My next table project

[redneck joe]

That's cool. If I ever actually retire I'm going to do more smaller stuff and sell at craft fairs and such. Between my boats and other projects wife has given up on ever getting the garage back after about eight years so I'm slowly converting to a wood shop. Got a lathe at a garage sale about a year ago. When I took shop in high-school back in the jurassic period, it was my favorite.

 

[redneck joe]

I assume thickenser is what we call a planer. If you get a twisted board to flatten, take a known good board and screw underneath as little as you can so you don't hit screws until the one side is good then remove the board, flip and complete the other side.

 

[airshot]

My son has an extensive woodshop....lots of fancy toys. He has a large flat plate that he uses to straighten bowed boards. He attaches them to this big flat plate to hold them flat then adds water mixture then adds heat and they normally come out very straight.

 

[redneck joe]

My son has an extensive woodshop....lots of fancy toys. He has a large flat plate that he uses to straighten bowed boards. He attaches them to this big flat plate to hold them flat then adds water mixture then adds heat and they normally come out very straight.

Cool have not heard of that method.

 

[Mc Tool]

I assume thickenser is what we call a planer. If you get a twisted board to flatten, take a known good board and screw underneath as little as you can so you don't hit screws until the one side is good then remove the board, flip and complete the other side.

Yep ,I did that when I dressed up a few hardwood ( I think its Australian ironwood ) railway sleepers (I think you guys call them ties ) for an outdoor tabletop .

 

[redneck joe]

Yep ,I did that when I dressed up a few hardwood ( I think its Australian ironwood ) railway sleepers (I think you guys call them ties ) for an outdoor tabletop .

Oh, ties. Are yalls soaked in goo to make them last longer or just raw wood?

 

[Mc Tool]

Oh, ties. Are yalls soaked in goo to make them last longer or just raw wood?

Older ones are just wood but newer ones are coated/dunked in creosote but they are a softer local wood ( they burn real well in my log burner ). To be fair All the older ones I have seen have been taken out of service within the last 10 years ,most around here were new from about 1947 so I dunno what they looked like then .
I had to take really fine cuts when dressing ......hard as all hell and most of them still had those big nails that hold the rails down .
My Granddad was a ganger on the NZ rail and Im sure he called them dogs but I cant find any reference to that . He died in the mid 70's . He was a dedicated smoker ,fingers and face stained with nicotine ,lip ,most of tongue and most of his throat removed due to cancer and in the end he had a hole in his neck where he breathed and he would stick the Pallmall plain ( no filter ) fag in there right till his last breath .

 

[redneck joe]

Sanded, coat of natural stain to raise the grain and see belt sander marks, second coat of stain and final sand before epoxy is complete.


If I can find bases I think I will have enough for benches.

 

[redneck joe]

Doesnt look much different but since i started it is about a year and a half ago thought i should think about finishing it. More sanding to 240grit for second raise the grain with another coat of natural stain. Will do one more to 320 then stain and then clear epoxy to fill up all the bug trails and 'beauty marks'. Then sand to 600 or so and do a couple three coats of Odies paste wax. Doing matching bench seats as well. Got them all cut and ready to put together next couple three days.