An Experiment

Very cool looking! Great job.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Looks like fun. Good job.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

That looks great! Did you bandsaw your clamping cauls from one piece?

-- Martin, Kansas

Neat! Too many more of these sorts of projects and I’ll have talked myself into a bandsaw… I could cut the cauls with my jigsaw, but not the veneer.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

What … she didn’t buy into the new tool excuse … sounds like it’s time for you need to make a sacrificial clock my friend … that falls apart on contact … lmao @ the voice in my head saying “today we’ve secretly replaced Brad’s wife’s clock with a sacrificial clock …” ... oi ve … Great job … and good luck … on the whole new tool thing that is!

-- Lip's Dysfuncational Firewood Farm, South Bend, IN

looks great. These could make you a nice buck if you plan to sell them.

-- making sawdust....

That is an interesting clock. Sorry about not getting the new tool but maybe next time. If you keep saying if often enough her resistance will wear down.

But you did a nice job on the clock with your “old tools”.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Nice job- Very intriguing look- start selling them, take the profit and buy the tool or a tool
GOOD Luck

-- Bill - - Ad-Marketing Guy, Ramsey NJ

That is so cool. Good for you. That project has ‘gift’ written all over it.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

That came out great! I have the same magazine and keep saying I need to make that one day. Did you tell your wife that if you had the tool you needed it would have come out straight, like it was supposed to?

-- Kevin

$20 per clock x 10 = $200 = new tool. See the math? Good luck

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

I saw that same project and have some veneer lying-around just waiting for me to give it a try. Too many things I want to do and not enough time to do them in. Looks just as good as the magazine!

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

Same here, if I make one I would have to get a new tool out of it or else. Nah, she’s got me by the b’s just like everybody else. Yes dear, no dear. How else do you stay married 36 yrs. Beautiful project. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

That’s pretty cool… !!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Thanks for all the comments, your all very kind and so encouraging.

Yes Woodhacker, I cut the clamping culls from a scrap piece of 2×4 if I in fact make more of these I will make another form out of hardwood like suggested in the article, I think it would clamp up better. Also I’ve toyed with the idea of lining the form with thin cork to help improve the glue up. Dan, I put off buying a band saw for a long time , since i made the move I have never looked back, I love the band saw, so many applications.

brad

-- Brad,--"The way to eat an eliphant is one bite at a time"

Your best clamp culls would be of plywood on end glued together … NO give at all. You have given me the bug for this one. I used to make skateboards for my son in a similar way. That is some beautiful work you did !!!

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

Cork sounds like it would be a decent idea for the culls. The little bit of give helps with the surface to surface contact. Ideally, the cull would match perfectly, but that would be tough for me on a project as “wavy” as this. I remember the article (or at least a similar one). Not my style, but the skill behind it is impressive.

-- Jeff, South Carolina