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doc henderson

cookie platter and I think that is called quilted maple.  others correct me if I am wrong.
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

doc henderson

started working on the walnut cookie to back up my European mount from this past season.  No finish yet, still sanding out the drum sander marks. takes a awhile in a harder wood.  





also helped a doc friends daughter rout a 6mm (1/4 inch) groove to lay in led strip lighting for her van she is outfitting for camping as she rock climbs in Co.  She has done one already, and hit a cow, now she has experience.

Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

aigheadish

It seems as though I may be working on outfitting a van with my son sometime over the next year or so. He's decided to quit college, for the time being, to make some money, then be a nomad for a while. Not sure how I feel about it other than he's moved back in with us, he currently has no income, he's theoretically trying to find a job, and my wife and I are crabbing about how he absolutely can not not work. He's got a 500 dollar rent due (to us) at the end of February. I've tried explaining that is significantly cheaper than real rent and his bills will be. Let's see if he listens and how it goes. I don't have a lot of patience with him, which is frustrating to us both, but I'm trying...
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21incher

Quote from: aigheadish on January 26, 2025, 05:21:21 PMI took a several year break from the lathe, with this piece on it, then proceeded to bury it behind tools and junk. I think it's a chunk of maple, but I'm not positive.



I finally freed the lathe from its burden of junk so I started messing around again. It was destined to be a shallow bowlish shape until I made the inside thinner than the outside and it blew up on me (not pictured).

I got back on it today and found some amazing rays and form inside it. I've never seen, as I polished it up, a wood look more like wrinkled silk or something.





I don't know how much you can tell in pictures but it's really neat, wood is incredible!





The shape doesn't lend itself to anything very useful but boy is it pretty.
It's beautiful.  I think a little display stand to angle it up so nobody puts anything on it would work.  👍.
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doc henderson

Now you have a student/helper to finish whatever you need help with in your shop.  father son time.  work one way or another.  both our kids are at home.  both working and or in school paying rent.  wife is saving it to the help them when they move out.  be strong and be a mentor.  covid screwed up a lot of plans.
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

Resonator

Like the turning Austin, could always make a clock face or something functional like that from it. :thumbsup: 
You've got what is referred to as "Fiddleback" maple. (Used to make the back of fiddles, of course). ffsmiley



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Featured in the soundtrack of the "Out of the Woods" YouTube video:
"Epic 30ft Long Monster Cypress and Oak Log! Freehand Sawing"

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aigheadish

Looking through my past stuff it looks like this was probably the same material. Fiddleback, huh? And here I'm wasting it on platters and weird bowl things.

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Wlmedley

Bought a router a few months ago and being I had never owned or used one I really didn't know all that I could do with it. I'm now thinking I could get more use out of it if I had it mounted upside down on a table. I don't have a whole lot of room so I bought a plate that fits it and making a rig I can set on my workbench and use it like a router table when needed. Got a template with it and am now waiting on a router  bit and some double sided tape I have on order. Glued up some red oak for the top. Probably should practice on a piece of scrap as I don't want to screw up my top .
Bill Medley WM 126-14hp , Husky372xp ,MF1020 ,Homemade log arch,GMC2500,Oregon log splitter,Honda Pioneer 700,Kabota 1700

WV Sawmiller

Bill,

   Go ahead and learn all about that router stuff then don't be surprised when I make a trip up to get you to show me how to use the 1 (2?) and all the bits, table and such I got with it a couple years ago. :thumbsup:
Howard Green
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Wlmedley

Howard,you're welcome to come up here anytime but you probably won't learn much from me. I'm mostly a trial and error kind of guy. Seems like a lot more errors than most people but I stay busy  ffcheesy
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Old Greenhorn

Bill I don't know if this will help, but I whipped up a quick router table from mostly scraps. I have run a lot of stock through it.
The fence just swings on the pivot on the left and I use a clamp on the right to keep it in place.


The underside, rotated 90°


There are some other photos in my gallery if you want to look them up. I will say, for the effort I put into it (not a lot) I sure do get a lot of use out of it. It's a lot easier to use running edges on stock than using the router alone. Just be mindful of where you fingers are.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way.  NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

Old Greenhorn


Quote from: aigheadish on January 26, 2025, 05:21:21 PM

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The shape doesn't lend itself to anything very useful but boy is it pretty.

Austin, I am looking at these photos and am thinking it's about time you stopped telling us how you are not very good at this stuff and lack skills. Fess up man, you've got some chops. Beautiful work!

Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way.  NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

Wlmedley

Tom, thanks for the pictures. I'm going to have to make a fence for mine. I think I made my work bench a little to low because after working on it for a few hours my back starts hurting. With this router setup my work will be quite a bit higher and I hope easier on my back. Plate insert is only 1/4" thick and I had a lot of trouble finding a template bit that only took a 1/4" cut. Hopefully I ordered the right one. I know very little about router bits except that they are expensive.
Bill Medley WM 126-14hp , Husky372xp ,MF1020 ,Homemade log arch,GMC2500,Oregon log splitter,Honda Pioneer 700,Kabota 1700

aigheadish

Thanks Tom! Stuff like this does give me a bit of confidence to doink around more on the lathe. I need to rewatch a few videos on "riding the bevel." I watched one a couple weeks ago that really helped my brain wrap around the idea, but I need to watch and do at the same time. I also got lucky with my sharpening jig, which usually doesn't happen and I got a couple gouges good and sharp. I've got a piece of moist mulberry sitting there that I want to mess with next. 
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Resonator

Watched a video with a professional lathe turner many years back. He'd put his bench grinder right next to the lathe and turn awhile, sharpen, turn awhile, sharpen...repeat. Whisper-thin ribbon shavings flew off in a steady stream from the wood.
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Live music act of Sawing Project '23 & '24, and Pig Roast '19, '21, & '24
Featured in the soundtrack of the "Out of the Woods" YouTube video:
"Epic 30ft Long Monster Cypress and Oak Log! Freehand Sawing"

Proud owner of a Wood-Mizer 2017 LT28G19

aigheadish

Yeah, I'm certainly not near that yet. I'm still in the phase of if it's not tearing out all over I feel ok. Two different sets of skills turning and sharpening, I'm learning both!
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Wlmedley

Finally got my router table finished. Made it so I can clamp it on my work bench when I need to use it. Working height seems pretty good. Tried it out by making a couple lap joints on some scrap and it worked good. Found out pretty quickly to move stock in the opposite direction of cutter rotation which I read somewhere but evidently forgot. Drew arrows on the fence so I  wouldn't do it again  ffcheesy
Bill Medley WM 126-14hp , Husky372xp ,MF1020 ,Homemade log arch,GMC2500,Oregon log splitter,Honda Pioneer 700,Kabota 1700

doc henderson

It will all become second nature soon enough.  yes, the router you are used to is now upside down.  you can rout a grove to add a T-track to use a miter gauge or clamp stuff to the table as well.
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

tule peak timber

New shop expansion with an extended raised slab, a little granite nugget trimming, and homemade gluelams for the ridge. Today we welded in the overhead crane beam.
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SwampDonkey

Nice! When you gonna slow down?  ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcool
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1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

tule peak timber

Built a door this week for one of the outbuildings that was destroyed by the recent winds. We went from 100 MPH winds and fire to snow, kaboom. This door is 2 inch stout Doug Fir with 2 inch thick alder panels, M&T construction. This morning I started the man door for the shop edition- Camphor and teak with copper trim . Slow down ,,,nah. 
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aigheadish

Hopefully, I'm making my shop more bird free. As mentioned wherever, in posts I've made who knows where, there are birds in my shop due to big gaps in the doors. I looked at the problem and figured that I could add some wood to limit the amount of space a dumb ol' bird could squeeze in. A couple of 16' 2x4 and 2x8s later and I think it's much better but still needs some supplemental pieces. Now a bird had to be smaller than a quarter inch around to get in on half of the doorway. My boy helped and learned to use a circular saw and trusted himself on a ladder a bit to get this done but I need to do a bit more and add a fair amount of flashing to get water to run properly. I've got the door open now, so of course a bird flew in, but it may die in here. I'm not that sad about that... The left side is nice and tight and a bird won't make it through but the right side still has a gap that I think I can add another 1/2" piece to to close it up. It looks jenky as can be but I don't care that much. The alternative is to completely redo the entire structure, taking the doors down and rebuilding the header section, and frankly, eff that. This, plus a little more work should keep the birds mostly out. We got lucky with really lovely weather today. 


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Big_eddy

Nothing fancy, buy my first project using wood I milled myself.
I split the handle on my newest pickaroon while loading my first log ever onto the mill. It was an ash log, so what better project for wood from the first log than a replacement handle? Revenge?

Trace the old one and bandsaw a blank.




A bunch of drawknife work and then some more work with a spokeshave.


A bit of work with the belt sander and then the random orbital sander.

While I was working on it, I finished off two hickory handles for my Husqvarna pickaroon that I had started a while back and had set aside to dry. Now they are all inside to dry down to a low moisture level before I fit them to the heads.


SwampDonkey

Made my first axe handles (2) 40 years ago, maple. Have never broke one yet. I can still put my hands on the spare one. On a shelf in the new shop.  ffsmiley
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1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

aigheadish

Oh man! Exciting Eddy! Good work!
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