What did you do in your shop today?

[Mr. Peet]

Can't say I performed surgery like the nice neck job.

Cleaned up a Poulan chainsaw that was tossed. Found a flywheel fin had broke off and wedged. Folks likely thought it was seized. Removed the two cast aluminum shards, re-tensioned the pull cord, filed the bar, sharpened the chain, removed an 8 ounce glass of bar oil residue from all over, cleaned the air filter and checked spark. The last should have been done first, but luckily it had spark. Had issues getting primed and took nearly 50 pulls to start. It sounded fine but would not idle. Plan on running a tank or 3 through it before touching the carb Aggravated the bursitis in my shoulder with the pulling and will have to wait a few days before testing it on wood.

 

[Kevin]

I thought if it was on the top end it was called a strike ring?

Consider the source. Hairy animals that swing from trees and brag about their poo-flinging exploits are not always going to have the best grasp on woodworking and tool terminology.

 

[ripjack13]

Poo flinging....heh heh heh....

 

[Brink]

 

[Brink]

I processed some walnut, cherry, ash and oak.

 

[NYWoodturner]

Sacrilege

 

[NYWoodturner]

I would burn the Oak, then the ash, walnut then cherry in that order. Whatever it takes to keep Momma Brink and Shop Dog warm...

 

[Kevin]

He probably did all that by hand. He probably thinks log splitters don't grow on trees. Stoopid monkeys.

 

[Brink]

He probably did all that by hand. He probably thinks log splitters don't grow on trees. Stoopid monkeys.

I got a log splitter.

 

[Jim Beam]

I roughed out a bowl from a monkeypod tree crotch. Pretty scary going at first on my Rikon 70-100. Got a rash on my right arm from the chips. Glad I had a half-mask on.

 

[Mr. Peet]

Cut up some pen blanks and other blanks of curly Ambrosia red maple.

 

[Schroedc]

I spent the day on honey do stuff, did run down to the shop for an hour or so to put the showroom back together after a show and had a customer call and stop down to pick up 12 pens for co-worker gifts. No actual wood working today though.

 

[Sprung]

It's been 9 days since I've seen my shop and I'm kinda going through some withdrawals from having not spent even a little time in it... Glad that we'll finally be home tomorrow. Top priority this week is to get our car cleaned up and listed for sale (anyone want to buy a 2009 Pontiac G6 with about 115k miles on it?), but I'm really hoping to get some good time in the shop to finally finish getting it cleaned and organized - and to get some more work done on some in progress projects.

Would've been home tonight, but the long drive was getting to be too much for my wife and I'm still on vacation tomorrow, so we grabbed a hotel in Omaha for the night. Going to try to get into the shop tomorrow after we're home and unpacked.

 

[Schroedc]

I didn't turn a single thing today. Instead worked on getting some entryway benches done out of Maple and Jatoba, they measure about 30 inches long by 14 wide, 18 inches tall and give you a nice solid seat while putting on your shoes before running out the door. I've got a couple of tiny gaps in my joinery but after they are finished I don't think they'll show much,

Just means I need more practice on planing Got them sanded out to 80 grit, I'll be working on some small tables tomorrow maybe and when I get a few things done I'll sand and finish them all at once.

 

[Sidecar]

I did the lawns...no shop time. Been reading up about stabilizing and stabilizing chambers/vacuum pumps though. Have some 'feelers' out there, waiting on answers....

Do you have a website with your chisels?



Scott (can always use another tool...maybe) B

Check with ol CWS he has done a good bit of stabilizing

 

[kweinert]

Finally turned underneath the end of one of my benches into a couple of light bulb kilns.

Not quite done yet, so pictures to follow. Bought a line voltage thermostat, switch, and two bulb fixtures for each one. Need to pick up another roll off the reflective insulation as I won't have quite enough.

Both wired up and working. We'll see if 60 watt bulbs are enough once it gets colder outside. Like on Tuesday when we're supposed to have between 2 and 18 inches of snow.

 

[Schroedc]

Working on some pocket sized cribbage boards for the showroom . A guy has me building a prototype to see if he likes my design, If he orders any the final product for him will be in different wood but figured I'd do a few to sell what with the holidays coming up. I had a bunch of maple around, used some reclaimed butternut for the skirts on them and glued bullets into some spent .223 cases for the pegs (I still have to build the slide out drawer that goes on the end of each one to hold your cards and pegs when not in use), also got a Maple and Jatoba catch-all table put together and the pegs all in on everything I built today. Tomorrow will be cutting off the pegs, planing smooth and sanding. Also got some Butternut glued up for an oval tabletop for another piece already ordered, that one will get maple for the base (Going to the same person that bought another table from me earlier in the year)

 

[Sprung]

Colin, those over-sized cribbage boards are seriously awesome. I have at least one friend who would love something like that - he and his family are fierce cribbage players and addicts. When he and his sister taught me how to play - and I beat them my very first game - I just about lost my life!


Today the little guy and I spent some time in the shop this evening while my wife was meeting with the ladies group at church she leads. Right now I'm in full on clean and organize mode in the shop spaces. Turning corner in the basement got cleaned up and is in the process of being organized. Wire rack shelving got moved from the garage to the basement a few days ago and I've been spending a little time here and there organizing my turning stock on to it. Layout of everything in the garage is getting completely redone for better work flow and to accommodate running a gas line to the garage and getting heat out there next week. Tonight my big helper (who turns 3 in a few days!) and I built a double shelf - lower portion with dividers to hold cutoffs and short boards, shelf on top to store stuff. Will hopefully get it hung on the wall tomorrow and start loading it up with stuff. My heavy folding table will get suspended from the garage ceiling on a pulley system so I can get it down on the occasions I need it, but have it stored away most of the time when I don't need it. I'm hoping to have money by spring to get or build a cyclone for my Harbor Freight dust collector and add a Wynn cartridge filter to it, and I also plan to run lines to my tools instead of having to move the hose around to each tool. What will help is that in the layout redesign, all the tools that I currently have that will be hooked up to the dust collector will be within 8 feet of the dust collector, really minimizing the length of runs I have to do.

Shop is *finally* fully coming together and I might be able to actually get stuff done in it soon. Ever since we moved in here a little over 1 1/2 years ago, it has seemed like every time I get the shop layout as I want it, I either get a new tool or something forces a redesign of the layout. This should be the last redesign of the layout as I drew up the layout with future tool acquisitions I'd like to make in mind.

 

[Schroedc]

Today was finish application day for a bunch of stuff going into the showroom. Tomorrow starts the open house weekend for the 2nd anniversary of my business (2 years in the building with retail, 2 1/2 since I quit my day job) I'm happy with how the cribbage tables turned out and a couple benches and a side table. Tomorrow morning I'll get in early, get everything rubbed out and waxed and buffed and hopefully find buyers for it all. I'm happy with ow the drawers turned out for the cribbage boards, gives you a place to keep the pegs and a deck of cards when not playing. These are built quite sturdy so you could even sit on it if you wanted to. Once the sun is up I'll take some nice pictures with the good camera (after 4 months I finally found the battery and got it in the charger) I even found time to crank out 6 small cheese boards out of laminated bamboo sheet stock and get them lasered fro a local grocery store chain too.

 

[Sprung]

Colin, those cribbage tables, as I said before, are just awesome! What a great idea! I was talking to a friend who lives in Michigan last night, the very friend who taught me how to play cribbage, and he also thought that it was a great idea.