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Works for me. Will look nicely once sanded, stained, and sealed. Pooped, calling it good. Just me, but can't stand the cardboard/sheetrock thing. I know that such things look good, but when I drive a nail or set a screw - it's good. The way I like it.
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Didn't do the smoker thing this weekend.
Looks nice, post up after the stain please. It's gonna look like a million bucks!!
Randy, you should have smoked that wood some, make for awesome look. Of course that knotted pine will look great when finished. I had an aunt with her living room done in knotty pine and varnished, it looked awesome. She and the room long gone now but I remember that room like it was yesterday. You're creating an heirloom or historic place. We will make it up there to see it in person.
"gene"
Thanks Gene, I appreciate it. I really enjoy working on projects. Seems like there is always something to do with not enough hours in the day. The top of a temporary doorway all shimmed up you can see toward the bottom of the picture goes into the main house. Once the addition is completed, the doorway, and shims, will be removed. I want to do an arched entry if you know what I mean. Stain grade wood of course. Don't know how I'm going to do that. Thinking about throwing a 1" x 6" into the river and let it soak for a while - then pull it out and bow it. Anchor it until dry. Not sure if it will work because the 1" x 6" might bow lengthwise if you know what I mean. Any ideas? Thanks.
Randy, folks here call it "shedding off" when you add on to the side of a house or barn. I've seen some with all sides "shedded" and then a shed off on of the sheds. Not sure what you call that one.
None I saw looked as fancy as what you are doing.
Ray
Randy the best way is using steam. You need to make a form to bend it around first off. Then you need to make a steaming appliance. Just to give you an idea, use something as large as a number three tub. Make a top for it and put a six in hole in it. Use a piece of 6 inch pvc to go from this cover to the steam appliance. The appliance is nothing but another 6 or 8 in piece of tubing into which you put your board to be bent. Strike a fire under the pot and get the steam flowing up the pipe into the appliance thus heating the wood. Once heated you bend it around your form and wedge it tightly. Hold it there until cool. Do a google search for steam bending wood. I use to watch my uncle build large shrimp boats and that is the method he used to get the complicated curves that the wood had to bend to. Hopes this helps.
"gene"
gene, don't that do that to make rocking chairs?? Or maybe they used to...now it you look at the grain, I think they just cut the rocker out instead of bending it. Agrihawg here on the site did alot of bending a while back. I do not remember what he was using it for though. He had a jig to wedge it in and a PVC pipe and hot plate with a pot to boil the water. Worked well. Just like you described.
I love the pine look. I always liked to go back and pick my one by's. We used to get alot of sap or heart wood one by's around here. They had a really cool color in the grain when unstained, but when you stained it, it would do some really loud things. You either loved it or hated it. Great job by the way!!!
It is looking great Tracker123. Maybe we could hold our next "Gathering" at your place once you finish the room. I don't think anyone will mind whether we fish or not. LOL. Just fire up the smoker and break out the diet cokes. LOL.
Scrapper, yes they still make bentwood rockers that way. By bending it you don't have any cross grain which is weak.
"gene"
Hadn't thought about steam, makes sense. I'll put some thought to that. Thanks.
Randy I have bent some.....I made saw cuts halfway through across the grain on the back side.3/8 of a inch apart.......makes it easier to bend because you are really only bending 1/2 the board......then soaked the board in hot water in the bathtub. Make a jig and bend. Let dry secured on the jig.
Interesting. Thing is, I would like to make the entire arch with one board - thus an inverted "U". If I could accomplish this within a 36 - 40 inch opening, I figure the corner radiuses along the top corners would be to large. I figure that I wouldn't want a radius more than 6 - 9 inches. Might be able to accomplish with two boards at 90° radius with a tight splice at the very top. As you fellas can probably tell, I think everything through.
After working 10 hours a day and back home, you'd think I would have better things to do. Still have time to play with the puppies and read the news paper though.