What did you do in your shop today?
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Well, it wasn't all today, but I've been working on these for the show tomorrow. Still work to do on the pendants.
As you can see I've played a little bit with the Joyner jig. the ERC pendants came from the blocks I won when the Broncos surprised you all :)
The curly maple came from the thins I bought here as well.
Also found a use for some of those pen blanks that I have tha won't end up as pens. I must be doing something wrong on the pen front as they just don't seem to sell for me.
Doing a few of those ornaments based on tart tins as well. My wife is doing a fine job of making them much spiffier than I would have thought of.
Hopefully the sale will go reasonably well tomorrow.
As you can see I've played a little bit with the Joyner jig. the ERC pendants came from the blocks I won when the Broncos surprised you all :)
The curly maple came from the thins I bought here as well.
Also found a use for some of those pen blanks that I have tha won't end up as pens. I must be doing something wrong on the pen front as they just don't seem to sell for me.
Doing a few of those ornaments based on tart tins as well. My wife is doing a fine job of making them much spiffier than I would have thought of.
Hopefully the sale will go reasonably well tomorrow.
Milled and processed a bunch of osage this morning. Osage dust irritates my sinuses a little. Had to get another shower already so I can go back out and get red dust all over me now. Shaping up to be a 3 shower day before all said and done.
Dang, that's crazy! I shower every Wednesday whether I need it or not. Tony
That explains quite a bit....
I worked on a bench today, Hand cut dovetails for the seat to leg joints, hand cut the notches for the lower braces, The tool tray was mostly done with machines. This will be used for when I take my treadle lathe out for demos, gives me a place to sit and the tools sit inside for transport. Still need to clean a few things up with the hand plane and sand it out but hope to have finished later this week or early next week what with show season starting.
These were my first hand cut dovetails and while they fit and are tight I can see lots of room for improvement
These were my first hand cut dovetails and while they fit and are tight I can see lots of room for improvement
I'm thinking about building some sort of small vise for one end of it sort of make it a little portable work station, then I'd put a row of holes for bench dogs and could use to assemble stuff too.....
I see the saddle square....that makes me happy.
Oh....and great job.
Oh....and great job.
I see the saddle square....that makes me happy.
Oh....and great job.
The saddle square makes me happy too
Played on the metal lathe again. I'm a little closer to building a set of drum lugs. A little.
That looks cool Les! I've never seen almond, I like that. The only concern I have is how soft the mahogany is. Maybe yours is harder than what I've seen, I have very limited experience with it, but I don't use any softwoods in my boards. They show cuts too easy and soak up liquids and stain worse than hardwoods. I think it's dam nice though, I like the angles on it, hope people notice that, it's a nice touch! Tony
Cuban Mahogany is pretty much the same hardness as cherry so not super soft. If you took a chainsaw to this mahogany you would not feel it was too soft, ha ha. Cuban is a different spcies from the Honduran everyone is used to.Tropical Almond is a different species entirely from almond. Just in case you want to do this I take 4 clamps and 2 fat sticks to hold everything down before cross clamping with bar clamps. Do you use just regular drug store Mineral Oil for your finish?
I have one plank and a couple left over pieces of the Tropical Almond left over, if does produce an edible fruit/ nut so I trust it. I'll set them aside for you. @Tony
Answered my own question, I will pick up some cutting board finish from HD tomorrow.
I have one plank and a couple left over pieces of the Tropical Almond left over, if does produce an edible fruit/ nut so I trust it. I'll set them aside for you. @Tony
Answered my own question, I will pick up some cutting board finish from HD tomorrow.
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I was down town with a gilding friend who restored a lot of the historical frames at the State Department and a contractor for the gilding job weare working and received a private tour of the signing room. This pic of a dest is not any ol desk it is The desk used to sign the Declaration of Independence the next is the desk the tready of our Independence was signed on in Frence. A view of the room.
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Dave that is some kind of cool. If you're ever down this way I'll take you to place where you can touch a piece of marbled American history. The rostrum that Lincoln (don't really like the man but hey) stood behind and that FDR stood in front of and used to declare war against "Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan" is right here in my county. The security is so lax I could steal it.
When I visited French & Indian war era "The Old Fort" in Augusta Maine, you could still thumb through the records.
I would like to see the location.
Finishing up some beer tap handles for a local brewery called LauderAle. They are made to look like the old power plant smoke stacks at Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. ( is being rebuilt). Was cool watching it get blown up!!!! A decal goes on top piece telling what kind of beer. Delivered a batch of tap handles last year & the owner was drinking mango jalapeno beer!!!
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Final product. I draw little stick people holding a beer.
Finally got this thing here and running, was able to get through a pile that's been stacking up. Tony
