What did you do in your shop today?

Tom Smart said:
Things from the last few days. Starting to restock after a craft fair last weekend. Sold 20 of these Ruth Niles bottle openers and her pull tab opener.

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The squatty things in front, also from Ruth, are for pounding chicken, meat, garlic, etc. One has a flat bottom the other has short spikes. Wood on those is from @Jonkou

Also mixed 2 dozen tins of mineral oil, beeswax, carnauba wax. Sold 20 of those at the craft fair. Next show first weekend in December.

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Where is the show in December at Tom? Would love to come out and say hello!
 
Spent the day milling spindles and rails for my sister's deck. Had to brush the dust off my flatwork tools, been a while since I've used them.

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Very nice. But I think it should be displayed with them all ready to go, elastic tubing and all.
 
Buddy sent some maple firewood over for me to see if it was worth turning or using in small boxes. To me, it is borderline. The quartersawn parts don't have much color and the spalted part is fairly shallow. This was a standing dead tree. 1636316630763376975583846305884.webp 1636316703005521881987969577516.webp 16363167267528022076775364842049.webp that crack runs full length of this piece as well.

Oh well, if he wants to use it, it ain't plain white maple. And it is just firewood anyhow.
 
Snowing and raining here all day so no outside work. Led lights at Sam's club went up to $25 for awhile but they are back down to $20 now so I picked up another one today when I was there for groceries. Plan is to upgrade all the lights in my shop to these since they are brighter and use less power than the flourescent lights, T8's will be replaced first.
So now I had 3 to put up in the shop. These are 5,000 lumen bright daylight lights.
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This is what they will replace.
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Super easy to hang, just crimp on the supplied s hooks and chain.
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Dropping the old lights. At this point I brushed off the sawdust from them, lol.
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And there we have it, 3ights replaced. And I'm giving the old fixtures to the guy that bought my table saw. He has nothing in his garage and he's a little tight for money right now with inflation and all.
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I plan to replace all of the flourescent lights in the shop gradually. T8's first and then T5's. I think 10 to go and that's with adding a couple here and there. I also like the new lights because they are smaller and can also be linked together if need be even though I have plenty of outlets in my shop. And they are Honeywell, good quality. I think I'll add another one right over the table saw.
 
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