Didn't do much IN the shop, but took some of the shop down to the boat dock...
What did you do in your shop today?
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I'm about to make a Chechen end-grain cutting board for @WoodLove . Haven't made one in a while so I thought I should knock the rust of those skills. Made this one out of cherry and maple. It's still in the oil, sorry, but wanted to show this off. C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks for looking! Tony
Tony, that's one sharp looking cutting board! I'd love to make my wife an end-grain board like that, instead of edge grain, but I don't yet have a drum sander. (And, while I'm planning to build my drum sander myself, it may not even be a project that I'm able to get to this year.)
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I'm hoping you can find some time soon - I miss seeing updates on your shop progress! Even more than that, I'm sure you miss being in the shop!
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You are so right my friend, I do miss being in my shop. It'll be busy for me for about another month and then it should start to settle down. I am taking some time off for the holiday so maybe I will get some shop time and some fishing time, there has to be a balance, lol.
Thanks Matt! I actually prefer the look of long grain boards. To me, my drum sander is indispensable. You're more ambitious than I am, I bought mine on CL!
I don't know if ambitious is the right word - cheap might be more like it! I haven't seen many on CL that are close enough for me to check out, and the few I have seen have been priced way too high for a used tool and I'm nowhere near being able to afford to go out and buy one yet. Though if I do come across on on CL at a reasonable price and have the money, I won't hesitate to pursue it. One advantage of building my own is that I did get a motor for free - dad had a few motors in the shed and gave me one.
I'm pretty cheap too, but it came down to impatience and productivity for me. Also, there's probably more of them come up here than there. A 18" grizzly that was almost new was posted Wednesday for $600, a friend of mine got it. After I got one, it was amazing how much more I could get finished! Tony
Yeah, it seems that everybody who has one loves having one. 18" is what I'm planning for the capacity on mine when I build it.
Deals can be had on them. I know a guy that bought a performax 16-32 for $100 a few weeks ago... I'm learning that the machine is the cheap part, sandpaper is expensive!
I've been working on a batch of pens - last week I drilled out the blanks, back painted the acrylic blanks, and glued tubes in the wood blanks. A couple days ago I trimmed the ends of the wood blanks. Yesterday I turned the wood blanks and did the first couple grits of sanding. This morning, since I was up early, I finished sanding them and applied the CA finish. Tonight I'm hoping to polish the blanks and assemble those pens and glue tubes in the acrylic blanks. Some of these pens are time sensitive as they will be Confirmation and Graduation gifts - the first one of them needing to be ready to give on Saturday.
Do have a friend and fellow woodworker coming over Friday afternoon. He's never done any turning and he would like to learn how to make a pen. It'll be fun to teach him and I've got a handful of blanks ready to go for that, as well as some practice material for him to use to get used to the tools first.
Haven't been in the garage shop since Saturday, but hope to get out there Thursday night for some more work out there.
Do have a friend and fellow woodworker coming over Friday afternoon. He's never done any turning and he would like to learn how to make a pen. It'll be fun to teach him and I've got a handful of blanks ready to go for that, as well as some practice material for him to use to get used to the tools first.
Haven't been in the garage shop since Saturday, but hope to get out there Thursday night for some more work out there.
I soak them for 3 days, just pulled it out tonight. I'll post one tomorrow. Tony
I spent my day cleaning and organizing, Realized a conservative estimate is 10,000 pen blanks cut and in totes. Plus all the other stock I haven't cut into stuff yet. I really need to start downsizing.
(BTW, I've been setting money aside and am now about 2/3 of the way to that dust collector you've got, if it's still available. Am also trying to set aside something so I can get some of that 500 lbs of cherry burl you said you've got. My wife agrees with me that cherry burl would make some great accents to the soft maple and curly cherry I'll be featuring in a bedroom set build I'll be starting next year.)
I did a lot of sweating today. Dang it got hot quick here.