Thread: A productive couple of days.

...just wait. It'll find you, this needing a chair caper. I don't need a chair either, but my workshop is in a jumping castle. I do need a bigger compressor though.

GQ, taking the since 1954

Looks great. You might get some ideas from your lathe stand from the one I have just finished. I know its not on this forum but save repeating myself it is well documented here.

Rod's Lathe stand project

if you have any questions ask away.

What is 'hide glue'?
I don't need a chair either; unfortunately, my back neck and hips do though. Was thinking of putting castors on it, that way I can flash around the workshop, spinning around and around yelling 'where is that #^(#!#$ spanner'.

Hide glue or animal glue, literally glue made from boiled down animal parts, the hide and hooves i think? You buy it as granules and heat it in a pot to melt it, then use just like pva.....Animal glue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shelves look good, as does the chair. I have a friend who does a lot of his work sitting down, he makes armor.

Cheers,
Ew

Originally Posted by Ueee

Hide glue or animal glue, literally glue made from boiled down animal parts, the hide and hooves i think? You buy it as granules and heat it in a pot to melt it, then use just like pva.....Animal glue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shelves look good, as does the chair. I have a friend who does a lot of his work sitting down, he makes armor.

Cheers,
Ew

Yes looks the goods that power tool chest does

I think neats foot oil ( apparently a good lube for metal lathe turning ) is another product made from cows feet ... it's weird what they can get out of a cow isn't it - apart from milk and cheese and cream , beef and tripe and the hide .....Mike

Originally Posted by morrisman

Yes looks the goods that power tool chest does

I think neats foot oil ( apparently a good lube for metal lathe turning ) is another product made from cows feet ... it's weird what they can get out of a cow isn't it - apart from milk and cheese and cream , beef and tripe and the hide .....Mike

And lets not forget good old aeroplane jelly - yep gelatin comes from cows hooves and horns and other ancillary bits if my memory serves me correct.

So that wobbly stuff for desert was once part of a cow.

Rob

Originally Posted by nearnexus

And lets not forget good old aeroplane jelly - yep gelatin comes from cows hooves and horns and other ancillary bits if my memory serves me correct.

So that wobbly stuff for desert was once part of a cow.

Rob

Gelatin is made from sea weed, they harvest it out in the Bass strait islands ..they drag it up onto the beaches with a tractor

I'm not being a no-all , I remember seeing it on TV one time .

Mike

Originally Posted by morrisman

Gelatin is made from sea weed, they harvest it out in the Bass strait islands ..they drag it up onto the beaches with a tractor

I'm not being a no-all , I remember seeing it on TV one time .

Mike

I was always told as a kid it was from melted down cows hooves and horns, but I checked to see what the web said about it.

Gelatin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wiki isn't always right, but it seems to back up what I was alway led to believe.

Rob

I thought gelatin came from a cows hoofs and the stuff they make from sea weed is a food additive called Carrageenan which is used as a gelling agent.

Originally Posted by Abratool

Great stuff, Shellac. I use it for all sorts of woodwork.
Its quick & leaves a silky finish when followed by wax & looks better than plastic finishes.
regards
Bruce
ps Always used Orange Shellac, but got hold of some "Button Shellac" while in England recently. Only ever read about Button Shellac in old woodworking books.

You could use Eucalypt Shellac. Just get some gum oozzing out of a Eucalypt tree and mix with meths. Some lovely red colours to be found.

Dean