Hand Crank
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 This is a hand crank for my next project. It is made from walnut and a strip of maple in the handle. It has a 1” hex socket cut in it for the nut it will drive. The handle has a 7 1/2” throw from center of the handle to center of the socket.I added a few shots of making the hex socket. I faced off all the radius on the nut in the lathe so it had a sharp edge all around. Then I bored a 1” hole 1 1/2' deep and a 3/4” hole for the rest 1/2”. I used a 3/4-10 bolt to align the nut to the hole and broached in the hex in the vise. A little work with a chisel to give it some clearance and it works real good. I used a piece of pipe a little longer than the inside of the handle and 3/8” cap screw to hold it together. There is a 44 mag cartridge ( compliments of LJ Hillbillyshooter) in a piece of black nylon to cover the 3/4” holeIt is finished with Danish oil and buffed and waxed.Cheers, Jim
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It Wasn't Always Like This
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When a family friend recently visited my new cabinet shop, he commented, Your dad and grandpa would've loved this place. It wasn't always like this! He meant that although both men were pro woodworkers at various times in their lives, …Source
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Grandson's Birthday present
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 I friend and I got together and made five of these for our grandson's. I found the design for the truck in a Wood Magazine 1990 (it pays to keep old magazine's) designed by Ed Dohm. My friend with the laser came to the rescue once again. Grandson's loved them, however I don't think they will see any dirt!
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Walnut "creek" Table
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 Not a River Table but more of a creek and a lake table. The reason for this is my neighbor wanted a house warming gift for her son and didn't know what she wanted. I have a storage building that I rent to house my excess or stash as some would call it and I invited her to look thru it and find something.
Picture #1 shows what she decided on. It's a walnut plank 55” long x 11 + ” wide and almost 2” thick with a serious void in half of it. The only thing she insisted on was that it did not have square flat ends so I had to fix that. I put a curve on one end and a bevel curve on the other end.
I then got cordless drill with a HSS burr and made a river from one end into the 'lake'. As it approached the lake I split it and made what to some would resemble the goat island at Niagra Falls. In doing that I decided to attempt a falls into the lake below with some foamy water and an elevated island. The 3D effect if most visual in real time, I couldn't get the camera to pick it up ( pic #4) but she sees it and is happy.
I made the falls first with polyester resin because it's more of a solid than the 2 part TB and I made a dam at the other end to stop the 2 pt resin. Then I poured 2 part Total Boat resin tinted blue into the lake and just a trickle in the creek. The next day I poured clear resin in all of the cavities being careful to not over flow knowing I was going to plane the plank to meet the resin.
The next day I planed the top and bottom, gave both a 180grit sanding and one coat of sanding sealer on the walnut staying away from the resin. I gave the edges sanding sealer after a “light” burshing with a stiff bristle brush and then 3 heavy coats of poly.
The bottom got 2 coats of poly and the top was lucky and got 4 coats. After a day of drying I started sanding with the the top and bottom getting a light 400 grit. Then I started wet sanding with 3000, 4000, 5000, 7000, 8000 and finally 10000 grit. ( kudos to Dawn liquid dish washing soap)This was a fun project and got me in the mood to do one I've been putting off for nearly a year so stay tuned my treal lake project starts tomorrow.Thanks for looking and comments & questions are welcome.
Have a GREAT DAY !
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Offset Biscuit Joints
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I use biscuit joints in lots of small projects, particularly for joining rails to legs. I usually reference from the bottom of the plate joiner rather than use its fence. When I want to make an offset joint, I cut …Source
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