What did you do in your shop today?

Put coats 2 and 3 of chocolate brown milk paint on the nightstands. Next for the finishing on them is a couple coats of danish oil, then a coat of paste wax. Then I can put in the inner shelf, install hardware and the doors, and call them done! I'll post some pics when they're done.

Got the bandsaw up and running today too. Does it ever cut! Runs so smooth now too! Got a few things left to do on it, but it's now fully usable to cut wood with. :yipee:
 
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Great looking pen Scott, Kudo's to you guys for realizing you are tired and should not be operating machinery. No shop time for me today either, running erands, maybe tomorrow after I get the boat emptied out( that sucks). Got some chisels to package for shipping too.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's one of my major rules. If I'm not 100% into it, or I am tired for whatever reason, I don't touch the tools. I may still go to my shop, but I will clean or tinker, or organize. No power equipment unless my heart and mind are completely focussed.

That's a gorgeous pen Scott. Looks like that stabilizer has done you well. From punky and junky, to just plain funky. Awesome stuff.
 
I'd like to pretend I'm a 100% safe woodworker, but I have to be honest. I'm not a safe woodworker at all. I'm a lucky woodworker. I've gotten away with so much crazy BS so many times I can't believe I still have all my digits. And I have the scars on them to prove it. I don't tempt fate, but my lifestyle seems to prove that the luck of the Irish is a real and present danger to those of you that are not Irish. Give me a high five (high four for some of you non-Irish). :five2:


Am I the only honest bull-in-a-china-cabinet guy here?
 
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Oh, I've done stupid stuff before - don't want anyone to think I'm perfect. (I know, I know - no danger of that happening)

It's just that sometimes I'm smart - and then that happens I have to advertise it in the hopes that people will remember that and not the stupid stuff.
 
I try to do the most hazardous tasks when I am at my best. Early or late I stick to hand tools. Only when I am at the top of my game will I take the biggest risk and that is usin the broom!!!:scare3:
 
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Ouch....I got a spanking!







Here's the pen......


Remember this is my first blank turned that I stabilized, and the material wasn't meant to actually be anything but a 'test'. But the test was good enough to put hardware on it....the finish is nothing more then sanding to 600grit and EEE, and then wax.

Guess this means I need to do a knife now? I stabilized a piece of Pignut Hickory at the same time I did this little chunk.....




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VERY nice pen!!!!
 
When I think back to the way I used to be, I'm shocked that I have any digits at all. Any time that I did spend in the shop, was spent with massive amounts of alcohol in my system. I don't think I did anything in the shop while I was sober so you can only imagine what kind of crazy crap I pulled with a belly full of liquid courage. Since I gave up the sauce, I've become extremely safety conscious. Giving up booze improved the quality of a lot more than just my woodworking, I can guarantee you that.
 
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Well lets see what I did in the shop today. I got the chisels that where ordered from me packaged up and addressed for shipping and then moved on to some machining.
I thought I was done with the bevel machining but when I looked at the way the cutter sat I did not like it. I wanted it to sit a little tighter so I re did them all, I am much happier with them now.
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This is how they look after the remachine, much better fit and more to my liking. final--roughers-003.webp

Here you can see how the cutter will fit and the little pocket that is machined in the middle of the cutter for clearance of the curved cutter. These chisels will accept the curved or straight cutters, the curved are my favorites for roughing.
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How the pockets look after the re do, ready to drill and tap next.
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More coming.
 
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So next I applied some more blue and marked them for drilling.

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Drilled and tapped for the cutter, I hand fit each one.
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I like the way they fit. You can see some material that I will machine back and grind for clearance at the front of the cutter.
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All are drilled and tapped.
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More coming, dinner time.
 
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So here they are drilled and tapped and marked for material removal from the end or front. First one on the bottom is machined and ready to be ground, I like to relief grind them for clearance.
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All are machined and ready for grinding final-roughers-011.webp

Jimmy, the carbide roughing mill works awesome, so fast. The mill marks from the roughing mill will be ground away. final-roughers-012.webp
Depending on how my week goes I should be able to get these ground and sanded in preperation for black oxide coating. When they are done and back from the metal coaters I will start a new thread in the for sale section. Some have already requested these chisels from me. Thanks for looking. I had a great day in the shop. :D
 
image.webp image.webp I roughed out a top to Retop a student guitar for a local school. The previous top got a little hot and lost some braces resulting in a few cracks including one through the bridge. I also got the lid on my tool chest that I've been working on really slowly.

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Sanded 2-1/2 Black Walnut RM bowls, sealed two of them with sanding sealer, started testing on some Pignut Hickory super punky, spalted, rotted pen blanks using a few different things(Minwax Wood Hardener, Fast Dry Polyurethane, Polycrylic/Mineral Spirits mix, and straight Polycrylic-four of each blank). Weighed them prior to vacuum, but I didn't want to weigh them until they dried enough to keep my scale from becoming 'nasty'.
The Minwax WH will probably give the best results, but I'm not sure what kind of 'harm' it will do to everything(heard them vapors eat the seals), would love to see the Polycrylic stuff do well, it's not too expensive and it doesn't smell like someone is making meth!
Oh, I cleaned the garage after sanding, yup....got the leaf blower out and blew everything!

Oh, and I open a box with knife blanks inside....put a question in "Knife Making" in case anyone wants to take a shot at that.....

I have a box from Dave that needs to be addressed(opened) tomorrow....good thing I have Veterans Day off!




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Kevin said:
I'd like to pretend I'm a 100% safe woodworker, but I have to be honest. I'm not a safe woodworker at all. I'm a lucky woodworker. I've gotten away with so much crazy BS so many times I can't believe I still have all my digits. And I have the scars on them to prove it. I don't tempt fate, but my lifestyle seems to prove that the luck of the Irish is a real and present danger to those of you that are not Irish. Give me a high five (high four for some of you non-Irish). :five2:


Am I the only honest bull-in-a-china-cabinet guy here?
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My tools have a way of reminding me once in awhile who's the boss, sent my thumb thru the table saw a couple weeks back, on the plus side no stitches this time as I couldn't find the missing piece, must be time for a shop cleaning.
 
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Been getting a couple of hours a nite in the shop after work. I thought my hours where going to get cut at the part time job but that hasn't really happened yet. Anyway it's been fun getting some shop time, been making turning chisels, pretty soon I'll have all the ones I want and some folks here will get some also.
 
Greg - keep churning out those chisels, they look great! And I'm sure they work even better. I'd love to get some, but I don't even have a lathe up and running yet, so I definitely can't justify the purchase.


I started working on building my router table today. Also played with my bandsaw a little more. Was a great evening in the shop! Need to do some cleanup and put some things away at the beginning of the next time I get shop time - all the horizontal surfaces in my shop are getting almost too cluttered for me to work.
 
Clean up day for me, get ready to do the christmas run, boxed up some call blanks for shipping and finally boxed up the redwood rebuild stuff heading home to Florida (no updates in the thread as I can't find it) and finishing off a neat jewelry box for a trade.
 
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Been in the shop for a couple of hours everyday this week. I finally got the roughing chisels done and the are ready for the metal coaters to apply the black oxide finish.
So I ground back the roughing end mill marks.
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All are ground back now. I do this for clearance, but I leave plenty of material under the cutter for strength.
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2 nights of sanding to 220 grit, sure makes em look nice, see the rough blanks in the back for comparison. I really don't have to sand them to black oxide coat them but they come out really nice when I do. They are just going to get beat to heck and scrapped along a tool rest anyway, but they will look nice when new and the coating will help prevent rust too. Nice reflection huh?
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Off to the metal coaters in the morning. I wonder which style I should make next? See the pile of 3/8" blanks to the right? Square or round? These could be used for pens as well. Some people like them a little shorter for pens, I like em on the long or full size myself, better control and cancels some of the vibration. imo.
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