What did you do in your shop today?

Worked on a few pens - got them turned and partially sanded. After this past week I really really really needed that stress relief.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get back down there and polish up the finish on a few pens and apply finish on a number of others.
 
Worked on the finishing on an Axis deer, put the whiskers on a bobcat and installed earliners in a whitetail doe. Oh also did a little yard work before it hit 104°
 
Been out of the shop all last week for a trip to camp with my son so of course I'm low on lots of my inventory. Finished up some whistles and a few vertices today. One Atlas style pen out of a whiskey barrel blank for a friend and the razor was a repair job after my customer dropped it hard on a tile floor.

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Schroedc said:
Been out of the shop all last week for a trip to camp with my son so of course I'm low on lots of my inventory. Finished up some whistles and a few vertices today. One Atlas style pen out of a whiskey barrel blank for a friend and the razor was a repair job after my customer dropped it hard on a tile floor.



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Those are very nice Colin! Excuse my ignorance, are vertices a style of pen or something else? I have no clue!:sorry: Tony
 
Tony said:
Those are very nice Colin! Excuse my ignorance, are vertices a style of pen or something else? I have no clue!:sorry: Tony
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Sorry, I was having some fun, the pen style is the Vertex from PSI and the plural of Vertex is Vertices :sarcastic:
 
Heck, you could've said Vertex and I wouldn't have have known that either! They sure are nice, I know that much! Tony
 
Since its been scorching hot here in Michigan it's got me thinking of ice fishing... Summer is also a time I play with new things and ice fishing jigs is one, particularly blade jigs for walleye.

I got some blades out, the solder gun, a cold drink and went to town. I did have to fire up the heat gun to powder paint but I got the AC cranking out back so it wasn't terrible.

Pretty pleased with how these turned out for the first go at them. I got some glow tape coming that I plan on cutting shapes and so forth outta and dressing up the backside with.

Weirdest thing happened tho and a couple fell off the shelf and landed in @davduckman2010 's box that is heading his way. :wacko: Maybe he can wrestle up a walleye with one and tell me how they work. :drinks:
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Been trying to get into the shop all week - never happened. Today I've been able to spend some time in the shop for some much needed stress relief!

Got a baker's dozen of pens I'm trying to get finished up. All that's left to do is polish the CA finish then assemble. We'll see how many I can get done after dinner.

Did, unfortunately, blow up a blank today - a piece of Amboyna Burl for a pen for @Tony - but thankfully I have more and have a piece just the same color and level of figure as the one that blew up.
 
gman2431 said:
Since its been scorching hot here in Michigan it's got me thinking of ice fishing... Summer is also a time I play with new things and ice fishing jigs is one, particularly blade jigs for walleye.

I got some blades out, the solder gun, a cold drink and went to town. I did have to fire up the heat gun to powder paint but I got the AC cranking out back so it wasn't terrible.

Pretty pleased with how these turned out for the first go at them. I got some glow tape coming that I plan on cutting shapes and so forth outta and dressing up the backside with.

Weirdest thing happened tho and a couple fell off the shelf and landed in @davduckman2010 's box that is heading his way. :wacko: Maybe he can wrestle up a walleye with one and tell me how they work. :drinks:
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Made a 2' x 2' x 3' light bulb kiln. I am stacking up way too much wood and it never gets dry enough in the FL humidity. Already stacked up with Camphor, Buttonwood, Sapodilla, and Red and Bule Mahoe.
 
Blueglass said:
Made a 2' x 2' x 3' light bulb kiln. I am stacking up way too much wood and it never gets dry enough in the FL humidity. Already stacked up with Camphor, Buttonwood, Sapodilla, and Red and Bule Mahoe.
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C'mon Les, you know the drill...... pictures man!! Tony
 
I'm still working on getting my inventory back up so I have a decent back stock. Here is the turning and assembly output for today. PSI Presimo Fountain pens and rollerballs and a bunch of Vertex Click pencils.

Time to go home and unwind before coming back to the shop early to do it again.

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I'm done cleaning the Shop (for awhile at least). Note I didn't say I'm finished, just couldn't clean anymore, had to get back to making sawdust. Got some inventory built, got the first coat of finish on them. Tony

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Here was may output for yesterday- got the bodies turned for 34 Vertex Fountain pens and the mail finally arrived at 3pm with the parts and acrylics I needed so I got the brush handles turned for 10 Razor/Brush sets I have to get done by the end of the day today. They'll be heading to Riyadh on Thursday so I'll get the Razors done this morning. Going to take the day off tomorrow and take my kids to a water park in the Wisconsin Dells for the day (Scored some free tickets)

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Colin a bunch a great eye candy there. Where you getting your acrylics?
 
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