I’m sure that most of us here have made small things in wood that just might not qualify as a full blown project (and it would be a bit of horror if you bumped a gorgeous Maloof rocker off the top spot) yet nonetheless are perfectly functional and perhaps quite beautiful too. All are welcome to the pleasure of small things. Snap a pic, write it up, comments are always good. Let’s see your stuff.
I’ll kick it off with two. This little device in Red Gum does only one thing. It tightens the huge ring-nut in my lighting reflector. Way down where you fingers simply cannot go.
The other one is a shift and brake cable separator at the front of my Vitus road bike. Walnut and aluminum. It keeps the polished head tube from getting scratched.
gene
-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.
This doesn’t look like much, but it is a wooden teabag.
I keep them in their own little box with spacers that represent dividers inside a tea box. If I take a couple of scraps from the board I am planning to use for the sides and then stack these wooden teabags, the spacers, and add a little space to let the chain drop in the box between the two scraps on the end, I can measure to know just how long I need to make the teabox. No math just a direct measurement. I use them again when I am ready to lay out and cut the actual the dividers. It saves me oodles of time and makes teaboxes easy to make.
Al: Nothing simpler than a block of wood. You’ve gone the extra mile – sanded and finished too. DKV: You know you’re barking up the wrong tree with one of those for me! gene
-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.
Gene, it is an Al Mar. Great little knife, but the lock back mechanism got too stiff to use, so now it’s my desk accessory. These are the only scales I’ve done, and they were a challenge because of the small size and pin placement. In retrospect, I should have done a book match.
-- Clint Searl.............We deserve what we tolerate
My old motorcycle broke the key lights and did not want to go buy a new … The horrible screw was faster and more secure place. It lasted at least 2 years, and had lasted longer, but I changed my motorcycle … Dimensions: 5mm x 5mm x 4mm (approximately). Time: 2 minutes for sanding and 30 minutes for placing.
-- Our lives are marked and bound together by concentric rings.
I have a bevel gauge for turning tools that would keep vibrating off my rickety grinder stand (now replaced). It has a hole in the center so I turned a knob and added a magnet. If I had known, I would have done something a bit fancier and with a nice finish. (Sorry about the pictures—it’s the first time I did this)
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