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They turned out great!
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3 hours ago, Bushwacked said:
Got first round glued up and ready to glue together. 2nd round in the clamps ..
happy the first round came out pretty good. No crazy bends or issues!
got some dominoes for alignment
Did you use loose tenons for the end to end glueups in round 1?
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2 hours ago, Bushwacked said:
Been working on this between my down time on current project …
starting to get more ducting ran. Almost there on this. Hose should be arriving today and I should be able to finish off the tablesaw and bandsaw … then when I get more time during a glue up I will try and finish the CnC run.
Nice work! It's pictures like these that make me wish my garage ceiling was a little bit shorter than 10' so I wouldn't have to be so worried whenever I get around to doing this.
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14 hours ago, Kev said:
Yep.. Pretty common once you get out this way to see Doug Fir or Hem Fir..
Doug Fir.
I can get Beetle Killed Pine with the cool colorations from my friend that has a sawmill, and I think I could get Doug Fir from him too, but I have a lot of BKP...
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On 11/24/2021 at 7:49 PM, Coop said:
You either sold too low or price of lumber is getting out of hand. I thought of starting to build with syp but can’t afford a 2x4!
At times I've wished I could get SYP out here that came in 8' lengths. BBSs has 2' and 3' small project lengths.
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Saw Part 2 got posted today I think on YT. I love the finished project! Well done!
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yeah, i saw that. I'm asking where is a good source of getting that tool that the guy is saying is hard to find?
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On 2/24/2022 at 7:44 PM, Coop said:
What planer do you have?
Delta 22-540 I believe.
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3 minutes ago, Kev said:
Interesting choice of finish that I'm not sure I'd thought of using.. Typically, mineral oil is used. I'm curious to see how the baby oil holds up.
I'm a little puzzled.. I don't know of any water trick to make the grain pop. I know you can pre-raise the grain with water (which isn't needed in this case) and you can add some dye to get it to sink into the grain and then sand it back but, I'm not quite sure what you're referring to? The few times I've done this, I think I used alcohol and dye.
I read somewhere that baby oil is just more expensive mineral oil, so that's why I went that route, since I had a lot of it having 2 kids under the age of 3, it was their contribution to the present 😉
the pre-raise the grain with water is what I think we're both referring to the same thing when I say making it "pop"
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Anyone have a decent source (beyond CL, Ebay, etc) for that tool that you see some people use on old lunchbox planers to set the planer blades to the correct distance?
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27 minutes ago, Kev said:
When working in OK, I work a lot in Enid and my company is based in Tulsa. I live in NW Montana (Kalispell) near Glacier National Park..
I meant to ask that to Rod, lol. My bad.
Enid is the town that I got pulled over it when I was almost going to blow up a truck, lol. Tulsa is where I went to a car show and thought I was gonna get 4 girls' numbers while I was in high school only for them to take me to a church where I didn't understand anyone since they were all talking and speaking in tongues. If you get bored in Oklahoma, there's like 5 to 10 restaurants that are pretty epic for food that we all went to eat at while I was studying at OU. Ken's Steaks and Ribs in Amber is probably the most epic place that I've ever eaten at with a group of people. The place is/was (been a decade since I've been there) only open Thursday through Sunday, cash only, and always had a 2 hour wait. I showed up with 10 other people on a Friday night and we were standing in this long line when this short old fella squeezed in between me and my date at the time and spun around in a circle and asked us "how many of you are there?" and I told the guy "11. Why?" "Nevermind that, I will be right back" and he left the same way he came in and we all just looked at each other and laughed and continued conversing. Sure enough, in the middle of this long line, he showed back up 4 or 5 minutes later and says "I have your table, follow me" and I was asked "old man, all these people in front of us need tables first" "nevermind them, follow me" and so we followed him. He led us to a table set for 11 right by the kitchen doors. I was pulling out the chair for my date to sit down and he had placed menus every where and he said "i'll be right back" and disappears into the kitchen. He came back out within a minute with ribs and put them on the table "we didn't order these" I said. "nevermind that, they're on the house" and he left just as quickly as stating that. By far the most unique customer interaction I've ever had, but if you get bored with food and ask people "where can I get the best steak in Oklahoma?" you'll get some generic answers, like my old man makes the best if he's up for cooking, or texas roadhouse is pretty good steaks for a sit down, and then you'll meet the person that will just plainly state "ken's in amber." I'm pretty much sold on that place after I went there. Meers is pretty good too, but more for a lunch. I need to do the same things like that out here in Colorado, but no one has talked about any restaurant that's cash only.
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12 minutes ago, Kev said:
Nicely done! If you never make mistakes, you'd have nothing to learn!
What species are the thin dark strips? Also, what finish did you use?
I need to do one of those cheese boards.. Just not sure I want my wife to see them 😉
I'm new enough I still have lots to learn, even if I did something perfectly, lol. It's the joy of being a beginner.
So the dark strips I believe are wenge, and the thicker strips are angelique, I believe. Here's the kit I bought two of, I think... (https://www.woodcraft.com/products/1-1-2-x-10-x-16-angelique-maple-hard-wenge-wood-cutting-board-large-woodcraft-woodshop?via=573621f669702d06760016d9%2C57645b7d69702d3c42000d03%2C57645ba569702d3c42000d04)
For the finish, I did baby oil (since I had a lot and it was food grade safe) and then I did the butcher block conditioner once the board was soaked with the oil. I think Coop showed a picture of the same product on his charq. board.
Woodcraft sells the kits for the wood that I used as well as the cheese board slicer so most of this was store-bought, kind of. I mean I glued everything up, planed it down, sanded down to remove the planer snipe, etc. I didn't try to get the wood grain to "pop" by spritzing it with water, mainly because I was worried I would have screwed it up. Baby steps, since, I led with, I'm a beginner. The grooves were all I could handle I think. I think the cheese slicing kit was only like 10-14 dollars. It wasn't that bad for what it turned out as I think. I mean my wife loves it, so that's the only point that really matters.
It also allowed me to talk her into letting me buy a planer I found on CL that needs some work. That's the next thing with my free time. Then I want to make a box that looks like a book for her birthday maybe (since she's a teacher and has a master's in literacy, I thought it would be fitting).
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I suppose I'll make my first thread.
My wife likes to cut cheese slices and eat cheese so I had been playing with random woods and glue ups only to find out in like October I wasn't using the right kind of titebond, so I sat on my idea for a month and then on Black Friday WC had their deal on these boards so I bought 2 kits and took some out from one kit to make it smaller for the cheese cutting board and finished it and gave it to the wife in the middle of December, when I had finished my finals. It was her birthday present (which was only about 7 months late).
So then I decided to make another board for a cutting board and I took the leftovers from the first kit and added them or most of them to the second kit to make a really big cutting board, which my wife loves. My biggest regret for a beginner is I didn't make a jig to make the juice grooves and just thought I could use a straight edge, 2 stops and a bullnose bit in my router, but it didn't work out perfectly so the lines never seemed to be perfectly straight which bothered me enough that I kept widening the grooves out over and over, trying to get them perfect. It never worked out but when I got it down to only 2 or 3 small errors, I called it done and went into sanding and I think 2 of the errors got sanded away and only 1 mishap still shows just slightly. Sanding the grooves by hand is a nightmare, but once it was finished, my wife loved it so I suppose that's the important part.
Just figured I'd share a small win for me since I'm pretty new to all of these, but maybe it'll be helpful to someone else. Have a great day!
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17 hours ago, Bushwacked said:
so, I am sure @Kev can go way deeper on the MDF application and all that based on his experiences .. I dont really know much about that.
However, the box I am making is actually to reduce the exhaust sound. The motor is actually not that loud compared to the exhaust. So that is where I am attacking this first.
Well, I'm still at the planning stages with my DC (I got a super good deal on CL for a HF 2 HP DC that's in 10 or so pieces so I wouldn't know I suppose which is louder) so learning vicariously through you right now)
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4 hours ago, Kev said:
@Bushwacked, happy to help with the answer.. Although I don't consider myself an expert, I did a lot of research and actually applied the concepts..
Subwoofer boxes are made from MDF because it's cheap. The "sounds" that come out of a sub are a mono tone so, are not slowed down by standard construction materials. The only thing you and do with those mono tones is to redirect the bouncing frequencies as many times as possible until they dissipate. This is also why most sub boxes have different shapes. Think of someone in a car with the bass turned up and that's the only thing you can hear 6 cars away. You know the rest of the music has to be loud as well. All of the higher pitched frequencies are completely reduced by the materials of the car but, the bass tones completely come through. It's these mono tones that are the ones carrying farther than BW wants.
I hope that helps? Good luck with the kiddos!
Wow! That's impressive to know all of that I think randomly! Thanks!
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On 2/4/2022 at 6:33 AM, Rod said:
✌️From oklahoma!
Was born and raised there, mainly in the Moore/Norman area. Whereabouts are you at roughly? Out in Colorado now. Welcome to the forums!
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On 2/15/2022 at 4:10 PM, Bushwacked said:
Got some more work done on it …
then started on my super silencer box build 🤣 .... It had been so long since I worked with HD 2x6 pine, cant say I missed it. cupped/twisted/garbage and those were the straight ones haha. I had 1 board, THANKFULLY, I took to the bandsaw after it gave me some issue on the tablesaw that blew apart the last 6-8 inches there was so much stress. Put them back together after that, there was like a 3" gap in the widest middle part of the boards
without dust collection it’s such a dang mess after just a little cutting. It’s crazy!!
Been on kid duty almost all day so my brain is a little bit fried, but the box is to encluse the DC motor to reduce noise I'm assuming... If so, have you considered using MDF? I know most subwoofer boxes, at least for vehicles, are made out of MDF due to noise (but I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing for this situation, which is the reason why I'm asking). Thanks for your input!
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Welcome! I have a feeling at some point in the next decade I could use your expertise with a grandfather clock repair. Glad to have you here!
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1 hour ago, Kev said:
I'm extremely hesitant to post a link here! Afraid we'll all be the target after that!
Kind of how I'm too scared to google Buck's or Ted's.... lol
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On 2/15/2022 at 4:43 PM, Bushwacked said:
I must be behind ... I have never seen either haha
ditto.
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1 hour ago, Coop said:
Thanks for the reminder. I had heard about the impeller upgrade but had forgotten.
Most people talk about either Wen or Rikon as the main two impeller upgrade options. Hope that helps!
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On 1/19/2022 at 7:23 PM, Coop said:
Kev, I reached out to Chet and he gave me some good advice regarding his setup, which is similar in power with the duct run a little longer than mine will be. I think I will move my unit to the back room and leave it on the mobile base to see how it works before permanently mounting it. His uses 4” black pipe and my current unit also uses 4” . So if I do have to buy a new unit, I guess I will have to change it out to 6”. We’ll see.
Thanks all for your response!
Depending on your amp draw, you could upgrade the impeller for a cheaper solution for more cfm from the HF DC as well. I heard you can contact Wen customer support and may be able to get their impeller which is larger than the HF for like 30-50 dollars. I bought a disassembled HF DC a couple of months ago and I'm still working on getting everything set up for my garage myself
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On 1/7/2022 at 6:07 PM, Coop said:
Welcome Duke to the forum. Where do you call home?
Colorado's Front Range.
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4 minutes ago, Kev said:
Welcome Duke! Happy to have you aboard and thanks for the kind words!
Thanks! My FIL does a lot of what I call "small" woodworking since his expertise is in instrument making, but I'm trying to learn everything that's bigger. I've made some very entry level sofa c-tables and a cheese cutting board. I just want to keep learning more. Be safe down in Louisiana (was reading some other threads)!
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Nice job Kev!