Dr.Al
Old Oak
I'm not sure what I planned to make today, but it certainly wasn't this...
Today I made some bookmarks:
There's a bit of a back story to these (although it's probably not very interesting!) A year or two ago when we were emptying out my father-in-law's house & sheds, we came across four lumps of wood coated in something like creosote. We weren't sure what they were but I couldn't bring myself to chuck them out so I brought them home. Here's two of them:
Having taken a hand-plane to the top surface of one of them, I realised it's actually quite nice wood:
I posted some pictures (with sapele, oak, iroku & red oak next to the wood for reference) on the other forum and the consensus was that it's greenheart.
Anyway, today I was slicing one of the blocks up into a few pieces and went a bit awry with the hand saw so one of the pieces was a lot thinner than planned (and rather tapered across the width
). Following a conversation on another thread, I thought I'd do an experiment and see how thin I could successfully machine a bit of wood using my thicknesser (billw had commented that he wouldn't dare go down as low as 2 mm).
I passed the thin piece through the thicknesser (taped down to a sled) over and over again until the first time bits started to chip away. This is what it looked like then: you can see where it's started to chip out on the right and where there's a hole in the top-left.
I measured the thickness all the way round the edge and it's between 0.5 mm and 0.6 mm (I guess my thicknesser doesn't cut quite square).
I didn't really have anything to do with this thin piece, so I thought I'd cut it up into bookmark shaped pieces, treat with a couple of coats of Danish Oil (the photo at the top is after the first coat) and then my other half and her two siblings can have one each (since the wood came from their late father's shed, it seemed to me to be a nice gesture).
Today I made some bookmarks:
There's a bit of a back story to these (although it's probably not very interesting!) A year or two ago when we were emptying out my father-in-law's house & sheds, we came across four lumps of wood coated in something like creosote. We weren't sure what they were but I couldn't bring myself to chuck them out so I brought them home. Here's two of them:
Having taken a hand-plane to the top surface of one of them, I realised it's actually quite nice wood:
I posted some pictures (with sapele, oak, iroku & red oak next to the wood for reference) on the other forum and the consensus was that it's greenheart.
Anyway, today I was slicing one of the blocks up into a few pieces and went a bit awry with the hand saw so one of the pieces was a lot thinner than planned (and rather tapered across the width
). Following a conversation on another thread, I thought I'd do an experiment and see how thin I could successfully machine a bit of wood using my thicknesser (billw had commented that he wouldn't dare go down as low as 2 mm).I passed the thin piece through the thicknesser (taped down to a sled) over and over again until the first time bits started to chip away. This is what it looked like then: you can see where it's started to chip out on the right and where there's a hole in the top-left.
I measured the thickness all the way round the edge and it's between 0.5 mm and 0.6 mm (I guess my thicknesser doesn't cut quite square).
I didn't really have anything to do with this thin piece, so I thought I'd cut it up into bookmark shaped pieces, treat with a couple of coats of Danish Oil (the photo at the top is after the first coat) and then my other half and her two siblings can have one each (since the wood came from their late father's shed, it seemed to me to be a nice gesture).
