More Sungka Boards Mk III ( I hope)
Whilst determining what I would be doing with the pine Sungka boards I decided it would be a good risk to commence making more, reason being as every time my wife Aurora's friends visit the Sunjka board production count increases.
So I pulled a piece of swamp gum from the rack, its dimensions were 150mm x 50mm x 2.6m, way too thick but the width was OK.
So out with the drop saw and cut it into 3 piecs about 850 mm long each.
Then I checked the bowing and twisting and determined I could rip each piece into two pieces.
1 x just under 19 mm (the OC off cut) and the other piece to make the boards about 28 mm.
Here is the raw material.
and one of the 3 pieces ripped ready to work.
You may notice some internal stress fractures have now been exposed.
I knew the timber has a few cracks present and I identified them as to be the Off Cut sections.
Undetered I continued on.
Once I had all three ripped I set up a thicknesser sled to finish them
Only one piece needed shiming so it went first.
Yeeks where did that split come from?
The remaining two did not need the sled so they went straight into the thicknesser.
The following results were then achieved.
Side A being the top of the board.
Side B being the underside of the board.
I was disapointed that so many internal defects were getting exposed, and wondered if in fact I was going to be able to use them after all.
Anyway as I had all the gear setup I ran the Off Cuts through the thicknesser as well.
I knew they were riddled with defects before hand but I wanted to see the final result.
I used the sled to thickness all three and the following shows the results.
The A and B are for identification purposes only as I have no imediate use for them.
Pity they are so badly damaged as there are some nice grain features within.
May be I should just cut them up and sent them to interested LJs around the world!
Stay tuned for what progress I make as I intend to continue up to a stage where the blanks are not suitable for Sunjka Boards.
So sadly thats where the (I hope) comes from.
Whilst determining what I would be doing with the pine Sungka boards I decided it would be a good risk to commence making more, reason being as every time my wife Aurora's friends visit the Sunjka board production count increases.
So I pulled a piece of swamp gum from the rack, its dimensions were 150mm x 50mm x 2.6m, way too thick but the width was OK.
So out with the drop saw and cut it into 3 piecs about 850 mm long each.
Then I checked the bowing and twisting and determined I could rip each piece into two pieces.
1 x just under 19 mm (the OC off cut) and the other piece to make the boards about 28 mm.
Here is the raw material.
and one of the 3 pieces ripped ready to work.
You may notice some internal stress fractures have now been exposed.
I knew the timber has a few cracks present and I identified them as to be the Off Cut sections.
Undetered I continued on.
Once I had all three ripped I set up a thicknesser sled to finish them
Only one piece needed shiming so it went first.
Yeeks where did that split come from?
The remaining two did not need the sled so they went straight into the thicknesser.
The following results were then achieved.
Side A being the top of the board.
Side B being the underside of the board.
I was disapointed that so many internal defects were getting exposed, and wondered if in fact I was going to be able to use them after all.
Anyway as I had all the gear setup I ran the Off Cuts through the thicknesser as well.
I knew they were riddled with defects before hand but I wanted to see the final result.
I used the sled to thickness all three and the following shows the results.
The A and B are for identification purposes only as I have no imediate use for them.
Pity they are so badly damaged as there are some nice grain features within.
May be I should just cut them up and sent them to interested LJs around the world!
Stay tuned for what progress I make as I intend to continue up to a stage where the blanks are not suitable for Sunjka Boards.
So sadly thats where the (I hope) comes from.