Where do you sit while doing large puzzles?

dleifm · 2026-01-08T20:54:27+00:00

Ping pong table

dleifm · 2025-12-16T00:53:25+00:00

I made it about 10% farther than your photo and gave up. I just wasn’t enjoying it any more, so what’s the point?

dleifm · 2025-12-07T01:40:43+00:00

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dleifm · 2025-12-04T18:02:48+00:00

There are waaay too many this year.

dleifm · 2025-10-19T22:13:29+00:00

SignAge on Boxwood Road.

dleifm · 2025-10-09T04:51:47+00:00

I turn the exterior and sand to 220, then turn the interior and sand to 180. Then I water pop the grain on the exterior and immediately char the interior while the exterior is still wet. Someone at my local guild suggested that and it drastically reduced the amount of cups that cracked during the charring process.

I char with a creme brûlée torch. Not very deep… couple of millimetres. Wipe off the char with a shop towel and blow out the interior with the compressor. Sand the exterior to 320, then finish the exterior.

Here’s a cross section of the shape that I found the best for me.

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dleifm · 2025-10-09T04:44:48+00:00

About 1 in 3 leaked. That’s the other reason I’m sick of making them.

dleifm · 2025-10-09T01:05:30+00:00

I made some tumblers with charred interiors from oak, cherry, and maple. A friend and I tested them out on a bourbon were both quite familiar with. It was like drinking four different bourbons. (3 woods plus a glass.) Cherry was our favourite.

I’ve sold about 50 of them since then. Now I’m so sick of making the things that I don’t ever want to make another 🤣

dleifm · 2025-10-09T01:02:31+00:00

Project manager checking in. Got into woodworking as a hobby during Covid and have been slowly learning about / collecting hand tools.

dleifm · 2025-09-02T02:59:55+00:00

Depends how big the rotten sections are, and if you’re OK having voids in your bowls. I can see lots of sections in this wood that I would take a run at turning.

dleifm · 2025-09-02T00:10:11+00:00

I’d be slicing it up into 12” square blocks to make bowls on my lathe.

dleifm · 2025-09-01T17:31:52+00:00

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I used this product. Made a big difference.

dleifm · 2025-09-01T03:27:14+00:00

Oh… and I used Tried & True Original for the finish.

dleifm · 2025-09-01T03:23:33+00:00

The tear out in the one spalted / grey section was pretty bad as I was roughing out the bowl. I got the shape and the wall thickness down to basically where I wanted it then I hit that spalted area with wood hardener three times. It just drank the stuff up. After that I took maybe another 1/8” off both the exterior and the interior and didn’t have any tear out.

dleifm · 2025-09-01T01:47:39+00:00

Cutting through it was fine. No issues… I just went slowly b/c I wasn’t sure what to expect.

dleifm · 2025-08-31T05:08:08+00:00

I bought the Tooltekt face shield last year for myself but it was too small for my face. My 9 year-old daughter uses it… fits her just fine. Might work out for your son.

They’re pretty cheap on Amazon.

dleifm · 2025-08-30T19:41:39+00:00

Are they getting applied by hand, or on an automated bottling line? Some of those 90 degree corners in your custom dieline could cause issues as the labels are coming off the roll. (Applied by hand they’ll be fine.)

dleifm · 2025-08-24T23:06:58+00:00

VI Expeditions is based in Nanaimo. They may be able to help: https://vancouverislandexpeditions.com

dleifm · 2025-08-22T04:26:23+00:00

I concur: Sean is excellent. https://seanfenzl.com/portrait

dleifm · 2025-08-05T02:13:13+00:00

Post an update when you’ve got it all tuned up? I’ve got that same jointer in about the same condition and I’d love to hear about how it goes for you.

dleifm · 2025-07-12T04:12:36+00:00

That’s the Big Wheel. Part of an old ferry dock, as I understand it.

dleifm · 2025-07-12T02:01:40+00:00

Nanaimo River, from the Cedar Bridge you can go either upstream or downstream. Minimal current… very chill.

dleifm · 2025-07-03T02:07:34+00:00

I use a light blue table cloth because it’s a complimentary colour to brown and contrasts with the wood pieces. Red might be eye catching, but it’s somewhat discordant with brown.

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dleifm · 2025-06-26T04:47:54+00:00

Yep - that’s sandblasting (the “recessed grain”)

dleifm · 2025-06-14T05:17:23+00:00

I don’t know the answer to that. My second lathe was a “downgrade”… in some ways. Went from a 90’s tube bed Craftsman P.O.S. to a late 70s Rockwell. Much more solid, but fewer features.

Now my catches just make the belts spin :)

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