The Woodshop Shed

Gnome Bottle Stoppers

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Some Gnome bottle stoppers I made in the last few days. The woods include Maple, Ash and Cedar.Bobby
Louisiana

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Weeping Willow Vessel

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This is another experiment for me, not so much in form but techniques and in species of wood.
I had never turned willow before and found an opportunity to collect some green wood and process it into blanks.
It was incredibly wet.As a trial I turned a very thin bowl from it but the tearout was unbelievable.
I decided to rough turn a second piece and leave the walls closer to an inch. I put it into a container of silica beads and left it for two weeks.I enjoyed this piece because I had an oportunity to try some additional techniques that were new to me. This included using a reground negative rake scraper (40/40) and reground skew with both a flat and a curve (35/35).Here are some pics of the reground tools I used on the vessel.
The top tool is a reground bowl gouge (3/4”) with a 55 bevel and swept back wings.The second tool is a skew I made with HSS that has a 35 bevel on both faces. I suppose that makes it a negative rake scraper.The third is a reground scraper that has 40 bevels on both faces. I ground it round on both sides as well.They all worked really well but mostly I used the bowl gouge to shear scrape the surface for the final cut.This vessel is 4 3/4” wide by 4 1/2” tall. The wall varies from 3/32ths” to a little under 1/8ths” towards the bottom.It is sanded to 320 grit, sealed with Mylands Sanding Sealer. Finally it is finished with Maloof wipe on poly/oil/ms blend and buffed with Beall Buffing system.Thanks for looking.

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Flattening a Plane Sole, Part 4 - Lapping a Leviathan

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Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The #8 Record plane I bought a few years ago was the most prominent, heaviest, and the longest plane I have ever lapped; it was also a plane for which …Source

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Planer Cart

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I made this planer cart for my Dewalt 725 planer based on Lockwatcher's groundbreaking blog tutorial. I tried to copy the dimensions exactly and it worked out very well. It is a good design and a solid cart. The design lends itself to so many different applications. I'm working on a lawn equipment cart to store my gas weed eater and leaf blower.I ran into a problem when installing the casters on my planer cart. I bought mine at Lowes. They seem like good quality but the mounting plate was 3” by 3 and 3/4” for 5-inch casters. This resulted in one of the holes having no wood to attach to since the bottom of the legs had an area for attachment that was only 3 inches square. Even downsizing from 5 to 3-inch casters would have resulted in the same size plate. My workaround for this was to add small cleats on the inside corners and glue and clamp them in place as shown in the two photos above. As you can see clamping was a bit problematic but I was able to git-er-done.I think another solution would be to extend the cleats for the bottom shelf into the corners and make them thicker so they are flush with the bottom rail. This would provide the necessary attachment structure for the attachment of the mounting plate. Next time should be easier.

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