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Big Dave Offline
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04-23-2018, 04:58 PM (This post was last modified: 04-25-2018, 12:33 AM by Big Dave.)
Hi, Guys

I finally finished a project I've been working on - off & on - for several months. Every piece had to be made in the shop (some of them more than once...
Crazy  ). I'm posting in this forum due to all the turning this project required. I definitely learned quite a bit more about turning while doing this!

I figure I've got about 60 hours in it and 17 different favors of wood...

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Thanks for lookin'!
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As always, questions & comments are always welcome...
Winkgrin 

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04-23-2018, 06:25 PM
That's a real stunner.  Did you buy a plan, or come up with it on your own?
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04-23-2018, 07:24 PM
(04-23-2018, 06:25 PM)badwhiskey Wrote: or come up with it on your own?

That's funny...
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I bought the plan a couple years ago. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start on it...
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04-23-2018, 08:46 PM
Dave

It has been awhile since you posted something and this project is just wonderful.  Are you keeping this or giving this to a young one?

If giving it away you will have to make another just for me urr I mean you.
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What all woods did you use and where?
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04-24-2018, 12:01 PM (This post was last modified: 04-24-2018, 12:16 PM by Big Dave.)
(04-23-2018, 08:46 PM)Arlin Eastman Wrote: What all woods did you use and where?

Thanks, Arlin!

I'll be hanging on to this one, I think...
Winkgrin

As for the different woods, there are 17:

Ash                                                   Frame, floorboard, air chamber base, seat frame, steering box, springs, fire box, wheels, hand brake, hose brackets

Black Walnut                                     Boiler, pulley shaft, spokes, pump wheel shaft, foot pedal, boiler & pump mounting pegs, hose bracket standards, axe mounts

Cherry                                              Pumps, water tank, bell post, hose brackets, pressure gauges

Birch                                                 Steering column

Maple                                                Pumps, wheel hubs, air chamber

Rosewood                                        Seat

Redheart                                          Driving lights, axe head, air chamber finial, toolbox

Hickory                                             Axe handle

Boxelder                                           Lantern globe

Holly                                                 Boiler, bell, toolbox latches, pressure gauge faces

Ebony                                              Hoses, nozzle pipes

Yellowheart                                       Nozzles, couplings, driving light lenses

African Blackwood                             Axels

Bubinga                                            Forward & rear pulleys, rear wheel standoff

Purpleheart                                       Steering wheel

Paduak                                             Pump wheels

Bloodwood                                        Lantern



I think that's about it...
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04-25-2018, 06:55 PM
Given my shop status these days, if I started a project like that I would be in a never ending cycle of make parts, lose parts, make replacements, lose previous.......  Nice piece of work.
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04-27-2018, 09:31 AM
(04-23-2018, 07:24 PM)Big Dave Wrote: That's funny...
Laugh

I bought the plan a couple years ago. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start on it...
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Would you share where you bought the plan?  Incredible workmanship!

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04-27-2018, 02:12 PM
(04-27-2018, 09:31 AM)gtwhite Wrote: Would you share where you bought the plan?

Gladly!
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04-28-2018, 06:29 AM
That's cool!  I have to finish the thing I'm working on...been on the bench too long!


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04-28-2018, 07:47 AM
That’s super; a real beauty.
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