What did you do in your shop today?

Yesterday I had a lady bring me six chairs that were really wobbly to fix. Took them all apart, cleaned out all the old glue and reglued with new pegs. Now nice and tight. She's supposed to bring the fabric today so I can recover the seats.
 
In between prepping blanks for sale and trying to get our garden planted, I made this delicious dinner of pierogies and canoli! Happy mother's day boss lady! 20150510_165935.webp
 
So far today I've finished up the dining chair set that was all wobbly and got that delivered. A little glue, some clamps and new fabric make a world of difference!

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Very nice Marc, well turned. :ok:
 
My day sucked. Literally. Gave the vacuum chuck a workout. Mostly Maple, One Madrone and one Black Locust.

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I've said it before, your a machine Colin!:cool::ok::saw:
 
I've been doing lots of turning but it's usually balsa at high speed. Finally things are slowing down and I got a chance to throw on something just for fun, plus I've been wanting to dive into this bowl for awhile.

The wife also has been wanting a bowl with some bark on it so I told her I'd see what I could do.

Got the outer shape going and ran into a big soft spot and a huge bark inclusion. Kept going for my shape then took it off the lathe and used 5 things of super glue to reinforce some stuff and I hope to flip it around this week sometime and hollow it.

Felt good to turn something different! 20150523_143209.webp
 
Just scored 4 smallish logs of Mango. May have to pick up a couple more. Would be super cool if tomorrow I had time to process a fair number of logs to lumber. I do have a bit of a backlog building up.
 
My wife's been real good to me the last two weeks. Mother's Day she told me to go ahead and order a dust collector from Harbor Freight when she peaked over my shoulder and saw the 25% off coupon I had in an e-mail from them. She knows that one of my top priorities for the workshop this year was to tackle dust collection.

So, today I had a chance to get it set up and running. I do, however, have plans to upgrade it as finances allow. I'll be upgrading it with a Wynn filter, building a separator, and doing some running of lines.

Then yesterday we were in Rockler - the Burnsville, MN location where they have their outlet deals section where they sell damaged, returned, or opened merchandise. My wife let me buy a couple things - even though I didn't have near enough money in my tool fund to buy them. She did, however, make me promise that I'll pay our checking account back when the money comes in from a couple pen orders I'm working on.

From the outlet deals section I came home with two items, both brand new, in box, never opened: a Kreg router table top with plate for $90 and a Porter Cable 892 Router for $150. I just need to build a base for the table top and I'll have myself a router table up and running real soon! (And now that I have a router I can stop scratching my head as to how I'm going to do the stopped dados in the bookcase I started building last weekend.)

So, today I put together my dust collector, hung up the air cleaner I purchased two or three months ago, started putting the router table top together, did some cleaning and organizing, and built a couple shelves for my lathe area in the basement.
 
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My wife's been real good to me the last two weeks. Mother's Day she told me to go ahead and order a dust collector from Harbor Freight when she peaked over my shoulder and saw the 25% off coupon I had in an e-mail from them. She knows that one of my top priorities for the workshop this year was to tackle dust collection.

So, today I had a chance to get it set up and running. I do, however, have plans to upgrade it as finances allow. I'll be upgrading it with a Wynn filter, building a separator, and doing some running of lines.

Then yesterday we were in Rockler - the Burnsville, MN location where they have their outlet deals section where they sell damaged, returned, or opened merchandise. My wife let me buy a couple things - even though I didn't have near enough money in my tool fund to buy them. She did, however, make me promise that I'll pay our checking account back when the money comes in from a couple pen orders I'm working on.

From the outlet deals section I came home with two items, both brand new, in box, never opened: a Kreg router table top with plate for $90 and a Porter Cable 892 Router for $150. I just need to build a base for the table top and I'll have myself a router table up and running real soon! (And now that I have a router I can stop scratching my head as to how I'm going to do the stopped dados in the bookcase I started building last weekend.)

So, today I put together my dust collector, hung up the air cleaner I purchased two or three months ago, started putting the router table top together, did some cleaning and organizing, and built a couple shelves for my lathe area in the basement.
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Been a busy beaver Matt! Sounds like a good day! Tony
 
Tony said:
Been a busy beaver Matt! Sounds like a good day! Tony
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It was! Even found time in there to go to a graduation party, grill some burgers, and help with the dishes!
 
gman2431 said:
I've been doing lots of turning but it's usually balsa at high speed. Finally things are slowing down and I got a chance to throw on something just for fun, plus I've been wanting to dive into this bowl for awhile.

The wife also has been wanting a bowl with some bark on it so I told her I'd see what I could do.

Got the outer shape going and ran into a big soft spot and a huge bark inclusion. Kept going for my shape then took it off the lathe and used 5 things of super glue to reinforce some stuff and I hope to flip it around this week sometime and hollow it.

Felt good to turn something different! View attachment 79051
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Cody - Thats sweet. Is it elm burl?
 
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