anyone else here dabble in wood working

[wheelgunslinger]

I do some using hand tools. I started by restoring antique log cabins using the basics: a froe, broadaxe, felling axe, drawknife, and adze.
The more I worked with them, the more I realized they weren't just tools for roughing material in and began doing more precise work.

Now, I don't do the heavy stuff anymore like hewing logs and such. I'm getting into building small boats (canoes, sailers, flatboats) and instruments like dulcimers and guitars. It's nice to make something you can use and it's really nice to craft something from wood.

I'm also making grips for my Dan Wesson from various woods just for the fun of it.

 

[distra]

Here are a couple of my projects.

 

[ar10]

I've been doing for years, think it gets into your blood or genes. I buy all my wood green from Ohio wood mills then dry it with a home made solar kiln. I also actively look for old homes being torn down, that stuff really eats up my planer blades. I built all the kitchen cabinets, (I hate those Euro-Style POS). the old school way using reclaimed oak. I didn't bother digging out some of the lead bullets when I planed it. Some of those things were lead balls, every time I look at them I keep wondering what happened. Right now I drying some oak and will mix it with some real old oak flooring I picked up from another old house.

Good luck in the woodworking world, just watch your fingers and don't daydream while running your machines.

 

[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

these woodworking threads are a love hate affair, love the pics but hate that it makes anything i build look like it was started and finished with a claw hammer. where would be a good place to start to learn woodworking? i figured it was best to find an old guy and get in his good graces and watch. problem is i can't find any old guys around to learn from. option b?

 

[Fisherman_48768]

Fin ding an old guy around town

CG: Keep practicing to learn the wood working skills, it takes years of experience to get it right the first time. After many years you'll have the skill and an old guy around town won't be hard to find. Good luck and keep the fingers out of the saw blades.

 

[browningguy]

Well I don't have any pics of the furniture I'm working on but I am building quite a bit right now. Here's a rifle stock I just finished restoring (Sako AIII), not really much wordworking involved. I stripped it, steamed out dents, a little light sanding required in areas, some minor cleanup on the checkering and cheek piece, then stained and finished.

 

[ilbob]

some pretty stuff.

 

[M99M12]

Fisherman does some serious stuff. That's some beautiful work.