Brmorgan
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I made this quilt/blanket hanger for my mom yesterday and today:
The back board is a piece of Birch that's just started the spalting process - the white rot has bleached out parts of the wood but it isn't unsound yet, and no black demarcating lines have formed either. Not a remarkable piece but it has some character. The front bar piece is a piece of knotty Juniper. This stuff is incredibly difficult to plane down. It chips and tears out like nobody's business in my thickness planer, no matter how light of a pass I take. It's manageable on the jointer if I take maybe 1/64" per pass off, and feed VERY slowly. Oddly enough though, the router cut glass-smooth every time. And yes, all my knives were/are sharp! I even changed the planer knives out just to make sure. The juniper takes a sanding and finish extremely well though. I have two coats of Tung oil on everything here so far, and you can see how much it made the Juniper's color and grain pop out.
The clamping knobs are made from some Birch root burl scrap pieces. I put a threaded insert in each one, and drilled each end of both the backer and clamp bar, and installed one of those headless bolts that have wood threads on one end and 1/4" machine threads on the other in each end. I forget what those bolts are called. Handy buggers though.
I can't take credit for this design - I've seen many similar ones before, not the least of which was one that Woodshop here showed in the "what are you building..." thread. Just kinda copying them out of memory. If I remember right though, Woodshop's had threaded wooden dowels and nuts at the ends to clamp the bar down.
Anyway, let's see those projects!
The back board is a piece of Birch that's just started the spalting process - the white rot has bleached out parts of the wood but it isn't unsound yet, and no black demarcating lines have formed either. Not a remarkable piece but it has some character. The front bar piece is a piece of knotty Juniper. This stuff is incredibly difficult to plane down. It chips and tears out like nobody's business in my thickness planer, no matter how light of a pass I take. It's manageable on the jointer if I take maybe 1/64" per pass off, and feed VERY slowly. Oddly enough though, the router cut glass-smooth every time. And yes, all my knives were/are sharp! I even changed the planer knives out just to make sure. The juniper takes a sanding and finish extremely well though. I have two coats of Tung oil on everything here so far, and you can see how much it made the Juniper's color and grain pop out.
The clamping knobs are made from some Birch root burl scrap pieces. I put a threaded insert in each one, and drilled each end of both the backer and clamp bar, and installed one of those headless bolts that have wood threads on one end and 1/4" machine threads on the other in each end. I forget what those bolts are called. Handy buggers though.
I can't take credit for this design - I've seen many similar ones before, not the least of which was one that Woodshop here showed in the "what are you building..." thread. Just kinda copying them out of memory. If I remember right though, Woodshop's had threaded wooden dowels and nuts at the ends to clamp the bar down.
Anyway, let's see those projects!