Watcha Makin'?

[Old Greenhorn]

Beautiful job! Somebody is gonna get a lot of use out of those!

[Larry]

Presenting the Arkansas Moon Light.









I've been showing off this first one for about a month and have got excellent feedback so I plan on making a few more.

[rusticretreater]

A fine looking lamp sir.  I would be proud to say that I made it.

And now, how about revealing the secret to the electrical routing?

[Ianab]

My guess is that it's bent laminations, and one of the middle layers is hollowed out with the wire laid in place, before the pieces are bent and glued up? That's how I'd attempt it anyway. 

It's very nicely done. 

[firefighter ontheside]

I have some big woodworking projects I need to get going on, but I couldn't pass up this Dagger Legend 16 canoe hull for free.  It was an ad for $30, but then she told me I could have it for free if I was going to fix it.  I hope to go pick it up tomorrow.  It needs everything...bow and stern decks, gunwales, seats and thwarts.  Now I need to find some 16' long ash boards.  I hope my regular guy has it.  It has one cold crack at one end that is about 5" long that I will have to repair.  This is an issue with royalex canoes with wood gunwales.  The plastic layup shrinks much more than wood in cold weather and cracks happen at screw holes.  When I rebuild it, I will make some slotted holes in the hull to allow for movement.  Shocking that the manufacturer doesnt do that, as its a known problem.  Dagger is out of business, but Mad River Canoe bought the form for this model and for a while also produced the Legend.  The lady I'm getting it from said she only took it out 3 or 4 times, so the bottom should be pristine.  I guess its been sitting under this deck for 20 years.  I'm considering making the decks with phenolic resin sheet that I have.


 

[tule peak timber]

I have a Royalex canoe on order and I'm already planning to modify the stern area and gunwales. It will be interesting to see what you come up with.

[firefighter ontheside]

I'm thinking about using some phenolic resin that I have to make the bow and stern decks instead of wood.  I have it from 1/8" thick up to about 1/2" thick.  I don't want to add too much weight, so maybe something 1/4" thick.  What brand are you getting?  Royalex itself is no longer made, but I think its Esquif that has what they call T formex that is basically the same as royalex.  I believe Wenonah also uses it.  I've seen some pics that folks on Mad River FB page where people have added all kinds of mods.  I'm not looking to do too much drastic with it.  I just want to make it into a good boat for floating my local river which is not whitewater at all.  Just an Ozark type stream with smallmouth bass.  I will pick it up tomorrow morning and be able to get a better look.  The first thing I will do is clean it really good and see the condition of the outer vinyl layer.

[tule peak timber]

I have an Esquif Rangeley 17 on order. I want to add ouriggers a stiffer transom and some other goodies.

[Larry]

And now, how about revealing the secret to the electrical routing?

I steam bent two pieces one thick and one thin.  In the thick one I routed a channel for the cord.  Glued the two pieces together and pulled the cord through.  The chamfer helps hide the glue line, actually the glue line is almost invisible.  The down side is it took me a couple hours messing with just the arm.  The price would be so high few would buy it.

Since that first one, I've succeeded in drilling the cord channel before I bent the arm.......takes a really long drill bit. :D

[doc henderson]

Larry will you ad some fill to the hole to support it as you bend it?  may be hard to then pull out.  cord?

[Larry]

Vinyl tubing shows promise.  Still trying different things.

Built a new steam box yesterday.  1-1/2" foam board encloses a HVAC 6" galvanized pipe.  First try tonight and I could keep the temperature right at a uniform 210 degrees which should help.

[firefighter ontheside]

That's a neat little boat Rob.

[Hilltop366]

On the lamp if the pre drilled piece does not work out I wonder what would happen if you split a piece and put the grove an even amount on both sides then bent them at the same time with a form that hold them together along their entire length. Thinking that they would come out pretty even for gluing.

[Wlmedley]

After a coon got in my planter and dug holes in the dirt even though there was nothing planted in it yet I took Tom's advice and made a cover for it.

 

[WV Sawmiller]

Bill,

   Now not only do you have a raised bed planter you have a back up for your small animal cages. : :D :D 

[aigheadish]

I think I'm done. My golf league starts tomorrow night, so it'll get it's first real use then. So far, I've only barely hit a ball on my indoor/outdoor carpet a few feet. Feels good.

I bought some card scrapers (I love them!) and scraped off all the epoxy because it was too thick and I didn't like it. Replaced with probably 10+ layers of spray can polyurethane. I masked parts off but that didn't end up great either. I think the finish will flake off quickly.

Whole thing


 

Ball snatcher 


 

Brass plate bottom, there's some weight inside too, not heavy enough. 


 

Pov 

[Old Greenhorn]

That looks purtyyy!
Nicely done. As far as epoxy projects go, you picked (maybe) the most difficult thing to start on. A bench or table would have been 20x easier, believe it or not. The urethane looks great. It might flake from impacts, but can be sanded and refinished in the off season in pretty quick order. 
 Tell you what though, if you make another and send it to me, I will epoxy it for you so we can all see if it works better or worse than the urethane. Just give me some time to do it, I figure it's probably 5 or more separate pours then sanding and shaping after a hard cure.
 

[doc henderson]

very sweet, many will be impressed.

[aigheadish]

Thanks guys! 

OGH, that's a deal! I'm already thinking of ways to improve it and a few rounds should tell me what's up. My biggest struggle was not masking with the epoxy, then it just went everywhere in varying thicknesses. Since there isn't a flat, really, it made it tough to flow and level. 

[Old Greenhorn]

Yeah, that's why I said you picked a tough one to start on. :D I have some techniques I have developed over time that work for me, they are slow, but mostly they work well. But it took many gallons of pouring that stuff to figure it out and it's not like riding a bike. Seems I have to figure it out all over again every time I do a major project. I guess I am just not that smart. ;D
 Where I am on the bar right now I am hitting my stride and getting what I want on nearly the first shot, and it is still not easy, but does look good.
 So yeah, I'll give your club head a shot because I love a challenge.

[69bronco]

I have an Esquif Rangeley 17 on order. I want to add ouriggers a stiffer transom and some other goodies.

Love the Rangeley boats! Got a set of plans stashed, hopefully have one more boat build in me.

[aigheadish]

I thought about trying a technique of spin coating the putter, essentially pouring, then spinning the head around to fling everything off, but figured that may not work either. 

[Ljohnsaw]

On fishing rods, they will be put on a slow rotisserie to prevent sagging. Got an old BBQ rotisserie motor? Check out Goodwill.

[aigheadish]

Oh, that's a good idea! I was thinking much faster spin but slow roasting sounds nicer. I think I used to have a rotisserie but my wife probably chucked it. 

[Larry]

I sawed and recently dried some 9/4 live edge sweet gum slabs.  Never having made anything from sweet gum I decided to make a trial milking stool.  Legs are black cherry, I thought when they darken they will add some interest.






I wanted the contrast between the sapwood and heartwood just to see what the result would be.  The sapwood has a yellow tinge in it which doesn't come through in the picture.

The mortise and tenon leg joints are all with a 7 degree taper which traps the glue.  I dried the tenons on these legs to less than 2 percent moisture content so that the seat puts them in a death grip in use.

Thinking about batch making some for the fall/Christmas craft fairs.