Thread: Need a new challenge?

Wanna organise it.......like, come up with a set of rules????

G`day I like the idea of a little box challenge Tea Lady Have you thought of any conditions like from a set size of timber showing pic of original piece then finished product.i.e 100x100x100 Red Gum ? Box with a finial box without finial With finial and spindle type base etc
Mick

Maybe stipulate max size but not wood type. 100mm cubed seems a good size. Not too small, not to big. I don't know if I even want to stipulate design or lid type. We could have a dozen different boxes. Although sometimes I apreciate someonne telling me exactly what I'm supposed to make so that I don't have to decide. Sometimes that is what takes the longest.

I can arrange it I can also get 100x100mm hardwood or any other size

Oooer! I wanna play!

Jefferson very kindly gave me some nice pieces of Congo Mahogany about 100mm³ and I've been undecided as to what to with 'em.

Serendipitous or what?

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Oooer! I wanna play!

Jefferson very kindly gave me some nice pieces of Congo Mahogany about 100mm³ and I've been undecided as to what to with 'em.

Serendipitous or what?

I'll PM my address if you're still undecided

I might be able to find a bit of 100 x 100 x 100 fence post, so could prob join in. Not sure I could make anything out of it that would be worth taking a piccy of though

Sod it - I'm in. Dunno where I'll gte 100mm cubed timber from (none of the blanks i have match that, unless I go for a green lump...

After all, somebody has to make up the numbers!

Cheers,
Dave

d'ya mean a box sized 100 x 100 x 100
or a box made from a volume of timber equal to 100 x 100 x 100

Good question.

Hopefully the limits are on the starting bit of timber... it allows for more creativity.

Everyday is a challenge for me....
Think we should all try to finish that piece we keep putting to the side....
Doesn't anyone else have one of those pieces...????

I'd be happy just taking picture of raw wood... & each day post a picture of that wood ... for 7 days... & lets see what we have in a week...????
No Pressure... Not sure... NOW LOOK..... WOW... competition....
Well... I'm known for weird idea's.....LOL

Cheers Kekemo.....

G`day I was thinking starting with 100m3 to start with as Skew said it allows for more creativity.

P.S. this Tea Lady`s idea I am just putting my two cents

Originally Posted by echnidna

d'ya mean a box sized 100 x 100 x 100
or a box made from a volume of timber equal to 100 x 100 x 100

I reckon wood equivalent to that volume. Doesn;t have to be one bit or type. Even powderpost can play then. He only works with lots of little bits glued together.

Well looks like we have a few players then.

How about it starting on 1st August, cos then its the last hoorah for winter. And you have a month to do it, so dead line is midnight 31st August.

Its not a comp, just a "turnalong", and everyone posts a WIP of some sort and tells us at least one thing they discovered from the project. And they especially tell us what went wrong and why,so that we can ALL learn from the mistakes. So we have pics of the wood you start with, the chucking method you used and jam chucks and all that. And the finished box I guess. Ken Wraight can play too as long as he tells us what he did. And the mods, cos there ain't no winners. (Does ubeaut still touch lathes occasionally? )

OK? So who's playing?

1 litre of wood or a 100mm square block - either way, I'm in

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Oooer! I wanna play!

Jefferson very kindly gave me some nice pieces of Congo Mahogany about 100mm³ and I've been undecided as to what to with 'em.

Serendipitous or what?

I wanna play too Andy, but be very careful with that expensive lump of cr#p Congo I gave you.

DJ and I have been working this arvo on a different piece of Congo and it sure doesn't like heat treatment ie Glow or Shellawax.

Tea Lady, please explain the rules again. Does it have to be out of one piece of 4 by 4 by 4 or just the equivalent?