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Amp6 Basic Portable Enclosure

craig — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:12:16 +0000

Woody had enclosed his Amp6 Basic that I soldered for him into a plastic case. After having wood case envy, he asked me if I could make a case for his Amp6 out of wood, that was a bit smaller than mine. So I did. See the pictures for my results. The wood is Anigre and an unidentifed species of wood that I salvaged off a pallet from work. 2 coats of high gloss Tung Oil is the finish.

Load Block Project

craig — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:47:19 +0000

A co-worker of mine asked if I could make him a glued-up block of hardwood for a specific work application. For my company’s yearly trade show (AAOS), they were demoing the amount of force that is applied to one of our knee products during a knee replacement surgery. The block of wood was to go between the knee joint and the load cell (which measures the amount of force used to insert the joint onto the existing leg bones). I made the block of wood 3 3/8 square and 1 foot long, and it was made with three pieces of anigre glued together with Elmer’s Polyurethane Glue (which is similar to Gorilla Glue). He finished it off by bandsawing the correct shape to fit the knee joint and coated it with a satin spray poly finish.

Stool Sample

craig — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:10:57 +0000

So it has been a request of my wife for a while to make a stool for my son. This is what I came up with. After trolling the internet looking for appropriate “samples” for a stool, I happened upon a nifty design similar to the one I made pictured. It has a movable smaller step, which converts the whole thing into a chair with a back. The movable step is made from walnut, with poplar plugs, and the body of the stool made from oak plywood, with walnut plugs. It has been glued, and screwed together, so it is very sturdy. It is finished with a non-toxic Danish Oil finish from Tried and True

Plant Stand

craig — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:50:42 +0000

So for Christmas, my mother in law wanted a plant stand. I had previously done a plant stand for my brother, which was cherry with tapered legs.
I decided to do something a bit different this time, so I got some salvaged pallet wood I had been saving, and got to work. It’s shaping up to be a pretty cool plant stand, with remnants of the pallet wood, like nail holes. I think the wood is african mahogany. I shaped the legs on the band saw, then used my spindle sander to smooth them down. The stand top is glued up pieces of the wood, and the crossbeams are fixed using glue and pocket hole screws. The finish I used is Maloof’s oil and poly mix, with a topcoat of Johnson’s Paste Wax.

The Spokeshave Project

craig — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:08:37 +0000

So here it is. My next tool. And it works too. I made a spokeshave. It cuts fine shavings with a small adjustment of the blade, easily done with two brass screws underneath the blade, after loosening the blade from its brass knobs.

The brass pieces were milled for me by someone at my job, who works in our prototype shop. I filed them a bit for the tool to work properly, and then sanded them down using progressively finer grits of silicon carbide paper up to 1000 grit. Then I used some polishing compound on a buffing wheel on my grinder, and made them very shiny. I then coated the brass with a bit of spray lacquer so they won’t tarnish.

The body of the tool was made from African Sapele, and the finish was two coats of tung oil, followed by Johnson’s Paste Wax. The blade was obtained from Hock Tools, and came ready for use. A very fine blade made by an expert, and the service from Hock was among the best I’ve worked with.

The tool plans themselves were from an issue of Shopnotes (my favorite woodworking magazine.)

Rout About

craig — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:17:10 +0000

So I built a new router table. I got the plans from an issue of Shopnotes, and decided to make it with Sandeply due to cost reasons (1/2 birch is not readily available in my area). I made the deluxe version, with stand, drawers and a door. The only problem I came up against was the casework was a bit flimsy out of 1/2 plywood, and I decided to use nails instead of just glue as the plans called for. Then after assembling it, the case was still racking, so I added screws. Voila! It solved the racking issues.

I added extras including miter gauge track, t-track on the fence, I enlarged the bit opening to 2″ from 1 3/8″, added a power switch, and I plan on putting doors on the front of the router cabinet to enclose the router a bit further while in use.

Things still left to do are finishing with shellac (for durable finish), waxing the hardboard top, finding a nice grommet for the router power plug opening, and adding some leveling feet to the lower case.

Bad Case of the Shingles – For the Birds

craig — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:18:00 +0000

Feb 18th, 2006:
So I’m now working on a birdfeeder. It required shingles on the siding, just like a regular house. Suffice to say, I won’t be doing shingles on my house. After cutting each little piece from a block of nice mahogany, I epoxied them on one by one. More pictures, and maybe some action shots (complete with birdies) coming soon.

Feb 27, 2006:
Birdie Birdie up so high,
Why’d you do that in my eye,
Gee Gosh Thank God that cows can’t fly….

So I finished my bird feeder. What I can’t understand is why they aren’t coming to eat. Don’t they think the lovely mahogany shingles are da bomb? What about the fine cypress and plywood and cedar construction?

It’s For The Birds I guess.

Update February 28th, 2006: WE HAVE BIRDIES! Confirmed birdie sighting!

Speaker Adapters – I Can’t Stand It Anymore

craig — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:20:58 +0000

Feb 16th, 2006:
Here are some pictures of Woody’s project in progress from the workshop of Bushwood.

What is it you ask? Well, you’ll just have to find out…..

Feb 18th, 2006:
So I finished Woody’s speaker “adapters” for his Reference 3A speakers. I tried my hand at a gloss finish, but I’m not very good at spray paint. However, I am happy with the way they turned out. I hope you enjoy them Woody.

New Bushwood Projects

craig — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:23:40 +0000

I had a chance to work on some new projects over the weekend. Got some nifty stuff done. I made a first shot at a wooden USB key. I took a cheapie USB key I had, and made a wooden “shell” for it. I also made some marking knives with some O-1 tool steel I had obtained from a friend of mine. He works in a prototype shop, and milled the knives for me, and then hardened them to Rockwell RC50. I took them home, and shined them up a bit.

I plan on modding some other USB keys that I have into wooden ones as well.