Pics of your milled products

[Caleb]

Making rails for use on the estate today out of Larch we cut this winter.

[Will Heal]

Milled some larch 4 inches wide and built this wall to tidy up the bottom of a bank in our garden

[adamelder]

207 year old oak (at the final count!). 9 foot long, 4 inch thick top, 6 inch thick legs from same tree. No stretcher used. The legs were joined to the top with 18 inch steel straps router housed into the top.

 

The larch bench was made during an afternoon's drinking session, hence the slightly dodgy legs!

[adamelder]

Another smaller table from the same oak tree. With a wee bit of elm used for the feet. The legs are 6 inch square, housed into the top. I seem to remember each housing to about two days to chop out.

[devon TWiG]

Really love wood for the tops , but are you sure the legs are strong enough ?.. ( joking ! ) Very nice indeed , are they for your own use or do you sell them ?

[adamelder]

Really love wood for the tops , but are you sure the legs are strong enough ?.. ( joking ! ) Very nice indeed , are they for your own use or do you sell them ?

I'm not that great at joints and measuring and accuracy and all - that so it's much easier to make big simple legs!

 

I only make things for my own enjoyment. I don't do commissions at all. I find working to someone else's plan incredibly stressful. I run a pretty large cafe so any tables etc that I make get used in the cafe. I eventually sold these two tables although none of my work is advertised for sale. However, I'm aware that I need to charge a decent price for the work as I have huge respect for the guys who make a living from this kind of thing, so I do charge above the market rate whenever a punter asks if something is for sale.

[Big Beech]

Had a bit of time yesterday and today and was just playing around with some off cuts from an oak done couple of years ago.

Just thinking along my wine rack project, not an original idea by any means but good to play around with my draper saw bench, metabo planer, sanders and jigsaws!

Pleased with the result, pain in the ass getting the angles right without the right equipment.

Just holes to drill next for the bottle necks and osmo finish.

[adamelder]

I'm not so great at joints. But I was chatting with a chum about woodwork and he asked why I didn't make a chair. I told him that the thought of it terrified me due to the number of joints needed.

So he bet me I couldn't make one.

 

The plan was to make a chair with as few joints as possible but then I had other thoughts...

 

This was the result. Sycamore mostly with oak for the cross pieces on the back. It's surprisingly comfortable - I curved the shape of the back to sort of match my shape when I sit.

 

It's also shockingly heavy so it's got 12 recessed spring ball type castors hidden in the feet. It skates across my floor fine and sits happily in place when sat on.

[Mike Black]

Beautiful. Well done!

[adamelder]

Thanks Mike!