wisewood
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Everything posted by wisewood
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Yes more of a trimming block. Got me thinking though,something more robust for chopping wood,you could use an up turned crown of three branches. Mind you I still favour the old car tyre on a log for making fire wood, just not as pretty.
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The Press Association: Thieves fell trees to steal hot tub
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Nice horsies:thumbup1:
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My t'pence worth regarding oil would be to use a food grade mineral oil as that will not go rancid and should not produce any allergic/intolerant reactions. It is sold as butchers block oil for about £7 -£10 on line or at DIY stores but if you by from your chemists, marketed as paraffin oil, then it's only about £1:thumbup:
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Never heard of it, bought some yesterday and I'm really impressed. I've suffered with dry itchy skin on my left hand for years, in winter the skin splits and in summer it blisters. Also,my four year old has had some pretty sore chilblains for about a week now and this stuff has really made a difference. Cheers Mark for putting me on to it.
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Same kind of thing but a scaled up version of log splitting inside a tyre.Two teams or 3 or 4 with splitting axes around a tractor tyre filled with on ended logs. Or- Fire starting with sticks Ray Mears styley
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For indoor stuff and especially stuff in contact with foods the best and cheapest product is mineral oil. It goes by the name of paraffin oil and can be bought for next to nothing at most pharmacies. It's used as a laxative I think:blushing: but it's classed as a food safe oil for chopping boards and worktops etc. I bought 130ml for £1.03 from the local chemist and if you bought the same stuff marketed as a board oil you'd pay about £7.00 !!
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DITTO you scoundrel!!! Do you think this will keep recurring each year or will fade away as it eats up the food source. If it comes back next year she may want to dig the area out and replace with fresh soil.
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I would agree, but my mum in law only sees an unsightly mass "destroying" her beautiful new lawn. Is there a solution to offer her ?
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Got a fung issue at the mum inlaws, had some bark put down for the kids play area and for about a month now these have been sprouting through her newly laid lawn. She's not best pleased, and was wondering if there is a safe treatment to get her lawn all pretty again. Thanks in advance, Si
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Hmm,point taken. This is to be kept inside then, and not a garden piece. What about a sculpture of the cat playing with a ball of wool, with the wool ball housing the ashes. Other than your squeaky boots was there anything that was closely associated with their cat, that could be a clue to a new direction. I like agg221's idea of the diamond, that would cost a few grand!
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Attach a slide to it and that would make any kid envious !
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I've made a few ossuaries for animals in the past. Take a look at this site, some nice contemporary designs. Personally, a natural burr would look good, cut in half horizontally and hollowed out. http://dog-milk.com/pet-cremation-urns-by-studio-1212/
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Good tip, the machine I was going to use was a 3 phase thicknesser but you couldn't feed anything over 12" wide into it. I need to 'lend' the use of a big jointer by the sounds of it. If you're going to attempt routing that big slab get the biggest bit you can, I think they're called 'bottom cleaners'
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Yup! I'm guessing that 'd be a planer:confused1: They were too wide to go through one and had already been cut into short lengths. It didn't really take that long and they are wondrously level now. I certainly wouldn't fancy tackling a massive board like in the second link though.
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After searching around for a solution to take the wobble out of some milled boards I came across this method using a router. Tried it today and I'm really impressed. Unlike a thicknesser there's no limits to the width of the boards you want to surface plane, and the cost of a router is WAY cheaper than a planer/thicknesser. It also vastly reduces the amount of sanding too.
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They're great Miranda:thumbup1: Some good form to the owl, Have it sleeping, then no need to do the eyes:sneaky2:
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I couldn't see it either at first, nice find:thumbup: Reminds me of neolithic cave paintings.
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Ha Ha, I'll have a go. Did it to amuse myself while the misses took our eldest to the out of hours with an ear infection. They're back all sorted, but I'm gonna have to pass the lappy back to her now.
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I may have gone too far this time:001_tongue:. It's still a great bench:001_smile:
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:lol: Great bench, I'm into stuff like that. organic benches that is, not wearing skirts:blushing:
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Looks good:thumbup: Was it sappy still when carving?
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Cheers mate, some great info there, I take it you've got some sort of spray booth too. Is the water based stuff easier to use? What's the stuff they use on cars? I was thinking of befriending some car sprayers and doing some in their quiet spells.
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Gorgeous!! What's the set up cost for spraying the lacquer?
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Good to hear there's some other budding bakers out there. I'll look out for that book Rover and yes next time I'll be starting earlier to be sure of getting to bed at a normal time:001_smile: The book that got me hooked was 'Bread by Daniel Stevens- River Cottage Handbook No.3' Got to say there's not much left of my hard work now that the vultures have descended:sneaky2:
