Woodworking tip

[Zulu]

Here is a great tip.  Everyone I have ever talked to about the subject of waxing their table saw top or any top in their workshop all used paste wax.  Paste wax does a great job.  I use wax paper.  Get the roll of wax paper out of your pantry and tear off a 12" piece.  Wad it up and polish your table top with it for 60 seconds.  Open it and re-wad it once during that 60 seconds.  It will make your table top as slick as any paste wax without the mess.
Try it once and you will never go back.  Let me know how it works for you.
Zulu

[GRIMJIM]

That's a great idea. Maybe we should make a sticky forum for tips and tricks.

[Zulu]

I'd just be happy to see some other people posting.  Anything!   I know they are out there from the viewing count, but I can't get them in.
Zulu

[GRIMJIM]

It is a little slow here. A lot of lurkers and not a lot of posts. I do this everyday but only find a few jobs postworthy. Mostly just cabinets , countertops and panels.

I need to make some more grips or something.

[Graybeard]

I read here but seldom post. I'm afraid my wood working skills are limited to using a skilsaw to cut 2x lumber and even then I can't cut a straight line. My few projects are hardly photogenic and are limited to what would be called carpentry but a real carpenter would laugh themselves silly at my efforts.

[Dirt Bag]

   Yer right Grim..... Guess I should post more stuff, but the only shavings we make now days are from gunstocks. Don't have much for pictures of our other past projects. Will see what we can come up with.
    Zulu, you do some sweet work there, what with blending the wood and wrought iron together like that. And yes, we should use this forum a lot more than we do. Enjoy reading all of your posts.... and the pictures.
                                                            Best;
                                                                      D.B.

[Dirt Bag]

 OK-----  This happened to be handy, so we grabbed it, and put one of our prized old Sweetheart block planes on it to show scale. We made up some of these at one time to use up scraps .... this one was made out of Red Elm board that we brought home just to see how it would work. Kind of stringy stuff, but pretty and plenty hard enough for cutting boards or chopping blocks.

   (Wish I could take good pictures)  The last ones were made out of maple......Gave them away for Christmas presents and such. This one was the prototype. So we kept it. Nice to set it in the middle of the table with a big chunk of deer sausage on it when we have company over. But as we all know, wooden cutting boards and blocks aint sanitary anymore... Supposed to use that white plastic stuff.
                                Have a good one all;
                                                                  D.B.
  P.S.  Can we put stockmaking stuff on here Grim? Or would that be better suited to Gunsmithing forum.

[Dirt Bag]

     Anybody else here into collecting and using antique woodworking tools? Again how 'bout it Grim? Tool forum?? 

[Graybeard]

Any type wood work photos are fine here.

Would be OK to talk about wood working tools here as well but if other than wood working then would be better on tool forum. We're not real hard and fast on such matters.

[Dirt Bag]

   Thanx Graybeard.... 
        Any of you guys use stuff like this???  Old as they are, they still can get it done. And are a pleasure to use when sharp and set right.

    Just wonderin'......
  Who's next?

[Zulu]

Dirt Bag,
Those are neat.  How do you plug them in?   I pretty much just use power tools.  Looks like I shamed some folks into posting.
Its nice to see some action on this site.  There are some "other" woodworking forums with a lot of traffic.  I'd like to see that here.
I'll keep posting as long as someone's looking
Zulu

Here is my desk I made several years ago.  It has over 400 pieces of wood in it and is held together entirely by wooden pegs.

[Bucker]

I am just starting into woodworking. My dad never did this type of stuff and I am learning as I go. I migt be a lurker, but that's okay, i am limited on time w/ my daughter doing sports, 4H (6 animal projects, housed at 3 barns) and work.  So if I get a moment to myself and I'm not shooting, I do this.  I built a chicken tractor for the backyard, don't know if that counts.  Have built 2 of them, a friend of ours is a single Mom and I told her if she got her kids into 4H I would build one for her. So don't sell your posts short is what I'm saying.  That waxed paper is a common sense thing I would never have thought of.............Keep on guys and thanks.

[Dirt Bag]

  Will try to send more pictures of some of the different stuff we have tried. This was the last really big chainsaw job. Was for the doctor who put my hands back together (tablesaw, jointer, utility knife and the worst one was from a chainsaw) many times. He had just retired when we carved it, and was there to see it come out of the tree day by day. Is probably the best we ever did - heart and soul.

  Have to put the pictures up one at a time - still haven't figured out how to gang up a string of them.
                                                 Have a good one;
                                                                            D.B.

[Dirt Bag]

  Roughed this one out with the chainsaws and then brought into the kitchen to put in some details with the chisles. One of the small ones we made to donate to the causes.

[Dirt Bag]

Looking from the west side . This stuff always has a "best side".

[Dirt Bag]

   Have said many times that the gunstock carving is the toughest type of woodworking - and for us has been the most satisfying.

  Thats all we can come up with for now. Let's see some more pictures...
                                                               D.B.

[Zulu]

Dirt Bag,
Those are great!  I've never tried my hand at carving.  Much less with a chainsaw.  Don't you know you are supposed to hold that thing by the handle and not the chain?   Be careful!  This hobby is most rewarding with all your fingers attached>
When you do a gunstock, how do you know how to carve to best seat the barrel?  I imagine it has to be really fine tuned.
Zulu

[Zulu]

OK-----  This happened to be handy, so we grabbed it, and put one of our prized old Sweetheart block planes on it to show scale. We made up some of these at one time to use up scraps .... this one was made out of Red Elm board that we brought home just to see how it would work. Kind of stringy stuff, but pretty and plenty hard enough for cutting boards or chopping blocks.

   (Wish I could take good pictures)  The last ones were made out of maple......Gave them away for Christmas presents and such. This one was the prototype. So we kept it. Nice to set it in the middle of the table with a big chunk of deer sausage on it when we have company over. But as we all know, wooden cutting boards and blocks aint sanitary anymore... Supposed to use that white plastic stuff.
                                Have a good one all;
                                                                  D.B.

Did you turn those feet on that?  I like it!  When the ones I make start to get cut up, I just run them through the planer and they are brand new again.   Of course you can only do that so many times.
Zulu
  P.S.  Can we put stockmaking stuff on here Grim? Or would that be better suited to Gunsmithing forum.

[Dirt Bag]

Zulu..... The legs started out as layered up square stock twice as long as the ones that make up the rest of the top. We turned the foot portion on the bottom half of them - kerfed them at the junction first on the table saw so as not to tear out. All had been surfaced, and sized, and ready to glue up. The dowells we put in for looks and to cover the hole that the live center made. Got the tops dead flat with a plane, and then just a roundover bit in a router.
    At one time Stanley made a "toothing Iron" for their low angle plane, to be used to freshen up the tops of chopping blocks. Shaving end grain will raise hell with a sharp iron real fast.

[Zulu]

Dirt Bag,
Stock making is woodwork.  I'm sure you can put it on here.  I'm interested in how you do it.  If anyone says anything, just tell them I said it was okay.
Zulu