What did you do in your shop today?

Gardnaaa said:
Awesome. So maybe I’ll get some rubber washers and bolt her down. Hopefully that’ll prevent it from amplifying the noise!
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You have any bias tires? I've used a common hole-saw to cut rubber disc out of old tires. (From the side wall to limit hitting steel belting.) Also used old quarry belting. Horse and cattle mats might work too. Some of those mats are big enough for the machine to set on, and you as well working the machine.
 
I only had an hour and a half of shop time today. I spent it rehanging some brass wind chimes that had broken years (20) ago. Since I never throw anything away.... they hadn't been thrown away. They were someone's favorites and I squirreled them away until about a month ago. When I brought them in I got the biggest smile I've seen in a while. She needed a smile this day and after this year.

Didn't make it to the ranch this morning because plans change pretty quick sometimes. Got to get a reality check in the ER for 5 hours today but brought my girl home with no real ill effects (hence the need for a smile). Ruled out the bad things and we'll get the rest checked out on Monday.

#3 son got a nice buck though and is sitting by the camp fire with his daughter like I used to do with he and his brothers 25 years ago.

They called a bit ago and are having a great time.

Alan
 
Today I took this wardrobe box full of antlers and skulls, cut all the skulls off and then selectively cut most of the antlers up to fill this MFRB. There's a guy on another forum that makes antler pens and antler rings. Told him I would make him a deal. He cautiously said what's the deal? I told him I would send them to him free of charge but he had to pay it forward by picking a random customer wanting an antler ring done and make it for them free. He was elated and stunned. I told him Merry Christmas! He agreed! 13 lbs of antler
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Hmmm...that was never mentioned here. Don't you love the pen and ring turners here anymore? :pieface:
 
Worked on repairing my Husq backpack blower. Have had since 2005, developed leaky primer bulb, kinda ticked that Husq shows as obsolete with no alternate . Been trying to find equivalent size...found a combo on Amazon of 3 different sizes, so crossing my fingers. Spent afternoon packing small limbs up to 2” into trailer to take to grinder for recycling. 12’ trailer, this is second tight packed load of 4 I’ll make to cleanup from Zeta and my truck getting fairly crushed by 40’ - 50’ tall red oak
 
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Only sealed some wood today. Cleaning up the property yesterday and today and brought some more of the blue stain pieces home. Going to try to process them into regular bowl blanks.


Going to go about this 2 different ways. Going to order a new 1/2 inch blade of a different brand and try to resaw.

The other way is I’m going to get a rip blade for my chainsaw and at least get one side sort of flat then take it to the bandsaw.

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Nearly fell through the ceiling trying to rid my "attic" of critters. If this last attempt doesn't work I am going to have to call in an expert
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Gdurfey said:
Only sealed some wood today. Cleaning up the property yesterday and today and brought some more of the blue stain pieces home. Going to try to process them into regular bowl blanks.


Going to go about this 2 different ways. Going to order a new 1/2 inch blade of a different brand and try to resaw.

The other way is I’m going to get a rip blade for my chainsaw and at least get one side sort of flat then take it to the bandsaw.

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I vote on the second way, you gain another chain and it will be easier then to round your blanks on the Bandsaw.
 
I planed, joinered (is that a word?), and cut biscuit grooves for three pastry boards for the girls. I have one already in the workbench vice with clamps on top. Said to myself, "Self, you need more clamps". Then I remembered some that I got for a really good price... free. There are six of them. IMG_0778.jpg IMG_0777.jpg They were my dad's. For reasons that are beyond me he had allowed them to rust into an unusable condition. That was very out of character for him as he was fastidious about most everything and certainly about allowing anything to rust. I had dug them out of a closet in his shop. Anyway, I had been putting off that wire wheel work.... until Today! I got them brushed down and a good coating of WD40. They should work great.

Alan
 
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Gdurfey said:
Only sealed some wood today. Cleaning up the property yesterday and today and brought some more of the blue stain pieces home. Going to try to process them into regular bowl blanks.


Going to go about this 2 different ways. Going to order a new 1/2 inch blade of a different brand and try to resaw.

The other way is I’m going to get a rip blade for my chainsaw and at least get one side sort of flat then take it to the bandsaw.

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Garry, if you want to try cutting them on the bandsaw, a log ripping sled would be useful. I've made a couple crude ones for single use and someday I'll get to building a good one. Hop over to Google and do an image search for "bandsaw log sled" and you'll see lots of ideas for one.
 
TXMoon said:
Nearly fell through the ceiling trying to rid my "attic" of critters. If this last attempt doesn't work I am going to have to call in an expert
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Oh, I 've got that t-shirt. There's a picture floating around the house somewhere's with my leg hanging down from the ceiling. Threats have so far sufficed to keep it hidden! Kevin, you made me feel better about myself!
 
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