September Workbench

[Charles H.]

I know there's one in the carving forum, but none here for September.

Small Shelf for some hunting memorabilia. Got the idea of a generic spam instagram page of wood working projects. 6 inch cedar fence pickets, finished with Danish Oil. Grouse fan, shot shell, and canvas photo print of Shadow are from a trip to Maine a few years ago(2022 I think). Small functional oil lamp from Vermont Lanterns. The Holiday Shell box I bought on Ebay, and I won't tell you how much I paid for an empty cardboard box just because it had a Grouse on it!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Charles

Very nice. Those old shell boxes have become very collectable. I hate to think of the dollars I threw away in the 80s and the guys that hunted before then would be really upset to know what they tossed.

 

[Eric Patterson]

I am working on a batch of giant duck calls. About 2 1/2 times the size of your typical call. These are from the Osage orange trees my neighbor, who owns a tree service, gave me a few years ago. The wood is now dry and ready to use. A lot of steps to go. The second picture shows what I came up with to hold my tooling when using the patternmaker lathe. I'm still messing around with tool angles, cutters and such but the big cylinders (call barrels) in the first image demonstrate I'm getting pretty good results with this set up. For the barrels I'm using a jam chuck and live center to turn between centers about the bore.

 

[HenryHawthorne]

Go big or go home! Metal reed, I hope!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Go big or go home! Metal reed, I hope!

I planned on mylar but I don't think they will actually blow. My plans are to scale up a call so it is just like the real thing except a lot bigger. I don't know if I can find mylar that thick and I'm also not sure how the reed will react being so much larger. I'm thinking it will take a ton of air to work, more than my lungs can supply. The tone board channel is 1/2". That's a big orifice to blow into.

Think of it as a salesman model like in the old days when they carried mini versions except this is bigger, not smaller.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

That looks like a cool project. Call them Eric's Pterosaur calls, maybe you can call in a banded one.

 

[Steve Sanford]

I am working on a batch of giant duck calls. About 2 1/2 times the size of your typical call. These are from the Osage orange trees my neighbor, who owns a tree service, gave me a few years ago. The wood is now dry and ready to use. A lot of steps to go. The second picture shows what I came up with to hold my tooling when using the patternmaker lathe. I'm still messing around with tool angles, cutters and such but the big cylinders (call barrels) in the first image demonstrate I'm getting pretty good results with this set up. For the barrels I'm using a jam chuck and live center to turn between centers about the bore.

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Same theory as over-size decoys??? or do you lure in bigger ducks????

SJS

 

[Eric Patterson]

Not bigger ducks. That's silly. Farther ducks. Like three states away

 

[Charles H.]

That looks like a cool project. Call them Eric's Pterosaur calls, maybe you can call in a banded one.

With AI you could make some really good Pterosaur hero shots for marketing these calls.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

With AI you could make some really good Pterosaur hero shots for marketing these calls.

Some buffoon would believe it and call the warden.

 

[D. Hinton]

Eric
I’m jealous . You seem to always have some sort of cool / fun project going

 

[Huntindave McCann]

Not nearly as entertaining as Eric's post, and it won't fit on my workbench.
The aluminum wear strip on the keel peeled off, or at least a portion of it.


Purchased some new material and got after it.


Trimmed the broken section and fitted in the new 5 foot long piece. I placed screws every 8.5 inches spacing.


Once everything was screwed down in place, I removed it all.
Cleaned the backside of all oxidation and cleaned the wood keel. Applied a generous layer of thickened epoxy and re-installed all the aluminum strips.
Should be good until I find another sharp rock to drive across.
It doesn't help when the local ramps don't have docks and the adjoining shoreline next to the ramp is all broken up concrete rip-rap.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

That's the damage typical of a big walleye attack.

 

[Huntindave McCann]

That's the damage typical of a big walleye attack.

Good to know!

 

[Eric Patterson]

More progress on the giant Hambones. This patternmaker lathe is such an upgrade over my standard wood lathe. I'm finding the cross slide capable of things I can not do by hand alone. Like sizing tenons for a brass band.

 

[jode hillman]

I know there's one in the carving forum, but none here for September.

Small Shelf for some hunting memorabilia. Got the idea of a generic spam instagram page of wood working projects. 6 inch cedar fence pickets, finished with Danish Oil. Grouse fan, shot shell, and canvas photo print of Shadow are from a trip to Maine a few years ago(2022 I think). Small functional oil lamp from Vermont Lanterns. The Holiday Shell box I bought on Ebay, and I won't tell you how much I paid for an empty cardboard box just because it had a Grouse on it!

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Charles, very cool work and I like that grouse tail. It all fits very nicely together.

I've been busy getting Decoys ready for the Tuckerton Show.

In amongst those, I had time to work on a side project for a friend. A decorative slick hen shoveler. It is Different than my normal style. The reason being is that it was made as a mate for a bird that was carved in the 1980s by a world-class Carver who is now in their 90s.

I was happy to be asked to make Its mate.

 

[Carl]

love the lines and paint on that spoonie.

 

[Noah Shaver]

I'm in the process of finishing our new dining room table and associated benches. I've had to remind myself several times how much I love my wife as I labor on the highly detailed table legs she picked out. I'm on coat 2 out of 6 of General Finishes Arm r Seal. Likely only going to put one more coat on the legs. Will probably end up with 5-6 coats on the table top and bench tops.

 

[jode hillman]

love the lines and paint on that spoonie.

Thank Carl. I was fond of the finished product

 

[Charles H.]

I'm in the process of finishing our new dining room table and associated benches. I've had to remind myself several times how much I love my wife as I labor on the highly detailed table legs she picked out. I'm on coat 2 out of 6 of General Finishes Arm r Seal. Likely only going to put one more coat on the legs. Will probably end up with 5-6 coats on the table top and bench tops.

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Noah, the table looks great, I love the breadboard . Could you tell me a little about the materials and methods you used in joining the panel to the ends?