What did you do in your shop today?

You might be a wood worker if......
You put wood in your smoker but no meat!
 
Spent most of the afternoon playin mad scientist... Blanks in the Oven, blanks in the Pressure Pot, blanks in the Vacuum Pot, blanks out of the Oven, cleaned them up, turned a piece to see if I got my Camo pen blank, I was shooting for. Remember that ink pen on the last page, that I said I'd never be able to duplicate @Clay3063 ... I have several more blanks doing the same thing! Apparently I can repeat it, and it seems to have something to do with the Spalting in this wood, because I have dyed other woods in the same dye, in the same manner, the same amount of time in the pot, same amount of time soaking, even in the pot with this stuff, and they aren't showing these tendencies!

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Shop time has been a little scarce lately. Worked on buttoning up some existing projects.

Put another coat of finish on 3 chefs knives.
Left to right - DIW burl with ebony liners, Amboyna burl, DIW
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Started a sheath for the modified toothpick from an earlier post. I sent the knife out early to make the last 20 days of deer season. The sheath wasn't made. He sent it back now so I could make the sheath.
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rocky1 said:
Spent most of the afternoon playin mad scientist... Blanks in the Oven, blanks in the Pressure Pot, blanks in the Vacuum Pot, blanks out of the Oven, cleaned them up, turned a piece to see if I got my Camo pen blank, I was shooting for. Remember that ink pen on the last page, that I said I'd never be able to duplicate @Clay3063 ... I have several more blanks doing the same thing! Apparently I can repeat it, and it seems to have something to do with the Spalting in this wood, because I have dyed other woods in the same dye, in the same manner, the same amount of time in the pot, same amount of time soaking, even in the pot with this stuff, and they aren't showing these tendencies!

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That is just really cool. Pretty stuff there Rocky!
 
ok, I'll bite, a new saw what?:sarcastic:
 
Judging by the longer pieces of walnut, the long saw blade towards the top of the pic, and the template at the top of the picture, I'm guessing Colin is building a frame saw to be used in resawing.
 
Oh ya, I totally missed the template. Good eye Matt!
 
Yep, a frame saw. The plate for it I did the set and filing myself at Bad Axe during the saw sharpening class I took back in January. I'll also be making a kerfing plane with the short plate.
 
I wish I had taken before and after pics. Confession time: I have been complaining about my no good piece of snot jointer for a long time now. I bought it at the flea market. Ran a lot of very hard wood through it and never even bothered to look at the blade. So I pulled it out today and it looked more like a hand saw blade than a cutter and was blunt like someone purposely worked the edge with a hammer sort of blunt. So I spent about and hour hand sharpening it. Looks like I got a nice even edge. I am very curious to see what some mahogany will look like after I run it through her now. I am prepping for the guitar build. Getting tools set up and making jigs. Can't wait to try it out but can't do it today.
 
I'm gluing up segments for bowl to be auctioned off at a fund raising event.

Full confession: I'm hoping that seeing the bowl let people know about me and leads to more sales. In spite of that motive the funds are raised for a good cause so even if I don't further benefit from it someone will :)
 
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No literally, I'm watching paint dry, lol. The doc said I could paint!

I had a friend turn them over for me so I could paint the bottoms. Brushed on rustoleum primer. Took forever to dry, not like spraying the stuff. But I'm doing this indoors and I don't want to blow my house up, lol.
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Put a little heater by them to try and speed up the drying process, it worked.
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The bottoms will get 1 coat of primer and one top coat of rustoleum grey.
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Tomorrow if I can get someone to flip them I'll start on the top side.
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When they get flipped I'll wire wheel them before I prime them to clean off the welding boogers and flash rust. Then 1 coat of primer and 2 top coats. Should take 3 days of watching paint dry.
 
You know... A wise man might contemplate a big chunk of rubber conveyor belting to set those upon, to eliminate noise when grinding.

Potential sources might include local mine employees. Local gravel pit employees. Most anything that would require a heavy conveyor belt. Lot of the guys up there in ND drag pieces home from the garbage pit at the coal mine to put on their work benches, or in front of their work benches to stand on. Most of it is about 1/2" thick, numerous plies, very heavy stuff, but it would stop those brake drums from rattling and dancing around on the floor if you were really leaning into something on the grinder.

Just a thought!
 
@rocky1 You are so right, funny how great minds think alike. I was thinking since they are semi brake drums that they should sit on semi mud flaps. Some of them are pretty thick and would do the same thing.
 
Yeah, that would work too, and the local truck stop or truck dealer would probably have those on hand new and shiny too!!

The used conveyor belt is typically polished a little coming out of the coal mine, as long as it isn't slap worn out, and a continuous piece leaves no gaps for metal filings to hide in is the only advantage there. By the same respect, mud flaps would allow you to drag one out at a time and clean easier than a continuous piece of belting. (Power plant and mine employees up there in ND where I was, are allowed to haul anything off out of the garbage pit, costs them $5 a truck load I think it is, so conveyor belting is really cheap when they get it!!)

Either one would get the job done and be beneficial though!!
 
kweinert said:
I'm gluing up segments for bowl to be auctioned off at a fund raising event.

Full confession: I'm hoping that seeing the bowl let people know about me and leads to more sales. In spite of that motive the funds are raised for a good cause so even if I don't further benefit from it someone will :)
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Are you taking pix of that glue up? You know I wanna see that...:good2:
 
woodtickgreg said:
I'm watching paint dry.:impatient:
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If Kevin saw that, he'd have to bust your b's on that. He did that to me everytime I painted something. But then again, I painted everything I could when I had my hernia. It was the only thing I could do....:blush:
 
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