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building a desk out of a slab of timber

Started by mcrocker, 26th June 2014 01:59 PM

appreciated, bend, boards, building, desk, desk slab, idea, laminating, matt, mind, single, slab, slabs, special, techniques, thinking, timber, top, toying, twist, warp, wondering, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 1,964

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th June 2014 05:30 PM; by orraloon

Forum:
FURNITURE, JOINERY, CABINETMAKING - formerly BIG STUFF

A Nice Load of Plum

Started by ogato, 6th June 2014 06:58 PM

advertising, attractive, chains, copious, dry, endcheck, firewood, found, giving, gumtree, guy, it’s, i’ve, jeff, killed, lathe, leopard, life, load, nice, plum, ready, rootball, sealed, split, tree, warp, waterblasting, wood, ‘roughs’

Replies: 8
Views: 1,718

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th June 2014 03:48 PM; by ogato

Forum:
WOODTURNING - GENERAL

Could this be the problem ?

Started by Tim_N, 25th May 2014 05:28 PM

314617the, 314618, arrow, belt, bend, causing, closely, downward, drive, earlier, feel, hafco, hand, highlight, problem, reason, red, replace, slight, spare, spindle, spinning, square, straight, thread, view, warp, watched, wheel, wobble

Replies: 6
Views: 2,328

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th May 2014 08:46 AM; by Tim_N

Forum:
WOODTURNING - GENERAL

Hardwood Solid Door construction

Started by pao, 24th May 2014 10:16 PM

19mm, 38mm, 40mm, altogether, bend, brushbox, care, change, construction, door, frame, hardwood, idea, inside, ledge, method, planks, purchasing, raised, reason, scrape, shape, solid, stable, strongest, suited, thick, timber, total, warp

Replies: 1
Views: 1,503

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th May 2014 02:56 PM; by malb

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Will staright Plywood warp after coated with clear?

Started by Tegmark, 27th January 2014 11:39 PM

bothered, clear, coated, cut, cutting, day, elses, experience, home, lying, moisture, money, night, permanently, pieces, plywood, question, remained, ruined, sealed, sheets, spending, staright, stayed, straight, sucked, tricks, warmth, warp, warped

Replies: 3
Views: 1,700

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2014 08:36 PM; by Xanthorrhoeas

Forum:
TIMBER

wow now that a warp

Started by mat_au, 7th January 2014 06:12 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

20/12/13, coat, finish, kinda, normal, pile, ready, rough, sealer, warp, wood, wow

Replies: 24
Views: 3,032

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th January 2014 11:00 AM; by Paul39

Forum:
WOODTURNING - GENERAL

warped door fix?

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 25th November 2013 02:20 AM

23.9, 3mm, 4mm, 5.jpg, 75mm, attached, braces, chance, diagonal, door, fix, frame, hardwood, house, images, keeping, moment, painted, photo, photo-0009, read, reckon, renovateforum.com, reply, slight, straight, straightening, thread, warp, warped

Replies: 0
Views: 1,221

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th November 2013 02:20 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

The Ecstacy and the Agony

Started by Dovetail, 25th September 2013 06:14 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

agony, applied, board, boards, bottom, cabinet, central, coats, correct, crack, ecstacy, fit, front, glue-up, grain, house, joints, location, months, narrower, oil, screws, shed, timber, top, warmer, warp, warping, wax, width

Replies: 17
Views: 3,025

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th October 2013 10:30 PM; by Dovetail

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Bugs eating my wood while it's seasoning

Started by gypsytree, 4th September 2013 11:23 AM

bake, bark, basement, branches, bugs, business, buttons, completely, crack, cut, cutting, discs, eat, eaten, eating, found, freeze, green, juniper, kills, rid, sap, seasoned, seasoning, selling, stays, ugly, warp, wood, worms

Replies: 1
Views: 1,561

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th September 2013 06:11 PM; by jimbur

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Retrofit insulation on weatherboard cottage

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 4th June 2013 01:20 PM

advice, bats, boards, budget, cottage, devastated, drafty, easier, external, heavy, hubby, insulation, keen-, live, millions, noise, noisy, novices, plan, read, remove, renovateforum.com, retro, shove, thread, tight, tris, wall, warp, weatherboard

Replies: 0
Views: 1,388

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th June 2013 01:20 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Laminex, formica router bases and templates

Started by rev, 12th March 2013 09:47 AM

appreciated, bases, bit, cheers, clag, contact, cutting, formica, glue, hand, inserts, laminex, material, offcuts, plywood, remembering, router, rubbery, sandwich, scraps, shapes, shrink, table, templates, thick, throat, tips, warp

Replies: 4
Views: 1,330

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th March 2013 09:19 PM; by elanjacobs

Forum:
ROUTING FORUM

smoked wood

Started by liolor, 21st December 2012 08:54 PM

boxwood, christmas, dear, esperience, flute, happy, heard, instruments, lorenzo, maker, musical, pieces, prevent, procedure, rough, smoke, smoked, smoking, stabilize, stabilizing, time, warp, wood

Replies: 3
Views: 1,740

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th February 2013 06:48 PM; by Farm boy

Forum:
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Which timber and glue to use for a bath caddy?

Started by AliS, 24th January 2013 08:17 PM

200mm, allowing, bath, book, build, caddy, cup, exposed, glue, hot, lot, moisture, recommend, recommended, rest, sits, steam, tea, thanksu, timber, trays, treatment, warp, water

Replies: 6
Views: 2,182

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th February 2013 09:58 AM; by AliS

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

New sled works with blade guard

Started by John Samuel, 27th January 2013 10:18 AM

251564, blade, bought, centre, collector, cut, cuts, disappointing, fence, fine, finishing, front, furniture, guard, guard/dust, job, mdf, panels, ply, ride, sled, touches, warp, warped, works, yesterday

Replies: 7
Views: 1,702

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2013 02:58 PM; by orraloon

Forum:
HOMEMADE TOOLS AND JIGS ETC.

Is Hoop Pine better suited to milling or slabbing?

Started by Greg_M, 12th January 2013 01:30 PM

/slabbing, 2400, 700, approx, borer, bother, crazy, east, equipment, experience, friend, gear, hoop, logs, milling, mould, pine, portable, process, qld, received, region, slab, slabbing, sth, stuff, suited, treated, warp, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 2,410

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th January 2013 03:11 PM; by MAPLEMAN

Forum:
SMALL TIMBER MILLING

Smoked wood

Started by liolor, 21st December 2012 08:49 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 1,239

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2013 09:44 PM; by plantagenon

Forum:
CASTING & STABILISATION

Smoked wood

Started by liolor, 21st December 2012 08:00 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 1,121

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2012 05:00 AM; by Robson Valley

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Preventing blackwood mirror frame from warping

Started by Jacquic, 6th December 2012 09:51 AM

1cm, advice, appreciated, assembled, bend, blackwood, coat, completely, corner, flat, flatten/straighten, frame, greatly, ground, i.e, ideas, jacqui, lacquer, laid, lengths, lifts, mirror, oil, preventing, product, sit, timber, warp, warping, worried

Replies: 5
Views: 1,598

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2012 10:56 PM; by Jacquic

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Salvage Timber Foot Stool

Started by smallcrafter, 23rd September 2012 08:02 AM

add, character, couldn’t, cut, cuts, explanation, extensions, foot, half-rabbet, hand, impossible, joined, joints, legs, mill, oak, pieces, pipe1, rails, salvage, sander, scars, size, solid, square, started, stool, timber, top, warp

Replies: 2
Views: 1,482

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th October 2012 05:31 AM; by Robson Valley

Forum:
WOODWORK PICS

Fixing Sliding Door Frame/Jamb to Brick

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 30th September 2012 10:50 PM

2400, bolt, brick, brickwork, close, door, dramas, dyna, fixtures, frame, glass, hole, imperial, metric, normal, pack, panel, proceed, ralph, read, renovateforum.com, reply, rotting, secure, simply, sliding, square, thread, veneer, warp

Replies: 0
Views: 1,414

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th September 2012 10:50 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

First turning in over 22 years.....

Started by Geekgirl, 16th August 2012 09:54 PM

bench, bit, bought, bowl, branch, character, chuck, contrasting, dark, hollow, jaw, kat, lathe, light, lip, loose, love, perfectly, plastic, reading, rustins, sat, sealed, slid, slight, square, turning, warp, wood, years

Replies: 14
Views: 2,260

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th August 2012 03:27 PM; by ian thorn

Forum:
WOODTURNING - GENERAL

What did I do wrong - and how do I fix it.

Started by OtakiriLad, 14th July 2012 04:02 PM

98%, achieve, australian, based, box, clamp, correct, current, decking, design, feature, fininshed, fix, gap, gum, hope, humidity, managed, opposite, photo, rear, red, serious, suggestions, timber, top, warp, warped, woodsmith, wrong

Replies: 7
Views: 2,233

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd July 2012 10:51 AM; by OtakiriLad

Forum:
BOX MAKING

mdf wardrobe doors

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 21st July 2012 06:00 PM

12mm, 1600wide, 18mm, 2000, 2800high, 530deep, 800, advance, building, carcass, dimensions, doors, due, kids, main, mdf, read, reason, reduce, renovateforum.com, reply, richard, size, storage, thickness, thinking, thread, wardrobe, warp, weight

Replies: 0
Views: 1,298

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st July 2012 06:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Warp in aquarium canopy

Started by Ladybug5234, 13th April 2012 01:19 AM

1/2-3/4, advance, approx, aquarium, bend, bought, btw, built, canopy, clue, follow, happening, home, inside, lowes, morning, night, pictures, piece, pine, questions, saltwater, sealant, sort, tank, top, type, warp, warped, wood

Replies: 5
Views: 3,728

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th April 2012 12:31 PM; by ch!ppy

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Slight Warp in Aquarium Stand

Started by pwrmonkey, 5th April 2012 10:43 PM

125, aquarium, break, btw, buckle, built, expands, experience, experts, fit, future, gallons, glue, gorilla, happen, heavy, job, panel, prevent, sitting, slight, stand, stuff, tight, top, type, warp, warping, water, weight

Replies: 14
Views: 5,195

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2012 04:01 PM; by TORB

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

doors which timber HELP

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 23rd March 2012 08:00 PM

1.entry, 2.internal, 2040x840x40, 2x2040x35, 3.internal, building, buy, door, doors, engineeredsay, glass, house, hume, maranti, oak, painted, pine, read, recomend, renovateforum.com, reply, solid, statesman, thread, timber, translucent, vic.need, warp

Replies: 0
Views: 981

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd March 2012 08:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

camp kitchen finishing help

Started by justahobby, 30th August 2010 11:33 PM

beer, bolt, camp, cheers, day, direct, drink, durable, finish, finishing, i’m, inside, kitchen, laminated, laminex, offcourse, paint, prepare, rain, sean, shower, spilt, stuck, timber, time, top, trailer, warp, watching, worried

Replies: 4
Views: 2,463

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th February 2012 06:28 PM; by annie wilson

Forum:
FINISHING

Leveling a hercus 260

Started by bwal74, 27th December 2011 02:39 PM

260, accurate, apparently, bed, ben, bolt, carpenters, cheers, concerned, correctly, drastic, floor, garage, hercus, house, lathe, level, leveled, leveling, machinists, posts, properly, read, run, speeds, suggestions, table, trawling, warp, wobble

Replies: 2
Views: 1,228

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2011 08:30 PM; by .RC.

Forum:
THE HERCUS AREA

Timber Windows for Cubby House

Started by Perforated, 14th October 2011 05:36 PM

cheers, completely, cubby, deteriorate, easily, house, integrity, kids, outgrown, re-treated, recommend, regularly, resistant, retain, timber, timber-framed, warp, weather, windows, woods

Replies: 1
Views: 1,927

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th October 2011 07:55 AM; by whitewood

Forum:
THE CUBBY HOUSE

Can I use yellowtongue flooring as a benchtop?

Started by snafuspyramid, 17th June 2011 10:09 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

aquarium, benchtop, bitch, cheap, chips, cut, deform, dense, doubt, flooring, hard, heavy, idea, imagine, importantly, inclined, incredibly, intended, moderate, observations, plane, resistant, support, tendency, time, true, warp, water, wisdom, yellowtongue

Replies: 16
Views: 10,162

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th October 2011 03:12 PM; by Terry B

Forum:
THE WORK BENCH

wooden material for workshop cabinet doors?

Started by .RC., 27th September 2011 07:48 PM

12mm, advice, cabinet, cheap, doors, material, matter, metal, piece, plywood, shop, warp, wooden, workshop

Replies: 11
Views: 3,241

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th September 2011 11:44 PM; by ian

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Can I Do Anything About Twisted Maple?

Started by Nicholaspaul, 24th September 2011 04:39 PM

1/4, bad, blocks, building, concrete, considered, curly, entire, flattening, hand, heard, length, maple, neck, people, piece, soaking, start, thick, twist, twisted, untwist, warp, wide, wood

Replies: 2
Views: 1,127

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th September 2011 12:34 PM; by Nicholaspaul

Forum:
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Is drying needed for old pier timber?

Started by Timber Nomad, 14th September 2011 12:36 AM

3what, 500diameter, 50x50, alot, apply, appreciated, drying, expect, insides, logs, logs--how, lot, material, mill, mill--possibly, necessary--does, needed, outdoors, pier, pilings, questions, roughly, size, slabs, tallowood, timber, ultimately, usable, wait, warp

Replies: 2
Views: 2,116

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th September 2011 11:59 PM; by J.B.W

Forum:
TIMBER

Suggestions for a top for workbench

Started by TORB, 24th August 2011 07:24 PM

180cm, bars, bench, bought, bunnings, cheers, cover, deck, easily, elements, exposed, frame, home, located, materials, mdf, modular, process, putting, ric, rot, size, steel, suggestions, top, warp, workbench

Replies: 4
Views: 1,118

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th August 2011 07:13 PM; by TORB

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Roughed out a few wet ones

Started by Cliff Rogers, 11th July 2011 03:01 PM

2tsup, amount, bigger, bother, cadagi, cos, cracking, cycle, day, dried, expect, fan, finish, foot, front, fun, mould, mounting, nicely, repeated, reverse, roughed, sars, sat, signs, stubs, sunday, warp, warping, wet

Replies: 6
Views: 1,412

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th July 2011 10:26 AM; by Cliff Rogers

Forum:
WOODTURNING - GENERAL

How to prevent / remove twisting in laminated boards

Started by Taziman, 24th April 2011 04:20 PM

alternated, avoid, beers, board, boards, camping, clamps, corners, diagonally, expected, finished, flat, future, grain, hour, jarrah, laminated, left, length, opposite, placing, prevent, remove, reverse, timber, tricks, twist, twisting, underneath, warp

Replies: 5
Views: 2,100

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th April 2011 10:48 AM; by thompy

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Tips for making a table

Started by Corgan, 21st April 2011 07:53 PM

access, accurate, advance, angle, attaching, bacteria, bend, bit, bucket, cold, confusing, doh, flat-pack, frame, gents, lips, main, making, run, sheet, simple, table, tabletop, tips, trap, warp, water, weld, welding, worried

Replies: 3
Views: 1,567

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2011 07:05 PM; by new_guy90

Forum:
METALWORK FORUM

Hall Table a Pressie -WIP

Started by Peter36, 10th January 2011 05:42 PM

6 Pages •: 1 2 3 4 5 6

$,straighten, base, cos, design, dil, edges, eucalypt, fraction, glue, gluing, hall, horse, impressed, myrtle, pressie, runner, sauce, set, shape, species, step, table, tassie, tiles, timbers, unknown, victorian, warp, wip$

Replies: 82
Views: 9,120

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th April 2011 07:21 PM; by 3 toed sloth

Forum:
FURNITURE, JOINERY, CABINETMAKING - formerly BIG STUFF

Advice on making a bench please.

Started by OtwayRider, 18th February 2011 11:27 AM

$120, 200, advice, bench, benchtop, benefit, billiard, building, cost, cypress, dar, experience, gorgeous, gum, g‘day, heeavy, light, making, metal, options, pete, pretty, qld, run, smoother, solid, table, thicknesser, twist, warp

Replies: 8
Views: 1,782

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th February 2011 07:08 PM; by Grommett

Forum:
THE WORK BENCH

Metal Basher from Torquay sees the light.

Started by OtwayRider, 18th February 2011 11:10 AM

$120, 200, advice, basher, beautiful, benchtop, benefit, billiard, building, cost, cypress, dar, experience, gorgeous, gum, ironbark, light, metal, options, pete, qld, red, run, sees, smoother, table, thicknesser, torquay, twist, warp

Replies: 4
Views: 1,431

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th February 2011 05:04 AM; by issatree

Forum:
G'day mate - THE WELCOME WAGON -Introduce yourself

Made my own floating shelves but they twisted :(

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 29th January 2011 06:00 PM

basically, bathroom, brown, cheers, chocolate, chose, cut, floating, gonna, lost, nice, piece, pine, question, read, renovateforum.com, scared, shelves, slight, stain, stay, straight, thread, timber, treat, twist, twisted, twists, wanna, warp

Replies: 0
Views: 1,608

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th January 2011 06:00 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

inside sealer for window box

Started by slowmo, 2nd January 2011 06:19 PM

200, advice, apparently, appreciated, bituminous, bondall, box, cheers, drinking, finish, flowers, impermeable, inside, interior, marine, michael, non-toxic, paint, planned, planning, ply, product, safe, sealer, strawberries, warp, water, waterproof, window, window box

Replies: 0
Views: 1,029

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2011 06:19 PM; by slowmo

Forum:
FINISHING

Advice wanted re purchase of Blackwood Buffet

Started by Les Caddaye, 19th January 2010 08:18 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

accepted, advice, blackwood, buffet, damageing, doors, due, duly, fantastic, furniture, happy, hutch, iron, makes, plastic, purchase, quoted, rubbish, sag, site, solid, timber, true, unit, veneer, wanted, warp, weight, xmas, ~~~~

Replies: 15
Views: 3,210

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd September 2010 10:21 PM; by groeneaj

Forum:
FURNITURE, JOINERY, CABINETMAKING - formerly BIG STUFF

Where can I get 1200mm x 600mm x 40mm hardwood slab

Started by gtr fan, 14th September 2010 01:00 PM

1200mm, 20cm, 38mm, 40mm, 600mm, advice, bench, bunnings, curl, edged, edges, frame, hang, hard, hardwood, hardwood slab, laminated, luck, north, obtain, pine, shore, slab, sort, stuff, tend, thick, timber, top, warp

Replies: 10
Views: 1,907

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th September 2010 04:39 PM; by gtr fan

Forum:
TIMBER

Wonder who paid for this???

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 28th August 2010 07:40 PM

2010.wmv, 5.88, 80305, abbott, alp, attached, attachment, election, files, paid, read, renovateforum.com, starring, thread, time, tony, warp

Replies: 0
Views: 1,239

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th August 2010 07:40 PM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
GENERAL ODDS N SODS

Timber selection for an egg incubator

Started by neildawes, 19th August 2010 01:50 PM

19mm, 39oc, 600mm, appearance, basic, dovetails, due, egg, eggs, finished, hatching, house, humidity, incubator, instantly, joints, main, neil, nice, rot, section, selection, shape, skills, sort, swell, temperatures, timber, tools, warp

Replies: 13
Views: 1,771

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th August 2010 08:54 AM; by Greg Ward

Forum:
TIMBER

flyscreened timber double door for french doors

Started by Reno RSS Feed, 21st August 2010 01:00 AM

assume, assuming, central, dismally, door, doors, experience, external, fail, flyscreened, frame, framed, french, grateful, idea, internally, kinds, light, lived, people, practice, rail, read, renovateforum.com, reply, single, thread, timber, wall, warp

Replies: 0
Views: 999

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st August 2010 01:00 AM; by Reno RSS Feed

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

What to mount large external mirror to with no warp?

Started by cpcp, 31st July 2010 02:45 PM

1200mm, 1700mm, 3mm, appreciated, balcony, cheapest/best, covered, experience, external, flick, greatly, guessing, large, marine, mirror, mount, mounted, odd, ply, rain, rare, solution, sort, trick, true, wall, warp, warped, wind, withstand

Replies: 2
Views: 1,203

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st August 2010 12:30 PM; by cpcp

Forum:
FURNITURE, JOINERY, CABINETMAKING - formerly BIG STUFF

Reducing warp?

Started by Spotswood, 26th July 2010 12:40 AM

board, boards, clamp, equally, overnight, plane, planning, read, reduce, reducing, sap, shrink, sticker, thickness, warp, warping, wood

Replies: 5
Views: 1,517

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th July 2010 09:57 PM; by Claw Hama

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

Table top

Started by shine171, 9th June 2010 07:46 PM

190mm, 30mm, 35mm, advice, alternating, american, arches/curves, barrel, biscuit, coffee, colour, end-grain, half, hoping, joined, oak, pine, rest, round, sit, stained, table, thin, thinking, time, top, varnished, warp, wide, wine

Replies: 7
Views: 1,318

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th June 2010 08:28 AM; by artme

Forum:
WOODWORK - GENERAL

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