Thread: What are you working on?

Careful with that outback, you know he has a habit of doing up sets of seven identical scales. You could be at this seven times longer than expected. LOL

That bog oak is some cool stuff. I know they are going to dress that blade up pretty pretty.

That's what MikeT, told me it was, when he bought it.
And so on, and so on...[emoji41] [emoji38]

Then they must be Irish.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Careful with that outback, you know he has a habit of doing up sets of seven identical scales. You could be at this seven times longer than expected. LOL

That bog oak is some cool stuff. I know they are going to dress that blade up pretty pretty.

I'll have a pattern made, so no biggie.
He wants it plain, no coatings, just some oil. Grain is deep, I'm afraid any soap that dries on the scales, are going to show up in the grain. But I think rubbing a few coats of tung oil, after some Teak oil, may help alleviate that. At the least you could clean them with a dry toothbrush, that way.

Those will be neat scales, even if they are just plain. Your recent ebony scales were sweet so I'm sure these will be too. What's that bog oak like working with it? Does it still act like wood after 5000 years? Does it become brittle or is it harder than normal wood? It looks pretty cool.

A little harder to sand, very strong. Yeah..harder than fresh dried oak, but not brittle.
He sent the solid domed washers, you sent him. So your now involved in this fiasco too.
Harr!![emoji23]

Originally Posted by outback

A little harder to sand, very strong. Yeah..harder than fresh dried oak, but not brittle.
He sent the solid domed washers, you sent him. So your now involved in this fiasco too.
Harr!![emoji23]

That's a fiasco I'm proud to be a part of! If the work order somehow increases and you need more solid domed washers lemme know.

How are you cutting your scales from the templates?
I have been making aluminum templates. I attach one side to the template with double sided tape and then cut it 1/8 larger than the template on the bandsaw. I attach the second side and repeat. I go to the router table where I have a bit setup with a guide bushing on it. I trim one side and then flip and cut the other side. It gets them very close to exactly the same. It also makes it easy to repeat. That is how I did all the blanks for my carving projects. I have a few different bits with different profiles and guide bearings. I can cut them straight or rounded over, or with a small cove on the edge. I have not actually played with the little cove profile yet. All in good time.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

How do you know that oak is Irish?

It dances a jig?

Hitting the Lowes and working on the Razor Room a bit.
Rainy day so I have accomplished a bit. Got some of this plastic wire channel. I thought it had double-sticky, but no.
Have to screw the inner part to the drywall using little plastic anchors.




Have a pile of fitments, a wireless switch setup, a touchpad dimmer. etc, and so forth!



Found a lighting fixture on the shelf at the shop (snagged off the scrap-man's truck!) which will be perfect under the barber pole sign in the corner.
Need to remove the center light and wire it up in the corner. My touch-pad dimmer will be sweet with a few dimmable LED bulbs!



I detest unsightly wires, so the wire channel will go around 3/4 of the room and up to the fixtures, also carrying the voltage from the transformer to the LED's in the cabinets.
Got the barber-pole mounted and will begin the wire channels there. Lots of wire-extending, solder and heat-shrink to go! The wires to the table will go under the carpet.
Should be fun!



Gonna take a while!