Butt plug ? ;-)
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Idigbo
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4 years ago
I have a bit of left over Idigbo, 9" x 12" x 1.25". Nothing huge... was wondering what I could make from it. I don't want a stack of pens :) Any suggestions?
For anyone not familiar it's a brown African hardwood of low density, fairly good strength & not much figure. I gather it's best kept dry.
NT
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4 years ago
A musical instrument? Do you know the sort of thing I mean? Often has a hollowed out body and an animal-skin sounding "board" held by pins all round. Maybe sacrifice some of the width to make the pole-type neck and pegs.
I had one of those turn up at my workshop from a museum wanting a replacement for a broken peg. I didn't have any Idigbo so I used Sapele and delicately stained it to match. I shuffled the pegs around (they had been in the wrong holes anyway) and I was delighted to find the owner couldn't tell which was the replacement.
Nick
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4 years ago
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I thought I had some bits of that although mine is distinctly pink. Lots of cross grain shakes:-(
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4 years ago
My son wanted to make a boot puller. Would this be suitable? He had me pulling them off for him, instead. :(
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4 years ago
Not been taken by any of the suggestions yet, and not really sure what search terms to use to keep makeable things to small slabs of wood.
NT
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4 years ago
Treen maybe?
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4 years ago
What's the Mekon got to do with it?
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4 years ago
Good question.
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4 years ago
Mekon ruled em
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4 years ago
In a Golden Age?
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4 years ago
I image searched treen, and nothing fancied my tickle so it probably won't get used. Thanks everyone!
NT
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4 years ago
Your son's boot remover seems the most useful:-) Tad short but OK for small feet.
Entire family home today. Walkies? So out come the Wellington boots from the hall cupboard and off they all go.... 1 hour later I have a pile of muddy discarded boots in the porch:-( Very tempting to store them in a barn!
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4 years ago
Ah yes, those moments where it's tempting to store family in a barn.
NT