Mens Shed are a great organization for blokes of all ages.

Great to see who've got a good Mens Shed close by to help get the job done.
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Looking forward to the finished product James.
Thanks for the photos.
Cheers, crowie

 

James, what is that strange looking tool on the bench with shavings sticking out?

 

Harry, Harry, Harry.

Take the fuses out of you shed power board, go into the shed, and make something.....LOL.

 

Nice to see the "elbow grease" planer still in use. I still prefer it to the electric planer for small jobs.

 

Being serious for a moment, I do admire people who still have hand tool skills, I lost mine years ago when I went in for power tools.

 

Being serious for a moment, I do admire people who still have hand tool skills......

Same here, Harry. I am still developing my skills, both power and non-power...

PS I knew that you knew it was not a butter curler......VBG....

PPS still gluing up the various strips of timber at the moment...

 

And it takes as much time to set up a plane correctly as it does to set up the router table....(at least for me).

 

I like the looks of the planer and still try and do alot of things by hand as it just feels better and right, but power tools are getting used more and more due to time and quickness

 

Oh dear......

I have partly glued up the two sections of the lazy susan base and went to planes the section to the same thickness....

This is what came out of my thickness planer?????

I will take them to the Men's Shed on Wednesday to see if I can salvage them...

:bad:

 

How large is this lazy Samuel going to be? I like the look of the woods.

 

How wide/



The plan is to make the top 400mm across.

The one I bought some years ago and inspired me to make one was all one timber.

I am using up some of my scrap bin to make this one and I do like the look of the contrasting timbers.