few weeks later I had a hand made Japanese perpose built scraper plane blade. Adjusted the body to squeeze it in and it was great. I put the dowel through with cleaner tip. Plane value hmm $2, blade value $250 but it is realy good. I will make a better body oneday (maybe) A year or so back Scribbley Gum had a HNT Gordon for sale so I boought it thinking it would be better. (anyone want to buy a HNT Gordon plane) I do use it sometimes but I always gravitate back to The Dog.
Got the skirt mitres glued up and set back into position, cut the legs out of some Ironbark left over from the Lyutens bench seat I made. Turned them up ready to drill the holes tomorrow. They will go through and be exposed on the top with wedges.
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11th January 2011, 09:41 PM #33
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11th January 2011, 09:47 PM #34
Choc tops, dixi cups, dreadful orange cordial, Jafas, Fantails
I haven't started the blue thing yet, I would like to get this table finished and get the cash flow happening again.
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11th January 2011, 10:00 PM #35
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11th January 2011, 10:21 PM #36
Don't worry I was thinking about them too.
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11th January 2011, 11:23 PM #37
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12th January 2011, 12:49 AM #38Hammer Head
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Yum yum
Choc top
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12th January 2011, 07:36 AM #39
I see what you mean when you said pencil legs - hope the customer is happy with that decision
Can I put an order in for Anzac biscuits?regards
Nick
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12th January 2011, 08:52 AM #40GOLD MEMBER
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12th January 2011, 11:35 AM #42GOLD MEMBER
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my daughter is in Ipswich alone, with water already at the bottom of her street, but it is a steep street. They are expecting another 2 m of water today.
Her partner is stranded in Toowoomba - probably the weekend before they open the Range road again.regards,
Dengy
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12th January 2011, 01:06 PM #43GOLD MEMBER
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Sorry CH . Not trying to hijack your thread
I've just become an optimist . Iv'e made a 25 year plan -oopps I've had a few birthdays - better make that a 20 year plan
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12th January 2011, 10:42 PM #44
No problem just glad to hear that people are safe.
Almost done, used a block template to keep the angle the same on each leg, drilled, glued and wedged each leg. Just have to trim the tenons, sand and put some plugs in 4 screw holes in the skirt. Add a few ml of finish and its done. Sounds easy when you say it fast.
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13th January 2011, 07:50 AM #45Skwair2rownd
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Sorry to say that I'm not fussed on the legs Claw.
Just don't think they suit the general geometry of the piece. But if the cutomer is pleased then that is all that all that matters.
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