17" Lazy Susan
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Various younger family members of The Wood Buddies Shop trio requested Lazy Susan's for their kitchen tables. We decided since 5 were required plus a mock-up we would mass produce them.A 3/4” thick x 17” MDF template was cut using a neighbors full size CNC router. Since we had a bowl bit but not a pin the same size as the bit for our overarm pin router we had another neighbor make the pin for us.We selected some Northern Hard Maple with distinctive characteristics from the Woodworkers Source out of Arizona. Since the lumber was only 13/16” thick we 3” ripped, jointed, surfaced and glued the wide boards back together.Using Urea Formaldehyde glue ten 18” square pieces were made. Once these ten cured we surfaced the faces and glued two squares together. This gave us five 1-1/2” x 18” x 18” squares.The squares were cut circular on a bandsaw 1/8” larger than the CNC MDF template. We then used a circle fixture on our 12” disk sander sanding to the template size while also giving us a finished outside edge. The template was attached to the 17” diameter piece and routed using the over arm pin router.After detaching the template the routed sections were sanded using an inflatable bowl sander from King Arthur's Tools. All edges were rounded over and the entire unit coated with a food safe finish from Mohawk. Finally the 12” round lazy susan from Lowe's with wood base was attached to the project. The bottom of the base was covered with PSA felt from Hobby Lobby so as not to scratch the kitchen table surface.
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Pallet wood birdhouse
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Chopped up a pallet the other day, and at about the same time had a couple house finches trying to build a nest on top of the roll-up shade on our veranda. I went looking, and the boards from the pallet were just about the same width as those called for in the house finch house so I figured that was a sign. I slapped this house together today with glue and screws, plus a spare hinge I found in a bag of assorted hardware that I unpacked, and a piece of electrical wire left over from the construction of my shop.Not very fancy, but I'll try to get it mounted on a pole and get the pole planted in the yard tomorrow, and maybe the birds will have a new home.
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A Bowl - OR - There's Money in Wood
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I rough-turned this in March, last year. I re-mounted it a couple days ago. Did some more turning on it to make it round again and to make it thinner, using tools I did not have more than a year ago.The exterior finish was far too much work. I probably spent about ten hours on it. I got it acceptable and went to the interior. Spalted, wormy, punky Maple is a thing that, unlike Cocobolo, for instance, does not care to become shiny, or smooth. Not on the inside, anyhow. I think I did an okay job on the outside, as I said. There I was, busting a nut on the inside, today, and came to the conclusion that there was not much I could do to make it stop being ugly. I even went over to HF and bought some sanding balls. No joy. This Thing simply wanted to be butt-ugly, on the inside. That's why I did what I did to the inside. So you wouldn't have to see how ugly it was.I mixed some black pearl dye and Macropearl in WOP and brushed it on. A lot of it did I brush on, using a hair dryer between coats. I decided that the bark, too, was nothing to write home about. So, I mixed some WOP with Yellow Gold dye and Macropearl, and gave it the same treatment.I finished the bottom by utilizing the Styrofoam ball method, squashed up with the tailstock live center. I had a lot of leftover Gold WOP, so I applied some of that to the bottom, too. It was a lot less ugly than the inside. It probably would have accepted a full-blown finishing as well as the outside had. But (not to put too fine a point on it), I was sick of fighting with this Thing, and wanted to be done with it.The penny? Some significance? Yeah. The “significance,” as you put it, is that I just felt like it. And, also, while I possess a 3/4” Forstner bit (the size of a penny), I do not have a 45/64ths Forstner. Otherwise, it would have been a shiny dime. And, also, shut up.My Echo, my Shadow, and Me? We all apologize to thee.- If you're trying to find a needle in a haystack, use a magnet – Mark The Problem-Solver. You're welcome.- If you're having trouble making both ends meet, make one end vegetables – Mark The Problem-Solver. You're welcome.Mark The Problem Solver. (Just being cute. It pains me that life has gotten so stupid that people need to be told not to drink bleach.)
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