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Where are the wood workers????
Just to find out if theres anyone else on here who loves to play with wood. :rofl:
But seriously. Anyone?
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
Are you kidding?? Building things is what I love to do! :D I hope to start a business building racks and cages.
I also love carving and woodburning, but haven't been able to do those in a long time. :)
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
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Originally Posted by Argentra
Are you kidding?? Building things is what I love to do! :D I hope to start a business building racks and cages.
I also love carving and woodburning, but haven't been able to do those in a long time. :)
Nice! Same here. Not a buisness. Thats one of the things im contemplating doing is something with wooooood for a living. If i ever came to needing a rack I would deffiantley build it myself.
Carving is cool ive never done any real carving, and woodburning I have a woodburning pen but i havent used it yet. Nothing good to burn. I have a lathe. thats about what I do now a days since I cant be in shop class anymore.
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
Yup, I love building stuff. It's been a slow summer in my wood shop (garage) though with my wife being laid off from work, we don't have a lot of money to play with. I think my next project though will be a new bed frame for us...
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
My father as a hobby is a woodworker. He even has a 1100 sqf workshop.
In fact here are the display boxes we made for BP.net to do shows. :D
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...morphs/box.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...orphs/box1.jpg
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
Yep currently i am working with my other son building an end table with built in t.v trays out of cherry. Next is an entertainment center for the den. Allong with rat racks snake racks etc that we always seem to need more of.
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
the skulls are wood (basic stuff but still wood) and i made the frame from trim.
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...37945ff8ce.jpg
the center part was once a 2X4. carved with a dremel...which will kill the dremel BTW...painted with nail polish. frame also made from trim.
http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...c84f46e95f.jpg
i am currently working on another wood piece....something ive never seen before so im excited about it!!
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
This is one of my favorite hobbies. Since we moved into our new house last year I have turned my garage into a mini wood shop. Only thing big I have built in a while is my cabinet makers bench and some basic utilitarian stuff for the house. I did build this cage for my boas tho. Made it entirely out of scrap wood. I need to get better photos of it some time.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2...s/IMG_0485.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2...s/IMG_0489.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2...s/IMG_0479.jpg
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
Here's the snake cage I've been working on (used to be a fireplace there). I'm an amature woodworker. I really enjoy fabrication of all types.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../Photo0089.jpg
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
Thoes look nice. I have no shop... I used my school shop now all I have is my lathe in our garage :D
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Originally Posted by Lucas339
Cool! that 2x4 one is really cool. Ive never tried carving, with anything lol.
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Originally Posted by DM1975
Thats a good use of scrap wood! It turned out pretty nice too. You cant beat something you made yourself. Id rather make something then buy it anyday. (scrap wood) I bet you cant beat the price for a double stacked cage :D
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Originally Posted by orphan
That looks really nice too. Thats cool how it opens up in all the different places. So its in the wall? Thats a good use of space! lol. Doesnt take up anyroom for you. Are you going to put on something that keeps the doors closed? Like locks/ latches.
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
I just started building my first wooden fishing lure.. a lipless through-wire swimbait.
minimal tooling.. just some hand tools (hand saw, leatherman etc) and a dremel.
I've got the lure carved, cut into 3 jointed pieces, holes drilled for through-wiring, crevaces drilled and filled with lead to weight the lure to just below neutral buoyancy, and a coat of acetone-thinned epoxy for initial waterproofing.
All I need to do now is paint, topcoat with epoxy again to protect the paintjob, assemble the through-wiring and joints (filling gaps in drilled holes with epoxy as well for waterproofing), and put on my hooks with split rings!
As it's my first attempt at any kind of woodworking, any kind of lure building, and figuring out just how to make a swimbait (not exactly easy to get it to swim right), especially with no useful tools like a band saw.. I'm not expecting any kind of success from this lure. However this has been fun so far and a great learning experience. If the lure does anything better than blowing up into 10000 splinters as soon as it hits the water for testing, I'll consider the project a success.
Pics to come at some point in time.
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
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Originally Posted by mainbutter
I just started building my first wooden fishing lure.. a lipless through-wire swimbait.
minimal tooling.. just some hand tools (hand saw, leatherman etc) and a dremel.
I've got the lure carved, cut into 3 jointed pieces, holes drilled for through-wiring, crevaces drilled and filled with lead to weight the lure to just below neutral buoyancy, and a coat of acetone-thinned epoxy for initial waterproofing.
All I need to do now is paint, topcoat with epoxy again to protect the paintjob, assemble the through-wiring and joints (filling gaps in drilled holes with epoxy as well for waterproofing), and put on my hooks with split rings!
As it's my first attempt at any kind of woodworking, any kind of lure building, and figuring out just how to make a swimbait (not exactly easy to get it to swim right), especially with no useful tools like a band saw.. I'm not expecting any kind of success from this lure. However this has been fun so far and a great learning experience. If the lure does anything better than blowing up into 10000 splinters as soon as it hits the water for testing, I'll consider the project a success.
Pics to come at some point in time.
Cool, I should probably do that. I could turn one on my lathe, and ive been wanting to go fishing for the last week lol. I wouldnt make a swim bait though that would be harder. I would just make a basic shape and add color and feathers or what ever. haha, i dont think it will blow up.
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Re: Where are the wood workers????
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Originally Posted by I<3Dreamsicles
That looks really nice too. Thats cool how it opens up in all the different places. So its in the wall? Thats a good use of space! lol. Doesnt take up anyroom for you. Are you going to put on something that keeps the doors closed? Like locks/ latches.
Thank you. I've got latches on it now. The latches (slide bolts) on the top part are in the corners and slide down into the mantle piece. The front doors are secured with slide bolts top and bottom that go into aluminum strikers that I fabbed up out of some angled pieces from home depot.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../Photo0090.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../Photo0091.jpg
I didn't have a sharp chisel so I had to mortise the doors with a razor knife. :D Works well though. The bottom slide bolts lock the bottom door as well. That space under the cage opens up to access all the electrical stuff for the timers, heaters, lights, and water pump. It also acts as a storage area for snake stuff.
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Originally Posted by orphan
Thank you. I've got latches on it now. The latches (slide bolts) on the top part are in the corners and slide down into the mantle piece. The front doors are secured with slide bolts top and bottom that go into aluminum strikers that I fabbed up out of some angled pieces from home depot.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../Photo0090.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../Photo0091.jpg
I didn't have a sharp chisel so I had to mortise the doors with a razor knife. :D Works well though. The bottom slide bolts lock the bottom door as well. That space under the cage opens up to access all the electrical stuff for the timers, heaters, lights, and water pump. It also acts as a storage area for snake stuff.
Nice job. That looks good.
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