Making some small, 1/4" walnut pegs

I'm building a little shelving system for storing the many lumber shorts and cutoffs I create when working on projects in the garage. It occurred to me that pegs would be a good way to fasten certain portions, and further, that I could enhance the overall look of the piece by driving some pegs through the outside in a contrasting color. The shelving will be "natural" birch ply, which just means "lots of heartwood," which just means "not all uniform, pale, typical cabinet-ready material. I rather like the crazy look of it, though, and am using the 'less pretty' side, which is streaked and splotched with dark heartwood. Because it's so heavily splotched, it becomes a kind of interesting pattern that I never see. It's still primarily lighter, however, so dark walnut pegs, sawn and sanded flush and given some all-over coats of shellac and topcoat should look pretty neat.

I didn't have walnut pegs, but I did have a plank, so I cut some tiny squares out of it on the bandsaw, and ran them through a program on my mini lathe, which I wrote in Python, exported to g-code, and piped through EMC2, the enhanced machine controller, then from there out to a Sherline control box, and finally to my Sherline 4400 CNC mini lathe.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• walnut
• pegs
• sherline
• 4400
• minilathe
• CNC
• EMC2
• turning
• woodwork

[gfixler]

Yep! I stole it from him.

[silver760]

The 5x speed is about the speed you should run it!!

[tryally]

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[raincrow88]

Holy cow I can totally hear your dad in your voice.

[raincrow88]

*grinz* Oh the geekness is awesome!

It makes life thriftier!!!