Just doing a woodturning job for a millright company. I never watch the "news" or pay attention to the "issues" , nor do I frequent any sporting goods stores.
Very firm believer in gun owning rights!
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What did you do in your shop today?
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Just doing a woodturning job for a millright company. I never watch the "news" or pay attention to the "issues" , nor do I frequent any sporting goods stores.
Very firm believer in gun owning rights!
I was in my shop for a total of 45 seconds. Had to grab the highway signs I'll put out tomorrow morning for the bluff country studio tour I'm participating in this weekend. A wee bit tired tonight as I put in my work week in 4 days to get tomorrow off.
Making an Off end free standing tool rest. gonma be fun
Made a run of kitchen utensil holders out of curly koa and recovered American chestnut for my Etsy store. Also am making a few out of this thin padauk I've had laying around.
eeegads!! quit using those pin nails and make dovetails or finger joints in those beautiful boxes
Not for my market! Esty buyers want rustic and cheap. I can sell these within the price range they want but putting an extra hour or two into dovetails and box joints is not going to pay off. If I was making them for my sweet wife of 48 years, maybe.
What about finding cut nails? Those would look real good....
http://www.tremontnail.com/tremont-furniture.htm
http://www.tremontnail.com/tremont-furniture.htm
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I have used the Tremont ⅞ths inch headless finishing nail and they work well in most situations. Trouble is on the thin woods, especially koa which is brittle, the wood splits so easily that almost all nails have to be pre-drilled to avoid splitting. Time is money and Etsy customers just don't pay for the time it takes. I sell these containers for $15 to $18 and it costs about $10 to ship. So the customer is looking at $25 to $28. When they can buy a bamboo one at Walmart for $6, the economics are just not there. Like it or not, that's our competition. All of us love real wood but it's mostly composite stuff and plastic that is sold. You pen makers hit the same wall. Why buy a nice wood pen when a cheap one from Staples works just as well?
I use horsesoe nails I get at a tractor supply store.
I'll check those out. Thanks.
Just looked them up on Amazon. Too long. I'm working with wood that is ⅛th to 3/16ths inch thick so I need thin nails about 1" or shorter.
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Hope I didn't get into something I can't get out of. This belongs to a lady at work. It was her grandmother 's and everyone seems to think I can fix anything. Well I told her I would try but no promises. The one pic is how she brought it to me. Second pic of the parts put back in place. Now I have to carve the rest by hand and get as close as I can. This is a freebie ( again) lol. This is the stuff I get myself into. LOL
What if you send it out to someone here who can cut one out using the cnc laser thing....
Cuz you only have to buy it once....(obviously ink refills you have buy again) and ours look sooooooo much better.
or make a mold of it and cast it..simple and quick
I've thought of that but then there's no real challenge and to me it's all about the challenge. Now if it don't work out I'll give her them options. Like I said this is just a freebie so ether I can or I can't, but ether way I got to at least give it my best shot.
While cleaning out a cupboard I discovered a bag full of unfinished leather boxes, ( no lids ) that had been lost and forgotten about during the move. So off to the local leather guy. I had thrown the bowl molds out, but fortunately had kept the lid molds so finally I now have bag full of finished boxes!!
I used sell a few of them around Sydney in the specialist type craft galleries.
They're "Cuir Boulli" meaning literally boiled leather, which when dry makes a very hard leather ( think leather armor ). The leather is first dipped into a pot of simmering water for a few seconds, where it shrinks dramatically and becomes extremely soft and pliable. You only have a few minutes to work with it before it hardens, so you have to be quick while pressing it over the form. Once dried, I treat them like a piece of wood, cutting, routing and sanding to shape.
With three different sizes small, medium, and large. Which was a little frustrating as they all took the same amount of work but I had to charge less for the smaller ones.
SMALL
Medium
I used sell a few of them around Sydney in the specialist type craft galleries.
They're "Cuir Boulli" meaning literally boiled leather, which when dry makes a very hard leather ( think leather armor ). The leather is first dipped into a pot of simmering water for a few seconds, where it shrinks dramatically and becomes extremely soft and pliable. You only have a few minutes to work with it before it hardens, so you have to be quick while pressing it over the form. Once dried, I treat them like a piece of wood, cutting, routing and sanding to shape.
With three different sizes small, medium, and large. Which was a little frustrating as they all took the same amount of work but I had to charge less for the smaller ones.
SMALL
Medium
Thats cool.
Take lots of pictures. I wanna try this on a handle or something....