Finished the handle with some oilwax, only one coat. Might put a few coats more in the future, we'll see how it holds.
Showing posts with label woodworking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodworking. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Wooden handle for Rok espresso machine
The handle for our Rok espresso machine started to crack, decided it was too much work to find out how to order a new one, better make one myself. There was some apple tree that seemed like good choice.
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Wooden urn
We had a death in the family and I wanted to make an urn for the ashes, before they are scattered.
For material I used birch and heat treated birch. I wanted to make the sides at an angle, and I found a nice calculator for compound miter angles. Sides are only at a 5 degree angle so the bevel is almost 45 degrees. Before I sawed bevels I routed a slot for bottom with my old adjustable jig(in finnish).
For the 5 degree angle I made a jig and tilted the saw blade for bevel.
Top was glued from four pieces, and one piece in the bottom to hold it in place, and cut to size with bottom. Finished with wax.
For material I used birch and heat treated birch. I wanted to make the sides at an angle, and I found a nice calculator for compound miter angles. Sides are only at a 5 degree angle so the bevel is almost 45 degrees. Before I sawed bevels I routed a slot for bottom with my old adjustable jig(in finnish).
Top was glued from four pieces, and one piece in the bottom to hold it in place, and cut to size with bottom. Finished with wax.
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Making apple juice
Fall, apples are getting ripe. Time make some juice.
We have several apple trees, and we know that if we just freeze slices we probably wont use them. But we do drink juice. We have tried juicers, but they tend to be meant for smaller scale, few liters maybe. Then I came across Matthias Wandel's homepage and his apple cider making page https://woodgears.ca/cider/. I copied the design somewhat and came up with this.
It's current in prototype stage, I want to make a bigger place to put the apples, preferably so large that I can just pour a whole moving box of apples there and let it crunch away. Also a better stand would be nice. The vfd in the back is just to test different speeds, I intend to replace that motor with something a bit smaller and one phase. Video of the crusher can be found here https://youtu.be/YjaJNmqus-Y
I haven't had time to build a press so I'm forced to use this store bought. It does it's job but could be better.
Today i harvested two trees, about four moving boxes full of apples, 30 liters of juice.
update: Second time, about 75 kg of apples gives about 25 litres of juice.
We have several apple trees, and we know that if we just freeze slices we probably wont use them. But we do drink juice. We have tried juicers, but they tend to be meant for smaller scale, few liters maybe. Then I came across Matthias Wandel's homepage and his apple cider making page https://woodgears.ca/cider/. I copied the design somewhat and came up with this.
It's current in prototype stage, I want to make a bigger place to put the apples, preferably so large that I can just pour a whole moving box of apples there and let it crunch away. Also a better stand would be nice. The vfd in the back is just to test different speeds, I intend to replace that motor with something a bit smaller and one phase. Video of the crusher can be found here https://youtu.be/YjaJNmqus-Y
I haven't had time to build a press so I'm forced to use this store bought. It does it's job but could be better.
Today i harvested two trees, about four moving boxes full of apples, 30 liters of juice.
update: Second time, about 75 kg of apples gives about 25 litres of juice.
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