Wfd55

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  1. I know this is a little late in the game but ditto on the poplar. Going to a hardwood dealer is probably your best option which seems to be the way you are leaning. By going to a dealer you will get true 4/4 boards vs. big box at 3/4 which will give you more meat in the finish product. What I have seen with the woodcraft near me in the lumber is expensive. As someone else suggested be sure to bring a tape with you because it won't be nicely trimmed and dimensioned like the box store. As for your planner i also have a delta planer be prepared for snipe and the first and last 4-6 inches of each board may not be usable. I always send my stuff through before I start cutting it to length so I don't end up with pieces that are too small.
  2. Gorgeous what did you finish them with ?
  3. you never know what you will find there. I found some beautiful curly maple there once. I probably could have gotten them to give me a discount because it looked like a really bad planning job.
  4. As Promised now all that is left is cleaning it and putting some finish on it. Again thank you guys for the encouragement I am pretty happy with it and glad i gave it another go.
  5. Thank you guys for the words of encouragement. Every project I take on I try to master a new skill. The mistake I made on the first go was i tried to mix maple saw dust with epoxy so the lines would blend. The result was a weird colored line around it that was not quite smooth. When i showed it to my wife she was not impressed. That is why i came here to see what you guys thought whether or not i should give it another go. I figured the worst case scenario I add it to the scrap pile. This time I glued the inlay in and will fill any gaps with walnut colored fill I will post the results soon.
  6. Not really. One of the issues was that i used epoxy to set the inlay and you could see it around all the edges. you can't really see it in the pic though. So i redid that piece and am trying to decide if I should have another go at the inlay. This is the top which i am very happy with. Also any advice on finish.
  7. I am making a decorative box for someone. First time trying inlay on a project. I am not sure if this is good enough to keep on. Please blow up the picture and give me honest opinions.
  8. Seeing peoples reaction to my projects has been one of the most rewarding things I found in woodworking. The comment "you made this?" is one of the compliments I can get.
  9. I am glad I am not alone on the wobble blade. I acquired 2 of them at some point but have not brought myself to use them. I have a stack set so i think the wobble ones will continue to collect dust.
  10. I have used a card scraper and it is nice especially when you have a weird grain situation. unfortunately the power planner made such a mess with snipe and tear out i had to remove a lot of material to get rid of it.
  11. It all started with a question from the wife "hey why don't you make something for our families for christmas like cutting boards?" My reply "Ok I could do that, cutting boards shouldn't take too long and I could use up the some of the Mahogany and Curly Maple I have laying around" On to the project simple 2 stripe design should be able to bang them out quick. Figuring the boards were close enough as being S4S i cut the parts did the glue ups without milling anything (mistake 1). I left the stripes a little proud of the surface to plane later not a bad plan I thought. I probably rushed the glue up a little trying to "save time" (mistake 2). Not a single one ended up even close to flat. How to fix this, time to pull out the lunchbox planer (small cutting boards mistake 3) lots of snipe and tear out on the Curly Maple. Now the only way I could think to salvage these cutting boards is with hand plane. So I spent several hours chasing my work bench around the shop (next project a work bench) planing the boards flat and saving the cutting boards. They are a little thinner than expected but they will work. The moral of the story, I know this too, never think of it as a quick project where you try to rush and cut corners you will probably pay for it later. I share this story to give the more experienced guys here a chuckle and the newer guys like me someone to share in their misery. Woodworking is still fun even if every experience is not. Please share some of your miserable woodworking moments when you tried to rush or cut corners.
  12. I figure my son is 4, no slap shot yet. The end grain to long grain joint is really a mortise and tenon that goes all the way to the heel. Should be strong enough for him anyway. The professionally made ones use fiberglass on the blade to help reinforce that joint. the wood used is hickory for the shaft poplar for the blade. There are probably better woods for this but that is what i had lying around.
  13. In an another post I read about someone making a lacrosse stick for one of their relatives. I was looking around my shop at all the scraps and was inspired. My son is starting to play hockey so i figured it couldn't be that hard to make a stick so I gave it a shot. Not half bad for scrap wood. Next time I will make the heel a little smaller and if he wants me to make sticks after he chooses righty or lefty i will have to learn that steam bending thing but i am sure by then he will no longer think its cool to have a homemade stick. I am not so sure my wife buys it that I am not a woodworker yet.
  14. Sorry i have not looked at this post in a while but i used 2 coats of gloss and one coat of satin Arm R Seal as a finish.