Projects to keep me off the streets - Fire Department Table, Kayak
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The idiot does very fine work. Loving these updates!!2
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You only post that stuff ^^^^ because you know it makes us tech nerds swoon!
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No point in having cool software if you don't show it off.3
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Completed the end tables today, and made progress on the Greenland paddle.
Cleats glued and doweled into blind holes in the sides.
The tops are glued and doweled vertically into the cleat with screws as extra security.
The one with the most flaws is mine. I drilled a 1" hole in the back of the shelf to allow a power bar for various chargers.
The customer gets the better one. These are my first cabinets. I learned a lot doing these.
And, some work on the paddle.
Ready for shaping
Bandsaw cuts made, marked out for cutting facets with the draw knife..
Lots of lines and angles to lay out,
This is the parts that are not a paddle.
Starting to look like something.
The large spokeshave is a Veritas from Lee valley. You can't beat good tools. Spent an hour sharpening the knives and chisels before starting on a solid three hours of shaping with handtools. No workout needed today.
And, after a long day, a drink of scotch before all hell breaks loose with the weather. 40 to 60 CM expected through the day tomorrow. Got to get to work early, worst conditions locally start at 08:00 till 16:00. Maybe out on a big red truck through the night.
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Amazing artistry.
Stay safe in the weather.
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Finished the paddle tonight after a nap brought on from working 27 hours, a couple fire calls, and cause, well, I am 60.
Contours cut with a spokeshave, then sanded 40,60, 100,220 with Tung oil finish. Nice feel and weight despite being all hardwoods, ash, walnut and cherry blade edges for rock whackin.
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Lovely!1
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All looking impressive!
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I'm making a second paddle to carry as a safety spare. It will break down into two pieces to fit under the bungees behind the cockpit. It's a solid piece of cedar, not snazzy hardwood laminate. Should only take a couple evenings. Did all the initial layout and saw cuts tonight.
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Sawyer! There's a blast from the past. I'm thinking perhaps this is a remnant of the company that used to make some very popular canoes hereabouts. At one point, I nearly bought one (solo boat). Instead, I got a used Wenonah, a somewhat-outdated racing model solo boat, all very light and efficient, that the previous owner had adapted for seated paddling (tractor seat and foot brace) rather than kneeling. Have liked the Wenonahs ever since - this is flatwater country, mostly (lower Michigan). But Sawyer built some nice hulls, of a modern sort, too.1
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I looked up Sawyers parent site, they're still round and have lots of neat stuff. I ordered this part from CLC boats. I went looking for the prt on my side of the future wall 2.0, and found no distributors here, but found Sawler's website, http://www.paddlesandoars.com/2
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Yes. The canoes were built in Oscoda MI by the same Sawyer family that give the current oar/paddle business its name. The canoe company eventually went out of business, sadly for many who were fans of the boats. The oar & paddle people's logo is similar to what was used for the boats, IIRC, which is why I thought they were related. I see there's a bit of history on the web. Nice to know a bit of it lives on!
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My new apprentice, my grandson, and I are busy. Making two paddles, a doll bed for his sister, picked up lumber for his cousin's toy box, and planning kayak builds for him, his sister and other cousin, the 5 year olds.
Greenland paddle blank anthropomorphically sized for the owner.
Accurate layout to within 1/32"
Learning to use some of the safer power tools.
My completed hardwood paddle, and the cedar blanks for our current paddes in progress.
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Ten hour day in the boat shop
My little buddy couldn't make it today, so I worked on a few other projects. Our doll bunk bed and paddle carving will wait for the next time we're working together.
I did all the detailed layout on both our paddles for the spokeshave work. Lots of finicky measurement and close tolerance lines. If one of these is off by as little as 1/32" your kayak could skip off the atmosphere or descend too steeply. Or maybe I got that confused with Apollo 13.
Then I designed, cut and assembled a toy box for my youngest granddaughter. Just waiting for the specialty hinges from Lee Valley, special type for toy boxes.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/hardware/page.aspx…
So much math. My head hurts.
Tenon joints for base to uprights.
16 x 16 x 40
Room for lots of toys from those grandparents who spoil her.
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At one point, Mattel made a talking Barbie doll that said (among other things) "Math is hard" (caused quite a stir). Are you suggesting it should've been the talking Ken doll, instead?So much math. My head hurts.
No, you can't fool us . . . you love this nerd sh- . . . . stuff.
In all due seriousness: That's a beautiful toy chest.
I have a painted blanket chest that my great-grandfather - whom I never met - made, and I value it greatly.
(I also have a fascinating - we never knew- maybe originally tack chest? - that someone made and that was left at the farm my grandparents bought in 1922, when my dad was 5 y/o. When I got it, it was painted with white paint gone cream, with added duckie decals, over the presumably original iron oxide barn paint. I stripped off that layer back to the iron oxide. But that's not what makes it fascinating to me - to me, the features are the 16.5-inch-foot-wide clear pine (I surmise) planks that make up each side, and forged nails (other than some later repairs).)
You're making a wonderful heirloom, something that will be valued by generations you, sadly, may never meet. But they'll know you by your handiwork. Well done.
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Thanks for the comments. I remember that 'dumb Barbie' scandal. We raised two strong, independant minded daughters. They'd have had nothing to do with that sort of thing, and god help anyone who tried to treat them as second class citizens.3
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My father made blanket boxes for my sisters and some of the grandkids. I asked my daughter if she wanted one and she declined. I might ask Dad to make one regardless. Perhaps she will want it one day?
Either that or something smaller... a keepsake and/or heirloom... Dad won't be around forever....
OR I'll have to learn to make one myself. I've tried my hand at woodworking and did okay. To take it to the next level means new tools....3 -
My father made blanket boxes for my sisters and some of the grandkids. I asked my daughter if she wanted one and she declined. I might ask Dad to make one regardless. Perhaps she will want it one day?
Either that or something smaller... a keepsake and/or heirloom... Dad won't be around forever....
OR I'll have to learn to make one myself. I've tried my hand at woodworking and did okay. To take it to the next level means new tools....
New tools are always good .
As a generally crafts-y person, I frequently delude myself into believing that if I buy the tools for some new activity, a bit of raw material, and instructions . . . well, that's utterly equivalent in and of it self to actually being able to do the thing.
Then I try it, and usually decide there might be some practice involved, too.
I think @Farback's been practicing for a while, and it shows. A good example for us all! 3
