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A couple of bits I have made out of wood.

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PekkaNF:
Very nice lookkng drawer! I like it a lot when materilas look themselves (I hate much modern flloring materilas tiles made to look wood, plastic made to look tiles....). I also enjoy seeng good honest joinery. I don't care if joinery is machine or hand made, both needs skill and there is a learning curve.

Thanks for showing them. You don't happen to have any pictures of joinery when you were making them?

Pekka

Stilldrillin:
Beautiful work, Ian!  :clap: :clap:

I agree with Pekka....... I fully appreciate the skills needed for quality wooden work.  :thumbup:

But. I never was any good at it myself!

David D

ian_in_the_midlands:
I admit the dovetails were cut with a router and not by hand.
I can just about do it the traditional way, but with that many drawers to make I was bound to make a mistake somewhere.

I have only got a couple of pictures of progress, but if I can work out how to squeeze a milling machine into the garage I will be making another one.

I have also put up a picture of an awl I have made. The brass ferrule was actually turned on the wood lathe by hand, and was the start of me wanting to get a metal working lathe. The wood is cocobolo. It has no finish on it, and was simply buffed to that shine. A beautiful tropical hardwood, but horrendously expensive and it does come with a health warning.

RussellT:
They look very nice. :clap:

My suggestion (from experience) with fitting a milling machine into the garage is to buy one.  You'll soon be so fed up with it getting in the way that you'll make a space for it.

Russell

ian_in_the_midlands:
The only place I could put a milling machine now is on my workbench.
Then I would not be able to make the cabinet for it (or anything else).

At least thinking about where to put it will give me chance to save up some money.

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