Woodworkers of Head Case unite!

[luvdunhill]

1 hour ago, swt61 said:

Short answer... not really. 

Heat and steam, but not sure how you'd accomplish that on a 16' board.

I suppose I can’t park my car on it for a few days and be successful? 

[swt61]

If you get really wet, then park your car on it. Worth a try.

[n_maher]

It's PT, warping is what it does.  

[swt61]

7 hours ago, swt61 said:

If you get really wet, then park your car on it. Worth a try.

Just re-read. I wasn't suggesting a wet t shirt contest. Get the board wet, not yourself. 

But Nate is right.

[luvdunhill]

Ok, thanks! I will just have to do then.

[Voltron]

Milo & Otis took a big step towards enclosing the new shop today. We framed two of the three walls with rough openings for double doors and a 4x4 window. All studs are old growth straight grain Douglas Fir that I salvaged from the house my brother is about to tear down. Straight and sound and fun to work with. Tomorrow we will build the third wall on the floor and then plop it into place with the sheathing and clapboards already on it because there is no room to work between the rock wall and the framing over on that side.

 

[swt61]

It's such a treat to work with straight and true lumber again, and normally I don't like anything straight. 😋

I also like that it's going to look like it's always been that way. And if the shop ever goes away, we can just cut a door into the back wall, because there's a bedroom and full bath behind the garage. Put in a kitchenette, and you have another goldmine Fairfax rental.

Or put an aging Carpenter up in his old age. 🤪

[dsavitsk]

3 hours ago, Voltron said:

 

 

2 hours ago, swt61 said:

It's such a treat to work with straight and true lumber again

A nice trick - soft wood is plain sawn from trees just big enough to yield a 2x12. The 2x12's are taken across the middle with the 2x4's from the edge. Those edge pieces are the most likely to warp, but if you take a 2x12 and turn it into 3 2x4's, the two from the outside edges are effectively quarter sawn and are much more likely to be stable.

 

[swt61]

That's why I'm engineering Square trees.

[dsavitsk]

 

[Voltron]

For those playing along at home, the short wall to the right is in and all the sheathing is on. I got the copper door pan today but won't put that in place permanently quite yet. 

 

[swt61]

Looking great!

[swt61]

I love that you named your door pan Karl!

(zoom in)

[blessingx]

Looking slick Al 

Edited October 12, 2021 by blessingx

[Voltron]

Built most of a cyclone dust collector. Details and some duct work tomorrow.

[mikeymad]

I keep looking for the wall with all the beer taps. 

[Craig Sawyers]

I've a similar cyclone (mine is plastic) bolted to the side of my shop vac. Amazing thing - all the machine tool shavings, including fine dust, end up in the cyclone, and nothing in the shop vac. So the filters in the vac don't get blocked up, and it retains maximum suction.

But mine is passive. Yours seems to be a powered one?

Yup - same make as yours but this one https://www.oneida-air.com/dust-deputy-deluxe-cyclone-separator-kit

Edited October 13, 2021 by Craig Sawyers

[swt61]

My previous dust collection system didn't use cyclone technology. At that time spongy membrane technology was the state of the art.

[VPI]

Have my dad watching estate sales for woodworking stuff. Got a score tonight with a Supermax 25-50 sander for a whopping $400. Looks to be almost new from the pics. The auction house listed it as a Shopsmith as the guy had a ton of that stuff so no one was watching it. 
 

 

[Augsburger]

Please let me know if your Dad finds a wine collection for sale at that kind of discount.

[VPI]

Comes with the $175 tables and $110 digital gauge as well. 

[swt61]

That's definitely a nice unit. Some people think that a wide belt sander will do the job of a planer. It will not, but as a very effective way to sand things, it's fantastic, but it'll never take away 1/8" of material. At least not in less than 24 hours and several expensive sanding belts.

[VPI]

Cabinet shop going out of business 5 miles from the house. Can get all of this for $400. 
All at least 4/4 outside of a few scraps. Oak, Walnut, Sapele and Maple from what I can tell. 

 

[swt61]

That's multiple thousands of dollars worth of wood. Take it all!

[VPI]

The issue is…I have nowhere at all to store all this 10-14’ hardwood. I know it is a great deal. But I cannot even store the wood I have.