ken hatch
11-18-2017, 1:46 PM
Some random subjects:
A photo of the boy child's table with the tiles in place, kinda. MsBubba will come along later and do her magic with the tiles and glue 'em down where they belong.
The table's top is 19mm plywood with Cherry edging glued and pegged with Walnut pegs. The base legs are Sapele (the ones the tear out post was about) with South American Walnut aprons pegged with Oak. There are a couple of places where if you look hard, or maybe not so hard, you can see the hand of the maker.....Makes it Art don'tchknow :-). That's my story and I'm sticking to it. BTW, if you can not make out what the mosaic is, it is an Elephant's head, ears, and trunk formed by flowers. Anyway one Winter Solstice present down and a few more to go.
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There are spear point, single point, single bevel, double bevel, Japanese, and Western knifes in the pile of marking knifes. Most at one time or another were my go to marking knife. Same old story, you need to kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince. Today the one I use is the cheapest of the bunch, a Stanley #10-049 with a 11-041 replacement blade. I first noticed the Stanley knife in one of Paul Sellers videos and thought I'd give it a go. Mostly because my marking knifes all were OK but also all had a "yes but" factor. With the Stanley knife it was bonding at first mark, I've found no down sides to the knife. Blades can be sharpened and they hold an edge well but the blades are so cheap I will usually just replace (IIRC <$4.00 USD each). Blades are quick and easy to replace and the blade lock works easy and well. Some folks might balk at the double bevel, to each their own, but folks it is wood you are marking. Need I say more?
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When we bought our early 1970's period house about eight years ago a lot needed doing, the land it was setting on was the reason to buy, not the house. Anyway there was a broken down outdoor bench in the gully MsBubba wanted repaired along with a complete re-do of the house. All of that has been done except repairing the broken down garden bench, in fact a week or so ago we re-painted the back half of the first re-paint, the front half will be done this coming Spring. Cut to the chase Bubba: Several days ago I finally got around to the garden bench. What I originally thought would be a couple hour project turned into a two day affair with several trips to Ace for hardware and each slat was different and had to be individually fitted, the only common thing was the length.
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A photo of the boy child's table with the tiles in place, kinda. MsBubba will come along later and do her magic with the tiles and glue 'em down where they belong.
The table's top is 19mm plywood with Cherry edging glued and pegged with Walnut pegs. The base legs are Sapele (the ones the tear out post was about) with South American Walnut aprons pegged with Oak. There are a couple of places where if you look hard, or maybe not so hard, you can see the hand of the maker.....Makes it Art don'tchknow :-). That's my story and I'm sticking to it. BTW, if you can not make out what the mosaic is, it is an Elephant's head, ears, and trunk formed by flowers. Anyway one Winter Solstice present down and a few more to go.
371821
There are spear point, single point, single bevel, double bevel, Japanese, and Western knifes in the pile of marking knifes. Most at one time or another were my go to marking knife. Same old story, you need to kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince. Today the one I use is the cheapest of the bunch, a Stanley #10-049 with a 11-041 replacement blade. I first noticed the Stanley knife in one of Paul Sellers videos and thought I'd give it a go. Mostly because my marking knifes all were OK but also all had a "yes but" factor. With the Stanley knife it was bonding at first mark, I've found no down sides to the knife. Blades can be sharpened and they hold an edge well but the blades are so cheap I will usually just replace (IIRC <$4.00 USD each). Blades are quick and easy to replace and the blade lock works easy and well. Some folks might balk at the double bevel, to each their own, but folks it is wood you are marking. Need I say more?
371822
When we bought our early 1970's period house about eight years ago a lot needed doing, the land it was setting on was the reason to buy, not the house. Anyway there was a broken down outdoor bench in the gully MsBubba wanted repaired along with a complete re-do of the house. All of that has been done except repairing the broken down garden bench, in fact a week or so ago we re-painted the back half of the first re-paint, the front half will be done this coming Spring. Cut to the chase Bubba: Several days ago I finally got around to the garden bench. What I originally thought would be a couple hour project turned into a two day affair with several trips to Ace for hardware and each slat was different and had to be individually fitted, the only common thing was the length.
371823
ken