Thread: What are you working on?

That works for me. Yeah they are rounded, the Hess was squarish. What's the measurement on the Red Imp blade from the pivot hole to the end of the blade? I want to see if it's the same size blade as the Hess Otto

Might be a day before I can measure. It's at home in my display.
Cool!

I will add some pics as well.

I have a red imp in the doa pile due to cell rot and shrinkage. Will dig it out, see if the logo is clean still for scanning.

Pretty certain mine are. I have a Morris one too. Same logo. Might be better?

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Wow thank you, the wood I have far as pine is 1x4 trim just flat pieces. I'm going to use some for a seven day set box or a couple boxes then was going to use scraps for scales. Are you saying I should try baking this first?

I don't think that you need to bake 1x4 flat trim if it came from a shop -- that's just like if you're cutting up a tree that has had some tough times. I have old birches, pines, apple trees that sometimes need to come down and then I will find spalting in the dead parts, especially in the birches. Haven't made scales from them yet though.

Applewood and related fruit trees like peach or pear are almost impossible to tell from cherry, even for experts, so you can get some nice little bits out of them.

Here's a picture from Home Depot's web site that shows 1x4's that are problematic:



They're all from pretty close to the center of the tree, and they're plainsawn. They will tend to cup around (away from) the center or where the center would be. Like this:



What you want for maximum dimensional stability is something like this quartersawn pine:



All this stuff would be pretty stable, especially that piece on the upper left (which is the primo quartersawn piece, you get four in a log, or a lot of these if you rift saw, cutting everything radially but that is durned expensive).

Now the good thing is you can resaw a lot of cheap lumber to get yourself a quartersawn piece, if you aren't looking for something big. Like razor scales are easy because they're so small! And if you finish it with cyanoacrylate or polyurethane that'll harden the exterior enough for razor scales. You wouldn't like it for a kitchen table because it would dent and a membrane finish like poly would look like hell pretty soon, but razor scales have an easy life. If you have a bandsaw you could use that, or even a handsaw if you cut down close to size first -- pine is nice and soft like Outback said so it makes for easy sawing.

With pine you often run into pitch pockets -- you can see one on the left side of the top right board in that picture of quartersawn pine. I kind of like the fact that they smell nice and piney, but of course you don't want them because the pitch leaks through paint and they're voids so no good for strength. So if you run into one, avoid it for your scales.

What HE said! ^^^

Wow thanks jmabuse that's great info for sure. I do have a band saw. Pretty much primitive hand wood working stuff. I'll give it a go. Best case I just improve at scale making and waste no money on good material or my ivory when I get at that.

Atta Boy, Eric!!



So I can see a craigslist ad.

MIGHT haul off your old piano!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Atta Boy, Eric!!



So I can see a craigslist ad.

MIGHT haul off your old piano!

Lol, I don't think that will happen. My wife is on edge already she will keel me if I bring another piano here for scrap!

If you can get the harp off the back, Hang it on the wall. Screw it tightly to the studs.
A couple of small wooden mallets. You need not be a musician to do some spooky shit!
She will love it!