Other hobbies - cabinetmaking

[Cugel]

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Cugel

Oh wow, I just loved this design:) gonna copy this...

You will be copying Mr Gimson, who copied (list too long to enumerate).

Cugel

[Cugel]

No posts in this thread for a long while. Let's revive the old thing!

Since my last post I've been doing spoon and other greenwood carvings then lathe turning, amongst the odd bit of cabinetmaking. Pics speak a thousand words (although I may have to add the words an' all as I can't help meself).

A few boxes and other small things first:

More to follow.

[Cugel]

More:

I'll save the spoons & bowls for later.

Anyone else got some makings they'd like to portray here?

[Snoopy]

The above are lovely . I wish I had that level of wood working skills.

[Snoopy]

I didn't make these ,they are the missus handi work

[Cugel]

The above are lovely . I wish I had that level of wood working skills.

You can have that level of skill. Only 10,000 hours of practice needed.

[Cugel]

I didn't make these ,they are the missus handi work
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My wife makes bears and such. (See up thread). I'll show her them of your wife. She's an avid copier.

[Pebble]

utterly depressing hobby working, or at least it has been this week, spent countless hours on this coffee table, a special present for someone this xmas
I have had it in my living room this past week, and its suffered some sort of major earthquake in the last few days

the hours I have put into this

[Cugel]

utterly depressing hobby working, or at least it has been this week, spent countless hours on this coffee table, a special present for someone this xmas
I have had it in my living room this past week, and its suffered some sort of major earthquake in the last few days

the hours I have put into this
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Aieeeee! Humidity changes have had their way.

With designs of the sort in your tabletop (many sections each with the grain running at different angles) even a small humidity change can induce teeny shrinks or expansions in each triangular section, more in the wide end than in the pointy end, which all add up over those multiple parts to strain the joins. As the glue-bond is stronger than the bond of the wood fibres to each other, the shrinkage forces tend to gather in one weak spot to create a crack in the wood like that one.

If its final home will be less dry (more humid) than where you've had it lately, the crack may close all by itself, to a significant degree at least. But it's always going to be visible, even if its just a hairline. I know it'll be tempting you now to fill it somehow, with an invisible mend. But if it does go somewhere less dry and the wood once more expands a little in each section of the top, another "earthquake" of some sort will possibly occur.

Nice design, especially with the inlays. It may have been less crack prone if the core was high quality birch plywood and the whole top and edge veneered.

[Pebble]

there was plenty of warnings, I was given some old laboratory bench top (Iroka) and asked if i could make something special with it.
It was full of holes and shakes, hence the idea of small triangles all of which could be cut out of faultless sections, at this stage I could not find any weaknesses, even left all the bits in the house during the hot summer
But last week we started lighting the living room fire, we like to cook ourselves december thru feb, but this little table clearly did not like to be cooked, as you say in the right environment it may close up ? but the lady it is for does not live in an old damp castle, she likes to cook herself too.
I would love to know how long the split took to open up, did it make a sudden crack sound and appear instantly, or did t just slowly sneak apart unnoticed over a few days

[Snoopy]

I know nothing about wood work . The beautiful table and finding it cracked must be difficult.
It a recent small country show some of the exhibits on show had their
imperfections filled with epoxy resin. The effect was impressive. Coloured resin was also used.

[Cugel]

For a while I became obsessed with making woodworking tools, The most complex were some planes. I made four, as pictured. There's a block plane, small smoother, try plane and a chuting (shooting) plane. Although precision was required in making and fitting the parts, it was easier than I thought it would be. I bought the metal parts, though (adjusters and blades). I'm not a metallurgist, me; no.

Any competent woodworker could make these without having to serve a 7 year apprenticeship with Bully Crabbe, plane maker by appointment.

[Snoopy]

Quilts are us , well more of the good ladies work .

I hate soft ware bugs .

[Vantage]

I used to do a bit of woodworking in my late 20s. Had my shed full of tools etc and made a few bits and bobs. All gone in the divorce.The only piece remaining that I know of is a coffee table I made from a wooden door. It's covered in all sorts of stuff atm so I'll add a pic when I've cleaned it up a bit.
These days I'm enjoying sewing. Been doing that just over 5 years I think. The most recent make was some memory bears made from my grannies nighty after she passed in Nov this year.

I find it very relaxing.

[Cugel]

It's later ...... so here's some stuff from my last-but-one woodworking obsession: carved spoons, bowls and other green-woodworking thingies.

Carving is a bit beyond me (the posh stuff at least) so I confine mine to a few decorative edges on a piece of furniture or to a drawer knob. However, the carving of green wood things of utility is less demanding of precision and art, so I tried that. It's very absorbing. One can sit for hours at a time carving at a lump o' wet cherry or beech, getting arthritic in the thumb joints

Spoooooon

Spoons and spats in shrink pots

Wee bowls for goblins

Bird seed shovel

Twisted