What did you do in your shop today?

Worked on bonsai stands for a club in New Mexico today. Planed, sanded, raised the grain, re-sanded and applied the first coat of finish on four. Only 21 more to go. Also went "shopping" for interesting wood in my small barn. Found a board of European chestnut I had forgotten. Surfaced it and found a very nice but subtle tiger strip figure not usually seen in chestnut. Beautiful wood that will go into kitchen decor items for my Etsy store. It was a good day.

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Had court today. While we were waiting, talked to one of the lawyers about an old church on his property that is falling down. Officer I work with has been in there before and said the chair rail, paneling and saw some 12" beams, all chestnut. The lawyer said we could get whatever we wanted. Gotta get up there.
 
Spent the better part of yesterday sharpening this Stanley 750 chisel set I found in my dad’s garage. A few of them had some pretty bad dings and needed the CBN wheel first.

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One more chisel and then on to this #3 plane.

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Those 750 and the 720 longer version Stanleys were some of the best chisels made, in my opinion. And you can still find them in flea markets and yard sales for almost nothing. I have only a few of each but I keep looking. You did a great job on them. I assume they will shave hair off your arm?
 
Tom Smart said:
Spent the better part of yesterday sharpening this Stanley 750 chisel set I found in my dad’s garage. A few of them had some pretty bad dings and needed the CBN wheel first.

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One more chisel and then on to this #3 plane.

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do you have handles for those chisels? I have a bag of 1940's replacement handles that fit them.
 
The set was missing one, Larry and I found it on EBay for little $.

Colin, thanks, I do have the handles.

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Several years ago, a friend stopped at an old hardware store in Ohio. He said the owner was the son of the man who opened it in 1940. As they talked, the owner mentioned some boxes of old tools he had in the attic. He agreed to let my friend go through them and there were three new sets of 750s from the 1950s that has never been opened. My friend bought one set but still kicks himself for not buying them all. I think he paid $75 for them.
 
While waiting on a few replacement electrical parts for the kitchen hutch build, I decided it was time to build a small cabinet for my office to house the dsl modem, router, external harddrives, etc. Hide them away instead of sitting out in the open. Decided to do my first project with veneer and I have a whole bunch of short pieces of veneer from a LFRGB that was stuffed full of veneer that I can't remember who I got it from.

Well, this piece stood out to me when I went through the pile last night. So today I started building a piece entirely around this one piece of veneer. I had glued it to some 1/4" plywood last night (as well as a non figured piece of veneer on the opposite side for a backer.) The overall size and proportions of the piece are dictated by this piece of veneer, plus by the width of the maple boards I decided to use. (Had a couple boards that I had run through the planer leftover after the kitchen hutch build.) Trimmed and squared up this piece to get measurements off it to build around it. Pretty certain it's waterfall bubinga.

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I know nothing of veneer but as wood it looks like curly redwood. The waterfall stuff I've seen looks different if I remember right. Either way thatll be sharp!
 
gman2431 said:
I know nothing of veneer but as wood it looks like curly redwood. The waterfall stuff I've seen looks different if I remember right. Either way thatll be sharp!
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It's definitely not redwood - I actually had some curly redwood veneer out as my second choice. I compared it to a small piece of wood in my shop that is known with 100% certainty to be waterfall bubinga and it's a match. Doing a Google image search earlier showed that waterfall bubinga has more faces than I thought! (This piece is also quartersawn, which can also affect how the figure appears.)
 
Sprung said:
It's definitely not redwood - I actually had some curly redwood veneer out as my second choice. I compared it to a small piece of wood in my shop that is known with 100% certainty to be waterfall bubinga and it's a match. Doing a Google image search earlier showed that waterfall bubinga has more faces than I thought! (This piece is also quartersawn, which can also affect how the figure appears.)
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Yea I know nothing of veneer. Was just looking at it as actual dimensional wood. The veneer world is tricky...
 
gman2431 said:
Yea I know nothing of veneer. Was just looking at it as actual dimensional wood. The veneer world is tricky...
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Yeah, it took me a while to identify this one too. I didn't think of bubinga until someone I had sent the above pics to by text suggested it.
 
I challenged myself a bit and tried pretty simple inlay. Inspied by mosaic pins in knife making I used Brass tube, copper rod and crushed lapis lazuli. I learned a lot, mostly no matter how well I adjusted the pieces with a pin to point down they wandered. Still cool and I have a slight adjustment to try next time.

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Rough turned this 2/18. Sat in a box with shavings for a year. Decided to finish it up. Had a little warpage but overall in good shape. Still need to do some hand sanding. Can't wait to get some oil on it. It will pop!. 17+ inches across.

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Worked my butt off, took one stinkin' picture all day....

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