What did you do in your shop today?

I re sawed and re sawed some more :saw::saw:

getting stocked up on flat stock and a lot of it :wacko3::wacko3:

I did make a jig for adding corner splines with the help of mike1950
I did my first box and have to redue it tomorrow hahahah jig worked awesome, it was user error hahah

wait, its always the equipments fault right??:itsme:
 
Well, I was in the shop tonight - it just wasn't my shop. Most Wednesdays there's a small group of us that get together and someone does some sort of demo.

Tonight that someone was me. Gave my first demo. It was ok, nothing spectacular - but I did do it.
 
Wednesdays I always get home late and we have a late dinner, then I like to spend a little time with my family before going to bed. However, relaxing with my family didn't quite happen. My in-laws are coming out to visit next week for our son's 1st birthday. Well, I thought they weren't going to be here for another week. My mother-in-law informed my wife this evening that my father-in-law's days he could get off of work changed. They'll be here Saturday. Three days from now. We have a week's worth of stuff to get done before they come. And I'm in the middle of building their Christmas gift from us. It's nothing big or major, but I do need some time to get it done. And we've got to get the house in order. So, tonight I found myself in the basement. Did some cleaning. Then did some cleaning in my shop and got stuff put away. No work got done, however. I had been drinking a beer and I will not run power tools if I've had even a little to drink.

So tonight I spent some time putting things away. Really really need to sweep and run the shop vac and pick up sawdust sometime in the next couple days.

Didn't get to work on any projects, but at least I got to spend some time in the shop cleaning up some of my mess and got some things ready for the next steps in those projects. Still can't find the memory card for my camera...
 
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Today I did nothing in the shop, I am resting, a little burned out. Been burning the candle at both ends and in the middle lately. I dropped of the roughers at the metal coaters today, I might get them back next week. I also got some 1045 3/8" square steel for some of the other sizes and styles of chisels I want to make. So tonight I'm just gonna chill and search the web and the barter.
 
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Wanted to work in the shop on Sunday but was kinda under the weather. I went down to the shop and did some layout for some new chisels but did not feel up to running the machines. I got home from work today and was all fired up for some shop time. Since I'm waiting for the roughing chisels to come back from the metal coaters I got started on the next batch of chisels. I got them roughed out for the most part, they need to be chamfered yet, then drilled and tapped, but a good start. These are 3/8" square shafts, rounded square cutter for one and round cutter for the other. The rounded square cutter will be a good one for pen turning and light roughing. When I was making these I was thinking, why do companies think pen chisels should be short? The few times that I have turned pens I used long fingernail gouges and the worked well, why would I want to jam myself up to my work with a short chisel? Just doesn't make sense to me. Any way here's a couple pics of today's progress.

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Now you're killing me. Awesome work.
 
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Got em all chamfered and hand fit. Drill, countersink, and tap the holes tomorrow maybe. They look and fit better chamfered. Then it's grinder time for the relief back grind, sanding to clean them up a little, then off for black oxide coating.
I haven't gotten a call on the roughers yet? They should be done with the black oxide. But we are still having power problems around here, I haven't worked my main job in 2 days due to no power at the shop. We are hoping to be back up tonight sometime.
 
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Worked in the shop a little yesterday, got the square ones drilled and tapped, thought I was good to go but I thought about the fit today and I did not like it. So I did a little rework on the fit of the carbide insert, just some work with a file for a little more clearance of the cutting edge. I do not want the carbides to chip on the user. Maybe tomorrow I'll work on drilling and tapping the rounds. Then I'll do a little grinding and sanding. It seems like they are taking a long time to make these, but I am making ten of each and I want them to come out right. Still waiting for the roughers to come back from black oxide coating.
 
Nothing yesterday or today: I been doing my part time job; which is 2 days a week which helps pay for my workshop addiction. Tomorow its off to deliver planer knives and edger blades to my good friend down to Musk Rat Saw Mill. The plan is to work on turning presents Saturday and Sunday
 
I forgot to mention this last week. My wife was looking for a certain diameter candle that would fit into an odd sized holiday candle holder base. After having no luck finding one I got the bright idea to turn one down from a larger candle. Well she bought a pine scented candle and I put it on the lathe to turn it down. Here's the kicker; I didnt realize how great my shop would smell with candle shavings!!! HaHaHa Its a week later & the shop smells like a pine tree grove
 
I finished an order Christmas gifts that I have been working on for 2 weeks. Thank goodness its not due until Dec 10. I think I'll get a 6 pack of Amber Bock and watch foot ball tonight.
 
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Well I got a little shop time today and did some hand work on the batches of chisels I have been working on since I still have not got the roughers back from black oxide coating. Anyway I like to grind back the metal from the cutters for more clearance when cutting. In my opinion the only thing that should touch the wood is the cutter, it's the way I like my tools to be so I do it on all. Here's a few pics of the 3/8" square radiused cutter tool, kind of like a mini rougher, these will work great for pen turning too. I will sand them well to clean them up and smooth them before I send these out for black oxide coating.
In this first pic you can see the sides ground back at the tip and the bottom of the chisels as well.
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Here's a closer pic that shows how I like to round the edges as well.
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A side grind pic.
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And I did the same kind of work on the 3/8 round cutter tools as well.
Here you can see the side grinds, they do vary a little but they are hand made and each unique. They are all about function, they just work.
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These are rough ground and will be smoothed a great deal before black oxide coating. mid-size-progress-005.webp

Most importantly this shows how I like the cutters to fit.
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And a top view, these are coming out nice.
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Today I finished the sanding of the carbide insert mid size tools that people are waiting for. Like most people, I hate sanding, but it is a necessary evil. They came out nice, my hands are very tired though. Now I can get them to the metal coaters. Then I played with my metal lathe for a bit, experimenting with some different grinds and angles on the cutting bits. I think I just needed to smell cutting oil, LOL. Here's the finished pics. I did post these pics in another thread to let those that are waiting for these know they are almost done.

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I had to clean up a pile of shaving that 4 dogs and 2 cats decided to play chase in. As if cleaning up wasn't enough already.
 
I made a set of Beretta 92 grips out of Wormy Chestnut...

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Wow, nice grips ripper!
 
Cut a few pieces of wood into triangle shapes for my wife. She saw an idea on Pinterest and wanted a few so she could paint them and have them as mini Christmas trees to add to her Christmas decorations. Easy task, and it gave me a chance to fire up my bandsaw and get some more practice with using it!

I'm not getting my normal one day a week off tomorrow and it's been a couple weeks since I've really had any shop time, so tonight I decided that while I was in the shop I wasn't going to work on any of the backlogged projects I'm in the middle of and need to finish. I needed to do something different. So I worked on getting my lathe put together. I would have had it all together and able to make shavings, but the little guy fell asleep, which means no power tools. Hopefully I can sneak into the shop for a few hours sometime early next week and get it done. It's been a rough few weeks, and while I enjoyed a little wood working therapy tonight, I definitely need some more wood working therapy!
 
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Matt, any shop time is good time and time well spent. I sometimes just like to be in the shop, even if I'm not doing anything.
 
^^^^ +1 on what Greg said.
 
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