Al gave me this...

Brian_Bailey · May 08, 2004, 09:34:18 AM

Jeff,

Here's a half @ss'd attempt to show what I'm thinking.

The black line is supposed to be the 2 pieces of thin wood glued together. They will bend as the moisture in the air changes.
The free end will point towards the wet or dry.
The fixed end can be mortised into whatever you want to use as a base.

Jeff · May 08, 2004, 09:41:21 AM

How about I hire you to build the contraption and I prepair the board for its arrival? ;D

I think its a cool idear

ElectricAl · May 08, 2004, 11:46:55 AM

Brian

sawwood · May 08, 2004, 06:57:10 PM

Thats cool Brian, should go great with Jeffs wood. 8)

Brian_Bailey · May 08, 2004, 07:08:36 PM

I've been going to make one of these highly accurate moisture sensors for quite awhile.
This thread got me off my duff and digging thru my wood stash.
I'll post some pics of my version of Mr. Rittenhouse's hygrometer tomorrow after I finish it

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Jeff, you might want to reconsider your request after you see it though.

Jeff · May 08, 2004, 07:14:11 PM

Mine will be better. Yours was just practice ;) :D I've seen your work. I got ever bita confidence in ya.

Jeff · May 08, 2004, 07:17:17 PM

Been sanding with my 1/4 sheet sander. Coarsest stuff I have is 100. I dont think I'll ever get those saw marks out. I got a belt sander but dont want to risk it. This piece is wavy from drying so its gotta be a finish sander I think

chet · May 08, 2004, 07:17:29 PM

How's about a big cribbage board ta go wit dat checkerboard and checkers.

etat · May 08, 2004, 07:49:19 PM

I've got a craftsman sander that is like a big black and decker mouse. Comes with lots of different shaped pads and uses hook and loop sandpaper. I wore one out sanding sheetrock, floors, and stuff. (the dust finally eat the bearins out of it, and went and bought another. I'm REAL happy with the way it sands and is the best finish sander I've ever used I rented a sander to sand the majority of my pine floors, but I sanded most of the upstairs with it before I rented it. Also I put a scrubby pad on it to go over my floors between coats of finish, (So far 6 coats). The pad will stick right to the thing. It comes with a round six inch pad, a pad that looks like a iron, and a small pad that sticks out for getting in tight places. Occasionally running the sandpaper over the sole of a old tennis shoe will knock most of the sawdust off of it so you can usually use the paper until it wears out, not until it gets cloged up. I bought it from sears but black and decker makes it. The only one I could find at the box stors were the little bitty versions and I wanted something bigger than that.

Jeff · May 08, 2004, 08:01:14 PM

QuoteHow's about a big cribbage board ta go wit dat checkerboard and checkers.

Spoken like a true yooper. I tawt dat was an eastern yooper ting doe?

chet · May 08, 2004, 08:16:01 PM

Dat's da first ting da kids make in shop class in deese parts.

Kevin · May 08, 2004, 08:19:46 PM

They should be making snowshoes.

pasbuild · May 09, 2004, 02:29:20 AM

Da snowshoes are right after da gun rack ;)

Ianab · May 09, 2004, 03:04:25 AM

Re the sanding...
If it's got sawmarks in it, take to it with the belt sander. Pick the finest grit that will take the sawmarks out in a couple of minutes. A decent belt sander will chew off the waves as well. Then go to a finer grit to take out those marks. Once you got to your finest grit belt then switch to the little orbital sander for a couple more passes. Should come out as smooth as a baby's bottom. I've had to do that with the curly cypress I've been playing with. No way I can get it thru the planer without tearout so I just plane it 1mm oversize then have at it with 60 grit and the Bosch sander

Myself... I can see a scrollsaw picture of a Leopard in that piece of wood. The pattern is already there.

Ian

Jeff · May 09, 2004, 03:38:02 AM

Our decor is kind of a rustic-eclectic-logging camp-sawshop-flea market type look. Although a leapard would probably be cool, it really dont fit in with my stuff. I need a differnt shape.

Ianab · May 09, 2004, 04:13:45 AM

Fair enough Jeff... it's gotta fit your house

My place is a rustic-eclectic-jungle-computer shop-sawshop-flea market type place :D

SwampDonkey · May 09, 2004, 04:39:47 AM

Bird's eye figures can be found in sugar maple, yellow birch, white ash and black cherry, maybe others. This is the first I've seen it in cherry.

Jeff do you have a project like an end table that you could inlay the piece and polish the surface? Maybe make a table top with a chess board and cribbage board on it, inlay the piece between the two boards. I knew a fellow who made quite a few game tables and gave them away. He would inlay some pieces of birdseye, mohogany or teak or curley into his table tops. Maybe you could inlay the piece into the lid of a hope chest. To me it's an inlay project waiting to happen.

shopteacher · May 09, 2004, 06:29:25 AM

Get yourself a cabinet scraper. I could cut those saw marks out in no time. On the projects at school the lower apron is coved by running the board across the tablesaw blade leaving lots of large saw marks. The kids start out trying to sand ( they think I started yesterday and know nothing of wood working) the marks out. They won't listen, so I let them go a bit and then go and get one of the circular cabinet scrapers. Check to see if it has a good burr on it and proceed to take nice long shavings out of the cove. In a half dozen swipes that piece of wood is finer than frog's hair. Lot less work and much better results.

Fla._Deadheader · May 09, 2004, 06:50:31 AM

We used to use broken glass to redo our gunstocks. ;D

shopteacher · May 09, 2004, 07:05:54 AM

Scraped a living room floor with glass one time. When the edge gets dull cut off a piece and you got a nice new sharp edge.

Jeff · May 09, 2004, 07:13:33 AM

what does a cabinet scraper look like?

shopteacher · May 09, 2004, 08:09:54 AM

http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.cfm?itemnumber=H5568

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?SID=6D363B5CCB&ccurrency=2&page=32670&category=1,310,41069

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42938&item=3813760435&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4123&item=3291600604&rd=1

The burnisher is for sharpening, though I find the back of a half round file where there are no teeth works best for me

sawwood · May 09, 2004, 08:04:06 PM

Shopteacher i use a cabinet scraper on some of my turnings
works great and smooth as a babbys butt. I think Brian idea
is the best, go for it Jeff

Sawwood

isawlogs · May 09, 2004, 09:02:01 PM

I turn my cant hook handles and use broken glass to finish them , Don't know of a better way to finish them so dats what I do....
I'm going to paint them blue , this only after reading about how that is the most visible colour , at the moment they are red with green metal ....well actualy the paint is almost all gone they are prety much more camouflage if you put them down you afta look hard to find um.....

CHARLIE · May 09, 2004, 10:16:27 PM

Jeff, when I'm trying to remove saw marks on a nice piece of wood I'll use a scraper. A scraper (not a paint scraper either) will leave a freshly cut glass smooth surface and not fuzzy like when sanded. Give it a try.

A friend of mine has a hygrometer hanging on his deck. It's just a 6" hickory twig. 1/2 or the branch it was attached to was used to nail it to a post. It moves way up or way down depending on the moisture in the air. Moves a lot too.