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    Default Bench All Hand Tools

    This is my work bench, 100% hand tool build.
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    You can't get something for nothing!

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    Thanks Guy's for adding to the thread, your work is wonderful!

    Just to keep the ball rolling, I've been working on a side project over the past couple of years.
    And I will admit I'm quite proud of it so far.
    It's a 2/3 scale 1970's Rail Dragster.

    The engine is 95% wooden, I did use my trusty bandsaw but all of the forming and finishing is hand done.

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    This is the cockpit, the bell housing on the back of the engine is the bottom of a bucket
    with timber added to it to shape it's appearence.

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    One of my favourite parts I've built of the Dragster is the seat belt buckles.
    This what looked like before final finishing.
    There made from MDF and Wire.
    I know alot of people don't think much of MDF, but put it over a boiling kettle
    and you can bend the heck to of it.


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    When it's all in one piece the Dragster is just over 13 feet long.

    Keep the good stuff coming!

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    Jebus! You're a bloody marvel! You're in a class of your own!
    Cheers, Bill

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    That's high praise coming from you Bill, and greatly appreciated.
    I've seen some of your work.
    Beauty, skill, attention to detail and most of all the hand of craftsman.
    Could you please post some of your work.

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    Cheers Repliconics,
    This is my way. I have very good machinery that I think of as very talented tradesmen I don't have to pay, feed or listen to any backchat. The drawers are hand dovetailed, the panels are hand shaped with a power planer and hand planed. The carving is freehand routing ( handwork in my book ). You can see things went a little funny on the 1st small cabinet. I had more control later.
    The small cab is hand planed Oregon, the large one is scraped and sanded PNG Walnut. I mix it up, for me it is all hand made. My machines and hand tools didn't dream up or make those cabinets.

    These days I make mostly musical instruments and I do more hand work.




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    Cheers, Bill

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    Default CRAFTSMANSHIP why it means so much!

    I was going to write a rather long winded thing about what Craftsmanship really is, and why I think it's so important to
    keep those type of skills alive.

    But in trying to think of the reasons as to why these things mean so much to me, I found myself looking at my childhood.
    Wondering where on earth did all this start.

    My father was a panel beater, and I'm proud to say considered by his trade a damn fine one!

    I remember as a child sitting on a big old toolbox, watching him work.
    The sound of his hammer ringing around the workshop.
    He would go hours without speaking, totally lost in his work.

    In my early teens all I wonted to do was be a panel beater like my Dad!
    But he told me not to waist my time on a dying trade.
    At the time I was gutted to say the least.
    Being young I thought it was just his way of saying he didn't think I'd be any good at it.

    But he could see what was coming. The age of fill'em up and throw'em out!
    He new I wonted to be just like him, and that I'd never be happy with the direction his trade was going.

    Dad's 90 years old now and lives with me and my son, it's a bit of a boy's club!

    So in the end I've worked it out, it's my Dad's fault!
    Without saying hardly a word he showed me all the this I admire most Skill, Craftsmanship and the desire to do good work.

    He says he could never have made the types of things I do, but I now that's not true.
    What I do is only an extension of what he showed me as a child.

    When I was young the man I admired most was my Father.
    What this has reminded me is nothing has changed!

    Thanks Dad.
    Trevor.

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    And thanks to you, mate, for what I think is a beautiful post, Bill.

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    Default A Wonderfully Useless Object!

    I think it would be fair to say that my work is in some ways a little unusual.
    Most of the time when I build something it's because of its shape or structure.
    The way that one curve blends into the next. Quite often it only takes one part
    of an object to make me wont to replicate the whole thing.

    A great case in point is Ed Roth's 1960's OUTLAW HOTROD.
    When I first saw it I thought it had to be the whoopyest rod ever built.
    Roth was a genius of a man, he would find ways to things that at the time no one
    had even really thought of.

    With the OUTLAW he made the body by going down to the beach, and building the shape
    up out of sand. Then covered the whole thing in fibreglass. "Simply Genius"

    I wonted to try to make the body shape from wood, and I'd had some pretty good results
    bending 3mm MDF. The only thing left was to give it a try!

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    I built the OUTLAW like most of my cars and motorbikes at 2/3 scale.
    The reason for the smaller scale is I started making Billycarts, but at some point it all
    got a little out of hand!

    It took about 8 months to a year to build, I don't really remember I was having to much fun at the time.
    The back wheels are from a Mini and fronts a bicycle.
    The Engine is wooden, the body and the front end are pine and MBF.

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    The OUTLAW is about 90% wooden.
    The only power used was a bandsaw, all the rest of the forming and shaping was done by hand.

    Why build such a wonderfully useless object!, I have no idea.
    But I've always been glad I did.

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    It's still in progresses!


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    Not that it should happen on this forum, but just in case your wondering whats so impressive about a saw in a piece of wood?
    Try doing exactly whats in the picture!
    Impressive mate!

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    Yes, Code4Pay, that is indeed impressive.
    I have no hope of following suit.
    Thanks for showing us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Repliconics View Post
    Not that it should happen on this forum, but just in case your wondering whats so impressive about a saw in a piece of wood?
    Try doing exactly whats in picture!
    Impressive mate!

    What length and width, and what type of wood please?
    Also ... what pitch of saw are you using?
    (if you wanna share the info)
    Thanks,
    Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcgee View Post

    What length and width, and what type of wood please?
    Also ... what pitch of saw are you using?
    (if you wanna share the info)
    Thanks,
    Paul
    Both the saw a Disston 5.5 tpi rip (obviously) and the wood came from the tip. Not sure but it is a large plank of hard wood very fine grained with a slightly purple red tinge not super dense like jarrah etc. I'm making a display cabinet for my father for his trench art but the wood was 21mm thick which was too chunky. I wanted to reduce it to 11 mm which seemed a lot of wood to waste if hand planed and maybe just as much work. I ripped the sheet first down to 95mm strips then marked it around at 14mm. I didn't measure the wider part when rough but the left over side is 5mm after ripping and I had enough to plane down to 11mm on the side I wanted. Overall I ripped 2.1 meters on its side like this.

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    Since we've been talking about the more traditional skills and hand tools.
    I thought I might show some of my sign writing on timber.
    It's one of those things you don't seem to see too much of today.
    I really enjoy trying to apply the skill's used in the presentation of a piece from around the 1900's.
    When you see picture's of the inside of old Hardware Stores, theres never any shortage of wonderful cabinets
    and loads of signage all trying to catch the eye.

    So I've been building a display for my handplanes.
    At the moment it's a bit all over the show, I've been building bits and pieces as I go.
    I think that has to be the biggest down side of the way I work.
    I don't follow any set rule, I just make parts of things as they come to mind.
    Then find a way to hopefully bring then all together.

    I'd have to say that my cabinet making skill's don't come close to the talent seen on this website.
    In some ways I think I use the signage and scrolling as a way around it.
    If I can get people to look at whats on wood they might not look to closely at the rest.

    This is the front of the display, I painted the door panels first.
    Then turned them into doors.

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    On top of that sits three chests, as you can see I'm all over the show.
    The chest to the left needs to be finished, the Phillips planes are sitting on a piece of ply.
    Over on the right the lid of the Stanley 55 case has no mouldings.
    And at the moment it's all sitting on a piece of MBF. (that wont be staying)

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    I painted this panel a little while ago, it was for the Box making forum to show how its done.
    But since seeing Scribbly Gum's cabinet I'm going to use it to make a wall cabinet to one side of the main display.
    Which was never in the plan that I never had in the first place. So now I'll have to build one to go on the
    other side as well!

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    This is a little display chest I built for my Siegley adjustable planes.
    I think the sign writing gives it a real lift.

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    Just so its not all signage this is another of my doing it as I get to it projects,
    it will be the inside of a lid to a chest.

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    I think in the end this type of work is a great example of what is happening to the traditional skills.
    A lot of people when they see some of the work, the first thing they ask is where did I get the stencils!.

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    Repliconics

    You have made a very nice job of the sign writing well done.

    I recently completed the last two of these Oak chairs to make a set of eight.

    Machinery was used for the donkey work of dressing the rough sawn boards to size.
    Laminates for the back slats and top and bottom rails were cut on the bandsaw then dressed with planes where necessary, prior to laminating.
    The back legs, seat rails and front legs were cut from solid on the bandsaw and shaped and finished with planes and spokeshaves ( Thank you Terry Gordon )
    The seat is woven from 2.5 mm single strand cane

    Finish is three coats of Blonde Shellac followed up with three coats of Wax
    Glue is Horse Sauce

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