What are you building with your milled wood?

[Eduardo K]

I needed a workbench and a project to distract me from my job. I milled this poplar in the fall. Surprisingly it only took six months to get the MC to 9%. It will be staying in the garage where the humidity matches the outdoors and I expect it to take a beating. I figure I’ll know more about what I want from a work bench in the next six or so months and start a new design. Long story short, I was after a roubo split top style work bench, only I miscalculated what I needed to mill from the start. Inexperience with stacking, stickering , and species lead to losses that resulted in a narrower, non-split top.
This is a shot of the dry fit. The through mortises are tight enough to leave as is. I still am not sure if and how I could wedge it together so it could be disassembled or if I should glue it up. At the very least I still need to trim and wedge the tenons coming through the top and set up a router sled to flatten it. She looks incredible from five feet out, closer in and you’ll see the mistakes of a newb.

 

[stretch5881]

I needed a workbench and a project to distract me from my job. I milled this poplar in the fall. Surprisingly it only took six months to get the MC to 9%. It will be staying in the garage where the humidity matches the outdoors and I expect it to take a beating. I figure I’ll know more about what I want from a work bench in the next six or so months and start a new design. Long story short, I was after a roubo split top style work bench, only I miscalculated what I needed to mill from the start. Inexperience with stacking, stickering , and species lead to losses that resulted in a narrower, non-split top.
This is a shot of the dry fit. The through mortises are tight enough to leave as is. I still am not sure if and how I could wedge it together so it could be disassembled or if I should glue it up. At the very least I still need to trim and wedge the tenons coming through the top and set up a router sled to flatten it. She looks incredible from five feet out, closer in and you’ll see the mistakes of a newb.

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We were all newbs once. When you start building, you start learning from making mistakes, and fixing them. Even experienced make mistakes.
If the tenons are tight, I would leave it, if it's temporary. You can always glue it up later.

 

[kneedeepinsaws]

Mmm yes well not a work of art such as @Eduardo K but functional a bench in front of the fire pit

 

[Guido Salvage]

View attachment 345780 Mmm yes well not a work of art such as @Eduardo K but functional a bench in front of the fire pit

That looks like a pine bench, I suspect folks will have sap sticking to them when they sit down.

 

[kneedeepinsaws]

That looks like a pine bench, I suspect folks will have sap sticking to them when they sit down.

That is sapless pine

 

[kneedeepinsaws]

That is sapless pine

Uh ah a species that only grows in oil country.

 

[drf256]

I made a table out of some black walnut I milled in 2020. Made an aluminum frame, as this will be outside only.

Boiled linseed oil finish.

 

[drf256]

The finished product.

Made adjustable feet out of 3” aluminum stock I had bought to make 2 piece chainsaw heads out of.

 

[Squareground3691]

The finished product.

Made adjustable feet out of 3” aluminum stock I had bought to make 2 piece chainsaw heads out of.

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Great job !!

 

[Guido Salvage]

Another bridge, this one is over 15’ shorter than the last one.

 

[stretch5881]

My thumb is kind of usable again, so I finished the closet today. Closet rods yet and she can load it. She's tickled with it.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Dang Eduardo,
That is a nice bench! Very nice work!

Built an 8 ft tall standing canoe paddle from Alaskan birch couple weaks, to muscle around a 22 ft canoe.

Brought it to a point, so the blade won't slip when I need to jam it into a river bank or into shallow creek gravel.

Tapered on the planer, coated with teak oil.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Drf256,
Amazing the welds bud. I have no welding equipment, so always have to pay skilled metal fab guys like you, to do my transom & bow metal fabrication.

 

[Eduardo K]

What do you have mounted on said transom? I’ve seen duck hunting rigs with similar prop setups, like go devils, I’m just having a tough time figuring out the drive type and size dimensions from the pic. I’m guessing that’s a four to five footish beam on that boat (referencing the osb on the ground)?
I had a buddy who was a salmon guide up there. He said he’d run up to 60 miles a day in a jet boat getting his clients on fish. He said his rig could do 40 knots in a puddle, basically if it looked like water it was navigable, as long as he was on plane.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Eduardo,
Yep, similar to go-devil but lighter Simpler. Not to mention, dmn flawless welding and metal fab like dr256's:

Backwater swomp lite

 

[rogue60]

Got some Australian Rosewood out of my timber stash I cut this timber well over 15 years ago.
Am going to make a few shelves.
I guess Rosewood got it's name as the timber smells exactly like roses has a beautiful smell when working with it.

 

[thedude74]

Built a barn with a mix of chainsaw milled and bandsaw milled spruce.

 

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[Master Bud II]

Got some Australian Rosewood out of my timber stash I cut this timber well over 15 years ago.
Am going to make a few shelves.
I guess Rosewood got it's name as the timber smells exactly like roses has a beautiful smell when working with it.

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That Is Some Simply Beautiful Aged Rosewood, Just A Simple Oil Finish, Set it out in the Sun Towards the End of drying, Let that Sun Gently Warm up that Wood to help crystallize the oil Deep into the Wood Fiber, & When it Can't Take Any More Oil. Wipe it Down With A Clean Dry Cloth, and Get As Much oil off as Possible. and Place it in A Warm, Dry, clean area, preferably with Decent sunlight, But Not Burning Hot Late Afternoon sun. When you're relatively Certain the oil is Fully Curred, Wipe it Down once, or twice more, Then a Final Wax paste coat, a buff and Done, and that initial treatment should last a minimum of 5 years before you have to do anything unless you live in really f***** up environment.

 

[Master Bud II]

I Really Like the Plank on the Right, Followed by the Far left, The Center is Nice, but plain in comparison.