Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Mayhem]

Very nice Ed.

Isn't it suppose to have two DI's and only one spindle rod though? I want to come to the dumpsters that throw out DI's.

[EdK]

(03-31-2017, 07:31 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Very nice Ed.  

Isn't it suppose to have two DI's and only one spindle rod though?  I want to come to the dumpsters that throw out DI's.

No, I can do it with just one DI. Some people need two but I guess I'm old school.

Ed

[f350ca]

Thought I'd try being a cooper. Didn't bend the staves but sawed the inside and outside curves after cutting the angles on the sides.




The jig I used on the bandsaw to cut a 48 inch radius.



Now need to make the bands. Thought maybe make them out of metal banding but silver solder the joint rather than using the regular clips.

[awemawson]

Looks great, but I thought that the idea was not to penetrate the grain so the contents don't soak into the wood anything like as much? By bandsawing the shape you inevitably are crossing the grain and leaving the microscopic tubes exposed.

[f350ca]

That makes sense Andrew, would be the same as split shakes vs sawed shingles.
Doubt this one will ever get wet though. A lady wants it made to put cards in at a wedding reception. I just build the stuff.

[f350ca]

Rounded out with a hand plane and spoke shave then sanded.

[Mayhem]

Very nice Greg - Initially, I was thinking that you might have been planning to go over Niagara Falls in it for a bit of a laugh

[f350ca]

No but just spoke to my nephew today about white water rafting during the spring runoff here.

[Roadracer_Al]

Lovely work as usual, Greg.

I had the good fortune to see a barrell making demonstration at the Port Townsend WA wooden boat festival.

Coopers have a fascinating and unique set of tools.

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[Pete O]

I've managed to get a few hours on the shaper to dig a trench in the chunk of forklift tyne that will become some QCTP holders.
I made a couple of grooves with a parting tool to give me vertical sides to work to, plunged cuts with the parting tool cut nicely, I took a couple of photos of that but seem to have misplaced them.
I used a round-nosed tool working from side to side between the narrow slots. This necessitated a plunge cut at each side of the trench, the tool chattered heaps on the plunge cut, plunging .010" in 3 strokes but cut smoothly as I fed across. I moved the feed screw manually across the cut from side to side, plunge with the topslide then feed back the other way.
First photo shows the rough finish from the round-nose tool with a .010"-.012" depth of cut and moving across about .060"-.080" per pass. I took a .005" depth of cut and nudged the feedscrew about .010" or so per stroke for the final few passes as I approached depth, got a decent enough finish. You can also just see the round-nose tool, it's mounted in a lathe Armstrong holder (I don't have any shaper ones), I left the top flat, put a radius on it and gave it some relief all around.
   
   
   
This took hours. Would have been a lot quicker to do this in the horizontal mill but I wanted to do the dovetail work without disturbing the setup. I'm sure there are quicker ways of achieving this in the shaper too but I'm yet to learn them. Not a bad way to while away a few hours anyway.

Next job is to grind a double-ended dovetail tool and cut the sides out of the trench.