16 hours ago, Woodman said:

Yeah, I should know better than to boast about collecting. 

 

Who's collecting? 

I've already told the neighbor I'm not answering the phone if he leaves this spinning "Insane Asylum" before me! 

Oh, the disadvantages of living in the country 2 miles from the interstate and only a dozen houses between here and there.   One of them just went on the market and got an offer, so I may need to watch that one.

 

But I did get two patio chairs and an end table yesterday.  Needs a lot of cleaning and a little paint.

On 4/22/2022 at 3:42 PM, Grandpadave52 said:

Very narrow line between collecting & hoarding.

around here it's invisible

The basement re-de-cluttering is in high gear; had the opportunity to look at the curb find top and get a picture. LED bulbs, overexposed, not my favorite. A tough grain to capture.

 

I plan on ripping the fine-grained part into slats, ripping on a bevel, and assembling a larger cylindrical vessel. 12"D x 14"H will be big enough to hold more.  I'll also save a piece for a mandolin maker; it'll carve nicely for one top.

 

The reclaimed cedar was too knotty, had to go with 60 grit and 'lectric. Not this time.  It should plane real pretty into roundness.

 

On the last three round vessels, I beveled both sides of each slat, say, 10˚. The final should look the same if only one edge is beveled 20˚?

 

Edited May 1, 20224 yr by Woodman
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It only took two months! The sideboard top was laid out, studied for a few days, measured twice, lined out, and yesterday porch-cut on the c.1988 ∆ Delta 34-670 10" 110 lb table saw. Freehand crosscut into half, twice more, everything ripped to 2 7/16". All planks had 3/32" resawn off to remove old paint in two passes each with half-height blade for safety. A 10˚ bevel ripped into both edges. Cylindrical Vessel No. 4 begins.

 

And I treated myself to a 60 1/2 adj. mouth block plane because this old-growth grain is REALLY fine. 

 

 

 

The top of this curb find has become a laundry vessel. 15" D x 14" H x 8+ lbs

 

 

Nearly all of the wood from the sideboard top was used to make this vessel. It's got one application of SealCoat on the exterior.

 

Things got wonky.  The cylinder began moving into a helix, so the rabbeted ledge for the base had to be abandoned. I made that bottom the top and retained part of the rabbet detail in the final.

 

 

The inside was mostly scraped but I did sand to remove some glue and dripped SeatCoat. I'll scrape the inside again when my forearms heal. The grain becomes dark, crisp, and handsome after a fresh burr.

@Woodman...well done Jim. Great recycle + repurpose. The old sideboard lives yet again.

Scratch another job of the "bucket" list...so to speak. 

Nice work. 

Edited August 3, 20224 yr by Gene Howe

Thanks, guys. Now the 64¢ question: what kind of wood do you figure it is? Old growth white pine? Pinus strobus? I'll tell you what, the shavings do have a nice somewhat familiar smell.

 

I'll definitely be on the lookout for more of this shop's work. 

 

Looks a bit like Sugar Pine

17 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Looks a bit like Sugar Pine

Had to clean my glasses...I thought you wrote sugar pie