TrollSpiel
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Rob, load as much powder into that resin as you can get - it's heavy and sinks. thick paste. fill any tiny pits with powder and superglue. 360 grit brings it up nice, anything more seems to dull it.
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and it's hollow - kickbacks & bleeding knuckles galore
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The greatest compliment ;-)
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ok, not one of my milled pieces, and after seeing that bench by tommy treecarver, i thought I'd never show my work again:001_smile: Ash butt. 18h x 26w. Bark stayed on thru the drying, and those big splits (and little) are filled with epoxy resin loaded with brass powder. Unfortunately, I'm about as good with a camera as i am a food blender, what looks a dull army green there I promise are lovely streaks of gold. And that ripple in the ash is just beaut. first sprayed coat of lacquer on, I'll put about 4 on and polish it up to a 1200 semi gloss. Ive always wanted to make a log side table.
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Now, I never said I couldn't get a regular chain sharper than a Hattori Hanzo, with a handfile, gensetsteve ;-)
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Johnathan - but you cut about 800cube a day! you need a powered sharpener - me, I got time to dawdle along, daydreaming with my handfiles.. Rob - most gracious of you, the return offer, but I must decline! - and a man should be able to have a rant & tantrum, and it be his opinion alone - not wishing to steer others! I was thinking maybe the steel is harder on the scorers, but logic said no, a tooth is a tooth - and then kept questioning my ability to sharpen a chain (after 25 years). And they do murder a new file after 2 strokes. But Not sure I want to go electric. Besides, Oregon chain has never been a problem - cutting metre oak all day (880/48") not even a slightly polished tooth. 3 cuts of some hornbeam and the 36/granberg scorers were chucking out powder cos I just cant get an edge on them I'll stick to soft old oregon & incorporate the granberg chain into a bit of furniture.
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Am I just being a mong, or is that Granberg ripping chain not the most damn awful chain ever made? What are the scoring cutters made from, diamond coated HSS? why cant I get a good edge on them? I hate it so much, I'm not even going to use it for a spare. Serious grump!
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neither would I - and i do mill some rubbish sometimes
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I knew this would be a good place to ask. Thanks misters.
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That table is CLASS !
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That's insane! What a talent ! ( and no, not the skirt.. well they are but that aint what I meant )
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I don't know if any of you guys have seen these for carving, I'm hoping some of you might use them, cos' im looking for a supplier in uk & can't find one yet. King Arthur Tools
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If you dont fine one, I definitely recommend the Alaskan ;-)
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question for the guys who know what they're on about. My mate gave me a Doser MM (am4a) which he uses at work (paper mill). I see they do a few models (wood, paper....). Has a dial for material, which I guess is sensitivity? Can this be used for wood - milled boards/kiln drying. Reliably! or not at all?
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Why the rush? Like anything new or your first bang at, you wanna crack on, see how it works & so on - I was prepared for it to come out a mess. The post was really why that first lot I put in came out with problems, but the rest has been prime! & at the end of it all, the oak & ash didn't come out too bad. I just didnt want the aggro of chopping up bigger boards, running them thru the thicknesser to take out what was left of the cupping etc. But it all turned out nice usable timber. Just smaller. It'll go into coffee tables, fire surrounds/mantles etc..
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I didn't know I'd been edited?! How British
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and I didnt log all the 3" oak boards. I cut the boards down the centre, ran em thru the thicknesser and ended up with 55mm - good enuff
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Jon, the wood in question was varied sources. Some windblown oak, some laying that had been there a while. And the ash was felled last dec in the snow, dragged out with the skidder and planked within an hour. All of that stack was well stickered, stable, it just went to pot. All my other timbers are great. Apart from the 3 cherry boards on top I added later - didnt't like em anyway. * I hate oak, I aint cutting any more this year. Tempermental stuff (gotta be female wood)
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s'ok, propblem solved tommer - an invaluable chat with BigJ. I was gowna remill the oak, but sod that, logburner it is
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But I know a man here who can ;-) Yeah, absolutely contact me. Send me a PM and i'll give you my number.
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why are all my boards cupping so badly! even things at the bottom of the stack. 2" ash, 3" oak, 1.5" oak, 1.5" cherry. yew fine, cedar fine - but the rest gone to
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It's not like I suffer delusions of grandeur...
TrollSpiel replied to TrollSpiel's topic in Milling Forum
Thanks for the interest there Ian. you know, I'd had ENUFF of woodbending for a while, and I wanted the bottom supports to match the angles of the underside stuff - the whole gothic like part of it remaining just on the top. Leg supports? Not needed - rebated, biscuited, glued, screwed, interlocking pieces... and so on. Quite sturdy, even over time ;-) Had it not been my chair for at my desk, and for sale, I likely would have added further supports to the legs - no doubt some little oik would wanna swing on it. Seeing as it's for keeps, didn't want to crowd it out. -
It's not like I suffer delusions of grandeur...
TrollSpiel replied to TrollSpiel's topic in Milling Forum
Thank you Dave,, yer, I'm quite pleased with it, for my first chair (made too many tables!) -
I thought I had taken down some big trees - classic bunch of pics. Let it never be said that TPO's & Nat Park status are a bad thing!
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Can I come and work with you? Lovely!
