Stuff you have made today

[pressbrake1]

I was looking forward to this job. Turned into a minefield,
Not my job. Favor for a contact.
Did drawings and confirmed its green oak.

Been on the defensive from the get go. Get the impression they were expecting dried pse oak and were expecting a kit form.
Not me covering the front garden in sawdust.

Halfway through and I'm asked when I'm putting the diagonal braces in.

What braces says me.

Shown a pencil sketch the surveyor drew.

Not possible to as front crossbeam and posts don't line up.

Were told that once it's been Danish oiled it will match the front door...

I may have laughed.

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A few years ago I got asked to survey measurements for a large stainless and structural glass balcony. I was also asked to quote as they would rather have the designing engineer make it.
Whilst there I saw the chippys ripping up beautiful oak flooring and other joinery out along with some natural stone flooring.
I asked why to be told the wood was too woody and the stone too natural.
I decided not to quote just in case the glass was too translucent and the stainless too metallic

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

A few years ago I got asked to survey measurements for a large stainless and structural glass balcony. I was also asked to quote as they would rather have the designing engineer make it.
Whilst there I saw the chippys ripping up beautiful oak flooring and other joinery out along with some natural stone flooring.
I asked why to be told the wood was too woody and the stone too natural.
I decided not to quote just in case the glass was too translucent and the stainless too metallic

Ripped up an oak floor a few years ago for an insurance job.

Couldn't bare to throw it in the skip. Been making threshold strips out of it for years at 40 quid a pop.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

.....the wood was too woody and the stone too natural.

I'm almost at a loss for words.

 

[Hood]

I'm almost at a loss for words.

I like how you added the "almost"

 

[pressbrake1]

I'm almost at a loss for words.

The lady of the house was a rough old gutter snipe who had bagged a city trader and she was doing her best to waste his money. Her elocution lesson would slip occasionally and she would go full pitsea when no one was looking

 

[Hood]

Not something I made except for the designing and cutting the side rails out on the plasma, also wasn't done today but I just got sent the pics.
This is the staircases I was asked to design, I posted the drawings of it a while back in this thread.
Not great views as seemingly the space is too tight to get back far enough for a decent picture but...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yesterday and this morning was the last part of me being left alone. Both Mrs TYA and Mini Me return.

So apart from shopping what did I do, what did I make?
Coffee.

That ************************** wooden plane is finished.


It is a John Moseley and Son Plane. In the day they were a good make. The blades took a very good edge. The tool works very well.

The Large Gouge.


This tool was destined to be scraped, but it has to much history.
The handle was worm eaten and was brunt. But I took measurements and a replacement was turned from a piece of oak.


The cutting edge was very badly pitted. So in a jury rigged jig was made to hold a slip stone and a new ground and cutting edge put onto it. I also re tempered to edge as well.
Did you know coffee can be used for quenching. Tip. Do not place coffee mug next to mug with water in for quenching.



Leather Pin Wheel.

Easy tool to restore. A clean, a polish and the points on the wheel were dressed.
The brass was a hard material.






A Bunch of chisels.

I acquired this lot as part of a bundle. I really wanted the handles, as they are Box wood. Most modern handles are beech or hickory.



They are glued in using sulphur. It is old fashioned way of gluing handles on. Rock sulphur can be obtained from pet shops or on line.
So I made a rig to hold them into citric acid to de-rust them. The carving tools needed some odd approaches to put a edge on them. They are sharp.

I also got stiches, as posted. Local hospital day surgery. Bigger scar than planned.





This unknown tool. Still not found a name for it, but I think it may be a groove cutter. But no names or if that is correct.





It does cut grooves, but it is a difficult tool to use. The 2 pointed parts clearly had a edge put on them.



Finally.

I made a mess.




I decided to have a alloy melt, so built a fire up, round 3 crucibles and settled back. But it was soon clear I had an issue.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It was clear that the crucibles had broken.



So all I could do was keep the fire hot and let the metal run out. I managed to run out 14kg but as you can see I have "berg" stuck.

 

[Farside]

Whilst there I saw the chippys ripping up beautiful oak flooring and other joinery out along with some natural stone flooring.
I asked why to be told the wood was too woody and the stone too natural.

I wired the electrics and installed UFH in a huge oak barn structure that was tacked on to the back of an unpretentious Georgian farmhouse. Overall, the effect was ok, and the flooring that went down was a lovely type of larch or maple, that would have looked marvellous if finished right.
When I went back the good lady of the house had taken it into her head to roller-wash the floor with white emulsion, deliberately unevenly with a heavily-diluted mix so that it was patchy as hell, in some form of misguided effort to achieve 'instant rural chic' as was the fashion at the time.
I was utterly aghast.
Not only did it not look anything like any rural dwelling floor I've ever seen, it just looked totally crap in its own right. Thousands of quid's worth of effort utterly ruined. That paint would never be got out again.

 

[jordhandson]

It was clear that the crucibles had broken.

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So all I could do was keep the fire hot and let the metal run out. I managed to run out 14kg but as you can see I have "berg" stuck.

Do you have any idea why the crucibles had broken, (damp or un-treated) reason I ask is I have just bought a I think it is a Salamander crucible to do almost the same thing, and wouldn't like the same thing to happen.

Cheers

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Did you know coffee can be used for quenching. Tip. Do not place coffee mug next to mug with water in for quenching.

Best behaviour from today then, now that they've got you outnumbered again.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Do you have any idea why the crucibles had broken, (damp or un-treated) reason I ask is I have just bought a I think it is a Salamander crucible to do almost the same thing, and wouldn't like the same thing to happen.

Cheers

One I am guessing was heat stressed. I think one side hot hotter than the other side and failed that way.
One the bottom just melted and fused with the embers bed.
The last I can find chunks, but not enough tgo make a complete one.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Best behaviour from today then, now that they've got you outnumbered again.

No I will not get found out.

 

[jordhandson]

One I am guessing was heat stressed. I think one side hot hotter than the other side and failed that way.
One the bottom just melted and fused with the embers bed.
The last I can find chunks, but not enough tgo make a complete one.

Ah ok cheers food for thought

 

[slim_boy_fat]

No I will not get found out.

Unless we blab......

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Ah ok cheers food for thought

 

[jordhandson]

Ive just had another Thort was you crucibles graphite or metal

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Unless we blab......

I know were you live.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Ive just had another Thort was you crucibles graphite or metal

Fire clay coated metal for 2 and the third was metal only.

 

[jordhandson]

Fire clay coated metal for 2 and the third was metal only.

Cheers that will explain a lot thanks