Arizona desert ironwood burl. Bought it once when I was board

Time to finish fixing/replacing my lathe motor so I can make some parts out of delrin for my Volkswagen.

I could just buy replacement parts but where is the fun in that?

ghoast said:

Arizona desert ironwood burl. Bought it once when I was board

i bet it sinks in water
and ooh got that hard janka rating
bet it stinks and burns ur lungs when u cut it
unfff

gimme

ever get caught sniffing wood in home depot by someone who doesn't get it

u into that twisted 2x4 stuff

u don't know til u sniff it
don't wood stank shame me

butterknife said:

gimme

When I bought it, my goal was to one day turn it into a chin rest and finger board for a violin - parts normally made of ebony. I have absolutely zero reason to believe I was capable of doing it but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. It's really neat looking wood.

Aside from purchasing the board, not much progress on the whole project. The bad parts of the wood make the finger board part probably impossible. But if I got a chinrest of two out of it, I don't have any plans for the leftovers. Too bad I don't know any people with fancy lasers and shit.

all i have is slim cut

see that was a crazy f5

it would have been funny, and still is, but it could have been better, no thanks to y’all’s yappin

I’m willing to pay someone to get this idea turned into reality by the way. And this is in no way a weird ploy to find out your location so I can steal your lasers.
My kids the kind of badass who played fiddle in baba o Reilly with his school band

Are you wanting a finished thing produced from it or it cut into something you can finish?

I have never had the slightest idea how to start the actual project and most recently have just been using it as a fun thing to mess with you

And I’m a fan of lasers. Frankly don’t trust anyone who ain’t.

I’d pay to turn the block into a finished product.

No delusions on my part that anybody would read this and be like “yeah I’ll just knock that out for ya”. It’s just I’ve started wishing for shit more often and have gotten lucky sometimes

In my head your like the B A Barracus of fazed. He got shit done. lol

lol binch ass

Made this for my valentine.
1" thick 304 stainless that I plasma cut with 70 amps (not enough)
to produce that cool-ass whack-ass meteor-ass edge character,
then surface ground it flatter than nickel tits (which my surface grinder hated)
then engraved it perfectly centered with my galvo fiber laser.

It's kinda goofy and messed up but that's me, babyyyyy.

That's awesome.

It was fun to combine an extremely rough process (inadequately powerful plasma cutting)
with an extremely precise process (surface grinding is the most common precision tool-making process).
The stainless is from a time capsule cover I made for Red Wing boots
which is supposed to last for 120 years so maybe that's a sign?????

Hope so.

should be an earring

"What up, Droopy?"

hahahahaha

Very cool and one of a kind. Like the meteorness

meatier than what

thou

I have more meat than a cow

how now thou meaty cow

Made a set of ring gauges for a flute maker.
11mm to 20mm in .1mm increments.
Had to use the .2mm nozzle and had a lot of failures.

my mind tried to get my fingers to hit keys and tumble around that image
looks good but give me depth or give me death

I thought I was looking at different sized pulley wheels

Not that different, just an opposite revolved profile.

ur an opposite revolved profile

Took a hollow shaft with a worm gear in the middle of it
and forged it into a wee dish.

Thank u.

not nearly big enough for all my wee

correct, it is but a wee wee dish

oui

the peebowl are gonna be pissed about this one

peebowl bryson

I like the wee dish

I bought a $200 planer maybe 10 years ago and while it has probably gone beyond what would be expected of it... it's kind of done. It can't push the chips out of itself, even with a shopvac attached and the last time I was planing something, I could hear it kinda jumping and flexing, which is not good

Anyway, I've got a birthday coming up and I think its time to upgrade a tool and with a lot more cabinetry to go, this is probably the move.

I've never had a jointer (other than a tiny handheld electric jointer) but I've had this 12" planer that I've been able to make do with. Looking at Busy Bee Tools, I can get a helical 12.5" or 13" (why they need both of those sized i'm not sure) planer for $600-$700 but they also have a 8" helical Jointer/Planer combo for $600

I'm a little torn, perhaps having a jointer would be nice... though I've never needed one... I doubt I've ever jointed anything 8" wide, but it would be nice to have it, and of course having 12 or 13" wide just means i can go longer without rotating/changing the cutters

I dunno. Thoughts?

helical is a no brainer if you're well funded
you could also buy the basic and do the swap yourself

I have an 8" jointer with straight knives and of course it works fine and replacing the blades is a pain (squaring is the issue but nothing impossible with a little attention and a shop made jig)
but my next jointer which is next on the list, will have a helical head one way or the other. I'm tired of having to clean up those little straight knife chip groves you end up with on your milled stock

I don't buy new machines if i can help it so i can't speak for current brands. I like that old heavy wartime shit that's easy to service and lasts forever.

the advantage of a wide jointer bed is face jointing stock for the planer. Again - 100 ways to do it without one. But if you have the money and space, it's a no brainer imo in any semi serious shop space

jointer/planers are cool, but I've only used one worth a damn and it was an old japanese brand that's coveted and i can't remember the name. great for smaller shops obv. But i prefer to be able to walk both ways around a planer if i need and the ones that do the transformer flippy thing seem a little too articulated to not get sloppy

i would go helical in a planer obvs. Noise output reduction is a huge benny

oh and the big bonus for a helical jointer
if you stick a finger in it, you don't really need to do any cleanup. She gone baby

not feeling great at how earnest i was at 9am
let me give it the 7p fri try
and save 20 seconds of your life

new tools gggoooood
helical planer yes plz

8" jointer yes
helical hhyepp

A+++

careful fingy

tldr

mf

how bad could the finger thing really be i mean really

i seent it
trust me

not that bad

blook tell em about ur tip

file it under D

for Dont care

let me stick em fingers in whatever you’re talking about or whatever

Not something I made but it looks like a fun toy

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