What did you do in your shop today?
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Totally awesome orange spalting line! Makes me wonder if other types of Birch have similar characteristics.
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You made me wonder....I have had my Fatster for 25 years, don't recall ever changing brakes.
It is not the wood, but the spalting that reacts. Same results can be seen on many spalted woods, depending on which fungal species.
That wood is from Barb. I just used some and passed the rest on.
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I hade plenty of pad left, but too much fork oil had soaked into the old pads. Ride last August got my attention big time. Nothing happened, but if someone had pulled out or an animal jumped out a crunch was going to happen.
And ready for the test ride, hopefully after church tomorrow. This was actually a nice project, hadn’t pretended to be a shade tree mechanic in a long time.
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I miss the honda hoot also! That was a fun gathering.
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My 2002 goldwing had front tire cupping issues from day one right from the factory.
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Can't do much because I had my right eye cataract removed this morning and I have this clear plastic pirate patch taped over it. But I couldn't sit around doing nothing so I finished up this bubinga picture frame. Applied a couple applications of Danish oil yesterday and let it dry. Today I waxed it. I like the natural feel to the finish.
Beautiful frame! I hope you recover quickly from the procedure!
Amazing. That bubinga makes me look at mine thinking: why are you the ugliest board of your species? Then I remember that it is not and I am just comparing it to one of the most beautiful.
It’s like comparing a movie actress to an average person.
It’s like comparing a movie actress to an average person.
Hope the pirate patch comes off fast and you are back to - no, not normal, but better than the normal! Love the frame. Is the lighter an inlay or a layer of wood? I love doing frames, but I don't "make" many unless I have some old salvaged painted chippy trim and I cut a rabbet, miter, and assemble. More often, I take old frames and cut them down to smaller sizes. The old plaster frames are usually not a single piece of wood, but rather 5 or more pieces/frames married together. We'd take them apart and get quite a few smaller frames from one. An interesting thing is that the "gilding" was often a transparent amber/gold varnish over silver-colored gilding. She would strip the paint off and have silver-gilded frames that sold for more than we could get for gold-gilded frames! Oftentimes, I find gallery frame molding at a reuse place we frequent and miter and make frames outta them. But have never made one outta purdy wood.
Hate waste - my wife hates it more, so my wife came up with a way to use up the triangles left over from the mitering. Not the small ones from the end of a piece of wood, but the ones from the middle of a length of molding - 45's on both ends. Most often (not always), the outside of the molding is the long side of the triangle, and the point would be where the rabbet is. Take four of those and glue them together (points to the middle), and you have a medallion. Made and sold 100's if not 1000's. Would even buy frame molding and use up lengths just making them. Then, some dandy sent a letter saying we were infringing on his copyright. It was bogus - you cannot get a copyright on something like that. But the antique mall that she sells from is all goofy and not too bright, and they thought he was real and told her not to bring any in, so the wife decided not to fight it. If you are really ambitious, you can make 5,6, and 8-sided ones. I did not make these, but these are what I am talking about. All sizes - from tiny to large, but largely out of vintage frames, plaster, gilded, etc.... Even did 4 out of vintage 12" wide oak crown mold. Did not do more of those, they were not easy to get right! I still have a couple of boxes of the triangles somewhere, unless I gave them to the reuse place.
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