What did you do in your shop today?

woodtickgreg said:
What did you do in your shop today?
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I just ruined a perfectly great book-matched pair of boards for a drawer front. You have to really try hard to screw something up on the jointer. But if you joint the wrong side of one of the pairs you can succeed. Maybe I need to call it a night and hit the rain locker.






 
Worked on getting the shop a little cleaned up again. Got some more blanks cut and sealed and put up on the top shelf
until I can figure out where to go with em.

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Well, it was last night, but I took my SteelCity lathe apart since the new bearings came in. Replaced the bearings and pretty much determined that the shaft is the problem as the point 'wobble' is still there.

The good news? Sent an email to SteelCity and found they still have them in stock and it'll cost me about $25 (with shipping) to get a replacement. The person I talked with said they had just recently gone out of production and they still had parts on hand and would for a while. Still, I think I'll get two of the spindles, just in case. Since I somehow racked this one up in a year or so, having a spare will be a good thing.

Although now that I'll have a larger lathe maybe I won't be trying to do too much on the smaller one. :)
 
Not a thing. The wife has banned me from my shop for the week while I recover even though I feel just fine :irate: :rofl:
 
I did a lil cleaning.....I got a good majority off the floor and benches and put em on a shelf!

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I had a day where I should have stayed home I think, Blew up two high end blanks, and during the 2nd poofing wrecked a carbide cutter, Found out one of my live centers has a bad bearing and when I went to use the band saw, the stinking blade broke for no apparent reason. I did manage to get 7 pens and 4 razor handles done but at that point I finally turned everything off and went and did paperwork for the rest of the day.

Murphy has to visit every so often but he don't stay long so I'm sure tomorrow will be way better.
 
Back to the chimney- footing poured and out of ground. Kit form chimney- damn none of the pieces are light. I prefer working in shop................. not on it!!!!!!!!!!

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One of those days for everyone I guess? Worst I did was get a small sag in my finish. Not complaining it will sand out.
 
Got some good shop time today. I love Fridays - it's my one full day off every week (with some occasional exceptions) and I almost always get to spend part of the day in the shop. Today was really about continuing the setup progress I'd done over the previous months. I kinda got burned out a little bit on getting the shop set up and getting my bench built because I wanted to make something. Now that I've got a bunch of pens under my belt, as well as a few other small projects, I'm back into shop setup mode.

Today I *finally* hung my shop lights. I'd been working off a couple light bulbs - one on the ceiling and the other in a lamp that I moved around to wherever I was working. Yeah, I should have hung the lights a looooong time ago... Will have one more to hang - I had one fixture I suspected was going bad before we moved and plugging it in today confirmed it was dead. But, it was a cheapie fixture. I'll eventually get a replacement fixture and get that fifth/final light hung.

Also worked some more on the workbench today. Trimmed all the edges of the plywood lamination that will be the top and made them nice and flat and smooth so that tomorrow I can glue some boards around it for edging it. Put up a shelf to get some things up off the floor and store them. This shelf is higher up and will store items that I don't use frequently enough to have readily available, but use often enough that I don't want to have to go through a lot of hassle to get to them when I want to use them. Also did some cleanup work and am getting ready to rearrange everything once the workbench is finished and a new stand for the lathe is built.

A good day in the shop! Going to get some real good shop time in tomorrow too!
 
Once in a while, you get to work with some really cool wood. I know you've all had those moments, when the piece you're working with is just truly exceptional and stands out in your mind and you just can't put it down. I got a little shop time today and was lucky enough to have two such experiences today. The first was the unreal flaming box elder burl I got from @justallan that I showed the other day... as I turned it into a duck call, it just kept getting better and better. I hope to have some time tomorrow or Friday to finish it up so I can take and post some pictures. The second was the cocobolo piece I posted in Paul's thread recently. Just like the FBEB, it just kept getting better and better. It'll be a week or two before I get pictures of it... even if I can finish the call tomorrow it will get an oil finish that will take a while. Frankly, I was so mesmerized by the two woods I only got about half of what I can usually get done in the same time period because I just kept staring. I was going to leave all this to your imagination, but decided at least a teaser pic was in order. This is the FBEB in my jig just before getting a tone channel cut.

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That stuff is positively amazing. It's best FBEB on the planet in my opinion. It's in good hands too. Can't wait to see it finished.

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Kevin said:
That stuff is positively amazing. It's best FBEB on the planet in my opinion. It's in good hands too. Can't wait to see it finished.

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It truly is remarkable, mind-blowing stuff.
 
I just got a large order from one of my regulars, started working on drilling, tubing, squaring 350 blanks and started turning. 198 turned and 152 to go. Running another batch of their lumber through dye and resin as I don't have many spare blanks and if I don't end up using these they'll be ready for the next order.
 
SENC said:
Once in a while, you get to work with some really cool wood. I know you've all had those moments, when the piece you're working with is just truly exceptional and stands out in your mind and you just can't put it down. I got a little shop time today and was lucky enough to have two such experiences today. The first was the unreal flaming box elder burl I got from @justallan that I showed the other day... as I turned it into a duck call, it just kept getting better and better. I hope to have some time tomorrow or Friday to finish it up so I can take and post some pictures. The second was the cocobolo piece I posted in Paul's thread recently. Just like the FBEB, it just kept getting better and better. It'll be a week or two before I get pictures of it... even if I can finish the call tomorrow it will get an oil finish that will take a while. Frankly, I was so mesmerized by the two woods I only got about half of what I can usually get done in the same time period because I just kept staring. I was going to leave all this to your imagination, but decided at least a teaser pic was in order. This is the FBEB in my jig just before getting a tone channel cut.

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I find your post inspirational... We have all had those moments when we are just like WOW I DID THAT! I know you're speaking of how beautiful the wood is but it's that "wow" that inspires us all to do and love what we do ty for sharing those moments
 
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