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    Eat yer heart out Mr Head!

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    Je peux te bien expliquer JJ. It's just friggin dangerous, unless you get the timber rotating away from you and a saw that isn't equipped with one of those silly diy chains that bounce around...and use areas of the bar and chain that don't compromise safety, difficult to explain. In truth, it's exciting but chisels are a whole lot safer and more accurate, I'm just a nutter who knows saws.

    Carved Sign.

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    I just chopped out the bit of the 'O' and glued on another bit, sanded & shaped it Sweet.

    Thanks Mrs Postie, hmmm, 'perfection'...what's that? You've set me off now! I research alot from interior magazines and everything seems to be just too perfect, most of the things I see are mass produced and lack any soul or spirit, there's no point trying to compete with people who have big machines and big workshops, I can't...but nor can their machines compete with me 'cos the machines and the operators have as much imagination as a boiled haggis! The down side is that people who work with their hands actually spend alot of time on a piece they're hooked into and time costs money but most of us will never realise the value of our work, I personally don't care much for money and rarely earn artisans rates as I've already said but that doesn't matter I'm happy doing what I love doing and that's priceless. It'd be good to get a break from one of the big boys though, it'll happen one day I guess.

    Another wee example...it's only a simple mirror frame but it can't be found anywhere else, once the joinery is done it was attacked with a chainsaw then sanded lots. Anyone can do it.

    [IMG]http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo62/Stihldude/DSCN1910.jpg[/IMG]

    Carved Sign.

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    No it's not Punch, well most of it isn't, some of the backgrond waste was hogged out with an electric chainsaw but other than that it was anything that got the job done, router, dremel, electric & standard chisels, arbortech, flap discs on angle grinder, dual action sander...if it shifts the wood I use it! It's not hard to do, once the layout is worked out the rest is just patience.

    I spelt 'fendus' wrong to start with Lisleoise, it started as 'fondus' much to the derision of the client & the blokes who work at the bardeaux factory!

    Carved Sign.

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    The piccy doesn't really show it very well, it's heavy, two of us had difficulty moving it. Oak again & three days work.

    [IMG]http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc194/louanchris/DSCN1900.jpg[/IMG]

    Ok, I'll shut up now!

     

    Narnia bed!

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    Not too sure about ebay Steve but why not?

    If your daughter can carry it away Lisleoise she's welcome to it...I'm not going to be arguing with her!

    Thanks Postie, I wanted to use larger section timber but it's a standard double & wouldn't have carried the bigger timbers very well, a kingsize could merit some seriously hefty timbers. Got Becks number to hand?

    Narnia bed!

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    I transport & assemble myself Sweet, I don't like anyone else being involved with my work...yep they're heavy but I don't think of that when doing a piece, I'm guided by proportion, sure it's ridiculously over engineered but why not? There isn't another like it anywhere.

    Thanks JJ, it's actually underpriced, I'm not in this to be rich, just to realise dreams and ideas.

    The wardrobe is next Renaud along with a blanket chest to complete the suite but moving the wardrobe will be a real problem!

     

    Narnia bed!

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    A bit different to the Ikea stuff I guess? There's 130 hours plus of work all told in the bed and two bedside tables, it's all local Oak finished with hard wax oil. The processes of construction, 'carving' and finishing are lengthy but it sort of came out how I pictured it. I'd like to market this sort of work but it's difficult to know where to start looking and I'd get freaked if Terence Conran said 'I'll take a hundred'! What with the cost of the timber and the number of hours involved I don't even earn artisans rates for stuff like this. Ideas?

    [IMG]http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc194/louanchris/DSCN1884.jpg[/IMG]

    Another bench!

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    An owl bench, Oak, all chainsaw, sanded and lasured weighing in at perhaps 250kg.

    [IMG]http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc194/louanchris/DSCN1874.jpg[/IMG]

    [IMG]http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc194/louanchris/DSCN1876.jpg[/IMG]

    Timber from the scierie

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    Good looking planks there Postie and the price is about right. I personally go for what could be called 'character' Oak wherever possible, I find the flaws and faults to be far more interesting than the top grade stuff which seems sort of sterile. Good luck!

    Woodwork Porn

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    Looks like a really cool workshop but you're right JJ, way too tidy, bet it was only like that 'cos the cameras were there? Good link Twinks.

    I dare not say what the results of chainsaw vs lathe were, but best not repeated I think.

    Yeah a question, how to sharpen the gouges without ruining the bevel? No way am I putting them on the Tormek and spoiling the trueness of the stone.

    Chris Head

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Don't show the work Dick, it might be mine! Yeah discussion is good and stretching limitations & boundaries can only help, whatever the subject.

    Good to hear your finger Cass, I'd had you pegged for pushing the daisies up by now! I thought of you when I saw a face carved into a granite wall a few weeks back, you still doing them? If you were anywhere near I'd set one of me wee beasties onto your firewood heap Cass.

    Maple planks with cracks

    in Working with Wood

    Posted

    The splits might have been caused by the way the tree hit the ground as it was felled but I don't think so in the smaller species such as Maple. Both cracks appear to eminate from internal branch junctions. Possible the timber is summer felled with a high moisture content and has dried too quickly. I used to be involved with the felling of furniture grade Oaks by climbing and removing the crown and using all the branches as a bed for the bole to fall on, the felling cuts were designed to eliminate shake in the first part of the bole as the tree went over. Equally I've straight felled trees that have 'broken' their backs as they hit the ground, rendering them pretty much useless for planking.

    Personally I'd accept what mother nature has given you and accept the splits?

    Chris Head

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Thankyou for the messages, both here and privately. I don't have the slightest problem with it being public, it's not a stigma, any more so than poor Coops condition is. Meeting two people in there got me out asap, one was a patient who had managed two months out of the hospital, and had finally just given up, lost his good job and everything else, and the other a member of staff who is twice my size...I thought at one point he was going to floor me, not very professional but he got his message across.

     

    Women...I give up.

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Thanks Ernie. I looked at the beer this morning & tipped it all away, I aint going back there again, so it's back to tea & working out! The tree sounds interesting. Thirty foot isn't big but I'm sure we could squeeze something in there?
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