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- SlamShut, on 10/14/2007, -2/+98Solved:
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showpost.p ...
"No steaming" doesn't mean "no boiling."
Summary:
1. Boil wood,
2. use vice to compress end tooth with dry follower block,
3. drill hole through dry follower block and center teeth,
4. insert nail,
5. reboil entire apparatus to "heal" wood,
6. allow to dry completely and amaze your friends.
Kind of cheating, but a cool little trick, though. I stared at that video for an hour or two and wondered how the hell he did it. - ChromaBlue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45Dick Eatington? ouch
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35you could also just take your 'powder actuated tool (sometimes called a 'Ramset' or 'Hilti', since they are common brands) and shoot a long nail into the side of a tree. It will become totally buried, if yuo used the correct size 'charge'. (powder cartridge).
Mark teh spot, and let the tree continue growing for as long as you want. then, one day, cut a chunk of wood out of the tree, cut away parts of it, and reveal the embedded nail in that shape to amaze your friends, or any kinds of 'magical thinkers.'
It's a lot like the old pear inside a bottle trick, where bottles are placed over small pears growing on a tree. - holygram, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27Yeah, you could just do that.
-_- - chibimmy, on 10/14/2007, -3/+17Fail
- nerdbilly, on 10/17/2007, -0/+14The first time I saw something like this was with a wood heart with a wooden arrow shot through it. It does make people scratch their heads. So does dandruff, by the way. Here's how to do the arrow version: http://members.cox.net/lvplans/arrowheartpuz.html
- IllBeBack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13I actually did listen carefully, and he only said that the wood had not been steamed, bent, or twisted. No mention of boiling.
You fail at listening. - DiggerRich, on 10/14/2007, -2/+12Aww, you ruined it already.
- SlamShut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Guys, bending the nail doesn't work for two reasons:
1. It violates the stated rules, which say the nail is "just as it was when you bought it from the hardware store."
2. Try bending a nail and then making it perfectly straight again. It's virtually impossible without some heavy-duty tools, none of which would be usable with the nail inside the wooden construct. A bent nail which has been restraightened manually is always going to look crooked. Try it yourself. - Stea1th, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14It's actually pretty easy..just takes a lot of time. You need to nail the wood into a tree. You then wait a year or 2...then you are able to cut it out.
- AuburnTigers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Are you kidding? This mystery thing is cooler than 80% of the stuff on there right now. How to reboot your lungs? What the hell does that even mean?
- terminal157, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I notice he didn't say anything about bending the nail.
- dggeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5OMG, you know that show, too?!
- inactive, on 10/19/2007, -3/+8Boiling and squeezing would be compression, not curvature.
- SlamShut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Judging by the ***** you've spent your time with on Digg in the last 24 hours (Kanye West skit! Silly parking sign!) , I rather think I'm better at choosing how to spend my idle time, Micheal. Maybe you just don't have the requisite attention span to spend an hour or two trying to solve a problem.
So who's the real loser? - diktator279, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4There is no nail
- dggeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Thanks for showing us the moron's way to post.
- qwertydvorak, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5needs more cowbell...
- socoolisme, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7That guys a douche for not telling us.
- WatchDogX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4how do you drill the hole tho
- Sweno, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3there are right angle attachments you can get for dremel like devices that will help with this.
- IllBeBack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Obviously, all of the people that caused it to go to the front page disagreed with you.
- jggr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3My first thought too. Surprised I had to read so far down the comments to find another who thought that. Bending the nail would be the easiest and most logical... But that doesn't mean there's another method that is a little more creative.
- Yaanu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Bites the sawdust, amirite?
- OnlyShawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2shut up! shut up! shut up!
- scotticus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Cancer victims. Get back to work, *****.
- vertigoblue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3thats what i thought...
just bend the nail twice in the same direction making it kinda boxed shaped, then slide the nail in as far as it goes, bend a section straight, then repeat again and you have your toy. - Sweno, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1as a side benefit, it looks like the spacing of the blocks would hide the bent/stressed sections of the nail. But I may be wrong, as I have yet to hold one of these.
- OnlyShawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nerd. oh, wait...
- Ebeniz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1good point
- vtsquire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A solution I haven't seen posted yet is the following... and it completely adheres to the rules. The rules say the nail is as it was when it was bought at a hardward store... which means various things. Straight, room temperature, made of the same material, not cut... etc. What it doesn't say is what can be done to the nail in the mean time. With the right tools, it's pretty easy to cut the wood, but the important thing to remember is that the holes in the wood are bigger around than the nail. Not by much, but still bigger. What this leads to is a pretty straightforward solution. Ceramic inserts in the wood (to keep it from burning) and a heated nail bent and inserted into the ceramic tubes. Let it cool. By virtue of the tubes being lined up precisely, the nail will cool and re-solidify pefectly straight. Tap out the ceramic lining and voilah, nail in wood. Alternatively, if you can find a nail (much like trick coins) made of a nickel-titanium alloy, it can be bent and return to it's original molded form. There's also the stuff that older bike rims are made of... stick em in the freezer and they straighten out... if anyone remembers those.
- MonarchWastxD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Uh yeah, it didn't work... why did u you think I chose the other mirrors?
- TomP, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What about bending the nail
- BigBrother87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um, +1 is the default. Notice you're at +0.
- OnlyShawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1...the '7' made it funny.
- vtsquire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1believe it or not, that's actually easier to do. Just upload a cad file of the design to an autolathe and walk away.
- iamafatguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1With a long drill bit.
- RJNavarrete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You took the time to see what he's Dugg in the last 24 hours? ***** loser.
- Gregus1032, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you'd see where you cut the nail.
- Zoshchenko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sorry, hard to get excited about this one.
- RichStradler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'd like to see him fabricate one out of a piece of steel instead of wood.
- adizm55, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Look at his fingernails.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1So what about cutting a nail, and then putting the pieces in place, then resoldering the nail? The holes can be drilled by special drills.
- Blandyman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I have a terminal disease.
And the only cure.
Is more cowbell. - vade79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I said this above and got -6 diggs, you got +1 and said it after...the logic of the digger I will never understand. but I agree :)
- Gregus1032, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1yea, if you know how to do cad files it's no problem. but most people don't~
not to mention that would still be pretty tricky - Lintrix, on 10/19/2007, -3/+3"The wood hasn't been steamed, bent, or twisted." If you're going to boil the wood and squeeze it... i would consider that bending.
- eibborjames, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0hammer the nail into a piece of wood at an angle, cut the wood pieces out around the nail.
- moush, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0this is a lot like the secret society of the roses thing with the dice, people who know it try to act superior
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