Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

[Barrels4miles]

There's some posted on the Sunday pic of the day thread, and my Instagram feed is only ceramics. Glad to have another mudder on the board! There's a few of us.

We can let the glue sniffers & varnish lickers have their thread back.

https://www.instagram.com/shanel.pottery?igsh=MXV5aG5ibnNyNnhveA==&utm_source=qr

Not sure if that worked- but that’s mine. Just followed you. (I’m not a techie)

 

[Barrels4miles]

https://www.instagram.com/shanel.pottery?igsh=MXV5aG5ibnNyNnhveA==&utm_source=qr

Not sure if that worked- but that’s mine. Just followed you. (I’m not a techie)

Oops https://www.instagram.com/shanel.pottery?igsh=MXV5aG5ibnNyNnhveA==&utm_source=qr

 

[Ben Lamb]

Oops https://www.instagram.com/shanel.pottery?igsh=MXV5aG5ibnNyNnhveA==&utm_source=qr

Followed.

Lovely forms!

 

[Redmt]

Would we call this thread Potting Hunttalkers? Or is there a better word for it?

You could call it HT Pot Heads.

 

[44hunter45]

Oops https://www.instagram.com/shanel.pottery?igsh=MXV5aG5ibnNyNnhveA==&utm_source=qr

Followed.

Lovely forms!

You two make me want to get the wheel out of storage. I don't have a kiln though. MRS' dad was a high school ceramics teacher for decades.

Am I the only one who has zoomed in enough to read the Kreiger Barrels Inc. on that T-shirt? Watch out @Barrels4miles, you will be really popular with this crowd. Welcome!

 

[hank4elk]

Retired the wheel 40 years ago. Still have a couple pots.

Porches finally built. Ponderosa from the Gila. Full size lumber with saw marks. Rails and steps left to do. I'll stain it all next year.

 

[Kaitum]

I turned a pile of wine barrel staves into an end grain butcher block. I was hoping for something bigger but ran out of wood. Probably for the better as this one is close to 35 lbs. This project used more glue and required more sanding than I care to do again for a long while. I still have one or two more coats of oil to apply but can't wait to load it up with cured meats, cheeses, and every other gout inducing food.

 

[Dan-06]

That’s neat

 

[Wolfshead]

We lost my Brother In-law last December, and my wife asked if I could come up with something for his ashes….

 

[Dan-06]

Almost done

 

[Kaitum]

Finished a gift box for a friend. I like them enough that I'll include the liquor. Some Pennsylvania cherry I've been moving around the west for the last 20 years.

 

[Wolfshead]

Beautiful!
Those dovetails are prefect!
I’ve never been able to make them work for me.
That is an awesome gift!

 

[SWNMELK]

My second grandson has finally grown out of the crib and wanted a tractor for Christmas

 

[BenP]

Made the last Christmas present yesterday. Going to put a bar in the middle for them to hang on too, the middle child likes to do pull ups and flips.

 

[tarheel]

Made the last Christmas present yesterday. Going to put a bar in the middle for them to hang on too, the middle child likes to do pull ups and flips.
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That flat sandy loam makes me homesick. You're definitely located East of the fall line.

 

[BenP]

That flat sandy loam makes me homesick. You're definitely located East of the fall line.

Oh yeah elevation change of 5 foot in 1 mile.

 

[blackbeard]

Picture frames turned out ok. Never done it before. Barnwood from the father-in-laws falling down barn.

 

[jason66]

We've dabbled in timber frames and log homes.
Here's a small church... disclaimer: Only machined (tooled/notched) the timbers on our CNC machine.

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And a log home:

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awesome skills

 

[TheBenHoyle]

I made a handle for a pizza cutter a a Christmas Present for my mom.




The wood is from a pear tree that was in my backyard when I moved to my house in 2010. I took the tree down and saved a Buch of wood. This piece looked like a handle so I made it into one. No lathe work, just rasping and whittling and sanding.

I also made a couple salad forks for my sister. She collects gingerbread man themed stuff, so I made the handles look like gingerbread men.




I made these out of some walnut I got from someone I know who builds and maintains church organs. It was a scrap from one of their projects. I made a template out of 1/4" plywood and after I cut the rough shape out with a jigsaw I used a router with a bearing bit to trim down to the template. There was a decent amount of whittling to finish it up and a lot of sanding to smooth it all down.

This fall I picked up some branch sections from my neighbor from a Smokebush in his yard. The wood grain is very pretty and a vibrant yellow.



I decided that I should try making a wooden spoon out of this wood and while it was a lot more work than the salad forks, I really enjoyed it and I am pretty happy with the result.




I rough-shaped another spoon but I have a lot of sanding to do to finish that off. Really enjoying the whittling and carving and I have enough wood to make probably a dozen more of these.

I'm also trying to get some other stuff made for my daughter's high school winter guard team. But I am almost done with that and maybe I can then shift gears to make more spoons and such. It takes a bit of a toll on my wrists and hands so I can't do it for hours on end, but possibly I will learn some things and it will get a little easier.

 

[BrentD]

I think I posted a photo of this bowl on the lathe.

Well, I finished it and decided to us it tonight for a meal of Wild Turkey Korma Curry over rice. The bowl is spalted walnut from my backyard, and the spoons are carved from an apple tree in the backyard orchard







I put the bowl down on the table and turned my back to grab the salt when heard a sharp snap. The heat expansion on the wood snapped a nice crack down the side.