Got started on a production run of oil lamps this morn. This roughed out one is from the “not positive what it is“ wood offered here recently, turns like butta … like it.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Continued the run from tues, half way there on the turning. Tough crowd when curly maple is the weakest link.
Looking forward to seeing the finished pieces.
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I really like that one in the 6 o'clock position in your photo. Beautiful wood. And that spalted beech blank is really nice.
I finally had time to go in my shop. I got a call from my brother this morning. My neice lost her 12 week old baby last night. She wanted me to make an urn for her.
This is what I came up with.
Ambrosia maple with a paste wax finish. A little bigger than a softball.
This is what I came up with.
Ambrosia maple with a paste wax finish. A little bigger than a softball.
So sorry to hear. That is something a parent just shouldn't have to do. Thoughts and prayers to your family.
Another rainy day, so spent some time roughing out a couple of bowls. This was the prettiest.
Making charcuterie boards for the upcoming fall craft fairs. Maple and cherry stacked in the background and working to de-bark a walnut slab.
Bark off and edge rough sanded
Laid out 6 good sized boards.
6 rough cut boards and what’s left.
Bark off and edge rough sanded
Laid out 6 good sized boards.
6 rough cut boards and what’s left.
Best thing about these charcuterie things is there are no dimensions, no definitive shape, no right, no wrong. Just cut them out in the most efficient way to utilize the wood.
Oh, and people buy em.
Case in point, 4 of these are already sold sight unseen.
My wife's aunt is in charge of running a farmer's/artisan's market where she lives. She's asked me if I'd be interested in setting up a booth on the one weekend that we'll be visiting my wife's family down there in August. I'm really leaning towards doing it, even though I've never done a show of any kind. I have lots of pens, but I've been thinking of some other items that I could make with minimal effort to have available. (And those items being things that I could use as Christmas gifts if they wouldn't sell.) Tom, these charcuterie boards would fit that quite nicely as one such object and I think I'll make some.
Today’s task, the one thing I dislike the most but is maybe the most important….emptying the sawdust containers and cleaning the dust collection filters.
Now back to filling them up again.
Now back to filling them up again.
Shop time with 8yo Granddaughter today. Have great HD videos but can’t figure out how to post them from IPad, files are too big to email, any help appreciated.
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The only way you can post a video here is to upload it to YouTube and then post the link here.
Upload them to youtube, then you can link them here. You would need to establish an account at youtube. I haven't had an issue with them....... Jerry (in Tucson)
Thanks, shared the videos on google with daughter to post on her youtube channel and will try to post them from there.
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Got to use my newest tool today! the Jaw Horse! One good purchase. So easy and secure clamping of work to work on it. Bought it mainly for holding carvings. But this time holding a piece for my wife that will eventually be put on the lathe and then carved off lathe. Too big to put on my bandsaw to cut the corners off. So clamped in the Jaw Horse and used an arbortech wheel to round up the blank. Excited about the Jaw Horse and so easy even The Islander could use it!
I would love to have one of those conversations with my dad……. What a blessing!!