Home Accessories - handmade -  built-ins etc.

Started by glenn-k, March 21, 2006, 01:10:36 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

glenn kangiser

Nice work, Jens.

I hate tool thieves.  Don't they understand that we need our tools to pay for their welfare and prison cells, as well as the salaries of the police who protect them? hmm
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

MountainDon

Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.


glenn kangiser

Professional? Me --- more like provisional.

Anyway... here is the Early American Settler (with screws per Whitlock)  after Sassy slaved away for (parts of) 3 days sanding and finishing it.



Whitlock and I sawed the boards on my sawmill.  This is considered to be undesirable trash wood by many around here and while it is tough to saw it does make decent rustic furniture if you ask me. 



White spot is from the flash.

This tree, Bull Pine or Gray Pine,  survives where few other species of Pine can even grow without irrigation, therefore it can be a very tough resinous wood but it is one of my favorites.  After it dries you may have trouble getting a nail into it, so it makes good trailer beds also.
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

PEG688

When in doubt , build it stout with something you know about .

glenn kangiser

Thanks PEG.  Nothing like yours but it's functional and rustic. :)
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.


Whitlock

That turned out nice.

Sassy must of worked all night sanding the ruff off and putting the finish on 8)
Make Peace With Your Past So It Won't Screw Up The Present

glenn kangiser

If I'd only known she wanted it that smooth I could have run it through the planer, but then again chunks of wood may have gone flying -looks pretty even if it didn't have the #1 and Better stamp on it.  I guess I could have carved one out of a potato. [crz]

Kept her out of trouble for a few days anyway.....  rofl
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Jens

By the sounds of it, it may have sent chunks of planer knives flying!  Nicely done, and from scratch no less.
just spent a few days building a website, and didn't know that it could be so physically taxing to sit and do nothing all day!

Sassy

I'd mentioned that it needed to be planed but I think DH ignored that remark...  I didn't want to push it too much due to his passive/aggressive nature  ::)  The wood was still a little wet & kept shrinking - I couldn't get it sanded real smooth & the wood really soaked in the verathane...  of course, since I didn't have the sealer to put on 1st, the surface tended to want to swell - anyway, definitely "early american settler" but it's strong & I like the way the verathane brought out the color of the wood - I'll probably need to do another sanding or 2 & a couple more coats - as the wood soaked the stuff in pretty unevenly.  Got tired of the mess in the kitchen & was anxious to put the shelves to work  :D

They do look nice in the cabin  :)
http://glennkathystroglodytecabin.blogspot.com/

You will know the truth & the truth will set you free


glenn kangiser

Thanks Jens.  You won't usually get much more than rustic out of me.  I don't have the patience you guys have anymore.

Possibly rough on the planer.  We had to use a diesel sprayer on the saw blade  per Whitlock to help keep it from dulling too fast.  We used a hand spray bottle and used the minimum as necessary. 

Even after cutting the hard end grain off the log with a chain saw it is tough.  The diesel helped a lot along with the water drip on the blade.  It cuts the pitch off of the blade.  The pitch in Bull Pine doesn't especially get all over usually.  Funny - no diesel smell just like Whitlock said.... the young whippersnapper... :)

It just turns to glass or at least very hard in the knots especially and is dispersed through most of the rest of the wood too.  Bull pine is very hard to kill even ringing the bark with a chainsaw as some of the ranchers around here do, but get one in the air 40 feet weighing a thousand lbs and it will for sure split off and fall on a power line. d*
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Whitlock

Wipersnapper ??? I may be young in age but I'm old as heck in my back :-\
Make Peace With Your Past So It Won't Screw Up The Present

MountainDon

You guys got me confused with that shelf unit here and then over there where I questioned what the wood was.   d* d*  Don't know if I'm coming or going  [crz]
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

Whitlock

Quote from: MountainDon on November 19, 2008, 11:53:13 PM
You guys got me confused with that shelf unit here and then over there where I questioned what the wood was.   d* d*  Don't know if I'm coming or going  [crz]


I told you about those darn Mariposans heh
Make Peace With Your Past So It Won't Screw Up The Present

glenn kangiser

Quote from: MountainDon on November 19, 2008, 11:53:13 PM
You guys got me confused with that shelf unit here and then over there where I questioned what the wood was.   d* d*  Don't know if I'm coming or going  [crz]

That's how we do it, Don.  Divide and conquer.  I'm going to go look and see if you might have tried to get away over there.  Haven't you ever watched a couple of Coyotes corner and eat a house cat?

Anything else we can confuse you on?

"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.


PEG688


Simple mantel,  installed with french cleats ,

 


 


 



Construction photos ,

 


 


 

 
  From the back ,

 


 
When in doubt , build it stout with something you know about .

glenn kangiser

Cool, PEG.  The French Cleats use hooks and gravity?
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

PEG688

When in doubt , build it stout with something you know about .

MountainDon

Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

glenn kangiser

PEG'S stuff is always so good it looks like it came from a factory.  No doubt about where mine comes from. d*
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Jens

A factory?  surely you jest good sure.  Factories don't turn out stuff that nice.
just spent a few days building a website, and didn't know that it could be so physically taxing to sit and do nothing all day!


PEG688

Quote from: hobbiest on November 25, 2008, 08:47:46 AM


A factory?  surely you jest good sure.  Factories don't turn out stuff that nice.



Thank you hobbiest!   I don't think    :-\  Glenn was trying to insult me  ???   I think he was saying it was nice. 
When in doubt , build it stout with something you know about .

glenn kangiser

More than nice PEG.  It's always so perfect it's hard to believe an individual could be that good. :)
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Sassy

I think we all just expect everything PEG puts out will be of the highest quality & designed to look "just right" in often difficult places...  another fine piece, PEG  8)
http://glennkathystroglodytecabin.blogspot.com/

You will know the truth & the truth will set you free

PEG688

 Thanks , BUT nuttin is perfect in this world , so I'll just stick with nice :)

 


Tables done , just in time for Thanksgiving ;)
When in doubt , build it stout with something you know about .

glenn kangiser

Looks great.  I see you put Benite on it earlier.  What is the final finish, PEG?

Also - do you suggest Benite or something else as a sealer for clear gloss Verathane like we use for our Early American Settler style (with screws and bug holes) furnture?  It really sucks up the Verathane. hmm
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.