Beach combing in Oregon
I took the fam to the beach. They play while I work. The beach is a great place to find burls and good figured wood.I got about 30 BF of this tigar striped Maple. Nice stuff. I cut it up into 2” think boards.
How to find great figure wood other than Burl
This is in addition to the burl blog I put on a week ago. Thank you for all the reads.This is to the best of my knowledge and I am still learning.I have found crazy figure in tree crotches. A tree crotch is where two branches come together. It is usually the piece that fire wood people don’t want because it doesn’t slit. That is because the crotch is the hardest part of the tree and the grain in going in different directions. It’s where you get what is called “feather”. “Haring bone, r...
Spindles #1: Each day brings new delights
I’m glad that my last rainy day terror didn’t dissuade me from my efforts. Thanks everyone for the upbeat words and encouragement… it actually made a big difference when I got out there again. This weekend I went to Rockler and saw this great deal on Bocote turning blanks. Picked up three 1×1x12 for $1/pc. BTW… has anyone else noticed that Bocote smells like pickles when worked?! WEIRD! After turning two spindles, I decided that I was absolutely in love with th...
Some general observations about Lumberjocks...
I’ve gone through most of the shop tour pages as I love seeing these things, and along with the project pages, I use them to get ideas for projects, layouts etc… A good number of things intrigued me about this site overall, and I just wanted to share them with you. #1. It would appear the two most common table saws owned by LJ members that bother to post their shops, are Ridgid TS3650/TS3660s, and Delta Unisaws. #2. DeWalt DW735 planers are insanely popular, next seems to...
Dust and crumbs
My dust collector is filling up and was wondering what others do with all the dust and crumbs collected. Was thinking about just spreading it around in the yard. Is there any practical use for it?
Speakers
I’ve been building speakers for most of my life. It’s what led me into woodworking. Sadly, I don’t have a lot to show for it. I’ve either sold or given away every set I’ve ever built with only one exception, the set I’m currently running. Even worse, from a woodworking perspective, they’re pretty sad. Made entirely of MDF and finished with rattle-can stone finish paint, they aren’t pretty. I’m planning to rectify this situation. My next...
Router Table Insert - Done!
Here it is: And the view of the router from the bottom: You can see the clamp and depth adjustment knob are easily accessible, but if I wanted I could use a T-wrench to adjust the depth from the top of the table. I’m not too concerned about that, since with this Ryobi you need to release that clamp so you have to duck down under the table anyway. So, it works, well enough at least for what I need it to. I’m planning on using it to rout out the dadoes for the rai...
rosewood / curly maple /purpleheart / lacewood #4: well , i got this far .
i’ve been having a bad hair month ,but i feel better now .special thanks to dustbunny ,you have a way , girl .i didn’t tell you that your lazy lisa ,made me so impresed ,i knew i had to add color to this !and mario ( nototoman , where on earth did you get that name ? )thank you for the surgery !and mike ( littlecope ) ,you are right , the past is where it belongs ,in the past !i can’t say how much i appreciate all of you LJ’s ,you are all the best !
Wood Gloat #7: Not again so soon..!!
Sorry to have to do this but this morning I got a call from Aaron at Torque Work Centres.. He had a new client buying a Torque Work Centre and he saw the boards that I took up on Tuesday to be boxed and shipped to Melbourne for the Working with Wood Show next week… He had a few bits of timber on board and wanted to do a deal for a few of my cutting boards.. he was super impressed and wanted to do a swap… Aaron rang to see if I was home… a few hours later Keith turned up̷...
rosewood / curly maple /purpleheart / lacewood #3: operating in a vacuum !
now i am glueing down the inlay , using west epoxy .the problem being that i don’t like puting things ,( like bricks , paint cans , bucket s of sand or water ) ,and i dont have enough wood to make cauls .so back to an old trick i learned in the fiberglass boating world . as i think in a vacuum , it’s only natural to work in one too ? so here it is ...a vacuum is not pressure , it is the absence of pressure .when they went into space , it wasn’t like going down deep in ...
