A little carpentry project.

[TeePee]

I've just started work on a new project after a few years of moving around, it's good to be settled and owning tools again. All my comments that people should be using real wood for making things, instead of MDF, mean I think I'd better show some talent (or at least an attempt!). Time to put my money where my mouth is!

First I needed some good quality plywood. This is Okume mahogany not the holey B&Q-style stock. I rough cut the sheets, and as I need long panels, I'm joining them together with Scarf joints.

First I piled the sheets on top of each other to make a ramp, and clamped them very securely:



Then I planed and sanded the ramp smooth. The colours are the different plys within each panel and the black glue between.



I can then flip a panel over and glue it to the next one, making a joint which will be very strong and allow the sheet to flex as if it's one seamless sheet. Lots of clamping pressure required, and wax paper to stop the panels sticking.



While the glue's drying I'm putting together a little inlay with different naturally coloured wood veneers:



Any guesses what I'm making yet?

[TAKTAK]

Any guesses what i'm making yet?

is it an extravagant piece of wood?


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or just maybe:

Then I planed and sanded the ramp smooth.

[tigerboyce]

A model aircraft/boat?

[manwithnoname]

I hope your woodwork skills are better than mine ... if not then use a bit less glue as your making something to burn on a fire

[Lucio]

Looks like a box car, shaped like a plane.

[RoBe]

i'm gonna go for model/rc plane too

you can kind of see the profile of a wing in the 3rd picture

[sammyc]

parquetry surfboard for a patriotic mouse?

[rox0r]

Some kind of...FrankenTree. You sick, sick man.

[santa claus]

Any guesses what I'm making yet?

Is it something for November 5th?

joking aside, it does look interesting

[Clunk]

Is it an ironing board endorsed by Steve Davis?

[Zak33]

/Grabs his Sherlock hat

TeePee used the word Scarf Joint and then clearly clamped the two bits together before making the "ramp" on both bits, which to me means he wants them to be mirror images of each other. So I Googled the word Scarf joint and found that it is the way of joining two pieces together with what looks like a slope.....or a RAMP!

If he wants to FLEX the joint, he clearly wants a smooth curve on a long length of this boarding.

But I don't know what it's for. He's a flying man, but I dont think you could make a model plane out of such heavy materials unless its gonna have a monster engine.

I'm gonna keep with Furniture to begin with. Shall ponder

[Zak33]

The 4 pieces of marine ply (prolly not a hint, my Dad uses Marine ply for loads of non marine stuff) are different widths. It looks, (rough cut) like 3 of one width, one of a wider.

I am not sure WHY I have this in my mind, but I think it might be a hover craft base!

[Whalefish]

A guitar or a time machine, one of those two.

[wildgoose1uk]

An old style blue police phonebox?

[Gerrard]

A guitar or a time machine, one of those two.

Could be both! After all, the time machine in Back to the Future was originally a fridge!

Well, it looks fin shaped. I'll go with model plane or maybe boat.

[Theo]

I honestly couldn't venture a guess as to what it might be, however I can say that it 100% isn't a guitar