Pics of your milled products

[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!

[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.