Pics of your milled products

[Big Beech]

Thanks Mike!

 

Oh. Thought he was talking about my wine rack

[Mike Black]

That too.... obviously

[adamelder]

He could well have been talking about your fine wine rack! But if there's any hint of me getting a compliment I'll seize it!

[Ian Leach]

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.

 

Nice, how do you find the metabo planer?

[gobbypunk]

Here's a pic of an oak bench I've just finished for a school. Used my Alaskan to cut the slabs. Can't take all the credit tho' - my girlfriend designed the script for the schools motto and drew it on the back of the bench and it was then burnt in by another colleague who specialises in pyrography - one of the benefits of sharing a workshop with other crafts people! The 2 pics in the middle were taken after the bench had just been oiled.

[adamelder]

Here's a bed (head) I made from a huge plank of Scots Pine that came from a tree I milled in exchange for two slices of the timber. It's 40ish inches wide x 1 3/4 thick. The shelves are elm.

 

The plank was stickered and air dried for a year and a half under very heavy weights to keep it flat and then stored in my spare room for 6 months under more heavy weights.

 

After a year or so of using it I did alterations in my house (smaller bedroom) so the bed head was too big and was repurposed as a long table for my cafe.

[Rob D]

All great work - liking it - I did a bed headboard like that and the size alone gives it a bit of wow factor.

 

 

For the casters under the chair - where did you get them from?

[Big Beech]

Nice, how do you find the metabo planer?

 

Sorry Ian, just seen this. Very good for my needs, quick with a good finish but then I've nothing to compare it to!

Was practically brand new as the chap had died and his son was clearing out. I paid 360 for it:thumbup:

[adamelder]

All great work - liking it - I did a bed headboard like that and the size alone gives it a bit of wow factor.

 

 

For the casters under the chair - where did you get them from?

 

Thanks Rob. The castors came from Hafelle. They're sprung ball bearing ones. I had to router out a deeper socket than normal so that they would be properly recessed. They allow the chair to be moved easily when it's not being sat on but the spring action means the chair sits properly on the legs when a weight is on the chair.

[gobbypunk]

So hey nobody liked my bench then