Thread: Studley’s rejected hardwood gallery

Just a simple lamp and it was pretty easy to make. It was finished with 1 coat of sealer and 1 coat of Danish oil. I am not entirely happy with perspex but since it was free so I will put up with it.

You like?

I can't believe I have almost finished 2 packs of floor board.

Originally Posted by Wongo

Just a simple lamp and it was pretty easy to make. It was finished with 1 coat of sealer and 1 coat of Danish oil. I am not entirely happy with perspex but since it was free so I will put up with it.

You like?

I can't believe I have almost finished 2 packs of floor board.

I like it, including the Perspex. How many different species were used there, or was it just different colour selections from the same species?

They mostly spotted gum and blue gum. The 4 poles could be red gum. Studley would know.

Hahaha no Studley doesn't know. I recognise the colours and grains but can't tell you the timbers.

The side board underneath and the legs of the light most likely Grey Gum according to my incredibly insignificant knowledge.

Panels I don't think they are Spotty but can't say for sure. I do have a top on a chest of drawers out of the same stuff. Really nice timber but have no idea what it is called try and get someone like Glock's attention they will know more than me. Dunno if E.Maculata is still around here but try and wave him down, these guys know more about Aussie hardwoods than all of the rest of us put together will ever know. That is no kidding or joshing they both know a lot about this stuff.

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Looks very neat Wongo man. Ive built one workbench, with another on the way (photos shortly). Ive got some pantry shelves and bookcases to build as well.

Studley, it is spotted gum.

Anyway I sanded the perspex with some 120 grit wet and dry. It takes away the glossy look and it is much better. I am very happy with it now.

Here a few pics of the study I am working on at the moment.

The benches are made from Studleys structural packs. I jointed them with biscuits and then ran some Timbermate over them (one of them anyway). I coated the benches with some excess poly I had from our flooring job.

The lining on the wall will be the back of a bookcase (in situ) I am currently building. There will be three of these in the study, all made from one of Studleys reject flooring packs.

More pics to come, when the study is finished and I have better camera.

Very nice nam.

What is the go with the carpet man? Should get rid of it. Timber floor brother, timber floor.

Lamp looks good. Perspex looks good. I used paper in a similar lamp I made once.

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Yeh the carpet is going!! I am not sure wether to polish the concrete or lay some of Studleys reject flooring down - I was gonna get some advice from some of the local experts on laying hardwood flooring onto concrete, but thats for another thread!!

Those who bother to wander over to the Blogs will have seen these photos of the assembled, but not finished cradle - the rockers are Studley blue gum and the cradle ends and slats are Studley spotty.

A built-in Studley bookcase sitting on top of a Studley Benchtop.

You will have to put up with the crappy photos until I can convince SWMBO that I need to upgrade my phone to one with a decent 5 mp camera in it.

The bookcase is finished with a poly, and now holds about 150 books no probs! I have another 3 bookcases on the way.

Very nice, and practical too.

Top stuff Namtrak.

Actually with phones you won't ever get that much of a picture the lens is tiny. The bigger the front element of a lens the better the light that gets to the sensor and also the longer the lens the better the light that gets to the sensor. Phones have tiny sensors and have to have really short lenses. I think they are usually a few millimetres in length. Nikon did a 6mm lens way back when that was a groundbreaker that had a front element the shape of a basketball and was perhaps 300mm front to back great big thing but that is what they had to do to make such a wide lens give decent quality. To get everything else in the lens has to have a really small diameter so don't bother if you want quality pics getting a phone just keep it for the stuff you do because you have it and want the photo.

There are a stack of top digital SLR's under a grand now and the nice thing is that you can change the lens to be the one that gives you what you want. Many do this starting with the included lens, typically a wide ranging zoom and later go I want to do Macro or Telephoto or something that this lens can't do or doesn't do as well as I want. Being a dyed in the wool Nikon man get a Nikon because you get backward compatibility with most Nikon lenses ever made. Nobody else has this.

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