What did you do in your shop today?

Waited around all day for a fella bringing some ERC logs to be milled. Glad I didn't really want to do it, he still hasn't bothered calling....
So I roughed out some bowls!

Two(2) American Sweetgum, one(1) Black Cherry platter looking crotch thing, one(1) Black Cherry giant block, and three(3) pieces of Shortleaf Pine{2 had blue stain}! I love that new Titan chuck, I think it would hold the garage and spin it around the headstock....oh, everything turned, it was all over 15"diameter!
Made two thirty gallon trash bags stuffed to the top with curlies. Think I am going to have to invest in another trash can for the curb, seems nobody wants free mulch around here, and I have no more room for flowerbeds. What do you guys use the 'curlies' for?


I do have a paying job for chainsaw milling 30" Ash logs next weekend. Confirmed $300 day!!! No bad for making 10 cuts that will be 9ft long!




Scott (should took a nap) B
 
Very nice knife, Scott!

What's the wood?
 
I changed the rear brakes on my Tahoe on Monday if that counts. It was in my multi-purpose garage/woodshop/catch-all area. Had some squeeling... didn't realize that there was no pad left on one side. New rotors weren't really in the budget, but couldn't get around it.

Then, I cut some more game call blanks out of logs.
 
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rained a little today so I cleaned- it will take a month of rain to get it clean..............
 
Excellent work Scott - that's a real beauty. Are you drawing up your shapes or just sort of winging it or a combination of the two, or something else?
 
I was going to cut blanks but wrecked the blade on the band saw hitting a nail. Didn't break the blade but banged some teeth and now it cuts in circles. Then found out that the only spare blades I have are 24tpi so not exactly for ripping work. Hope I can find one soon. The little town I'm in hardly has anything like that. Going to turn a bunch of stuff tomorrow.
 
Kevin said:
Excellent work Scott - that's a real beauty. Are you drawing up your shapes or just sort of winging it or a combination of the two, or something else?
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I have a bad habit of just winging it. I will take a sharpie and sketch the knife right on the steel. It morphs from there... I should be more deliberate in my approach.
 
JR Custom Calls said:
I changed the rear brakes on my Tahoe on Monday if that counts. It was in my multi-purpose garage/woodshop/catch-all area. Had some squeeling... didn't realize that there was no pad left on one side. New rotors weren't really in the budget, but couldn't get around it.

Then, I cut some more game call blanks out of logs.
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Rotor on rear no fair. Drum brakes are soooo much more fun! I will pay someone else to do drum brakes any day of the week.... hate them!
 
Blueglass said:
Rotor on rear no fair. Drum brakes are soooo much more fun! I will pay someone else to do drum brakes any day of the week.... hate them!
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Haha... I despise drum brakes. Changed the shoes on a my old ride a couple years ago and ended up slicing off a chunk of skin on my finger tip.

I'll change discs all day long. I just hate that I let this one get so bad. There was a 1/4" groove in the rotor where the pad backing had ground it down. Guess that's what I get for letting the wife drive it all the time.
 
I about knocked my two front teeth out while stretching the spring into place and still ended up blowing one of the cylinders last time I did some (about 10 years ago). That was the day I decided it was worth paying to have them done.
 
Scott, you just keep getting better and better at the knife making. Great work on this one too.
 
JR Custom Calls said:
Haha... I despise drum brakes. Changed the shoes on a my old ride a couple years ago and ended up slicing off a chunk of skin on my finger tip.

I'll change discs all day long. I just hate that I let this one get so bad. There was a 1/4" groove in the rotor where the pad backing had ground it down. Guess that's what I get for letting the wife drive it all the time.
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Weird, I've never had an injury on drum brakes. Heck, I started out driving cars with them in the front as well as the back. The only thing I don't like it's getting the drums off on an old splined axle rear end. Load up the puller, stand to one side, and whack with large hammer. I've had them fly over six feet when they pop off.
 
Schroedc said:
Weird, I've never had an injury on drum brakes. Heck, I started out driving cars with them in the front as well as the back. The only thing I don't like it's getting the drums off on an old splined axle rear end. Load up the puller, stand to one side, and whack with large hammer. I've had them fly over six feet when they pop off.
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In all fairness, I've never had an injury changing them in normal conditions with the correct tools. This was a situation where I needed to change them really bad, and only had one day to do it. That day happened to be 20 degrees out, no garage, and I was using vice grips to try and stretch a spring. Vice grips slipped, finger caught something sharp. Cold hands, wrong tools, accident waiting to happen.
 
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