What did you do in your shop today?

Inspired by the generosity of others I decided to box up some wood from my wood shed, wood I know I probably wouldn't use in the near future. Its in the truck now and headed to the Vet's Garage on Tuesday.

Horse chestnut, maple, birch and black locust spindle blanks

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@Tom Smart
I fell into a deal I guess. I googled it, clicked on shopping, looked for the cheapest one, and evidently bought the last one for $389.99 (+ free shipping). Went back to look right before typing this to make sure I was going to give good info, and they are no longer listed at that sight.

@woodtickgreg

I was a bad woodbarterer...I didn't even think about a tutorial. I'll make up for it when I start the vacuum chamber build.
 
Steve Walker said:
@Tom Smart
I fell into a deal I guess. I googled it, clicked on shopping, looked for the cheapest one, and evidently bought the last one for $389.99 (+ free shipping). Went back to look right before typing this to make sure I was going to give good info, and they are no longer listed at that sight.

@woodtickgreg

I was a bad woodbarterer...I didn't even think about a tutorial. I'll make up for it when I start the vacuum chamber build.
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That's a heck of a deal, but I still think I would just be inclined to buy a new machine with one in it. Heck, I only paid $100 For my 735!! Tony
 
Wanted to try my new carving tool today but I also wanted to turn something... Cut a long rectangle then drew a center line and went off that enough to get past the thickness of the piece. Drew a circle on the end to resemble a spoon then cut everything away except the top of spoon which I left square to grab in some jaws . turned the handle round then rounded top of spoon off with bandsaw and sander. Went to carving with limited bits I got but still had fun and learned a lot .I also started another one which is already bounds beyond this one so I'm optimistic .Gotta order all the bits i need now .

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Tony said:
That's a heck of a deal, but I still think I would just be inclined to buy a new machine with one in it. Heck, I only paid $100 For my 735!! Tony
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Yeah, this is exactly my point, the cutter head is worth as much as my machine. But I do think they are great.
 
@Tony @Tom Smart

My current total investment in the planer is $389.99. So, I figure that if/when I ever decide to upgrade planers i can sell the 735 for as much or more than I have invested. If you had to buy the planer and the Byrd, then the better option would be to not look at portable planers.
 
So here it is, the most expensive free wood I've worked with.

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Because of all the short pieces it was taken down to flat with 60 grit on the drum sander then table and miter saw to get off the various protrusions and grooves.

Interesting that it does spalt though.

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kweinert said:
Sorry, forgot to mention that. It started out as hand scraped acacia.
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Sure is some pretty stuff. I got a bunch of cutoffs from Acacia flooring awhile back, the problem was it was mass produced so has the grooved backside so once cleaned up I was lucky if I had 1/2 inch thick to work with, most of it ended up being slimline pen blanks.
 
Tony said:
That's a heck of a deal, but I still think I would just be inclined to buy a new machine with one in it. Heck, I only paid $100 For my 735!! Tony
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I know where you can get a 36 inch wide Northfield planer with a helical head in it for only 4200.00 You would need 3 phase power though....
 
Schroedc said:
Sure is some pretty stuff. I got a bunch of cutoffs from Acacia flooring awhile back, the problem was it was mass produced so has the grooved backside so once cleaned up I was lucky if I had 1/2 inch thick to work with, most of it ended up being slimline pen blanks.
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Same here. Going to be segmented bowl and handle for ulu knife. Probably accents in other segmented bowls if any left over.
 
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Took my new-to-me Trent Bosch Hollowing System for a test drive. I bought it from one of the turning club members who was down sizing. I like it, so far.

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Turned some pot calls yesterday and got the soundboards and slate glued in last night. Two are Cedar and the other is spalted maple. Turned a couple of pens today. The wood is DIW from @shadetree_1 with an Executive kit. The other one is a comfort grip (w/o the rubber grip) kit with a blank my daughter picked out for my step daughter. Step daughter's favorite color is green.

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Made a sawbuck so that it would be easier to process logs. I had to make it since I met a local wood artist yesterday, he prefers to only work with pine so he gave me some juniper and box elder. The box elder he wanted to give me was bigger than my truck! Gonna go back and saw it up in a few weeks....

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I have also consider buying a spiral cutter head for my planer. The price has always overcome the consideration. Wondered if grit coming out of 100 year old salvage wood would cause any damage to the other 3 sides of the cutter
 
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