Today I rough processed probably 85-90% of the wood needed for 3 drums Citrus, Red Euc and Hedge.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Got some turning and assembly done, maybe tomorrow I'll get some nice pictures for the finished projects area.
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Wow, talk about production. If I made a pen I'd be happy! LOL.
I messed up a call... so I decided to use my time to clean the shop.
Didn't realize that I had 4 of the large contractor bags full of dust, shavings, and cut offs. The floor is a little harder now... those shavings really make it more comfortable to stand in front of the lathe.
Didn't realize that I had 4 of the large contractor bags full of dust, shavings, and cut offs. The floor is a little harder now... those shavings really make it more comfortable to stand in front of the lathe.
So far my day has been all non productive crud, I ran to town to pick up a stove and the parts needed to put an outlet in the shop so I can bake larger quantities of stabilized material, Picked up 10 dozen shop rags. We have a diaper service in the area that will sell the old cloth diapers for rags cheap, nice, heavy, absorbent and pretty much lint free. I might get some sawdust made alter but most likely will write the day off and work on all the cleaning and organizing that's been piling up around here....
I finished up a bunch of orders, then started on some more.
Realized that my shop was nasty, so I filled up a couple more contractor garbage bags. Really need to re-think the layout, but it'll have to wait until after turkey season.
My poor 2 car garage that serves as my shop and my sons toy box. And yes, that's really clean compared to what it looked like earlier today.
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Realized that my shop was nasty, so I filled up a couple more contractor garbage bags. Really need to re-think the layout, but it'll have to wait until after turkey season.
My poor 2 car garage that serves as my shop and my sons toy box. And yes, that's really clean compared to what it looked like earlier today.
http://i1024.Rule #2/albums/y306/jrcustomcalls/Misc/57303E46-5946-421B-B88A-810BEE3AE745_zps2lpdhkrg.jpg
Worked on sanding out the last of these and starting to laser them for a local event. 150 for them plus made some extras for the shop. Butcher block finish and ready to go. Should be able to driver at the end of the week. Then came home and decided to clean up my cut off pile a bit.
Worked on a stacked ring bowl for a guy at work. He wanted a BKP bowl for his wife and I finally found a place where I could find suitable material. I made a post on my site: http://weinertwoodworks.com/forum/2014/03/bowl-from-a-board-part-1/ but here's a picture of the stacked rings just prior to glue up.
Spent a little time yesterday making a Chinaberry block square on 3 of6 sides before work. Got a worksharp sharpener from Sears for 55 bucks and had to try out my really sharp planes. I like it.
Did some work out in the garage. Got everything moved around. Snowblowers and shovels went into the shed. Everything else got stacked and piled in the center of the garage. Next step is to remove all the screws sticking out of the plywood walls. Then I'll prime and paint when it's warm enough to and I have the time to. Painting it white in there to brighten it up. After paint, then I'll get lights up. Going to have to see about getting some more power out there though. Right now there's only one set of outlets...
Cleaned on Sat. and part of sunday- Got my small room civilized enough to work. Decided big room was hopeless which released me to work on vises. Pattern makers vise is complete and started on front vise. Found out just how inadequate my forstner bits are trying to drill large holes through hard wood. Almost done.
Well, not today, but yesterday. My woodworking club does a perpetual bowl for each meeting. The monthly winner takes the object that the previous month winner created, and is then responsible to create next months project. I won the raffle last month, and this is my contribution. Its called perpetual bow, but the item can be anything. My bowl turning skills suck, so I made this mallet.
The one on the right is my older mallet, and I really liked the shape of the head of the mallet, so I decided to kinda-sorta copy it for the new mallet on the right. The handle is very beefy, and the bead gives a good area for your fingers when choking up on the mallet. Finished with a couple coats of Tung oil.
The one on the right is my older mallet, and I really liked the shape of the head of the mallet, so I decided to kinda-sorta copy it for the new mallet on the right. The handle is very beefy, and the bead gives a good area for your fingers when choking up on the mallet. Finished with a couple coats of Tung oil.
I like that mallet, I'm going to be doing a ton of mortise and tenon work on some new furniture later this summer, might have to make myself one.
Today I finished all the laser work on those little plates, took an order for a dozen more for someone else and prepped about 60 pieces that will all be higher end serving platters, square sushi plates, and some that will be whatever the heck they turn out as once they start spinning. Hoping for a full day of rough out work tomorrow.
Last couple days I got the Red Eucalyptus drum glued up. I got the Osage Orange and Purpleheart ready for glue up and I'm slowly working the Citrus drum up. Pretty much filleted my finger with the Ryoba saw while cutting ebony for the stripes. Pretty sure next time I'll use a clamp instead of holding a 3/4" wide strip with my fingers. Of course I bandaged it up and went right back to what caused... like a big dummy! Call me Lamont.
Also snagged a real nice crotch piece from a maple the neighbor cut down. BEautiful feathering. Now I need to get my hends on a chainsaw. It will become bowl blanks for the other neighbor that lets me use his shop and maybe a kind person or 2 from here. Big chunk.
Also snagged a real nice crotch piece from a maple the neighbor cut down. BEautiful feathering. Now I need to get my hends on a chainsaw. It will become bowl blanks for the other neighbor that lets me use his shop and maybe a kind person or 2 from here. Big chunk.
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Well, over the last couple of days I got a stacked ring bowl from 6/4 BKP roughed out and mostly sanded. Just have to sort out how to finish off the bottom as I'm getting a lot of catches/gouges in the bottom while trying to shape it.
I received the new feed motor for my drum sander and got that put back together.
I bought and assembled a new dust collector. On sale at HF and perhaps not the best quality ever, but a step up from the shop vac/dust deputy arrangement - although I don't see myself doing away with that, at least not any time soon.
Finished sanding the wood for the new window sill/seat (it's really a bump out for the bedroom window but it's too high for a seat.) Then I put down the shellac and the yellow dye. Then the Pilgrim Amber dye - and discovered that a small incident I had had had a greater impact than I thought. I was reaching into the cupboard for something in the back and managed to knock the new, never used, bottle of thin CA onto the bench. It hit just wrong and it snapped off the spout and sprayed CA everywhere. I had a bunch on one hand and up my arm, a couple of drops on my lips, a couple of drops in my hair/beard - and evidently a bunch of drops on one end of two of the boards. The PA dye just isn't covering that so I guess I'm back to sanding everything down again.
Put together a new (small) electric smoker and made some ribs. Yes, that was in the shop because it was raining here. Shop smells really good right now :) I did have to open up some garage doors to help air it out a bit and I'll most likely not do that again.
I received the new feed motor for my drum sander and got that put back together.
I bought and assembled a new dust collector. On sale at HF and perhaps not the best quality ever, but a step up from the shop vac/dust deputy arrangement - although I don't see myself doing away with that, at least not any time soon.
Finished sanding the wood for the new window sill/seat (it's really a bump out for the bedroom window but it's too high for a seat.) Then I put down the shellac and the yellow dye. Then the Pilgrim Amber dye - and discovered that a small incident I had had had a greater impact than I thought. I was reaching into the cupboard for something in the back and managed to knock the new, never used, bottle of thin CA onto the bench. It hit just wrong and it snapped off the spout and sprayed CA everywhere. I had a bunch on one hand and up my arm, a couple of drops on my lips, a couple of drops in my hair/beard - and evidently a bunch of drops on one end of two of the boards. The PA dye just isn't covering that so I guess I'm back to sanding everything down again.
Put together a new (small) electric smoker and made some ribs. Yes, that was in the shop because it was raining here. Shop smells really good right now :) I did have to open up some garage doors to help air it out a bit and I'll most likely not do that again.
Did a bunch more fine tuning on the Citrus drum. Ready for glue up!
I *finally* got to prime the walls and ceiling in the garage! There is about 1/3 of the ceiling (the end with the garage door) that didn't get primed because I ran out of primer. That plywood really soaked it in - I thought 2 gallons would be enough! But, I can get away with not painting that 1/3 of the ceiling.
WOW does it make a difference out there! The garage is currently lit by a single 75w bulb and there's a small window at the back. Go out there at night and it was too dark to see anything with the light on, because of the plywood walls. With a coat of primer, that place lights up well with just that 75w bulb. Can't wait to get my shop lights hung - gonna be much brighter than my last shop!
Hopefully tomorrow evening I can put a coat of paint on everything!
WOW does it make a difference out there! The garage is currently lit by a single 75w bulb and there's a small window at the back. Go out there at night and it was too dark to see anything with the light on, because of the plywood walls. With a coat of primer, that place lights up well with just that 75w bulb. Can't wait to get my shop lights hung - gonna be much brighter than my last shop!
Hopefully tomorrow evening I can put a coat of paint on everything!
Well, it was last Friday that I had time for the shop.
I resanded and stained the boards I was working on after the CA incident. I do need to sort out what's gone wrong now though as I have 3 of the boards that ended up with a grayish cast to them in places. Sometimes this woodworking stuff can be a might frustrating :)
Then I spent time getting my new table saw all assembled. I still need to clean the shipping preservative off the cast iron surfaces but it is put together and it sounds real nice (much nicer than the 30 year old Craftsman) and I'll be putting some wood through it tonight - the weekend was pretty much full of Family. Which is not a bad thing at all. And it's really nice to lock down the fence and not see it move.
Trying to decide whether or not to scrap the old saw or try to sell it. I know its peculiarities but I'm concerned that in today's climate someone would do something stupid and I'd have a lawsuit on my hands. Much easier (and I think better) to just sell it for scrap.
I resanded and stained the boards I was working on after the CA incident. I do need to sort out what's gone wrong now though as I have 3 of the boards that ended up with a grayish cast to them in places. Sometimes this woodworking stuff can be a might frustrating :)
Then I spent time getting my new table saw all assembled. I still need to clean the shipping preservative off the cast iron surfaces but it is put together and it sounds real nice (much nicer than the 30 year old Craftsman) and I'll be putting some wood through it tonight - the weekend was pretty much full of Family. Which is not a bad thing at all. And it's really nice to lock down the fence and not see it move.
Trying to decide whether or not to scrap the old saw or try to sell it. I know its peculiarities but I'm concerned that in today's climate someone would do something stupid and I'd have a lawsuit on my hands. Much easier (and I think better) to just sell it for scrap.
I don't see how you could possibly be sued if you sell something as-is... or even without noting that. Otherwise, people would be suing table saw manufacturers left and right.
I had planned to turn a couple pens to finish up a trade and some inventory but a friend stopped by and asked when I'd have room to take his Oneway 2436 and the rest of the tools on a long term loan (Possibly a year or more) so I started cleaning and rearranging in the shop to make room for it.....