Bobbin Repair Part 2

Carrying on from Bobbin Repair and 3 new ones as seen in the first photo of the previous post the broken Bobbin drive end was in need of a quick repair.

A clean up of the damaged area to even out the surfaces, cut an oversized piece and epoxy to it. Although it was 5min epoxy I allowed 24hrs to dry cut off much of the waste then turned the rest away. A coat of Danish Oil and further sanding required to smooth all the surfaces.

 Left the damaged area prior clean up.

Right I enlarged the surface area for a better grip of the replacement piece.

 Left the glue up, Right finished

Below the 3 new ones and repair with coat of Danish Oil. Thats about it till Wednesday till I get to test fit sand and do a finish coat.

Interesting Fellow

I feel like kicking myself. I have neglected to list a bloke I have come to know off the Woodwork Forum in my Friends List on the right. Not just that but recently I did this post (Blogs I Follow).

Mark  (known as Old Biker) he's is a very interesting fellow has many interests, hobbies and talented, he's a lover of Old Motorbikes so in my book he's ok.

His talent at making tools

Mark recently moved but here's a link to his old workshop, make sure you visit his other links all worth while.

Mark is also into metal machining awesome work. He became interested in Ornamental Turning and its through this that we became known to each other.

Edited 23rd March 2013 Mark had informed me of changes to his site links so original links were removed and just main link to new website.

Bobbin repair and 3 new ones

One of the ladies from Fairfield Spinners gave Sue a damaged Spinning wheel Bobbin last week and asked if I could make 3 more. A quick scavenge of timber and I found some off cut broom handle and Australian Cedar.

I decided as they break up soon to get in and get it done as quick as possible. I have some special projects to take care of and finish others off that have been lurking to long now.


 Right the sample showing the broken rim where the band runs. I'll deal with this later repairing it.


The process  is not as easy as it seems as everything must fit, line up and be balanced, these ladies are fussy about there wheels.

Cut the shafts to length plus 10mm for the tenon. I drill one size up of shaft diam so they do not jam drilling from both ends helps true up the hole.

 Cut the ends to rough size, then I use a Forstner bit to create a Mortise of 5mm (yeh ok I work in both Metric and Imperial) drill a hole to shaft size these were 1/4". Once the holes are drilled I glue the shafts/dowel allow to dry then trim and true up and glue the other end.

To rough the whole bobbin down to size required I mount them on to my pen mandrel the saver kit I got from Gary Pye it has more than just one use. This keeps everything in balance and true.

I turned the shafts down to 3/4" - 19mm this allows max fibre on the Bobbin.

 

I shape each end including the grove for the belt drive and sand. Sanding these to as fine and smooth as possible so fibre doesn't catch where it shouldn't.

These have been sanded to 1000 grit using sanding sealer, I have to take a few more photos.

Weather was changing and I needed to pack up I was back in doors 20mins and down the rain came. lets hope it not a muggy night.

Tripple Treat

First three are Bolt Action pens for a neighbour with Stringy back off his own property.










4 Sierra's various timbers.

Two tone wood is Bottle Bush from my son Peter's tree.

Bloodwood Burl from Toni's of OTGA place down at Braidwood.


Unknown wood possible old fence post or flooring joist.


 Sierra Acrylic Urban Cammo (given to Peter Crowe) as he dropped off a box of Woodworking magazines.
Have to thank Peter for the photos as I had not taken any of this one. Looks like I'll also have to buff the acrylics more camera's pick up what the naked eye doesn't see.

 Single Oak Burl Bolt ction a terrible photo not showing the true grain and colour I will attempt a better quality photo.

Is There Still Life in it yet

With the new Cabinet having replaced an old a twice worked, three times re-configured, Tall Boy, I am considering if it still has further life as tool storage and bench.

I would re-arrange the three draws (one not shown here) making an area at the bottom for another draw or just open storage area. The shelf above the draws would stay with a slide out chisel storage or other small tools.

The left side would have two shelves fitted equal distance apart for wood finishes in a lockable cupboard the problem here is the depth of shelf is 540mm thats a long way back to reach.

OR Do I make three or four draws for easier access?

It needs new wheels under as over 15 years of use the old ones just aren't working well. The woodwork is still solid not MDF or chipboard with ply top and base. I am giving myself limited period to decide it must be completed and or gone before Christmas.

What do you think is it worthy?

Little Charley Bear for Brodie's Christmas Present

Sue got an email from daughter in law Nichole asking if it was possible to make youngest grandson Brodie a Little Charley Bear for Christmas. The pattern Nic had attached to the email here's the link .

New TV Cabinet

New addition of a TV cabinet, this was made by youngest son Peter for his year 12 project as a display cabinet (Peter is now 31). The cabinet is African Ash frame top, bottom, edge pieces and draw. With African Ash veneered MDF shelves, sides and top. African Ash although a nice white timber is not easy to work it is very chippy, splinters easy even while sanding if not carefull.

It served a purpose for years used and stored at his grandparents till he moved out and got married. That was until last year when it became necessary to remove it and either clean it up or dump it. Sue and I felt it was worthy of a clean up, someone had used a water based lacquer very badly applied. So I spent weeks sanding it back as much as possible I was lucky not to have sanded through the veneer. I enlarged  two holes for cables and created one other. Finished with Satin  Timbalac Nitrocellulose.. 

Changing things over gave us some time to clean out some things collected over the years and stored in draws of the old cabinet put out of sight out of mind.  It has also given us more floor space.

Halloween Food

Yes its that time of year when little kids come knocking at the door for Trick and Treat, which means its Halloween (All Hallows Eve). Closely followed by All Saints Day.

Sue has in the past not had er treats ready but this year a few surprises for door knocking kids (if they don't come I'll enjoy these treats).

Squashed Cockroaches. Dates filled with marzipan.

 
Blood Shot Eye Balls. Marsh mellows coloured.

Severed Fingers. Home made Short bread with a grain seed for finger nail and dipped in syrup.

 Tasty treats

Spray Mask Fix

These days I don't spray that much paint or lacquer, years ago it was cars, buses and coaches when doing fleet repairs or full resprays.

While spraying recent woodwork with lacquer and using the Protector twin filter mask I have had now for over 30+ years the elastic which Sue last replaced the straps with had decided it had stretched enough.

I had an idea elastic was just not going to cut it so I decided to use a pushbike inner tube ( I had a new one no longer needed 24x1/38). I cut two strips by using the molding rib as a guide on the tube, about 24" using a roller cutter. Now comes the tricky part recalling how it was thread so I can pull it tighter and loosen it off. The bottom bit no problem done the top is stranger to do.

All done I think it will give me at least another few years use yet, along with some spare rubber tube and strips remaining for another use.

Microwaving Wood

Carrying on from the Hawthorn I picked up and then cut up. Today I used our workshop shared microwave to assist in speeding drying of the Hawthorn it I hope will also kill some grubs.Its an old National large volume, plate doesn't rotate and settings tricky our son in law gave it to us. (Sue also uses it for dying her fiber)



WARNING Never use the same microwave you cook food in!
Always assess moisture in the wood first (fresh cut means high moisture) and then set the microwave to size and density and temp then period/time.
Microwaves cook from the inside out and sap and moisture will ooze out so be warned it can be hot. Wood will ignite in a microwave if left to long and to high a temp is selected.

I always start off using medium/high and approx 15sec if size of wood is approx 50x50x150 and often do this 3 or 4 times checking how warm/hot the timber is (ours does not rotate so have to physically turn each time I open the door).
The larger the piece I increase to High temp and with blanks as large as 180x180x150 I set it for 1 minute checking every 15 to 30 sec sometimes I'll allow a full minute and do this 3 times, checking every 60 sec for how warm the wood is.

 Small pen blanks I stack chris-cross fashion go slow and mod temp. Shrinkage will occur in all wood when moisture is removed. Some cracking/checking also.

As you can see I just put the wood in some suggest paper bags others plastic bags.

I have now re-stored the wood in a box and will check it in a month or so, instead of having to wait a year or more before I can turn it. Summer in my garage/workshop will aid any drying time
even without use of the microwave this was simply to speed things up.........oh and yes the bugs.

Road Side Harvesting

Last Wednesday went were out delivering some books for a fete and I spotted some road side culling/harvesting of timbers. Being a rural area its finders keeps if anythings left and there was.
We couldn't pick it up till the following Monday, some African Jacaranda this was just a small limb approx 500x200dia although a large stump was there way to big to lift without cutting it in half. These have the larger type pods unlike the variety seen in most Australian gardens .

No photos of the Jacaranda sorry about that.

Edited 1600hrs 17th Oct Found a photo of the stumps

Also picked up some Hawthorn, has religious significance said to be that which was used to form the crown on Christs head during his crucifixion.  What an interesting plant, regarded as a weed yet it has so many uses.

Sue guessed right in regards to species as our home in Tamworth had a bush/hedge type we had to remove it as it had found its way into the sewerage pipes.

They have large thorns on the trunk and limbs, usually used as hedges on farms but these were tree's.

Hawthorn can be used for turning and box making. This one had grubs through it but I have been able to salvage enough to store till seasoned and get 2 or 3 bowls out of 7" max a few drop spindles, pen blanks and otherthings.



 The log riddled with rot and worm holes.

 This is just some of the smaller bits.

 The gurb trying to eat its way again
the worst section when cut out was just crumbling.

 The largest bit I could save even so still had worm hole, I dug out everything possible which was wet and grubs still active. Think I'll have to spray it.

Below is a piece which as some colour.

Four Shooters

These four pens are for four who go shooting my daughter Belinda, son inlaw John, Bill his dad and his brother Pete.


Two Gun Metal are Purple Heart and a bit of Spotted Gum Burl which I got off a mate Pat some time ago.

Gold is Mahogany or possible Tassie Blackwood I may have miss named it when I got it.

                              Chrome is African Ebony.

Kits through Mark at  043turning

Personalised Wood Bolt Action

These three Gold Bolt Action pens were a request from the same people I made the 3 tier platter for. Wayne even supplied the wood which is possibly Tallowood or Stringybark which came off their property in the Cessnock region of NSW. The area once coverted for its  Cedar  sadly the area has been drained of that resource. Still a wide variety of Australian timbers survive and are sort after mostly being milled these days for flooring, furniture and building.

The kits Bolt Action supplied by 043turning.