Dan Hilyer said:
Yeah, Dave, what’s up with your build? You know we can’t do this without your participation and you providing us guidance, encouragement and the always needed adult supervision. So what say you?
Oh yea, I need adult supervision. I am actually surprised that I am allowed out unsupervised as much as I am.
Yea Dave, you only have a few hours left to post your napkin. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
David Maynard said:
Dan Hilyer said:
Yeah, Dave, what’s up with your build? You know we can’t do this without your participation and you providing us guidance, encouragement and the always needed adult supervision. So what say you?
Oh yea, I need adult supervision. I am actually surprised that I am allowed out unsupervised as much as I am.
Yea Dave, you only have a few hours left to post your napkin. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
We’re also missing Eric Schade so far…considering he’s a master woodworker, this Challenge should be right up his alleyway. I’d love to see what he’d come up with.
Sign me up! I haven’t visited the forum for awhile so I am already behind the eight-ball. I’d like to build an early 20th century wooden oil derrick in 1/24 scale. I’ll start sketching tonight and post tomorrow.
Joe Bussing said:
Sign me up! I haven’t visited the forum for awhile so I am already behind the eight-ball. I’d like to build an early 20th century wooden oil derrick in 1/24 scale. I’ll start sketching tonight and post tomorrow.
Good to have you aboard.
6 Hours To GO!
And the waiting is over and the sweating begins!
REMEMBER Above All Else,
RULE #1 This is a FUN build amongst friends.
Dave Taylor said:
6 Hours To GO!
And the waiting is over and the sweating begins!
REMEMBER Above All Else,
RULE #1 This is a FUN build amongst friends.
AAAAAAHHH!!! is it too late to change my mind!
Pete Lassen said:
Dave Taylor said:
6 Hours To GO!
And the waiting is over and the sweating begins!
REMEMBER Above All Else,
RULE #1 This is a FUN build amongst friends.
AAAAAAHHH!!! is it too late to change my mind!
Never too late to change your mind, implementing it might be a different story!
Do I really need to do this? Yah…
GO!
You have 30 days and $30.00
Let the fun begin.
I be gone!! To cut some would, that is. Be back in 30 days.
AHHHH I’m not ready to start !! Why didn’t we get more notice ? Why didn’t we have a countdown or something ? Just Kiddin LOL
I look forward to everyone’s project postings.
We have the plans, we have the materials, can’t wait to see the results, let’s go! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Has anyone else become obsessed with saving every little scrap cut off of their 2x4. I mean we only have so much you don’t dare through out a sliver that could be uaed. Someone mentioned a pile of saw dust? I am thinking scale presto logs for use as something.
I’m in, but I won’t have my napkin until tomorrow. I used it at Dinner by mistake!
HELP !
What did you guys use for your 2x4? I just took a look at the lumber that I ripped from the 2x4 over the weekend for the challenge and it is all warped!
I had ripped it down to 1/2x1/2 and smaller for my trestle bents etc… and now I remember why I don’t use 2x4’s for this.
I now have it laying on the floor in my shop and clamped but I don’t hold out much hope for it going back to straight. Worse would have been if I had got to building and then it warped.
So what type of wood would you guys suggest for the 2x4?
Todd,
I had a piece of mine bow. I am using ultra dry redwood that I have had for over a year and it still bent a little. But that was 1/8 stuff that was 4" by 3.5" that I used for the sheathing. All my sticks are staying straight. A lot of dimensional lumber unless you have had it awhile is not dry. At least not for what we are trying to do. I have cut brand new dimensional lumber that was actually juicy never mind damp. Redwood and cedar tends to be treated with a bit more care. Dimensional is stored outside in the weather 90% of the time.
Official ruling # 24-B2 V 2.37.18
OK this has turned in a real beast beyond what rule #1 wants…
NO penitaly… If you have to re-cut a new piece of wood from new stock, to replace one that went all woonkie, due to the quality of wood that we have to deal with.
SO JUST CUT A REPLACEMENT THE SAME SIZE FROM NEW STOCK… Honor system guys.
I too, have had in the past, have had a piece turn into a twisted boat keel after being cut.
I call it noodle wood. This is why I like to keep all my projects on the simple side, less chance of something going catastrophically wrong and ending up in the fire pit.
Todd Haskins said:
HELP !
What did you guys use for your 2x4? I just took a look at the lumber that I ripped from the 2x4 over the weekend for the challenge and it is all warped!
…
Tell me about it. The only thing that works for me is keeping the individual scale pieces under a few inches in length. Longer pieces, like on roofs, have to be held straight by the supporting shorter pieces. I tried oak, but it stayed more stubbornly warped than plain pine.
50 year old cedar has been pretty good at staying straight, it was my saw that went wonky!
looking up all the builds and pitying myself, that again i’m not participating, i thought, how many coffee stirrers might be in a 1:32 scale 2x4?
allowing for sawdust production - the result would be at about 1,000 stirrers.
divided by the 31 actual building days that would be about 32 stirrers per day.
or, to be more precise… one stirrer every45 minutes.
but, if we discount time for eating, sleeping, working and so on, a building day has a max of 8 hours. meaning glueing down a stirrer every 15 minutes.
and that does not count in, makeing the base, one glues the stirrers to, nor the time needed to wirebrush in the grain, or washing in the weathering…
(not even to mention windows, doors and/or other things.
conclusion:
if i would participate, i would be so stressed out, that i wouldn’t find time for essencial calculations like this one.
