Here's a little novice hobbiest project I recently finished, re-finished, then re-finished and rubbed out, then had to give away so I wouldn't re-finish it again.
To start with, I read Frank Pellow's thread on the curly maple lazy susans he made a few months back, and decided to try something similar. As it happens, I was agonizing over making the OF-1400 plunge at my local woodworking store when I found a nice piece of curly maple that was going to leave me just $20 lighter for the visit. It was 1/4" thick, and when I got out to the car the idea popped into my head that I could use it to make an inlaid lazy susan. One like the Pellow models, but different. So I went back in and surrendered my accumulated tool funds in exchange for the OF-1400. Thank you, Frank Pellow. Thank you, Festool.
I cut a couple of pieces of my stock of jatoba salvaged from the built-in bookcases I removed from one of our bedroom walls shortly after we moved to our house. A TS55 and MFT/3 did the job. In my living room.
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Next, I picked a radius for the lazy susan. The finished pre-historic edges of the jatoba weren't particularly flush, so I planned on jointing them with the TS55.
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The OF-1400 helped me mill a really wide rabbet on the edges of the boards. Apparently, rabbets don't interest the cat on the sofa, as she is asleep.
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Clamps are nice. Here are almost all of mine having a little party. Maple, meet jatoba. Jatoba, meet maple.
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One half of the lazy susan blank awaits treatment by Dr. Domino. You can also see my finish sample on the MFT/3.
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No one likes the big needles, but sometimes they're what's best.
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Then back to the clamps to complete the blank.
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The MFT/3 table helps make a circular pattern so I can try pattern cutting with the OF-1400.
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My rookie pattern cutting went really well until the router tipped just slightly. I don't have any pictures of the results, so it didn't happen, right? Thank goodness I used a pine practice blank.
A little bit of hand-sawing at the MFT/3, a lot of hand-sanding, and I was back in business.
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Finally, an almost-finished product. I stained the top with liquid dye mixed in shellac. (Thank you Mark Spagnuolo a.k.a. The Wood Whisperer.) Then I sanded off and re-stained because I wasn't happy with the result. Then I put down three layers of gloss Formby's tung oil with scuff-sanding between as a top coat, after which I got fancy and tried hand-rubbing with pumice and rottenstone. I went through the top coats in a couple of spots and had to go through the top-coating and rubbing-out again. If that makes any sense.
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At last, the lazy susan went off as a gift to family friends who saved us with a last-minute re-gift for an Easter baptism we had to attend.
To start with, I read Frank Pellow's thread on the curly maple lazy susans he made a few months back, and decided to try something similar. As it happens, I was agonizing over making the OF-1400 plunge at my local woodworking store when I found a nice piece of curly maple that was going to leave me just $20 lighter for the visit. It was 1/4" thick, and when I got out to the car the idea popped into my head that I could use it to make an inlaid lazy susan. One like the Pellow models, but different. So I went back in and surrendered my accumulated tool funds in exchange for the OF-1400. Thank you, Frank Pellow. Thank you, Festool.
I cut a couple of pieces of my stock of jatoba salvaged from the built-in bookcases I removed from one of our bedroom walls shortly after we moved to our house. A TS55 and MFT/3 did the job. In my living room.
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Next, I picked a radius for the lazy susan. The finished pre-historic edges of the jatoba weren't particularly flush, so I planned on jointing them with the TS55.
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The OF-1400 helped me mill a really wide rabbet on the edges of the boards. Apparently, rabbets don't interest the cat on the sofa, as she is asleep.
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Clamps are nice. Here are almost all of mine having a little party. Maple, meet jatoba. Jatoba, meet maple.
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One half of the lazy susan blank awaits treatment by Dr. Domino. You can also see my finish sample on the MFT/3.
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No one likes the big needles, but sometimes they're what's best.
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Then back to the clamps to complete the blank.
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The MFT/3 table helps make a circular pattern so I can try pattern cutting with the OF-1400.
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My rookie pattern cutting went really well until the router tipped just slightly. I don't have any pictures of the results, so it didn't happen, right? Thank goodness I used a pine practice blank.
A little bit of hand-sawing at the MFT/3, a lot of hand-sanding, and I was back in business.
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Finally, an almost-finished product. I stained the top with liquid dye mixed in shellac. (Thank you Mark Spagnuolo a.k.a. The Wood Whisperer.) Then I sanded off and re-stained because I wasn't happy with the result. Then I put down three layers of gloss Formby's tung oil with scuff-sanding between as a top coat, after which I got fancy and tried hand-rubbing with pumice and rottenstone. I went through the top coats in a couple of spots and had to go through the top-coating and rubbing-out again. If that makes any sense.
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At last, the lazy susan went off as a gift to family friends who saved us with a last-minute re-gift for an Easter baptism we had to attend.
