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Dec 12, 2016 - 10:12am PT
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I really like the Rixon hinge. Pretty stout. The top pivot adjustment screw is hard to hide though. I was wondering how you hid it. Guessing the hinge you used doesn't have one. Nice work.
Bath door and mech. Room door on pivot hinges. Floating shelves on them for camo.
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gavinshmavin
Trad climber
Winooski, VT
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Dec 12, 2016 - 11:19am PT
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Recently turned the top floor of my garage into a bouldering wall. Two sides; one 40 degrees overhanging with a Moon Board, and the other 30 degrees overhanging. Both about 11'6" high.
Fun times building some simple volumes, too!
Next up - turning a box of hardwood scraps into crimps and little pinches.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Dec 12, 2016 - 12:55pm PT
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Nice volumes!
I'm recreating a missing stretcher from an 18th century trestle table. Now that it's off the table saw and jointer, it gets surfaced only with period appropriate hand tools.
Edit: 2 hours later.
Just need to grab one of the legs so I can match the color, patina, and finish.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 12, 2016 - 06:36pm PT
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Nahoooooo and Edge - really cool stuff and Edge, keep posting up photos of the table parts as it goes along.
Tool Peddler...
I had considered a go at this woodworking business for about two days a few years back before the reality of my work schedule made me hastily abandon ship on the idea. But in those two days I happened to stumble through a place here in PDX called the 'Tool Peddler' which is sort of a tool pawn shop and Home Depot for methheads.
Moving on from hand planes...
Had never been in there before then, but it turned out they had a wall of like sixty or so handsaws. I knew nothing whatsoever about handsaws, and just grabbed a crosscut and rip saw that seemed sharp and in salvageable condition.
Now, several years on and trying to make another go of it all, I finally pulled one of those saws off the wall and tried to cut something with it, but it bound and wouldn't cut. So I looked into getting it cleaned up and sharpened but also watched a couple of youtube videos about doing both yourself - probably a mistake.
Turns out that saw I had randomly grabbed at the Tool Peddler for seven bucks was a late-1890s/early 1900s Disston No. 7 (crosscut, 26"). Who knew? And who knew they are well-regarded saws - certainly not me until the other day, blind luck I guess.
As if sharpening planes and chisels weren't enough...
Next thing I know I'm ordering 6" X-slim saw files from Portugal, buying an old saw set off ebay and building a saw vise.
Crikey!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 12, 2016 - 07:01pm PT
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Yeah, gotta get one like that as well...
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Dec 13, 2016 - 01:27am PT
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healyje: super sweet and interesting post...
to everyone else who has made this thread the most consistently, diversely and perennially excellent of any thread i can think of on st: thanks.
:)
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 13, 2016 - 02:21am PT
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Thanks nah000. Made a bit more progress on the saw vise. Glued, pinned with chopsticks and the ends rough shaped - still have a lot of finish work to do, but so far so good.
[Edit]
More or less finished vise:
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 14, 2016 - 12:33pm PT
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There seems to be a lot of interest in hand planes in the last few weeks, so I thought I would post a few pictures of a bronze hand plane I made. It is similar in design to a 19th century English Bronze Norris plane.
Wood patterns had to be made in order to make the castings, which were later machined. I put my initials in the bronze frog, which clamps down on the heavy tool steel blade.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 14, 2016 - 12:35pm PT
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 14, 2016 - 12:36pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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A work of art, and work! ;-)
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Dec 14, 2016 - 05:17pm PT
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I agree,nice Steve.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 14, 2016 - 08:33pm PT
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Recently completed remodel for a nice couple.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2016 - 08:51pm PT
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You made the neighbors very happy!
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Dec 14, 2016 - 09:25pm PT
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You all do such gorgeous work. Bravo!
Since no one has stunk up the show lately...
I had been wanting to build a bolt spinner and puller set for some replacement work at the crag. All the spinner tools I have seen involved a bunch of adapters and taps and miscellaneous gadgetry. I used a couple old SDS bits and threaded couplers and cobbled them together with some heat and electricity. A couple things worked against me, 1) I haven't welded anything in 20 years and 2) I didn't have a hood (I did have a proper shade that I had to hold with my other hand though). Anyways, the welds stuck and now I have spinner tools for both 1/4 and 3/8 studs. I also built a puller, but is welds are so embarrassing, I'm afraid to show 'em.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 15, 2016 - 01:38am PT
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SteveA (& WyoRockMan) - wow, nice plane. Just trying to sort the whole wood thing out, hard to imagine the metal business. Seems like yet another different universe of its own with a million things to be learned.
Contractor, nice work as usual - could use a few thousand of you up here. With a long history of basic resource extraction, Oregon never put a premium on permanence and quality construction, but instead has always valued the speed of slapping sh#t up. The quality of homes here - old and new - is basically complete shite and the contracting scene up here is a complete sh#t show. Almost always better to do it yourself then gamble on trying to hire someone and mostly being disappointed, especially on anything even slightly out-of-the-ordinary.
Bad picture, but the front railing we built going down to the street to protect the driveway dropoff.
And the latest on the workbench...
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 15, 2016 - 06:55am PT
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healyje-
Thanks for the nice comments and yes, permanence is a major priority in my material selection, which brings me to a sore topic- the search for rail materials that look as nice as the one you've put together without busting the budget.
Putting together a price for 60 lineal feet of exterior rail system always freaks me out. We all know, with the inferior paints we use these days, rails are the first thing to rot on a house. Any thoughts?
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 15, 2016 - 07:15am PT
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This is a good example. This is a 600 square foot, second story deck I consructed on the beach. It's built with a kaleidoscope of materials, factoring in durability, cost and appearance and was a major pain in the ass plus super expensive. There's about 80 feet of open rail not in the picture.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 15, 2016 - 07:28am PT
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If the client is willing to pay then the only way to go is make up the concoction devised by the US Dept of Ag Wood Lab - 1/4 lb of parafin (canning) wax dissolved in a quart of mineral spirits mixed with a gallon of high grade marine spar varnish. Use that as yer primer, being OCD about soaking the end grain, and you both will be very happy. Used it on all exposed trim of my garage almost 20 years ago and it is still far from needing a new paint job! In fact, the Hardy Board siding is in need - the trim is perfect. Oh, I think I also put a coat of regular oil-based tinted primer over the wax/varnish primer. You could tint the varnish and possibly save a step.
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