Random stuff you have made

[Snattlerake]

No sir I cut em with plasma cutter.

What shop air compressor and brand of plasma cutter do you have> I'm getting into metal sculpture. I already have my MIG and TIG. Just got the gas for the TIG. Working on a complete smaller metal shop.

 

[Snattlerake]

I don’t remember if I posted before about my chainsaw milling. Well I apologize if I posted this before. The girls and I cut a bunch of cedar logs. We built a bed and side tables for the neighbor who let us cut all the trees. Pretty neat to take something from standing timber to “furniture”. Chainsaw milled the logs into boards, ripped live edge off with table saw, ran boards through planer. Yes the bed framework is store bought lumber. The cedar is what I “made”. The headboard posts are solid cedar 6x6’s. Built some side tables also.
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Did ya have to age the boards? I usually had a year on the stack to let them dry in the barn.

 

[Cowcatcher]

What shop air compressor and brand of plasma cutter do you have> I'm getting into metal sculpture. I already have my MIG and TIG. Just got the gas for the TIG. Working on a complete smaller metal shop.

Cutter is a Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 42. It will run on 110 or 220. Of course just like a dual power welder it will cut thicker on 220. I actually ran it on a remote job cutting patch sheets for a feed bin. Powered it off the engine drive welder and supplied air with portable engine drive compressor. You need DRY air. A water separator isn’t expensive. My shop compressor is 120 gallons. You need nowhere near that to run a plasma but I can’t give you accurate specs.

 

[mgssamn]

I found a 1950s hassock fan that was in rough cosmetic condition, but the motor was sound and the blades still true, so I removed the motor, blades, switch, diffuser cone, and the three-armed motor mount. I disassembled the motor, cleaned up the rotor and stator, applied two fresh coats of dielectric varnish to the windings, and re-aligned the bearings. Then I reassembled the motor, checked its function, and put it aside. The cage I built from walnut and alder, with bead-blasted brass rods, and I turned and threaded a new brass shaft with cap to hold the top in place. The walnut top was laser-engraved by my girlfriend, and I inlaid pieces of cherry, maple, and purple heartwood that she also cut out with the laser. Then I poured black-dyed walnut into the arcs and around the pieces of wood, let it cure, and sanded it all smooth. Three coats of polyurethane went on the wood. Then I put fresh paint on the metal components, and reassembled the whole thing. The results:

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Just wow! very neat!

 

[Cowcatcher]

Did ya have to age the boards? I usually had a year on the stack to let them dry in the barn.

There’s were stacked for a couple months. Maybe it was the time of year I cut the logs but they checked really low with my cheap moisture meter. I think I remember reading that cedar dries very quickly and doesn’t have much moisture to begin with.

 

[Snattlerake]

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If you pass by Meteor Crater in AZ they have a first class rockhound area in their trinket shop. You can buy raw or tumbled stones from everywhere in the world. You can even buy pieces of the meteor and dino poop. Pay the admission fee and go rock shopping in their rock boxes that are a grab all of different sizes and shapes and a few boxes that are slab cuts thinner and thicker than tile.

 

[dennishoddy]

If you pass by Meteor Crater in AZ they have a first class rockhound area in their trinket shop. You can buy raw or tumbled stones from everywhere in the world. You can even buy pieces of the meteor and dino poop. Pay the admission fee and go rock shopping in their rock boxes that are a grab all of different sizes and shapes and a few boxes that are slab cuts thinner and thicker than tile.

We actually visited the Meteor crater last year on our way home from AZ. Took the guided walking tour around the rim. One thing we didn't do was visit the gift shop your referring to. Appears to be an oversite on our part but the walk was long but wife had only one mission on her mind and that was to get to the truck and AC.

 

[dennishoddy]

The pink stuff looks like the rhodonite my dad collected in western Colorado after I moved out in 72, and before I wandered through his place again in the late 80's. I might still have a couple of cabochon blanks he gave me then. Most of my jewelry rock was stolen from storage in 2017. Pretty stuff, polished up nicely, but I never got to do anything with it.

The lepidolite looks pink in the pic but is actually lilac in color. Works really well as it's a medium hardness, but takes a great polish.

 

[PBramble]

What shop air compressor and brand of plasma cutter do you have> I'm getting into metal sculpture. I already have my MIG and TIG. Just got the gas for the TIG. Working on a complete smaller metal shop.

Check out the Cut50 of you want to save some money before you dive into an expensive machine.

 

[Cowcatcher]

Check out the Cut50 of you want to save some money before you dive into an expensive machine.

Yep you reminded me!
@Snattlerake my tig came from Primeweld and I can also vouch for their 50 plasma cutter. My neighbor got one of them and a mig for his boy to do projects with. They’ve been happy!

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