Very cool...congrats on opening, looks like a winner in my eyes.
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Glad everything has worked out and you got the shop opened and had a good opening day
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So, I've had a bit of possible good luck. The other day, a customer mentioned that she has a barn that blew down, and asked if I would want to come get the lumber before her husband burns it. Of course, I said yes. Then, yesterday, a guy came in and said that he was looking for barn lumber and had about 7500 board feet of walnut, oak, and cherry that had been air dried for 30+ years that he got from a shed he bought to tear down. The guy who owned it had a wood shop, and this was all sitting in there, stickered. Lots of 2 and 3" thick boards. So, it looks like it may work out that I can trade and he'll have the barn lumber he's needing for some projects, and I'll have lumber to make some furniture, cutting boards, etc. Pretty exciting weekend. Went and looked at his stack of lumber today... holy crap. Probably 2 or 3 big loads on my truck and 16' trailer, unless I can find someone with a 35' gooseneck I can borrow.
Sounds like its all coming together, sounds great, Good luck
Maybe I need to visit a little sooner. 
Great find.
Great find.
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- #126
Made a few small improvements tonight, compliment s of some pallets.
Pallets...the all purpose wood.
Nice....
Nice....
Always building things for the shop out of whatever I can find, pallets, fence wood, firewood, old furniture, etc. anything that will work for what I am trying and it all makes it easier and organized some.
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Got this thing set up today. I can already tell that it's going to be very useful.
I've got a wacky plan, maybe not so much... never seen it done, but I'm sure it has been. I'm going to move my miter saw down to the right side of the radial arm table, so that I have one continuous table for both tools. I also plan to put some shelving underneath, and possibly some on the back side up behind and above the fence. We'll see. Just doing a little at a time as I have some spare time between working on orders.
I've got a wacky plan, maybe not so much... never seen it done, but I'm sure it has been. I'm going to move my miter saw down to the right side of the radial arm table, so that I have one continuous table for both tools. I also plan to put some shelving underneath, and possibly some on the back side up behind and above the fence. We'll see. Just doing a little at a time as I have some spare time between working on orders.
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Got it done enough to use. Pretty happy with how solid it is. I dragged it from the legs on the far right side after it was completely put together about 20' across the floor to where it's at now. I'll eventually get around to adding shelving and such, but for now, it's functional.
Great setup! Looks like you put considerable thought into it...
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Well, not enough. As usual haha. I wanted to use glue and pocket screws on all the joints where the 2x4's meet... which is great, except it is going to be fun trying to cut the OSB to fit around the legs.
Also, probably going to order a JET 8" helical head jointer and the new Rikon mortiser, so I have to plan for a place to put them.
Tomorrow I'm building an assembly table, so I can take back my outfeed table and use it as it was designed. I bought a sheet of dry erase board (basically hardboard with a shiny white surace) to put on top of the 3/4 plywood top, in hopes that glue won't stick to it very easily and can be scraped up without much effort. Learned the hard way that glue dripping on plywood doesn't come up very willingly. Things are starting to take shape in the shop. I had a customer come in and order a custom showcase cabinet for his store down the street. It's got shelves every 6" running horizontally, and is about 5' wide and 7' tall. So, that'll help pay the bills this month.
Before you start gluing on the White Board, go to the office supply store, or get on-line and pick up some Dry Erase/Whiteboard Board Conditioner. Work that in good, and you'll have far less problems. Typical dry erase board it's like night and day difference wiping things off the board after application. It may prevent the glue from sticking, without, I think you're going to find the glue sticks and pulls the finish off.
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Today has been tuneup day
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JET 8" Helical Head jointer, Rikon mortising machine (with x/y table), and powermatic tenoning jig should be arriving within the next week. Shat is about to get real.
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Made a trip to the sawmill yesterday. I forget the totals exactly, but I think it was about 150bf of walnut, and somewhere between 50-100bf each of cherry, poplar, white oak, and sassafrass. Need to build some sort of lumber storage rack, as I'm running out of wall space lol. Plus, I can't paint over the nasty pink until I find a better spot for the wood. That's really the biggest motivation to build something to store it.
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New out feed table for the table saw. Incorporated a router table in to it. Got a new router, a Triton tra001 which is supposed to be pretty awesome. Gotta route the dados for the t track and miter Chanel, build a fence, and route the grooves for the miter slot extensions from the table saw. Table is 5x8, which gives me a lot more room than my 4x4 out feed table I was using.
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Added a fan to my paint booth today. 1800 CFM with 2 stacks of 4 20x20 filters on the opposite side at the bottom to allow airflow. Works pretty awesome, just sounds kind of like a helicopter in the back of the shop when you're up front. lol.
