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Christmas Present... Past.

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(from Lumberjocks.com)


Christmas Present... Past.Boys and Girls,majuvla's (aka. Ivan, probably through the compliments of the Hrvatska policija) project of some paper draped, upright erections reminded me of this little bereft project… thanks maj'.Who says I don't make Christmas presents for friends... which by the way were never reciprocated (but who's keeping a score card),
They do as these were the last I made 3 years ago,

and me since no-one has paid me for them. Consequently I've decided to no longer keep the secret that its NOT Santa who gives out presents and am quite complacent in heralding that those cheap skates got them from me, as there's no such thing as a freebie Santa.Let's not delve on those free loaders and concentrate on how they were made.They all started off as a 30mm x 30mm lamination of 19mm Merbau decking,

roughly rounded on the router table. Set up my shop-made lathe dowel maker,

and un-roughened the roughly-round,

(appologies for the focus) and finished up with a nolonger-square 1 dia. dowel (LHS),
Tritoned the dowel maker and prepared for the cranking,
Long threaded one end,
After short threading the other end, it was mounted on the lathe for some oiling,

the slow speed of the lathe (50 RMPs) made rubbing oil into the individual threads with a rag quite easy. The reverse speed ensured a good coating of oil. Didn't oil the full long thread as it was destined to be trimmed,

The nuts (above) were drawn using the following purchased template ($6 US),

I then made my own template using CorelDraw and my Laser for $8

the original template ($6) for idea/specifications and $2 for the material go figure the economy now I have two templates for $14 lucky I have two hands!Two pieces of merbau were laminated to make the nuts and base. For the base, the round over profile of the merbau planks was used to accentuate the middle seam. It was then tapped with a 1 tool using burnishing oil as lubricant,
and sanded,
All got a good couple of coats of tung oil,
and eventually assembled
I did manage to keep one, as the missus succumbed to paying the asking ”Santa fee”,



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posted at: 12:00am on 27-Jan-2020
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