A door in Accoya.
Wedged tenons. Pinned with brass. Fixing the drip, with brass flatheads and my turnscrew. Holding temporarily with the Jorgensens.
Hunted and gathered this new old anvil today. It was a lively beast and took some subduing, but with Mick on the seesaw, we roped it in!
So, forging ahead with the forging. Bang bang bang.
Nice door. I hope the Accoya is better priced than here. I looked into it for a job here and it was extortionate! Gav
ReplyDeleteIt is pricy, but with a 50 year guarantee from the producers, I won't be around by the time it rots, so I'll never have to make this door again!
ReplyDeleteVery true. The transport costs don't help. I asked about some Accoya mdf here on another job and a sheet was over $700aus . Even the guy selling it said how good it was for certain applications in their joinery shop but how damn expensive it was.
DeleteAccoya faced mdf?
ReplyDeleteNo, apparently it is mdf treated the same as Accoya treated solid pine making for very stable panels but referred to as Triccoya. Initially I thought it was a pile of codswallop until I heard about it from someone who had used it.
DeleteThe Accoya pine is quite pricy here too. It still makes the recycled jarrah which I need to re-machine cost effective even though its working properties are somewhat harder .
The mind boggles. You can probably imagine, I'm not a big fan of mdf. You know for a short time, Jarrah was shipped and used to pave the streets of London. Also, for railway sleepers, I believe, bonkers! Did you say where you are in Oz?
ReplyDeletePerth- with the dubious tagline of being the most isolated capital city in the world. There were a number of species used for railway sleepers although Jarrah was very common here , if you ever come across any Wandoo you will wish you haven't ! It comes up beautifully but is a testing bit of timber to work. A fellow I know used to work in a paving crew and was asked to pave a demonstration section of a mall in jarrah as was done early on . It didn't go so well and had to be removed due to large amounts of movement and being a trip hazard. I suspect that a lack of preparation and selection of the wood (seasoning, application of suitable finish etc) was a big issue. The blocks moved a lot with shrinkage and expansion and cupped/twisted. We also have very large amounts of clay so there was probably a good reason why clay pavers became a preferred medium;)
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