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13th January 2007, 12:27 AM #1
Recycled Jarrah
I have been promising my little girl, a stand for her Hermit Crap tank, so the other day I finally got around to making it for her. I had a few Jarrah Pallet bearers that a mate got for me so I used 2 of them & made this little stand.
I am happy with the results, hope you like it as well.
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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13th January 2007, 02:41 AM #2
Ticky mate shes a bobby dazzler! Well done!
man I hate it when someone makes them taped friggin legs on a table saw and Im havin trouble doin it!! I try but for some weird reason the bloody wood just binds up and wont go all the way through maybe its got somethin to do with where Im locating the damned angled peice of timber Im tryin to use as a guide.
Anyway mate looks great and I bet the little one reckons its brilliant! Well doneBelieve me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!
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13th January 2007, 07:31 AM #3
i bet she loves it.nice one mate,
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13th January 2007, 07:43 AM #4Senior Member
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Nice job Ticky, it's great when you get freebie wood and can find a good use for it.
Reg
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13th January 2007, 09:12 AM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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very nice work !!
any tips on where i can find some old jarrah , i'v never even seen this timber in the flesh but i think it's the ants pants...just love that color.Hurry, slowly
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13th January 2007, 10:15 PM #6
Looks good Ticky.
la Huerta you live in Oz and never seen jarrah?....................................................................
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13th January 2007, 10:29 PM #7
la Huerta, Im not sure where 'stink hole' is but, if it's western Sydney, I saw some beeeautiful jarrah in Mathews Timber at St Marys last week.
Ticky, love the stand!
Fletty
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13th January 2007, 11:42 PM #8
Thank you all.
La Huerta - Jarrah gos fairly dark, even blackish if it is not oiled & left in the weather. Chances are you have walked on Jarrah many times as it was commonly used as door steps in older houses.
Wild Dingo - G'day mate, how you going. Thanks for your comments. I have included a couple of pics that might help you with the tappered legs. I'm not saying this is the best way to do it, as my last attempt was also my first attempt, but this is how I did it.
I started with 40 x 40 legs & wanted to set them down inside the skirt 10mm, so I sat them upside down in the frame on a 10mm block & marked where they met the bottom of the skirt.
I wanted to tapper down to 20 x 20, so I marked the bottom of the leg 20mm in from the edge.
Then I layed it on a scrap of MDF, linning up the 20mm mark with the corner of the MDF & the first line with the edge (see pics 2 & 3. bit blurry.)& drew a pencil line along the leg on the MDF.
Next I found a scrap of timber & layed it along the pencil line & wacked in a few nails with the nail gun. I glued & screwed a stop on the end & that was my jig. The last thing I did was turn the MDF around & set the fence to a nice round figure, in this case, 200mm. Now to use it, I just set my fence to 200mm & Bob's your shirt liftin cuz.
Pic 1 shows the jig with the angle of the tapper.
Pic 2 & 3 shows where the tapper starts is where the material meets the edge of the MDF.
Pic 4 shows the angle of cut.
Remember to put a block under the tapper for the second cut. I made a block from the first off cut.
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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14th January 2007, 01:11 AM #9SENIOR MEMBER
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hey your right now i think of it i had some jarrah strips on an outdoor setting...but just plantation stuff...what i'm really in love with is the recycled jarrah and also the the slabs of cause, seen heaps on the web but all have been in it's home state of WA, the darker the better, just awsome...
don't mean to but in to your tapering but i have a jig i made for that that can taper a leg so fast, easy and safe, you'd be tapering stuff just for the fun it...
...as it's 1am i'll have to continue later...Hurry, slowly
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14th January 2007, 07:19 AM #10
The stand looks really good.
All the tapering jigs I've seen have the piece angled so that the cut starts at the thick end, rather than the thin end. Does yours tend to pull the workpiece out of the jig?Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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14th January 2007, 09:36 AM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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morn'n Zenwood...
the one i use sits on a little plywood sled and the piece that is needed to keep the job angled is adjustable for different size tapers and there is also a wood clamp, the whole thing slides in the mitre slot and is nice and safe and doesn't shift or want to pull away like you said...
i'll do the pics for everyone today if you like...Hurry, slowly
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14th January 2007, 10:00 AM #12
G'day Zen,
I didn't have any problems with this, but I should point out that I felt one of those over centre hold down clamps would have been good. That said, as I was telling WD, this was my first attempt at tappering legs, so if the norm is to start at the thick end, then I certainly would not try to say that my way is better. As with most of my woodwork, I just make it up as I go along & my main aim is to be able to count my mistakes at the end of each day.
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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14th January 2007, 03:59 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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15th January 2007, 07:28 AM #14
Looks great. Only thing I can think of would be to put a clamping point somewhere along that arm other than at the pivot point, so that it applies pressure to the workpiece. A bit of T-track in the base and a bolt through the arm into the T-track would do it.
Thanks for the pics. Might inspire me to make one, rather than just attacking square legs with a plane.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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15th January 2007, 11:38 AM #15GOLD MEMBER
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Nice work - the stand looks great.
Bob
"If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."
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