Posted 10 years ago
blunderbuss2
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This is made of S. Amer brown-hart. It completely disassembles without tools. The lead weight system is for releasing the supporting arm for the writing leaf & works automatically. No piano hinges or pull out bars. Everything literally slides apart with sliding dovetails for the top, desk, & sides. Partitions are slide in slots & doors are lift-off hinges. Takes down in minutes to a stack about 14" tall & easily transported. Sorry that I haven't waxed it for yrs. Bullet hole is another story that I prefer to leave alone.
Well, I'm allowed 4 pics, so here is base-leg of landing in St. Croix.
Great desk! I've never been to St Croix,but my folks went every winter on thier way to St John.
Reminds me of a song, "I shot the Sheriff, but I didn't shoot the secretary" :-)
Very unique & looks great!
Love the secretary and love the picture of landing in St. Croix.
very very nice Blunderbuss:)
I didn't forget to ask. I have asked numerous people here in Arkansas and they have no idea.
Great desk and love title of post :-)))))))
Tom. How did Arkansas get in here?
Put Feathers on your wings and land easier!
It’s landings gone wrong that bend all too many aircraft and embarrass too many pilots.....
You may not aspire to STOL performance or slow flying in your aircraft,
but you still have to get slow to land it!
Let’s face it – a lot of pilots dread landings......
So put some Feathers on your wings and make it easier!
Stolspeed VGs make the stall so gentle and gradual that you don’t get ‘dropped’ suddenly if you flair a bit too high – the aircraft just settles on – it’s very forgiving!
........it's like a bird with feathers.......
VGs give better control for hold off to a slower touchdown speed.
It’s quite astounding to round out and then hold off in ground effect by easing the stick back and back and farther back until the nose is way high and the airspeed is way low before the aircraft finally settles on gently!!!
This is especially valuable for tail wheel aircraft to get good classic ‘three-pointers’. The slower touchdown speed much reduces the chance of a bounce or a ground loop.
Allows nose wheel aircraft to hold the nose wheel high at touchdown, thus protecting it from impact especially on rough strips. Touchdown like a tail-dragger, then lower the nose wheel and have all that directional control -
the best of both types!
So VG's over Slate or what ......................lol
o ya love the runway shot ,,,,,,,,,aswell
right ...lol
This is cool but I have to ask.................why did you do convex doors? It is certainly different and not the usual raised panel door. I was just curious if you were nuts or one of us that treads outside the box. :)
Fhrjr2, I had to go back & look at the pics to understand what you meant. They are actually flat. As you walk by this brownhart, the colours change with the angle of light As you walk by, the parts go from dark to light & vice versa & eye catching. I have been looking for some more of this wood & can't find it even here. I was told that it would probably bring around $12K in the States. With the auto desk-arm release, it is truly unique.
Its very beautiful! Happy holidays Blunder xo
Thanks & the same to you Amy. Stop by & I'll buy you supper.
I wasn't putting the item down just the image looked different than you explain. If you look up brown heart wood you will find it is plentiful. Brownhart is not a known hard wood to my knowledge. We have 28 species of exotic hardwoods in our shop and book after book with image after image and this matches with brown heart wood. Your wood grows mostly in Argentina and is super expensive. This is one of many woods they are restricting cutting. The restrictions are a pain if you are a wood worker but in the long run the trees will survive, we will just have less at a higher cost. This IS NOT official but I have heard brown heart called brown ebony and was told it is a term to buy the wood under the table by a different name. Kind of a don't ask don't tell transaction.
Interesting fhrj2 as I really haven't followed the protected species much here as other country's laws don't affect us on woods or many other things for that matter. I've got a list somewhere that gives botanical name / common name / Suriname name etc.. There is no stain on that wood except French polish & then Canauba wax after I discovered its wonders. Should have waxed before posting but that grain is like satin as you pass by. I was looking for some Lignum Vitae when I lived in Jamaica & they actually had a law where you had to get permission & permit to cut one on your own property. (That was in the 70's!) Today, here, it is hard to buy small amounts of the woods you are looking for. I don't need a "flat" of wood to make a dresser! Voila, just remembered where that list is & looking at it. From Rio Timber; Suriname. Gives the uses for the diff. woods. Not a real clear copy, but can scan & send if you like.
I would be interested in the botanical name. Brown heart is rather coarse grain and not easy to work on a lathe. I wondered it this has a more close grain. Buying exotic woods here is getting very expensive and you can't seem to find good size stock. Everyone seems to only have blanks. Although for some reason they bring purple heart right into the city here log length. You can even sell the turning waste of purple heart just for the aroma. When it heats under the blade the smell is quite pleasant and it lasts into the shavings. Arts and Crafts shops love it. As for the lignum vitae finding it in any decent size is next to impossible and the price usually over the top. I wanted to try turning it at one point but finally gave up on the idea.
Used to use lignum vitae on the hydro generators I used to rebuild years ago , took 4 years to have an order filled ...the old boys would just about fight over the ones we pulled out to replace...lol self lubing wood ..G E said they could replace it with some made out of a grafi ...lol lasted 5 mins cook it .. ya real hard wood forsure
fhrjr2, i stand corrected after I found this sheet from Rio Timber. It doesn't give the diff. names of all the woods. It list brown heart as "bruinhart". I don't have the other sheet or don't know where it is. To give an example of the woods listed, "groenhart, rode kabbes, soemaroeba, letterhout, purplehart, wana". There are many more. You should recognize green heart & purple heart in there. Green heart is like working with metal & purple heart doesn't hold it's colour.(shame) I made a beautiful (at 1 time) radio/cd deck for my truck of purple heart & it soon looked like rosewood in colour. A lot of t&g boards here are in "ipi", which I don't know what it is exactly but nice colour. After buying from the local Rio Timber for a while, I noticed the prices seemed really cheap. After ck'ing receipts, I realized their local shop was selling 2 bd/ft for the price of one. They went out of business & regret not telling them as I would rather have had access to their wood @ the correct price than not. Hindsight. Do you know amourette - leopard wood?(Piratinera guianerasis).
Yeah Roy, the U.S. navy has a stockpile for prop-shaft bearing on nuclear subs because they can't find anything quieter. Nothing man can replicate yet. The shits like steel! You can drill & tap a hole in it & torque a bolt into it. We have other woods that are close & can do the same thing with. Some are better turned on a metal lathe & can bind a wood blade in a saw. Even with straight grain on a table saw, I often have to progressively wedge screwdrivers into the cut part to prevent binding the blade. hard to work, but makes beautiful furniture that's there to stay for hundreds of yrs..
Amen Blunder...Used to run cnc ,lath , mill, swisslaths .. everthing but autocad and when I wasnt doing that I was do certafied g5 welding on 308 or 316 ss...smiling but I'll post a place I usd to work for and maybe you and fhrjr2,can put your heads togeather and talk to someone there to buy up some of the older lignum vitae the pulled from the hydro's good luck..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boott_Mills
Roy, I think we all know you are certified/certifiable. Has anybody been to Haiti in the past 5-10 yrs? In the Port-au-Prince airport, there was a root of a lignum vitae tree about 3 meters long by 2 wide that was slowly being carved by local artists. The work was beautiful & wondering if it is still there? haven't been there since the 90's but watched the progress over the yrs back then. Probably stolen by Amer, "freedom fighters". Sorry. Probably "liberated" by an Amer. general like the P-51's I was after.
certified/certifiable lol anit that the truth ..I think its all the prednisone
Im on or Im ADA..lol was watching show time walter weight fights .,have new glasses and cant seem to dial in my screen here ...lol what a mess ..oh my
Had a friend who was into buy and selling odd exotic woods ..called himself a broker of hardwoods ..he did make money tho ....a lot of curly , tiger and birdseye maple.from up here ... but no lignum vitae ..lol but like I saidt try making contact with boott mills and u might do well..night lol
Blunder - Look up ipe wood rather than ipi ( Eee-Pay) wood. It grows in Brazil and is often a substitute for Teak. Although as far as I know it isn't self lubricating like Teak and much cheaper.
If you have trouble with color loss with purple heart get some Australian friction polish. The stuff is around $35 for 4 ounces (when we can find it) but it is wonderful. My wife turned a purple heart vase and mounted it in Ebony about 10 years ago and the color has held true. Don't use it on something that will hold food as I believe it may cause issues there. It doesn't cause problems when in contact with your skin. If you spin it or buff it in fast enough you will get a hard glass like finish.
Fhr, purple heart seems to hold its colour inside, but fades in sunlight. Have pieces that are yrs old in the garage that are fine but my truck console fades in a matter of months.
Vase my wife made sits on a window sill in the Florida sun. The stock we bought wasn't fresh cut and was green wood waxed. I'm getting ready to get rid of our stock and all the tools. If I don't do it then it will be a mess for someone else and they would probably throw it away. Although I do want to turn my cremation urn myself. I want room to stretch, room for a cold six pack and perhaps a little sweetie for company. Be prepared.
Was her vase treated with the Aussie friction polish? Got an Aussie friend who goes home periodically, so maybe he can bring some back. I've certainly never seen it here or even heard of it. I used varnish(Helmsman) on the console. Looked beautiful & would probably make a new 1 if the colour would hold. It also sounds like our purple heart is harder than what you get up there.
Yes she applied the friction polish before she even parted it. The heat (friction) binds it. She applied it as she was spinning it. I have used it with a polisher and also a dremel tool for hard to reach spots like corners. The speed and heat is a must. If you are spinning it on a lathe be prepared for calloused fingers. Wipe down with mineral spirits to get rid of dust and go for it. If you are turning it you can do the spirits on a rag while it is turning then let it spin dry before hitting it with the polish.
Just called "Out-Back Andy & asked him to flip over there & get me 4 oz. figuring it would be cheaper there. He said he had Tuesday afternoon free & would flip over there. If I told you what he really said, I would get banned from CW & possibly the whole internet! Actually, with that accent, probably just from communicating with Australia. He is going in a few months so would like to know what it says on the container so we know it actually comes from there? He said he has never heard of it.
I'll help load for a trip outback :^P
Actually fhr, I've found that washing any wood & sanding repeatedly until no grain rises leaves the pores clean & gives a much better depth after applying a finish. Lot more work but gives that rich, "looking into" the wood affect.
And Amy, if you are packed, come on down & we can discuss it. Heineken Regatta is first week in March.
I love regatta's, you can have the Heineken.
Have company coming down for it so we can really have a party.