Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

I’m giving beeswax polish a go, any tips? So far the 0000 wire wool has left dark residue in the tiny splits and grain. Not that impressed.

Lamination press worked quite well too 😊

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Made a small batch

Waxed cotton canvas, leather, copper rivets and cotton webbing, a couple of metres of thread.

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strange order to those pictures, but oh well.

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For selling? Very nice.

Yes, for sale, was unsure of how to price them. Make me an offer :)

time to make x hourly rate + materials

Whadya reckon to £20+ish + p&p? Could price in a forum donation on top? E.g. £30 posted, £5 of that to lfgss?

I might be way off the mark though as I'm not sure what your materials cost & how much time you spent making them?

Material costs come to about £5.50, time taken was probably about 3-4 hours each. Hard to remember exactly. Batching them up helps a lot.

If I can sell them all 'on here' rather than having to go through Etsy, then I'd be happy for £25 inc postage, and yeah, a forum donation on top would be cool.

There is some so aesthetically pleasing about this rounded block of wood. I can’t quite put my finger on what though.

What sort of beeswax polish?

I use my own recipe of 1 part natural beeswax to 2 parts organic mineral oil, never had any issues with it other than it takes ages to seep in before I rub down to polish.

design bro

This stuff. Came up nice in the end. Couple of coats + buffing.

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oooh - im thinking of something similar to make replacement back and seat for cesca frames, I need to model/draw it to see if it will look shit or not. what thicknii are you doin there 4mm ?

3.7mm poplar ply with oak veneer on one side - two layers. Seems to have worked really well, they're all trimmed down to size and lacquered now. I even got fancy and put captive threaded inserts between the plys... hopefully they match the holes in the steel frames.

Think 2x 4mm birch ply would work fine too.

I thought this was a homage to the Pawson chapel!
I really love the simplicity of the form 😍

Spam, sorry. Tool rolls from ^ here

£25 inc p&p with a £3 donation to LFGSS, will up the donation to £5 if I sell them all.

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thicknii

Foureyes/Chris Salomone fan?

Busted - fan is a bit strong but have watched - kinda preferred the early ones in his garage - less ‘youtubery’

Agreed, but can see why he (or rathe they, now he’s partnered with Shaun) have grown the channel.

He seems like a genuinely nice guy who makes lovely stuff but his channel is a bit... wanky?

This little boat, which I built the winter before last, has been nominated for a 'Classic Boat Award'!
She's in the spirit of tradition category, up against some of the most beautiful boats being built in the world, today. Some of the other nominees are nearly ten times her length, and she is the only boat in this class, which is not a luxury yacht.
They are undeniably all spectacular craft, but built for the super wealthy! This boat is at the other end of the spectrum, being designed to be affordable, accesible, and low maintenance, with the option of buying a complete boat, a bare hull- for DIY fit-out, or any stage in-between!

Voting is now open online, so please take 2 minutes to look through the nominees and cast your vote! You don't have to vote in every category if you don't want to, but there are lots of beautiful boats and inspiring people, so I'd recommend having a look!

https://awards.classicboat.co.uk/spirit-of-tradition/

Here's a little more about the boat:
She's called Longshore, and is the first grp hull made from a mould, which I took from 'Atlas', a barge boat built in 1949.
She was designed to maintain the elegance of a traditional clinker dinghy, but to be much lower maintenance, lightweight (making her easy to launch and recover on a slipway, and tow behind a modest car), and easy to sail.
Based on the beautiful lines of the original hull, I designed the rest from scratch, and built her on a shoestring budget.
The layout maximises the space available, and incorporates lots of built-in buoyancy, plus 4 large stowage lockers. A dagger board was chosen, so there is no centreboard case to hinder ease of movement across the boat, when tacking.
The ultra-light, glass-sheathed, hollow wooden mast is recycled from and old gaff-rigfed yacht's topmast, the yard and boom are made from carbon fibre windsurfer masts, the foils are carbon fibre. Combined with the battened, balanced lug sail which I designed in collaboration with Suffolk Sails, she has surprising turn of speed, and we've managed to squeeze 11kts out of her!
We sail her whenever we have the opportunity, and her hull form means she is comfortable sailing with 4 adults.
She has been on some big trips, carrying two of us and all our camping gear & provisions, for a week at a time; cruising 120 nautical miles along the East coast, exploring the creeks and rivers.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and thanks again if you decide to vote for Longshore!

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Yeas! So good to see this again. Very lovely.
Good luck with the award!

Fantastic! Vote cast.

@sam_Doman . Lovely. Vote cast.