What did you do in your shop today?

Blueglass said:
I'm a wee bit jealous. I've been wanting a nice router table. Have fun with the new toys.
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Thanks - I've been trying to get a router and table for about 2 years now. I had purchased a used Craftsman router and started to build a table for it, but the router turned out to be junk and the partially finished table wouldn't fit into the moving truck when we moved last year. (Which I was ok with, because it was turning out to be a not very good table.) I've got quite a few projects this year that my wife wants me to build and a router and table will be huge assets to those projects, so I'm glad to finally have a router that works and to be able to have a table as soon as I build a base for the top.
 
Sprung said:
My wife's been real good to me the last two weeks. Mother's Day she told me to go ahead and order a dust collector from Harbor Freight when she peaked over my shoulder and saw the 25% off coupon I had in an e-mail from them. She knows that one of my top priorities for the workshop this year was to tackle dust collection.
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Cool. I'm assuming you won't need the Jet Dust Collector sitting in my garage? I'm happy you found a good price on a new machine!!
 
Schroedc said:
Cool. I'm assuming you won't need the Jet Dust Collector sitting in my garage? I'm happy you found a good price on a new machine!!
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Yes, I won't be - I was saving up for it, but my wife didn't know that and told me to order the Harbor Freight one with the coupon - even went and got the bank card for me! (At under $160, with coupon, she wouldn't let me pass it up.) I do, however, still plan to try and make it your way sometime for some of that cherry burl you've got if you've got some you'd be willing to sell. I've convinced my wife that some cherry burl will work well for some accent pieces alongside the soft maple and the curly cherry I'll be using in a bedroom set build I plan to start next year.
 
Sprung said:
Yes, I won't be - I was saving up for it, but my wife didn't know that and told me to order the Harbor Freight one with the coupon - even went and got the bank card for me! (At under $160, with coupon, she wouldn't let me pass it up.) I do, however, still plan to try and make it your way sometime for some of that cherry burl you've got if you've got some you'd be willing to sell. I've convinced my wife that some cherry burl will work well for some accent pieces alongside the soft maple and the curly cherry I'll be using in a bedroom set build I plan to start next year.
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Of course. Whenever, I don't think I'll run out of Cherry burl in the near future :treehugger:
 
Finally got to spend a decent amount of time in the Shop today. Got a few cutting boards done in between rain showers. Tony IMG_20150525_113257.webp IMG_20150524_142757.webp
 
The price you pay for hauling things that just shouldn't be hauled in Subaru Legacy. Broken sway bar. According to youtube, fairly simple to replace myself, so hopefully, in a couple days when I get the new one, all will be right in the world again. I will never stop going after the wood though. 20150525_213937.webp
 
Should be an easy repair, pretty straight forward, about 6 bolts. When you replace it also replace the rubber mounts, there cheap.
 
norman vandyke said:
The price you pay for hauling things that just shouldn't be hauled in Subaru Legacy. Broken sway bar. According to youtube, fairly simple to replace myself, so hopefully, in a couple days when I get the new one, all will be right in the world again. I will never stop going after the wood though.View attachment 79645
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Norman, how much wood were you hauling in it to cause that to happen? And, Greg's right, should be an easy repair.
 
Cut the rest of my Mango into boards today! Sappiest wood I've ever worked with. I did learn a kinda cool new trick. I had been told that 50/ 50 Titebond and water was pretty good for sealing ends. Today I noticed I had a partial bottle of old glue, added water then shook up, so now I have a dispenser too. Worked well.
 
Yesterday and today I've started working on my router table bade build. Yesterday I did some clean up and organizing of the shop - a necessity if I was going to be able to set up the folding table to break down sheet goods. Broke down a sheet of plywood yesterday into some of the parts. Today I routed some dados and rabbets in the pieces I cut, cut some more pieces. After the glue dries from patching an oops from mis-measuring, I'll be re-routing that dado, routing a couple more rabbets then starting to assemble. I'll be doing some more work tonight and then also tomorrow. While I doubt I'll have it all trimmed out and finished by the end of the weekend, I do hope to maybe have it at least far enough along that it's functional - that way I can use it to build drawers and doors for it.
 
Not in my Shop, but I've spent the last 3 days at my In-laws in East Texas rebuilding a deck. Way too much time spent bent over screwing on 5/4 planks!!!!
 
Tony said:
Not in my Shop, but I've spent the last 3 days at my In-laws in East Texas rebuilding a deck. Way too much time spent bent over screwing on 5/4 planks!!!!
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You know the rules! Didn't happen without pictures!!
 
Tony I love that line at the bottom of your posts. As hard as I try not to make too many big boards small, I'll bet I can give you some competition.
 
Blueglass said:
Tony I love that line at the bottom of your posts. As hard as I try not to make too many big boards small, I'll bet I can give you some competition.
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You can try to compete, but I am a Recognized Expert:yipee:
 
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