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Posted by creative1985@gmail.com on September 26, 2009, 1:44 pm
> creative1...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > creative1...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Se=F1ior Popcorn-Coconut> wrote:
> > > > > Fair enough. Let's just have fun and chat. Life's too short. :)
> > > > While we're on the topic of wood, there is another venue I have bee=
n
> > > > persuing with wanton abandon.
> > > > Vintage furniture refinishing and restoration.
> > > > I've already embarked on it and the going is sort of slow.
> > > > Currently on the bench is an 19th century floor lamp and a 18th
> > > > century spinning wheel.
> > > > Both were in drastic shape and some might say unsalvageable but I l=
ike
> > > > impossible challenges.
> > > > Both have been reduced to the lowest common denominator and are in
> > > > various states of disarray right now.
> > > > I have maybe 20 hours into each thus far.
> > > > The lamp will be a hybrid from various era's and the spinning wheel
> > > > will be true to form, at least as true as my research allows.
> > > > Parts are missing from the spinning wheel and I am making them from
> > > > scratch from wood I have harvested here on our land and air dryed i=
n
> > > > the workshop.
> > > > I have quite a bit of raw wood stored and stacked.
> > > > I have an FLW looking square tiffany style lamp shade from the 20's
> > > > that will go on this lamp and it is in shades of browns thru ivorys
> > > > with some orange and yellow accents. And I hand turned a piece of
> > > > spalted hickory on the lathe in the shape of a 3" acorn that will g=
o
> > > > on the top as a finial. The shaft of the lamp is a conventional
> > > > colonial style and it currently has a new chestnut stain that looks
> > > > mahvelous and some of the turned areas will be accented with a crea=
m
> > > > colored enamel and then the whole thing will receive multiple coats=
of
> > > > satin poly, hand rubbed with 4/0 steel wool between coats. The
> > > > hardware is bright brass. Oh yeah, I also had to turn another piece=
of
> > > > hickory for the transistion from old lamp wood to new lamp hardware
> > > > and that turned out pretty good too. Did you know pure rubbing alco=
hol
> > > > will dissolve 300 year old hide glue? I'm gonna put the lamp in thi=
s
> > > > antique store over in Edinburg with a $400 price tag on it and see
> > > > what happens.
> > > > BTW: Get me your mailing address and I'll send you one of my custom
> > > > pen creations. I sent 2 to Ken and wifey a couple months ago and th=
ey
> > > > liked em. I do them a little differently than most other people do,=
of
> > > > course! I've made about 300 of them so far and have them for sale o=
n
> > > > various sites but I mainly just give them away to family and friend=
s.
> > > > I just like makin' em. Doing lathe stuff is like therapy.
> > > When 1st married, partly from economics, we collected lots of
> > > antiques, cleaned them up, painted them, and they worked good.
> > > Mostly from the 30's - 60's, my fav's were big crafted radio-TV
> > > cabinets, some had phono's, bars, album cabinet, also antique
> > > desks. To get rid of the units we'd put them out to the curb, and
> > > they were gone in about an hour, or just give them away.
> > > Now we build our own antiques cuz they're newer, but try to
> > > keep a 'retro' feel to them.
> > > Ken
> > > PS: Pen's is beauts!
> > Saw one of them 40's radios recently but it was fully restored and
> > expensive.
> > Gonna keep my eyed peeled for one in disrepair.
> > Lots of little antique/junk places around here and we've made it a
> > habit to patrol them when we see them.
> Guess you could slip them a business card since you're going pro.
> Wife does Sally-Ann and the Recycle center too.
> > This lamp I'm working on is a floor lamp and was previously refinished
> > by someone that had no business doing so.
> > The did a poor job of restoring the raw wood, then put a heavy dark
> > stain on it and then poly'd the whole thing.
> > Its very difficult to get poly off without taking some of the wood
> > surface off too, requires a careful touch and a precise eye.
> > I have neither, so its been fun.
> I've had good success with paint stripper.
> > I'm flying by the seat and there have been many errors and many
> > readjustments in end game plans but all in all its working out nice.
> > I want to find one of them old fashioned cloth covered cords rather
> > than the plastic stuff that is the norm today, I think that'll make a
> > cool touch.
> It's been many years, Old Girl had one on her torpedo vacuum
> cleaner, don't know if they're asbestos or not(?).
> > Did I ever send you a pik of that acorn I turned awhile back out of
> > spalted hickory?
> Maybe in July, well send again.
> > I'm going to modify it for the finial on the very top.
> > This thing should top out at about 60" high when its all said and
> > done.
> > I'll send you a pik when its all done and ready for presentation.
> > Then, on to that old spinnin wheel.......
> Looking forward. Apart from the many little mundane prewinter
> chores, wife and I have been designing/building anemometers.http://en.wik=
ipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer
> Mainly just for weather science.
> Ken
Yeah, them prewinter chores, they're starting around here too, just
came off of 4 straight days rain.
Send me a pik of a completed anemometer, I might make me one.
Got a new toy this morning and I'm gonna tear into it this afternoon.
Was at walmart this morning and they were running a sale on cheap
solar lanscape lights, the kind you push into the ground and has the
solarcell on the top.
Only $3.50 each so I got 2.
I'm gonna open it up and see whats what.
Wondering what it uses for a battery.
I got some ideas on ways to supercharge a solarcell.
Do solarcells work off of any light source, or just the sun?
I understand the principle but don't understand why they work.
If they work off of any light source, then why not put them all over
the inside of your house, along with mirrors and fresnel lenses and
turn all that light into juice?
Everybody has a table lamp, right?
How about putting solar cells on the inside of the lampshade?
I mean, all that light is bouncing around inside the lampshade, and
not paying any rent for the priviledge of doing so, so why not put it
to work?
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