What did you do in your shop today?

Sprung said:
David was going to take a pic of me, but I don't like my ugly mug posted places!
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Be honest, He forgot the wide angle lens right? :sofa:

But seriously, you are one really tall guy, probably couldn't get back far enough to take a picture without cutting off your head.
 
Got the shop picked up a bit, finished the woodworking part of the pen display case I took a commission for. It looked pretty boring so I added a molding around the bottom in white oak, and did the handles out of the same material. Looks really good with the 100 year old reclaimed butternut. Tomorrow morning I have a few wooden pins to put in a couple spots for design accent and it'll sit until Sunday. I have a few tables and a couple other things I want to Poly so I figured let the dust settle a couple days and then do all those at once on a day where traffic in the shop is usually slow.

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Hid from Matthew! No not you @Sprung the hurricane that wasn't here.

Took advantage of shop time and built a mold to cast a 5 slot mold, to cast blanks. Got my resin mixed and poured, had it setting on the saw with saw running to give it a little vibration and work the bubbles out, was all working good when power quit. Set there beating on the mold for about 5 minutes and the power came back on. Since the directions say to cure under vacuum to remove the bubbles, I decided to see if it would fit in my big vacuum chamber, since my vibration table crapped out on me during precious curing time. It did, so I hooked all that up quick, and fired the pump up. It did exactly what I thought it was going to do to begin with!

VACUUM IS NOT A GOOD THING TO DO, WHEN USING A WOOD MOLD FOR YOUR MOLD ON THIS STUFF!!

Got to about 25 inches of vacuum and it started pulling lots of bubbles, silicone was piled up half inch above my mold. Shut it down and went back to vibration, sitting on the running saw and tapping the mold. It all went back in the mold!! Lots of bubbles floated up before it really began to set. Got my fingers crossed, it looks good so far! Except it's PINK!! Thought about dying it a different color; but I figured it would be easier to find like this!! I don't care where it is in the shop, I should be able to see it. Not to sure it won't glow PINK!! in the dark, cast PINK!! glow out from under goodies piled on top of it and such. :whatever:

More on this one when I break it apart tomorrow!


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After getting that all back together, in the mold, bubbles settled out of it, and mold edges cleaned up some; since I had the vacuum chamber set up and working good, I grabbed a bunch of goodies to toss in the stabilizing pot.
 
Schroedc said:
Be honest, He forgot the wide angle lens right? :sofa:

But seriously, you are one really tall guy, probably couldn't get back far enough to take a picture without cutting off your head.
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I don't know - you, Dave, and I are all roughly the same height.

But, I declined the picture. Not a big fan of having my picture posted many places. And I looked like I had spent time crawling under a car and rolling around on the ground because, well, that's what I'd been doing before Dave pulled up!
 
rocky1 said:
Hid from Matthew! No not you @Sprung the hurricane that wasn't here.
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I can send my older boy down, if you'd like. His name isn't Matthew, but you'd think that a hurricane went through your house and shop after a few hours of him being there!

Just glad that, while it was bad in many places, it wasn't as bad as everybody was thinking it would be!
 
Sprung said:
I can send my older boy down, if you'd like. His name isn't Matthew, but you'd think that a hurricane went through your house and shop after a few hours of him being there!

Just glad that, while it was bad in many places, it wasn't as bad as everybody was thinking it would be!
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How old is he, pretty sure we got his match here. 5 year old grand niece we're raising is about that bad. Runs wide open everywhere she goes, everything she does. She speaks in 90% question mode, all the time. Every time she comes in the shop, she wants to haul all of my scraps back to the house. Not sure if the wife and Nana have been tossing all of that stuff, or if she's got enough wood to heat the house all of January, in Minnesota, buried in her closet somewhere. She's a trip!!
 
rocky1 said:
How old is he, pretty sure we got his match here. 5 year old grand niece we're raising is about that bad. Runs wide open everywhere she goes, everything she does. She speaks in 90% question mode, all the time. Every time she comes in the shop, she wants to haul all of my scraps back to the house. Not sure if the wife and Nana have been tossing all of that stuff, or if she's got enough wood to heat the house all of January, in Minnesota, buried in her closet somewhere. She's a trip!!
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He''s just about 4. Sounds like the two of them would get into a lot of trouble/have a lot of fun together!
 
Oh yeah... anyone even tries to keep up with her, and she's happy! It's good we've got her around to keep Nana in line though; the old gal about run me and the wife to death before Charli got broke out of a crawl. Now the little one keeps her in line. Funny as hell, grandma fusses and complains about the little one not listening, being hard headed, not ever stopping, and running wide open all the time, and they're two peas in a pod. Like you turned back the clock 75 years and made an exact copy. Never know which one is going to wear the other out before days end.
 
I know it's on mine... Live with two women with broke thermostats, find ours set on 85 occasionally. Told them there wasn't much use at that point, you might as well just toss a fan in the window.

Then I get, "Well mom goes outside and when she comes back inside she freezes." To which I replied, "You might want to tell mom to put a coat on if she's freezing, because I am burning up, and my only option here is to run around the house nekkid! It's your call!!"
 
I like to keep my house around 64 in the winter and about 70 ish in the summer. I don't like the heat! I'm one of those guys that can do nothing and just sit there and sweat. Fall is here and the temps are more to my liking, 40's at night and 60's during the day, and low humidity, perfect!
 
Got some finishing done today. 3 coats of satin WOP, Let dry overnight and wax them tomorrow. Tuesday the pen case gets delivered and the tables will be in the showroom for sale. Hopefully not for long :sarcastic:

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Rubbed down and waxed everything today, Did some engraving and made 100 soap savers for my soap lady. Here's the finished box. Hoping for a bright day outside tomorrow morning to get some decent pictures for my portfolio before I deliver it to her in time for the anniversary dinner tomorrow night.

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Came home from work and did a little more electrical work. I had an electrical box with receptical hanging out in space still from one of the walls I removed. I finally disconnected the wires, re routed and secured them and terminated them in a junction box. Then while I was at it i did the same thing with a box in my laundry room, and moved a light socket to connect it to another circuit that is switched. Now both lights in the laundry come on with one switch. I think I only have 2 more outlet circuits to run in the metal shop and then I think I'm done with the electrical.
 
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