What did you do in your shop today?

[woodtickgreg]

So since I was in electrical mode I pulled the wire for the 220 to the psi dust cyclone too.

And what the heck, how about one more 220 outlet for the jointer too.

And the last bit of wiring for a while was some 110 outlets because you can't have to many of those.

Everything is tested and everything works!

 

[Chris Geeo]

Other than trying a new approach in the dye process. I found a nice little outgrowth on a decent sized white oak that fell a couple years back on the adjacent property. Drug out the chain saw seperated said outgrowth and sliced it into 2" thick slabs. Fairly nice Spalting on some of the pieces. now to sit on the shelf until it dries out

 

[DaveHawk]

I baught my 1st chuck for the lathe , did the finial sanding of 20 pot calls and turned the 1st Snakewood call after a day in the spraybooth.

 

[Schroedc]

I took a 4 foot x 7 foot bakery table and made two 4 foot x 30 inch tables for the local grocery store. These were quick and dirty with a saw and a screw gun. I forgot how much I really don't care for red oak. It has its place but I just don't care for it. 2 coats of amber shellac on the new wood to match the original finish. I'll rub them out with a little wax in the morning to brighten up the old parts and hopefully they'll pick them up tomorrow morning. I need my shop space back

 

[Tony]

I took a 4 foot x 7 foot bakery table and made two 4 foot x 30 inch tables for the local grocery store. These were quick and dirty with a saw and a screw gun. I forgot how much I really don't care for red oak. It has its place but I just don't care for it. 2 coats of amber shellac on the new wood to match the original finish. I'll rub them out with a little wax in the morning to brighten up the old parts and hopefully they'll pick them up tomorrow morning. I need my shop space back

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I feel your pain Colin. I've been working on a countertop since October that is 3' wide, 8' long and 2" thick (done in 2 pieces ). Got it out of the shop this past weekend, nice to have the space back! Tony

 

[MarksCaribbeanWoodworks]

This is not so much what I did the shop today and more like what got in the shop today. A friend came by to give this "old thing" he had laying around in storage. I knew what it was but asked where he got it and he said that his father picked it up in New York before the war - WW II ! So I commenced to telling that it was a banjo barometer gauge circa 1890 - 1910 and that it was a fine specimen with the inlaid marquetry and inlaid stringing. Particularly nice is the inlaid "conch" shell. I did not find a makers mark but it still maybe there behind the brass hanging hook. The barometer is missing and a piece of round wood was added sometime later probably to fit a clock of a deeper depth than original barometer. The main piece is solid mahogany and I am guessing the inlay is probably ebony and English ash but I won't know until I get a closer look.

I always called these a widows gauge because they were often placed on the wall and the bottom of the stairs leading to the widows walk. The widows walk is the square room on the highest point of a New England ship captains home. The captains wife could look at this gauge and tell if the weather was favorable for ships to port. If so she would go up to the widows walk and keep a look out for her husbands ship.

In the day these were very specialized scientific instruments. It was like having the weather channel in 1890.

So now I gonna find a barometer from the time and try to restore this weather wizard. Should be fun

 

[SENC]

Got some of my wood stock sorted to go transfer to my storage/temporary shop. Didn't realize I'd accumulated so much, and this isn't all of it. Not sure how I'll ever use it all, but bet I'm not done buying and trading!

 

[Schroedc]

I made a door and selected blanks for the next 150 items I'm going to turn. And cleaned the shop.

 

[Sprung]

Got some of my wood stock sorted to go transfer to my storage/temporary shop. Didn't realize I'd accumulated so much, and this isn't all of it. Not sure how I'll ever use it all, but bet I'm not done buying and trading!

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If you run out of storage space in the storage/temporary shop, I've got plenty of shelf space available. I'll even trade you a pen or two for half of it.

In all seriousness, I see a lot of VERY nice stuff there. Superb stash, Henry. I've been slowly building up my stash and hope someday that it's even half of what yours is.

 

[Sprung]

I turned a handful of pens today, including a few of the real bullet pens I received from @Final Strut in the auction. Pics to hopefully come of at least some of them sometime this week...

 

[TimR]

Finish bending and then applied black oxide coating to some hook tools I plan to post soon. Made up three very nice curly and some birdseye maple handles too.

 

[DaveHawk]

If you want to talk about customers who bring you a antique radio cabinet, tells you how to restore it, picks it up and loves the work then a week later returns its because it was not perfect because he wanted all the broken veneer chips put back and used, then decided it should be done the way I sugested and thought it would be free. He wanted to take it without paying and call the police, police toldhim he needed to pay.
Then took my son to buy him a pickup because some drunk illegals ran into his car and totaled it last week.
that took the rest of the day. The blessing on the an extra truck for the shop.
Tomorrow will be my shop weekend day.

 

[DaveHawk]

I made a door and selected blanks for the next 150 items I'm going to turn. And cleaned the shop.

I wanted to clean my shop today,

 

[Schroedc]

I wasn't as productive as I'd hoped but I did get 17 pill holders and 7 razors turned, polished, and assembled today. Time to head home and see if my kids did the chores they were supposed to do or if I need to raise a stink. Tomorrow hopefully will be more productive.

 

[DaveHawk]

Nice loking handles.

 

[DaveHawk]

, Today i was able to clean the lathe area. Lil brother came into pick up 5 pot calls , 4 strikers and 6 scratch calls to sell up near the Pa line Gettysburg area. Then my weekend chinese buddy who like to make wooden toys spent the day cutting and sanding while I made cartridges for my mussel loader shotgun.
After that Wess Chinese friend, handed me 3 meat cleavers to sharpen on the Tormac. Finished the 1st on and it was like a rasorblade. Explained the left hand cleaver vs a righthand cleaver. His were right hand, and finished the 2nd , a bit larger, I turned to answer a question lower the cleaver as I turned and felt it graze my jeans. I said that was close. Showed him the slit about 2" long and finished polishing the blade. About the 3rd pass with the small cleaver i felt a drip run down off my knee. Told Wess I know I didn't piss myself and dropped my jeans and sure enough 2" cut. Wess went to the 1st Aid kit , I slapped a bandaid on and finished the small cleaver. I sure like sharp tools. Didn't even feel it. Said to Wess, you tell your wife to be careful, id feel real bad if she herts herself

 

[DaveHawk]

just about finished up a 200 year old church bench, its been striped sanded and repairs have been made, today I added a wood sealer of BLO Gum Turps, Japan Dryer Damar Varnish

Plus finish off the monster rocker.

 

[Schroedc]

I made a few pens, worked my 2nd job for a couple hours and then picked up the final payment on that 1/2 wall project last week and the deposit check for a construction job for this coming weekend in the same spot. I guess they liked my work...

 

[DaveHawk]

Cute statement by a 7 year old girl. When the rocker was primer white she walked through into the shop and her eyes lit up: "you have Santa Claus chair" lol

 

[Schroedc]

Got into the shop bright and early today since I'm now heading out for a few things with my kids this afternoon. I did get 75 pens worth of blanks drilled, tubed, squared, and got started on making sure I have everything dialed in to rock and roll tomorrow turning the rest of them out. It's been a while since I did this style so I had to remember my spacing and eyeball measurements for the tenon for the accent band and get the muscle memory back. This is one I'm pretty good at since a thousand of these in 9 weeks was how I got to start my own business full time...