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02-01-2017, 11:06 AM | #61 | |
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We've made some benches from that kind of stuff before and they look pretty good. Woodcraft in KC may be able to sell you some or point you in the direction to acquire it.
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02-01-2017, 11:11 AM | #62 |
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thats a damn good looking coffin man. I'm more of a pine box kind of guy, but those are beautiful
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02-01-2017, 11:14 AM | #63 | |
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I'm pretty good at burning right through things, though. The problem is that an idiot is teaching an idiot and we're kinda guessing as we go. Idiot one was taught by a pretty good welder but he still pretty much sucks and is trying to teach me. So mostly we just **** up a bunch of tube steel and try again. But yeah, it was fun realizing that we could add metal back if we shorted things. Again, we sucked at that as well, but we had some gaps of around a quarter inch that we could fill in and still create a bond that was sturdy enough to hit with a car. Pretty cool shit to fiddle with but I'm not sure I have the patience to get good at it.
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02-01-2017, 11:27 AM | #64 |
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02-01-2017, 11:34 AM | #65 |
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I know a few people that are good with hardwood floors and sheet rock.
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02-01-2017, 12:10 PM | #67 | |
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I sand it with 40 and 80 (belt sander),100,150,220 (orbital sander) then put on sanding sealer and sand it with 220 again prior to applying polyurethane. Thanks for the compliment, like jspchief, it is my least favorite part. Last edited by HemiEd; 02-01-2017 at 01:35 PM.. |
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02-01-2017, 12:19 PM | #69 | |
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I am not sure if there is any of that hedge growing around here but we had plenty of it in Kansas. Doesn't it have this kind of screwy twisty grain that makes it hard to work with? My brother likes burning hedge because it burns so hot. The mill a "couple hollars over" only does cedar and oak. I bought 40 1x8x8fts in white oak from them. Holy crap, that stuff is like titanium compared to the cedar. There is a few more mills around here and I will have to check them out one of these days. Thanks for your input. |
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02-01-2017, 12:27 PM | #70 |
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My wife is a big fan of Pottery Barn and Magnolia Farms. While I will still drop some big $$ on some of those brand pieces, a lot of times I get my buddy to mock up the same thing for half the cost.
https://www.facebook.com/AnalogWoodworks/ He does some nice stuff to your custom order, I just had him make me a Farmhouse style dining table. |
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02-01-2017, 01:06 PM | #71 | |
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If you like that aged color, wipe it down with bleach. The chlorine instantly oxidizes it giving you that burnt orange color. Pretty cool running a cloth with clear liquid down the wood and having bright yellow on one side & burnt orange on the other. |
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02-01-2017, 01:12 PM | #72 | |
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02-01-2017, 02:00 PM | #73 | |
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Pretty much any kickback is going to leave a curved gash because the piece is walking up a round blade (and still getting cut as it's being flung off. Here's what the piece I'm talking about did. Unlike yours, mine hopped and that's why it's two cuts, but you can see that hard curve released into a second curve when it came back down. Did you have a firm fence on the outside? Without the fence holding the right edge in place, I could see that propeller effect being extreme enough to shoot it off to the left. Or maybe if it did it just as it cleared the top of the fence. Kickback does some weird shit.
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02-01-2017, 02:03 PM | #74 |
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There's a video out there of a guy that intentionally causes kickback for a demonstration. Slow mo replay shows how close he comes to losing a finger. He thought he could "anticipate" it and nearly made a gore film.
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02-01-2017, 02:36 PM | #75 | |
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The sawstop system is incredible. I thought about splurging on one and maybe I should have, but it's a very neat, very effective idea. There's a low-voltage current running through the blade and if a finger hits it, that current is interrupted and a metal brake fires into the blade to stop it. It'll wreck the shit out of our blade but I've seen demonstrations of people running hot dogs into one and it stops almost immediately; it barely breaks the skin. The problem is that it's another thousand bucks for the feature. Small price to pay for a finger, but like I said, splitters and board buddies are going to be good enough 99.99% of the time.
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