What did you do in your shop today?

Nothing - and I'm seriously jonesing for some shop time... Maybe I'll get an hour or two of it in the morning before some appointments and other obligations in the afternoon?

For certain I'll get some time Saturday morning - my wife will be gone, and it'll be just the boy and I. We'll most likely go out to the garage and I'll start getting everything rearranged and organized so I can get started very soon on some furniture and other flatwork projects.
 
I can't sleep...again. I'm going in the shop for a bit....see what turns out. :)
 
Well...I cut into this one on the left side....

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And started to make this...

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Which woke up the wife....:scare3:..so I had to stop....:redcard:


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Managed to get into the garage shop for a couple hours today. Started moving things around - will be rearranging and organizing the shop. Didn't take long to get the big things moved, but I've got a lot of work ahead of me getting the place organized. Hopefully in the next week or two I'll find enough time to get the place organized. Looking forward to getting the garage shop up and going so I can start tackling furniture and other projects on my list!

I'll post some updated shop pics when I've had a chance to get it organized.
 
Made a bunch of wood hard today. Finished up the blanks for @manbuckwal (Tom- It'll go out tomorrow) and some stuff for myself. Now to finish up the 2nd plane for @El Guapo so I can get that mailed out this week yet. On the upside, I've gone through every Stanley No.5 in my pile and thrown out the castings too far gone to save and got a good box of spare parts now.

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Whew, Tom, you got some eye candy headed your way!

Colin, sounds great!! No rush at all on this one... I'm not in any hurry!
 
I started going through my box of assorted plane parts to clean up a few spare blades to keep on hand and found these. They had so much rust on them I didn't even know they were Stanley blades until I started scouring them.

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Tonight I filled up some empty space in my shop. Friday and Saturday I hope to regain said space as I sort, organize, and find a place to store what I brought home tonight.

My wife has been bugging me to get started on some projects - but I needed lumber first! Saw an ad on Craigslist yesterday for a pallet of various lumber.

For $100 this followed me home. Walnut, oak (including some quartersawn), maple, ash, and probably another one or two different kinds. Most of the walnut that came home is 8/4. The piece at top in the picture is 2 5/8" thick, 9" wide, about 7' long. The picture makes the pile look deceivingly small.

Guess the only excuse I have right now as to why I can't get started on any projects is my shop need to be set up first...

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And the bonus on this is that I found a great guy, with a sawmill and a kiln, that I will definitely be going back to in the future to purchase lumber from.

Oh, and one of the maple logs laying in his yard has a nice burl on it. Couldn't see it as it was buried. But he's going to give me a call once he's got that log milled up. The customer who brought the log to him wants the lumber, but doesn't want the burl on it. I showed him some of my pens, even gave him one, so I think he's going to be keeping his eye out for some special stuff for me.
 
Sprung said:
Tonight I filled up some empty space in my shop. Friday and Saturday I hope to regain said space as I sort, organize, and find a place to store what I brought home tonight.

My wife has been bugging me to get started on some projects - but I needed lumber first! Saw an ad on Craigslist yesterday for a pallet of various lumber.

For $100 this followed me home. Walnut, oak (including some quartersawn), maple, ash, and probably another one or two different kinds. Most of the walnut that came home is 8/4. The piece at top in the picture is 2 5/8" thick, 9" wide, about 7' long. The picture makes the pile look deceivingly small.

Guess the only excuse I have right now as to why I can't get started on any projects is my shop need to be set up first...

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And the bonus on this is that I found a great guy, with a sawmill and a kiln, that I will definitely be going back to in the future to purchase lumber from.

Oh, and one of the maple logs laying in his yard has a nice burl on it. Couldn't see it as it was buried. But he's going to give me a call once he's got that log milled up. The customer who brought the log to him wants the lumber, but doesn't want the burl on it. I showed him some of my pens, even gave him one, so I think he's going to be keeping his eye out for some special stuff for me.
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Good for you Matt, that rocks!!!! Tony
 
Tony said:
Good for you Matt, that rocks!!!! Tony
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The bad part is that I'm not allowed to buy any lumber for a while now - save for some cedar for some outdoor furniture I'm going to be building! Of course, I do now have quite a bit of lumber on hand as this gets added to the other lumber purchases I made last summer... At least I'm, for the most part, set on lumber for projects for the next 2 or 3 years with the deals I've scored from Craigslist finds in the last year.
 
Getting ready for a show this weekend but found some time to get some of the stuff in piles milled into pen blanks and whatnot, I don't turn pot calls but I figured a few pot blanks out of some of the darker cocobolo might be worthwhile in case I do start turning those. Probably got enough cocobolo pen blanks for a while now. Here's about 1/2 of the stuff I cut up today:

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I cut up some apple wood today. I didn't get pics. Derp.
But I have 3 grocery bags full of bowl blanks, bottle stoppers, pen blanks, and a few blocks tbd later on what to make em. Filled em all up with sawdust from my dust collector.
All of it was at 30% moisture so, it'll be a lil while before they are ready.

I have more apple to cut but it's ridiculously wet..it stopped beeping at 50% moisture so it's soaked too....
 
Did some more cleaning and organizing. Tomorrow afternoon I plan to get machines set back up and dialed in and sharpen some chisels and other tools. Hope to get to making a few shop storage things too. I'll have the shop up and running real soon!
 
Today I moved my lumber score from Tuesday into the shed, save for what I need for the next few projects I'll be doing.

I also continued to organize and get machines dialed back in after sitting for the winter. Even got to finally run some boards through my planer! Put up some french cleats in the corner by the workbench - next step is to build some storage options to hang off the cleats and store often used tools. Still have a ways to go before I'm fully up and running, but it felt awesome to make sawdust and shavings today! Not everything is in its final place yet - some things have to be moved yet and bring the drill press up from the basement. Jointer restore isn't done yet - having trouble getting the knives out - screws all came out, but everything else is rusted in place...

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