What did you do in your shop today?

So yesterday got out in the shop and finished enclosing the wall around the dust collector. Made a hell of a mess doing it as well. Son was over while I was out of town and was working on tiling our basement bathroom. Had a wet tile saw out in the shop. I thought I could just pick it up and move.

Well, technically I could but when I did so the legs folded back up and I ended up dumping most of the water on the floor.

*sigh*

At any rate I did get it all enclosed which should help cut down on the heating bill. Still have to put up insulation and seal the corners but it's good to make it that much more sealed at any rate.

Tonight I'll be back out to start turning down those big bowls again. Hopefully keeping them on the lathe this time.
 
I started to work on @rocky1 pen today. Got two finished but didn't turn out worthy for such a serious guy. So its back to lathe tomorrow. I was trying make a pen out of honeycomb. froze it in dry ice then drilled it but when I started to turn it got real sticky.:good2::old:
 
Waiting for lathe bearings, I thought I had a set but can't find them. So worked on paperwork for a while then got to the point I wanted to just burn the business down so I decided to put together a quilt top. Used the treadle model 66 to avoid harming any electrons.

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Last week I put up a 30 drawer unit Michele brought home from her job. They were going to trash it!

So, today, I scraped off all the old decals and cut up some 3x5 cards to fit in the label spot.
Then took all my pen kits, bushings, and extra tubes n stuff and put em in the drawers. I have 4 open drawers left over.

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That's about all I could do before I got lightheaded and dizzy. So I stopped.

Stoopid ear....
 
ripjack13 said:
Last week I put up a 30 drawer unit Michele brought home from her job. They were going to trash it!

So, today, I scraped off all the old decals and cut up some 3x5 cards to fit in the label spot.
Then took all my pen kits, bushings, and extra tubes n stuff and put em in the drawers. I have 4 open drawers left over.

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That's about all I could do before I got lightheaded and dizzy. So I stopped.

Stoopid ear....
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I'd secure that thing but if balancing it on some buckets works for you.....
 
Ha!....no. its mounted to the wall. Funny, i see the buckets now. Lol
 
6BA2D3DA-DD0E-4A37-9FBF-E740657B9143.webp Today I worked on preparing blanks for the Jr fair awards. Need to have 80 done before April 1 so they can get painted.
 
Stabilizing some spalted maple pen blanks.

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They were cut from this large block from @Mike1950.

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Also trying to learn about dying blanks with a few test pieces.

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While that stuff is cooking along began another project. I met a guy from the Civil War Trust at the last craft show I did. He was interested in some gifts from wood salvaged from sites the Trust is preserving. It's not witness wood, just pieces from maintenance of the properties. As a trial run he brought me 2 logs he picked up at Gettysburg near The Gen Lee monument which is on Seminary Ridge at the start point for Pickett's Charge.

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Pretty sure they are oak of some flavor. This leaf came with them.

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He wasn't sure what he wants from them. They are small for bowls. Pens, etc are a possibility. Could get a lot more items of that size. Maybe some small cutting boards. They've been out in the weather awhile, very wet so some time to decide. Opened one up to see what it looks like.

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I'm open to any suggestions.
 
Looks like red oak. Seal the ends, notorious for splitting as it dries. Sealed it seems to dry reasonably well in my experience. Although latex paint didn't work at all there.
 
rocky1 said:
Looks like red oak. Seal the ends, notorious for splitting as it dries. Sealed it seems to dry reasonably well in my experience. Although latex paint didn't work at all there.
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Pretty well checked already Rocky, but I slather something on them depending on what he wants to do with it.
 
Tom Smart said:
Stabilizing some spalted maple pen blanks.

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They were cut from this large block from @Mike1950.

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Also trying to learn about dying blanks with a few test pieces.

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While that stuff is cooking along began another project. I met a guy from the Civil War Trust at the last craft show I did. He was interested in some gifts from wood salvaged from sites the Trust is preserving. It's not witness wood, just pieces from maintenance of the properties. As a trial run he brought me 2 logs he picked up at Gettysburg near The Gen Lee monument which is on Seminary Ridge at the start point for Pickett's Charge.

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Pretty sure they are oak of some flavor. This leaf came with them.

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He wasn't sure what he wants from them. They are small for bowls. Pens, etc are a possibility. Could get a lot more items of that size. Maybe some small cutting boards. They've been out in the weather awhile, very wet so some time to decide. Opened one up to see what it looks like.

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I'm open to any suggestions.
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Always neat to see...the first picture of the Getty wood, picture 4, looked so much like red maple first take, but the leaf says oak, and the wood says oak. Seeing the platey layered bark, I'd lean toward the white oaks. Is the leaf lobed with smooth rounded points? White oak, Q. alba...large rays...greater than an inch in length... Not really sure the coloring, the flat piece looks brown and the vertical face looks pink....
 
Tom Smart said:
@Mr. Peet Mark, the color is more light brown/gray. The leaves do have smooth, rounded points.
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When I did an inventory on the National Battlefield in Gettysburg, I only had a small section. In the white oak group, I think there was mostly Q. alba and a few Burr oak. I also think there was a stink about a Sawtooth oak in another section that did not belong (non-native). Argument over removing it, but it was planted as a commemorative to someone...
 
Tom Smart said:
Pretty well checked already Rocky, but I slather something on them depending on what he wants to do with it.
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I see that on my computer, looked much better on my phone! Typically it does OK if I get it down to pen blank/call blank sizes Tom, but somewhere along the line I got real scientific sawing up my spalted red oak blanks, and started throwing them in a cardboard box on the floor, sitting next to the saw, that tends to collect sawdust. I think it was called convenience, or maybe lazy (I just sorta straightened the pile and left it, sawdust mixed in), or something like that, and no problems at all. And, they've all fared well using that method since. Little cooler and damper down there on the concrete, the cardboard and sawdust don't hurt either.
 
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