What did you do in your shop today?
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Yep I found the screw as well. I put the scales in the bin where they belong, but everycouple of days I still look in there to make sure.
Turned a couple pens. My quick pic doesn't do these pens justice! The depth of color in both are much better in person. Professor kit in Antique Pewter. Some insane HRB that was an awesome packing peanut in a package of wood from @norman vandyke at some point - this piece was just long enough for this pen. The other one is one of my own double dyed Boxelder Burl blanks. My wife has already claimed the dyed BEB one.
This is my first time using this kit. I am very pleased with the looks and feel. It's a Dayacom made kit, so it's quality - and the mechanism/transmission is very smooth operating. I will definitely be making more of these sometime.
This is my first time using this kit. I am very pleased with the looks and feel. It's a Dayacom made kit, so it's quality - and the mechanism/transmission is very smooth operating. I will definitely be making more of these sometime.
I got so desperate to do something I took a file and sharpened a tablesaw blade just to cut up pen blanks. Yep I'm nuts!
I see you guys agreeing I'm nuts. First I'm broke, desperate times call for desperate measures. Second it was not that difficult.
I did not take it personally. I know I'm nuts.Don't take it personally. We're all nuts, that's why we make such a good group!
Productive day...got in some skew practice while making some tool handles, got the tool sharpening station set up, cut some bowl blanks, cleaned the shop up some, made two pens, and got a coat of finish on my pet urn. I'm pooped! 
Pictures later.
Pictures later.
Stopped at the shop just long enough to drop some stuff off and then came home to play with some other creative pursuits.
Spent a good part of the afternoon with a toothpick and a nylon bristle brush cleaning chola up! Then hit 'em hard with the air hose, tryin to get all the tool eatin desert sand, and cactus guts out of the skeletons!! They're a pound or two lighter now; had a pretty good pile of nastiness that's not gonna make it to the stabilizing vat anyhow.
I thought today would be a good day for a little baking. Have had some Lambeau Field bleacher wood soaking for a few days waiting for the oven to cure them and did that today. Will be starting another round of vacuum before I go to bed tonight.
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Recently I replaced the old guides on my Parks (aka Craftsman when they were good) 18 in band saw. When I did, the blade guard no longer worked so this weekend I had to fabricate something that would work. Found some 2 inch aluminum channel and cut it to fit, made a sliding slot for retainer bolts-- not pretty, but functional.
My first attempt was exactly backward of what I needed-- something in tranlating what's in my head to reality.
Forgot the picture rule-- here it is, had to make a couple spacers from pvc so so it'd be straight.
@ripjack13 -- there y'are. @Tony -- the cleanup bug hasn't bit me yet....
My first attempt was exactly backward of what I needed-- something in tranlating what's in my head to reality.
Forgot the picture rule-- here it is, had to make a couple spacers from pvc so so it'd be straight.
@ripjack13 -- there y'are. @Tony -- the cleanup bug hasn't bit me yet....
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Recently I replaced the old guides on my Parks (aka Craftsman when they were good) 18 in band saw. When I did, the blade guard no longer worked so this weekend I had to fabricate something that would work. Found some 2 inch aluminum channel and cut it to fit, made a sliding slot for retainer bolts-- not pretty, but functional.
My first attempt was exactly backward of what I needed-- something in tranlating what's in my head to reality.
Forgot the picture rule-- here it is, had to make a couple spacers from pvc so so it'd be straight.
@ripjack13 -- there y'are. @Tony -- the cleanup bug hasn't bit me yet....
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Looks pretty functional to me!!
My mother in law would love you.
OMG!! Another one!
You aren't by chance related to Tony and Marc are you David???
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OMG!! Another one!
You aren't by chance related to Tony and Marc are you David???
Don't be jealous Rocky.....
I think y'all are just doin that to try and make the rest of us with a little mess feel better, cause there is no way a man could work in a shop that messy all the time!!
I need to send my mother-in-law to stay with each of you guys for a week or two, she'd get all of you in clean up mode!!
Either that, or tool buying mode, because you wouldn't be able to find a damn thing when she got done cleaning!!
I need to send my mother-in-law to stay with each of you guys for a week or two, she'd get all of you in clean up mode!!
Either that, or tool buying mode, because you wouldn't be able to find a damn thing when she got done cleaning!!
I think y'all are just doin that to try and make the rest of us with a little mess feel better, cause there is no way a man could work in a shop that messy all the time!!
I need to send my mother-in-law to stay with each of you guys for a week or two, she'd get all of you in clean up mode!!
Either that, or tool buying mode, because you wouldn't be able to find a damn thing when she got done cleaning!!
I wasn't going to say anything cause he's a fellow Texan and just lives down the road a piece. But, yeh, that's a messy shop. Did you see the stirrup in the upper right corner? What's a doc doing with a gynecological examination table in his wood shop? What's he doing out there anyway?