Watcha Makin'?

[firefighter ontheside]

Ends are capped with cherry that is screwed on to help support the lane as its not really stable.  Screw holes are plugged with cherry.  The sides are capped with some thin pieces of brazilian cherry.  That covers up all the nails and ugly saw marks.  One bench will be 4' long and the other 6'.

[Don P]

We had a client on a log home job that decided they wanted a window in a wall after the fact, 7 blades later  :.

Someone was remarking on stair tread thickness. One thing to think about if you have an order for an open riser set of stairs, the way the building code reads, nowhere on a set of stairs can have a hole a 4" ball can pass through. A "perfect" rise/run is 7" rise/11" run. A 3" thick tread + the max 4" gap works. Most state codes allow up to an 8" rise so to cover anything 4" thick would not be wrong if you have shorts and are sawing for stock.

[Old Greenhorn]

Benches look great Bill, and those Ritelegs are pretty too! Nice re-purposing for that material. You gonna add a stretcher on the bottom? I can't quite tell how tall those legs are. Should look great with a finish!

[firefighter ontheside]

This is the first time I've used Ritelegs.  I really like them.  I will try to promote using them more.  I did put a stretcher/shelf on it.  It is just a piece of 2x10 pine that is planed to about 1 3/8".  I think finish will be glossy polycrylic.  I also have some lacquer that I'm considering using.  A weekend at the firehouse will give me a good opportunity to get them finished.


 

[metalspinner]

I've not had time for personal woodworking projects for quite some time. But when my wife's boss's father asks me to make his wife a box for her birthday, I find the time. 
The instructions were simple enough... Cherry, 12x8x8, simple, big hole on the inside.
I think I nailed it. 🤣🤣



 



 



 



 

[firefighter ontheside]

Looks great, but I don't know if you got that hole right.

[Walnut Beast]

I should know better than to put this up right behind Brad's beautiful walnut. But what the heck. I showed this on the other thread but realized this morning I never put it up here as a contribution. Just a very simple, but very sturdy RO chair.



 

Its' a waterfall blind spline joint attaching back to seat. The slab had a cup in it, which suits a chair, but made the joint a little tricky to get square. Just using up material.



 

Surprisingly, the chair is a lot more comfortable than it looks. I didn't see that coming. :D

Nice job. If you make another rustic chair I think it would look and match better if you had some rustic legs on the chair 🪑 with the live edge you have already.  Like this. Older guy in Idaho that I went elk hunting with made this. When we were hunting he said pick some dead down wood out and I did of some big stuff  

[Walnut Beast]

Great looking metalspinner!!!

[Tom K]

Nice looking box Metalspinner!

I just finished a small box myself, I promised my mother in law it would be the first project I finished in the new shop.


 

I also finished a couple small baby doll bassinets for a neighbor, she gives them to her grand children. 


 

While moving stuff over to the new space I found a burl I forgot I had. I decided to try to turn a bowl out of part of it, poured the epoxy last night.


 

[Walnut Beast]

Looks good Tom! Shop to 👍

[Don P]

I was thinking, DanG it must be new, I can see the walls  :D.

On the boring stair rules of thumb I should have put another in there if you are ever making a set. 7" rise/11" run is considered a perfect stair. Another rule of thumb is "2 rises plus one run equals 25" .. 7+7+11=25. At the extreme limit 8" + 8" + 9"=25. I was told this by an old carpenter years ago, it has to do with our gait while climbing but does seem to work.

"2 rises plus one run equals 25"

[Tom K]

Don - Another thing to keep in mind is those number are only for residential construction. Commercial code & the ADA (ANSI 117) both limit the rise to a max. of 7" with a tread minimum of 11". No tread height over 7" is allowed, and no tread width under 11" is allowed.

[kelLOGg]

In my case it "Whatcha Made", and its two mobile altars from ash for my church for outdoor and informal services. It took 3+ months to make and they are now in my dry kiln awaiting delivery after recovery from my hernia repair. Finish is tung oil (1 coat) and polyurethane (top) with 4 coats.



 

 

 

[Walnut Beast]

Very nice job 👍 

[samandothers]

OGH,
What angle did you use on the back of the chair?   I have been catching up on your thread where you described the chair design, still not caught up, but saw the angle there.  Very nice by the way! 

kelLOGg,
Did you put together the pipe and side bars?  Great job on those!

[kelLOGg]

I had a metal shop in Durham bend 3/4" pipe but I did the welding and installed them. Thanks
I posted questions on the General Board about grinding hard-to-reach welds that were very helpful.

[doc henderson]

keiLOGg is the middle shelf adjustable?

[kelLOGg]

Yes it is but requires a wrench. Hopefully it is adjusted only once.

[Larry]

When not doing portant stuff like hiking with the dog and fishing I turn replacement spindles.  Most are for big old mansions and could be anything from stair balusters to porch columns.  Woodturners these days mostly turn bowls and maybe pens.  They wouldn't know a spindle if it bit em which leaves the field wide open for me.

Today's project was turning a replacement for a lost spindle on a very old pump organ that is being restored.



I don't finish them as its really hard to get a color match plus everybody sees color slightly different it seems.

While turning I always think of the skilled craftsman that made this stuff a 100 years ago.  Probably worked in some kind of small factory doing the same thing a lot and getting really good at it.  I bet they could turn a spindle like I made today in a fraction of the time it took me.  Wonder what their lives were like?

 

[kelLOGg]

Porch columns😳how big is your lathe?

[Dan_Shade]

Larry, that's very nice.  I enjoy spindle tuning.  I'm a turning odd ball, I've been turning off and on for several years, but never made a bowl 

[Larry]

kelLOGg, I can only turn 30" on my lathe but I have a extension bed type thing I cobbled together to do the long stuff.  Its not efficient, but it gets the job done on the few full length posts I have turned.  If I did more I would get a proper set up.

A lot of times only a section needs to be replaced.




This one was on a 12,000 square foot mansion.  The owner got a bid for a new post from a company that does them on a regular basis.  Can't remember but the bid was way up in the four figures but the killer was the long lead time.  I turned a part to replace the rotten section in a couple of days for a few hundred.

 

[beenthere]

While turning I always think of the skilled craftsman that made this stuff a 100 years ago.

Back 100 years, the spindles were likely turned on a lathe that spun the square while a shaping back knife with the correct pattern was passed by the spinning blank. The whole spindle shaped in one pass.   Will look for some photos of those knives or the lathes. Baseball bats come to mind, although there were craftsmen that turned custom-made bats for individual players as well.

Knives like these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfbklfrTK1A

Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYLqXP9ztM

Nice turning work Larry. Have done it a few times, but often had to repeat and start over due to slight mistakes. Can't put that wood back once it is turned off.  8)

[JRWoodchuck]

I was trying to get my mind around how the first videos knives worked. That second video is wild...

[aigheadish]

Nice Larry, are you doing that with the original as a guide or are you free handing it?

Also, hey kevin, get your watermark out of the way so we can see what's happening!