If someone here doesn't know, then no one does....

I am building a retaining wall across my front yard to set it up for
the drought we have had for the last ten years - lawn dies every
summer, so why bother with it. I am a charter member of the Old Hippy
School of Landscape Gardening, so I like to think I am a bit creative
on how to do things. As part of my left wing socialist agenda, I am
making it out of things I have found. (honest, I found them or was
given them - all its cost me so far is for concrete) and so,
sometimes, the right bit of recycled hardwood fence post (red gum to
us skips) cannnot be found, resulting in a gap across the top rail on
top of a support post.

So I need to fill in the gaps. (with Finials) (Have build one, with
the circular saw and a rasp - sorta OK) I need Finial Patterns/Ideas.
I not an artist, some of you guys here do stunning stuff, a lot in the
desert areas, great beauty using found objects, that ability to look
at something ....slightly sideways...and do something totally
different with it. That aint me. I need a service manual in front of
me.

So, where do I find art finials pictures I can get ideas from, and not
the dead boring commercial ones, the ones you could probably buy them
in Wallmart/Kmart.

Tools (especially for my fellow Oz companions - old knowledge being
dragged out. Saw on TV, years ago, 2 incredible power tools for wood
shaping. One was a blade for your angle grinder, went well, happily
shape off big areas of wood. The other one was a Power Chisel for want
of a better word - again, attached to an angle grinder, a sq. section
metal sheaf guided a chisel down to the wok surface...looked good.
So, having learnt from here, that Power Tools and the right tooling
make life a LOT easier. I want them.
Anyone used them, comments - good stuff or crap?

Andrew VK3BFA.

"Andrew VK3BFA" wrote in message
...
If someone here doesn't know, then no one does....

I am building a retaining wall across my front yard to set it up for
the drought we have had for the last ten years - lawn dies every
summer, so why bother with it. I am a charter member of the Old Hippy
School of Landscape Gardening, so I like to think I am a bit creative
on how to do things. As part of my left wing socialist agenda, I am
making it out of things I have found. (honest, I found them or was
given them - all its cost me so far is for concrete) and so,
sometimes, the right bit of recycled hardwood fence post (red gum to
us skips) cannnot be found, resulting in a gap across the top rail on
top of a support post.

So I need to fill in the gaps. (with Finials) (Have build one, with
the circular saw and a rasp - sorta OK) I need Finial Patterns/Ideas.
I not an artist, some of you guys here do stunning stuff, a lot in the
desert areas, great beauty using found objects, that ability to look
at something ....slightly sideways...and do something totally
different with it. That aint me. I need a service manual in front of
me.

So, where do I find art finials pictures I can get ideas from, and not
the dead boring commercial ones, the ones you could probably buy them
in Wallmart/Kmart.

Tools (especially for my fellow Oz companions - old knowledge being
dragged out. Saw on TV, years ago, 2 incredible power tools for wood
shaping. One was a blade for your angle grinder, went well, happily
shape off big areas of wood. The other one was a Power Chisel for want
of a better word - again, attached to an angle grinder, a sq. section
metal sheaf guided a chisel down to the wok surface...looked good.
So, having learnt from here, that Power Tools and the right tooling
make life a LOT easier. I want them.
Anyone used them, comments - good stuff or crap?

Andrew VK3BFA.



Hi Andrew, was it the Arbortech stuff? I too have seen them on one of the
inventors shows years back. I have not used them myself.

http://www.arbortech.com.au/view/woo...ng-information

On May 2, 9:50*pm, "Royston Vasey" wrote:
"Andrew VK3BFA" wrote in message

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If someone here doesn't know, then no one does....

I am building a retaining wall across my front yard to set it up for
the drought we have had for the last ten years - lawn dies every
summer, so why bother with it. I am a charter member of the Old Hippy
School of Landscape Gardening, so I like to think I am a bit creative
on how to do things. As part of my left wing socialist agenda, I am
making it out of things I have found. (honest, I found them or was
given them - all its cost me so far is for concrete) and so,
sometimes, *the right bit of recycled hardwood fence post (red gum to
us skips) cannnot be found, resulting in a gap across the top rail on
top of a support post.

So I need to fill in the gaps. (with Finials) *(Have build one, with
the circular saw and a rasp - sorta OK) I need Finial Patterns/Ideas.
I not an artist, some of you guys here do stunning stuff, a lot in the
desert areas, great beauty using found objects, that ability to look
at something ....slightly sideways...and do something totally
different with it. That aint me. I need a service manual in front of
me.

So, where do I find art finials pictures I can get ideas from, and not
the dead boring commercial ones, the ones you could probably buy them
in Wallmart/Kmart.

Tools (especially for my fellow Oz *companions - old knowledge being
dragged out. Saw on TV, years ago, 2 incredible power tools for wood
shaping. One was a blade for your angle grinder, went well, happily
shape off big areas of wood. The other one was a Power Chisel for want
of a better word - again, attached to an angle grinder, a sq. section
metal sheaf guided a chisel down to the wok surface...looked good.
So, having learnt from here, that Power Tools and the right tooling
make life a LOT easier. I want them.
Anyone used them, comments - good stuff or crap?

Andrew VK3BFA.

Hi Andrew, was it the Arbortech stuff? I too have seen them on one of the
inventors shows years back. I have not used them myself.

http://www.arbortech.com.au/view/woo...ng-information

Not sure - they both look like they are on angle grinders, which
tallys with my memory- the chisel is spot on..
Andrew VK3BFA.

"Andrew VK3BFA" wrote in message
...
If someone here doesn't know, then no one does....

I am building a retaining wall across my front yard to set it up for
the drought we have had for the last ten years - lawn dies every
summer, so why bother with it. I am a charter member of the Old Hippy
School of Landscape Gardening, so I like to think I am a bit creative
on how to do things. As part of my left wing socialist agenda, I am
making it out of things I have found. (honest, I found them or was
given them - all its cost me so far is for concrete) and so,
sometimes, the right bit of recycled hardwood fence post (red gum to
us skips) cannnot be found, resulting in a gap across the top rail on
top of a support post.

So I need to fill in the gaps. (with Finials) (Have build one, with
the circular saw and a rasp - sorta OK) I need Finial Patterns/Ideas.
I not an artist, some of you guys here do stunning stuff, a lot in the
desert areas, great beauty using found objects, that ability to look
at something ....slightly sideways...and do something totally
different with it. That aint me. I need a service manual in front of
me.

So, where do I find art finials pictures I can get ideas from, and not
the dead boring commercial ones, the ones you could probably buy them
in Wallmart/Kmart.

Are you looking for the ornate stuff you find on old iron fencing?
Google "Ornamental Iron" -- DAT should keep you busy..... some really
incredible stuff out there.

Eastern Ornamental in NJ has a nice catalog, Blum has another one (more
architectural, but still some nice stuff), and there is the odd two volume
set of iron work is found in RJ Cunningham's Ornamental Iron Designs, two
large volumes I got over 10 years ago for about $125. A kind of
ironworker's bible.

sejw should have some ideas as well, if what you are looking to do is adapt
ornamental iron designs to wood.

You might find some of this stuff scrapped, but nowadays, with this effing
restoration craze, that might be a longshot.

You might also find that a combination of buying some of Eastern
Ornamental's et al stock stuff and doing your own scrollwork out of 1/8 x
1/2" hot-rolled strip gives a good effect, even mounted on wood.

Or, you can do what I'm doing (trying, at any rate), and get punched
channel, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4" 16 ga tubing, and make some nice 3' tall fencing to
put on said retaining wall. I will be "clam-shelling" the punched channel
to make it look solid.
Aesthetically I disapprove of that punched channel, but clamshelling really
helps.
--
EA




Tools (especially for my fellow Oz companions - old knowledge being
dragged out. Saw on TV, years ago, 2 incredible power tools for wood
shaping. One was a blade for your angle grinder, went well, happily
shape off big areas of wood. The other one was a Power Chisel for want
of a better word - again, attached to an angle grinder, a sq. section
metal sheaf guided a chisel down to the wok surface...looked good.
So, having learnt from here, that Power Tools and the right tooling
make life a LOT easier. I want them.
Anyone used them, comments - good stuff or crap?

Andrew VK3BFA.