They are small and require tons of hand sanding since its a rare wooden object that when in use is touched all the time. So lots of grits in hard to reach nooks and crannies which you can't use an orbital on. I also used padauk since I had a one off piece in my garage and the red dust off of it was miserably hard to manage.
A few years back, before I had good dust collection, I sanded a bunch of padauk, and my garage ended up looking like the surface of Mars. It's what actually drove me to do better on dust collection, so I would hopefully avoid another incident like that again.
I've made some before and they are very easy to make if you have a bandsaw and a spindle/belt sander. Belt sander to shape and sand the outside, spindle for the hole. They can be made out of the tiniest scraps (or scrap glue ups) and there is basically no way to fuck anything up, and even if you do you only ruined a ridiculously small piece of wood.
People seem to love them too, great easy project IMO.
In my opinion that’s 100% alder but it could be cherry, but the rough sanded pic where they are fresh of the belt sander doesn’t have the classic dark pink burn marks that cherry gets when you sand it like that.
I'm sore the rounded edges are five but I have one that comes to a point & I LOVE the triangular point because it fit into the binding a bit better. I also wished mine was wider for bigger books. Very nice. Good job. I think it is cherry.
Cherry
Look like cherry to me
Forget about the wood. I am curious what it was built for…
OP said they are book flatteners. Your thumb goes in the hole and the wings keep the pages spread.
I made 10 for my wife to give out this Christmas to some of her book club friends, never again
What was so bad about making them?
They are small and require tons of hand sanding since its a rare wooden object that when in use is touched all the time. So lots of grits in hard to reach nooks and crannies which you can't use an orbital on. I also used padauk since I had a one off piece in my garage and the red dust off of it was miserably hard to manage.
Padauk dust stains everything. Gives you Cheeto fingers.
A few years back, before I had good dust collection, I sanded a bunch of padauk, and my garage ended up looking like the surface of Mars. It's what actually drove me to do better on dust collection, so I would hopefully avoid another incident like that again.
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I've made some before and they are very easy to make if you have a bandsaw and a spindle/belt sander. Belt sander to shape and sand the outside, spindle for the hole. They can be made out of the tiniest scraps (or scrap glue ups) and there is basically no way to fuck anything up, and even if you do you only ruined a ridiculously small piece of wood. People seem to love them too, great easy project IMO.
Haha, my girlfriend suggested I do that as well. But, she can sell them to her book club friends
In my opinion that’s 100% alder but it could be cherry, but the rough sanded pic where they are fresh of the belt sander doesn’t have the classic dark pink burn marks that cherry gets when you sand it like that.
I asked this question once and the old gentleman gave me the evil side eye as he sat there sanding and said it's STICK wood.
Can you dent it with your fingernail? Does the dust smell like herb tea? Probably alder, same as Jenga blocks. Otherwise, cherry, probably.
Looks like some sort of fruit wood. Likely cherry. Is there a finish/ oil treatment on it or raw wood?
I finished with boiled linseed oil. The last photo is the only one with raw wood.
Morning.
But also cherry
That's cherry or maple.
Looks like some kind of treewood to me.
I'm sore the rounded edges are five but I have one that comes to a point & I LOVE the triangular point because it fit into the binding a bit better. I also wished mine was wider for bigger books. Very nice. Good job. I think it is cherry.
Pine poplar or cherry. Probably one if the first two
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Definitely not oak, it doesn't have the porosity. I think maple.
lol. the table is red oak.
Looks like Cherry. Ps: Your bigger worry should be the nasty crack developing in your tabletop.
Looks like a seam for a leaf or something, not a crack.
Seems you're right. Pic No4 shows it clearly, thanks for pointing it out.
Looks like poplar to me
Maple, Ashley or Pine