Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

Have voted - I miss sailing :(

Beautiful work, voted.

As ever in awe of your work @Sam_Doman. Voted.
I came here to post a little pic of a late 70’s seating booth made by PRiMO that I’m working on at the moment but it feels tawdry in comparison to Sam’s work :/

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I would wear that

Ah, we've missed you around here.

It looks as if you've been doing more worthwhile things than posting on the Internet, though. :)

That looks like the perfect furniture for Sam's round-the-world boat. :)

Lockdown boredom #1: fixed a broken stick for a pensioner who lives down the road, the handle had worn to fit his hand over many years. Not a difficult fix, but you try matching two pieces of slightly oval hazel....

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Lockdown boredom #2: Mrs B broke her 'lucky' key fob, so I made her a new one from a lump of antler. Just for fun I inlaid two Victorian silver 3d pieces, 1897 head on the front, 1876 tail on the back. No, I didn't get them in my pocket money when I were a lad.

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Have you tried dissolving the wax in natural turpentine? You’ll need to do in a bath of hot water, obviously, to avoid a fire. I find it soaks in more quickly. For a harder finish you can add a bit of carnauba wax.

For a harder finish you can add a bit of carnauba wax.

Ah, cool. will look into that, thanks!

I wonder if that would work for diy waxed canvas as well..
Previously I've found the process of rubbing solid wax and heating it afterwards to be quite labourintensive and quite difficult to achieve full and even saturation.

The turpentine is just going to evaporate away so I would imagine the end result is the same.

That was my thought.. The smell might deteriorate a bit though.
Linseed oil and bees wax makes for a quite attractive scent imo.

Not sure if I ever posted these bookshelves I did a while ago. Finally got round to taking (half) decent pictures. Threaded rod all the way through and tapped thread in the caps on either end.

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Very clean, nice job.

I like the way that you display your books so that they do not visually clutter the structure of the shelving.
ETA - What stops the shelves from parallelogramming?

What stops the shelves from parallelogramming?

Heavy duty double sided tape between the wall and the top shelf. Not a very scalable solution, but it works fine for us.

Ha!
Innovative solution.

So the middle sections are hollow tube and the end caps are solid bar? Are the middle sections of tube seated in a counter bore on the wood or just floating? Very nice work.

Funnily I discovered that enough bushcraft folk recommend a 2:1:1 ratio of wax, turpentine and boiled linseed oil for a re-proofing mix. I've never tried it.

Just floating, I was able to saw the shelves with my father's circle saw and told the uni workshop people the end caps were for my graduation project. The rest of it was done in the comfort of my living room with a hand saw and a cordless drill, so I had to bodge design around those limitations.

Interesting! Some suggest just a little bit of of turpentine, and for clothing I probably wouldn't use as much wax.. But I'll definitely try with add turpentine when I reproof my jackets!

My cleaner wanted a desk but couldn’t find one small enough for the corner of her bedroom. Frame is redwood, top is a set of biscuit jointed oak offcuts. The whole thing is a true knockdown construction, using cross dowels on the frame, and a quartet of bolts into threaded inserts to hold the top on.

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Random question: Does anyone who does woodwork have some walnut offcuts they should be willing to sell? I'm modifying my Espresso machine with some walnut additions but can't find the blanks I need.

Wasn't sure whether to go here or in knife porn thread but I have a set of Irwin Marples chisels and they're in rag order.
Some bad chips and desperately in need of sharpening.
Should I attempt this myself and what would be the required kit to do so or should I just leave them to a sharpener for now and then learn how to sharpen them for maintenance once they're back in good shape?