2 hours ago, Dovetail said:

and I'm calling it done. Lossa lessons learned.

Looks great from where I sit Jim. Always lessons to be learned with each project. That's what makes working with wood both challenging and rewarding (OK sometimes frustrating too), but worth the time and energy spent. Just my $.02

Mighty, mighty nice there Jim

Taking up too much room..

Might be a day before anything else gets done...

Letting this sit a day..

Not on my physical bench, but on the flat area of my noggin ...

 

Can you tell me this tree name from the bark?  SE Georgia area.

 

 

Lebanese Cedar?

 

 

Busy morning...

 

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I've had this thing for years.......I think it came with some axes I purchased..I had intentions of using it in the shop but due to it's design it is NOT user friendly for me to get in and out of. I honestly don't see how anyone thought it was user friendly but whatever. So...we're gonna turn it into some other something's. I think I've got some curl spotted in some of the boards ( pretty sure it's not saw marks ) ...I also have several things I'm looking at for simple tool storage for files and such. I got it tore down and wood is cleaned of hardware and nails as of yesterday. 

 

 

I'm following Aaron. Bittersweet; the stories that old box holds. OTOH, you'll do it justice in your re-purposing design and creation. Love the old hardware.

Kinda makes you wonder what it was designed to hold. Somebody obviously had a specific purpose in mind! If only that old box could talk.

Usually a Carpenter's selection of handsaws...

You guys can see the pull out box in the front..leather loops/straps are broke but you simply pull straight up to get it out...then everything in it falls out ...and if you don't pull it out you can't reach anything in the main area in the back ....I tried storing everything in it from tools to small stuff like paint supplies and stain....it didn't matter...it was simply a headache to use. Yeah Steve I'm sure there was a saw or 2 in it. Here is a pic of some wear on the main bottom board from getting something in and out.

 

 

23 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I'm following Aaron. Bittersweet; the stories that old box holds. OTOH, you'll do it justice in your re-purposing design and creation. Love the old hardware.

 

 

Me too,...hardware looks to be brass...

 

 

43 minutes ago, aaronc said:

Me too,...hardware looks to be brass...

Just gets better and better!

1 hour ago, aaronc said:

.it was simply a headache to use.

About 15 years ago I found one such trunk. A cabinetmaker made it in the 1950s, lived his whole married life not too far from here, and when widow eventually passed, a son was clearing out the house. - an interesting six-sided affair built on a tricky triangular lot. I used the box as a pillar for plants, etc etc, but it was too bulky and heavy for me.

 

It now resides in a buddy's plumbers van, keeping his PVC fittings clean and safe.

 

 

You recall the short piece of beam a friend gave me, I think it is Douglas fir? It was squared up, the rot and age trimmed off, and stored in the basement. The trimmed bits were saved and Friday I spent conSIDERable effort planing and scraping them flat. And made this. It'll go into storage until I have another 10" table saw. Or I grow new muscles.

 

 

     

Goods great and a NICE set of clamps.

52 minutes ago, frenchwwr said:

NICE set of clamps.

Which do you prefer? The Hatagane bar clamps or the Pony pipe clamps with reclaimed 3/4" brass pipe?

 

My buddy has been scrapping that pipe for years but I finally managed to get a few dozen feet of 1/2" and 3/4". The mini-clamps, that was a New Years Day score. Seven assorted size clamps plus a really nice mini-vise plus another item for $50.

 

The brass pipe, I wanted more weight when working on fiddles and such. Glue cleans off easier. And it photographs nicer.

The Hatagane bar clamps, Ponies are nice clamps, but The Hatagane bar clamps are NICE clamps

On 4/7/2022 at 6:37 AM, Dovetail said:

Not on my physical bench, but on the flat area of my noggin ...

 

Can you tell me this tree name from the bark?  SE Georgia area.

 

 

 

Given the location I would say it's a variety of southern yellow pine, maybe slash...

15 hours ago, Dovetail said:

It'll go into storage until I have another 10" table saw.

I'd wanted to rip lengthwise, remove the thickness. The hand planes complained and the rip saw isn't up to the task.

 

So I cleaned up the back, the part you'd never see once mounted. Looks band-sawish. When were water-powered reciprocating saws common? My buddy says he got it from a guy who saved it from a demo about four miles north of Olde City Philadelphia. The guy said it was "at least a hundred years old" but I'm thinking ≈ 145-175 years old.

 

Out of the way for now. A better spot than basement rafters.