16-06-2011, 06:36 PM
Wood lathes don't have to be big, ours is a small table top affair and is more than adequate for making many things.
Col,
Danish Oil certainly is a beautiful finish and I love it for many different things I have made, will have to get some pictures up on here at some point of what I've been making. As you say it is a very easy finish to apply and so long as it is sanded in between coats and polished with fine grade wire wool covered in beeswax it gives a fantastic soft glow and super smooth finish.
I have actually been to a couple of sawmills recently, truly wonderful places filled with some stunning timber. The first was on a school arranged trip, the second was on a shopping trip for the design department with one of the teachers (myself and my friend/business parter spend so much time in the design/woodwork department- until half 5 at night and all our free periods- that we are almost staff now!). We've been there a couple of times now, they are all nice chaps there and we have bought a fair bit of timber from them (mainly oak) for a good price too. They were also happy to cut some of the longer bits down so they would fit in the back of the school's mini-bus! Our teacher also lives in a cottage on a country estate and he's good friends with one of the foresters and is often granted permission to take some timber from the firewood pile, recently a truly beautiful yew tree was saved from being burnt, it's absolutely amazing what some people want to destroy. To me it's nature's work of art. Can I also just say how appropriate your surname is :D
Your work looks great, I have mostly been turning random scraps of pine I have found laying about and have simply tried making different curves etc and teaching myself new techniques. I guess there's no reason why I can't turn (excuse the pun) these practise pieces into full products!
Please see some attached pictures of the sawbench and drill press. I believe the sawbench to be a Walker-Turner model B745 in which case it dates from about 1940. It works well (has had a replacement motor, sometime in the 1960s by the looks of it) and the bearings are clearly in good shape too, gives a wonderful nice straight cut. I'm hoping to make some sort of braking system for it, and I will also be modifying the stand slightly (to accommodate the replacement motor better) and replace all the wiring as it is in a very dangerous state. Other than that not too bad for £50 I think.
The drill press is a more modern affair made by Nu-Tool but it works well and just needs a good clean up.
Just need some jack planes, a bandsaw and a thicknesser and we should have all we need for now (and then save up for a jointer). It's certainly turning out to be very expensive so hopefully we will start getting some money back soon!
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Col,
Danish Oil certainly is a beautiful finish and I love it for many different things I have made, will have to get some pictures up on here at some point of what I've been making. As you say it is a very easy finish to apply and so long as it is sanded in between coats and polished with fine grade wire wool covered in beeswax it gives a fantastic soft glow and super smooth finish.
I have actually been to a couple of sawmills recently, truly wonderful places filled with some stunning timber. The first was on a school arranged trip, the second was on a shopping trip for the design department with one of the teachers (myself and my friend/business parter spend so much time in the design/woodwork department- until half 5 at night and all our free periods- that we are almost staff now!). We've been there a couple of times now, they are all nice chaps there and we have bought a fair bit of timber from them (mainly oak) for a good price too. They were also happy to cut some of the longer bits down so they would fit in the back of the school's mini-bus! Our teacher also lives in a cottage on a country estate and he's good friends with one of the foresters and is often granted permission to take some timber from the firewood pile, recently a truly beautiful yew tree was saved from being burnt, it's absolutely amazing what some people want to destroy. To me it's nature's work of art. Can I also just say how appropriate your surname is :D
Your work looks great, I have mostly been turning random scraps of pine I have found laying about and have simply tried making different curves etc and teaching myself new techniques. I guess there's no reason why I can't turn (excuse the pun) these practise pieces into full products!
Please see some attached pictures of the sawbench and drill press. I believe the sawbench to be a Walker-Turner model B745 in which case it dates from about 1940. It works well (has had a replacement motor, sometime in the 1960s by the looks of it) and the bearings are clearly in good shape too, gives a wonderful nice straight cut. I'm hoping to make some sort of braking system for it, and I will also be modifying the stand slightly (to accommodate the replacement motor better) and replace all the wiring as it is in a very dangerous state. Other than that not too bad for £50 I think.
The drill press is a more modern affair made by Nu-Tool but it works well and just needs a good clean up.
Just need some jack planes, a bandsaw and a thicknesser and we should have all we need for now (and then save up for a jointer). It's certainly turning out to be very expensive so hopefully we will start getting some money back soon!
