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#woodworking

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Dave Sparks (Bit Wrangler)

My custom version of a painter's point. I have a bunch of the traditional ones, and they work great for panels and wider workpieces, but are almost useless for narrow workpieces.

When I was making my grandson's crib, I took a few furring strips and drove a bunch of drywall screws through them pointing upward for finishing the spindles. They work reasonably well, but aren't very flexible.

These should work great for smaller workpieces.

In the center of the frame is a painter's point made from white PLA roughly in the shape of a square pyramid hollowed out. Each side is composed of an M-shaped truss with the corner upright shared between two sides, creating a point at each corner. Thus, rather than a traditional painter's point with a single point, this version has 4 points. I'm sure I've botched this description badly, but it's a difficult thing to describe.
#3DPrinting#WoodWorking
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixed up the roof supports of the firewood store. The old were sitting on soil and rotting away.

Jacked up the roof beam, cut out the rotten old support and pulled it out. Filled the hole with smashed up concrete debris and drilled a hole through a large chunk, hammered a piece of rebar through and left it sticking out to fit into a hole I drilled into the new log. No more rotting.

Then new supports cut, shaped and installed x3.

A lean-to roof extending the side of a barn to store firewood under. Three logs hold up a crossbeam that supports the rafters that hold the roof. There is a fourth log next to the rightmost support, hovering above a plank. This is because a red hydraulic jack is lifting it with the help of a split firewood log screwed to the side of the temporary support. The roof beam is braced sideways with two temporary supports hammered in at angles, stuck into the ground.
A new foundation piece, resting on some concrete debris (and pottery shards for future archeologists). The foundation itself is a large chunk of salvaged concrete with a hole drilled through the center, through which a piece of rebar protrudes about 5 cm upwards (and invisible about half a meter down). The plank holding the temporary support is partially visible next to it.
Same as the first scene, except the old support is gone and a new debarked and straight log in its place, standing on a rot proof concrete support. The temporary support, red hydraulic jack and plank are still in place but no longer support the load of the roof.
The finished three supports, now new and sitting on concrete chunks. Four planks have been fastened at angles to prevent shearing. The ground is scattered with debris from the work and from old bark and firewood. The old roof beam has been debarked as well.
#Homestead#DIY#Firewood
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

The mallet I made two years ago from firewood logs is returning to its original purpose, splitting after lots of hard use.

Made a new head from green applewood. Heard somewhere it's clever to make the handle from dry and the head from green wood so the head shrinks onto the handle. We'll find out if this works. I suspect it might just crack. Or shrink away from the handle. Time will tell.

Anyways, I can whack stuff again!

A largeish wooden mallet made from two birch pieces. The handle is fine but the head is splitting apart, pieces cracked off already and the core is starting to come out of the log. It looks well worn and got a bit dirty from use.
The same handle, now without the broken head. Next to it a piece of apple log of suitable size, debarked about two thirds with an old but sharpened draw knife that lies amongst a pile of bark shavings. The whole setup is on a plank table outdoors. Hidden in the shavings is a piece of steel wedged in the crack between two planks, serving as bench dog to keep the log from sliding as the draw knife pulls on it.
#Hammer#Mallet#Woodworking
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morayner

Bon, je me suis dit "et si je foutais une chaise de libraire devant mon secrétaire comme ça je pourrai fermer le store du vasistas plus facilement?" tu sais les chaises de libraire c'est ces chaises-transformer qui font aussi échelle attends je te mets une image

mais du coup je suis tombée sur un plan là lairdubois.fr/plans/2731-chais

et par extension sur lairdubois.fr/ qui est une communauté de travail du #bois ( #woodworking ) #opensource c'est trop bien fais tourner

une photo de chaise de libraire. à gauche elle est sous la forme d'une chaise, à droite elle est dépliée en échelle
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Skullvalanche

My very first woodworking hand plane was a "budget" plane from some no-name overseas manufacturer. It may not be the most fit-and-finished thing, but it had all the basic parts, so I figured I should be able to just hone the blade, make some other adjustments, and it'd be just as good as a more expensive one. Ultimately I don't need the plane to be pretty, I need it to shave wood shavings.

The amount of time I have spent trying to get that thing to work properly is absolutely bonkers. Hours. No matter how much I work at flattening/sharpening/honing I do, the chipbreaker and the iron just *will not* meet perfectly, which means that shavings get wedged in between them, which means I get about 4 good shavings and then have to stop, disassemble the thing, dig out the shavings, sharpen/grind/hone some more, and then do it again.

This past weekend I discovered the iron (blade) has a slight twist in it. JFC, what a waste of time. I went online to see what a replacement iron would cost... a *good* one will likely cost me almost as much as I paid for this hand plane.

I am not going to play the "it's more expensive to buy the cheap thing" game on this any longer. I bought a nice one from Taylor Tools and I'm now waiting patiently to be able to do the _actual_ thing I want to do (flatten the boards) rather than doing the yak shaving meta-work of flattening the plane iron.

#WoodWorking
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