What did you do in your shop today?
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Finish sanded a Norfolk vase, cut bottom off, oiled & applied Japan drier. Worked on a few lamp bases. 3 day show this weekend. Trying to as much done as I can fer show.
Beautiful Colin - great work.
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Purty!
Got all the bowls buffed out, Here's a cruddy picture of a sampling of them.
No shop today- headed to mill- Have a big elder burl log to cut up- in fact a bunch of them. I will be worthless afterwards...
I realized I never took a pic of my "shoehorning" of my dust collector to free up some space.
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The filter bag won't fully inflate... but not a big deal. it does the job!!
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The filter bag won't fully inflate... but not a big deal. it does the job!!
I turned a bunch of scraps into shiny trinkets! Wife ran off with the last one before I could get pictures of them.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many ways there are to take apart a harbor freight dust collector and re assemble it in a completely different configuration
It's like the McGyver of dust collectors.
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Yesterday I took big boards and made smaller boards out of them. Today I get to do the joinery and drill about 1,000 holes
Love the 2 on the right,
I was always surprised others didn't jump on it like you and Rodney.
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Whatcha making?
Some more of those cribbage tables I did last holiday season, Took an order for one so figured I might as well do a few more while set up for them.
Got the base assemblies all together and drilled the first 750+ holes. Also dug out a table that I'd cut parts for and then decided I didn't like much, figured I'd get it together today too and throw it in the showroom and see what happens. I need to re-cut the oval top, don't like the way it looks, something is off on the curves....
Made a peckermill for an order from the show last weekend that a lady is going to give to her brother for his birthday.
On Thursday Oct. 27th my 85 year old dear friend Herbie left my woodturning studio on his electric bike @ 1:00 pm. At 2:30 he called me to come pick up his bike at the hospital saying he scuffed up his ankle a bit by clipping a curb going 5 mph & falling over. It was worse than percieved.
Dislocated ankle & a few broken ankle bones. Surgery & 2 nights in hospital.
He showed up at a show we were doing together a week later on Friday afternoon with a new lower leg cast after having 30 pins pulled out of his ankle bones that morning!
What a maniac! He's turning wood now with bag over cast!!
Today we presented Herbie his newly updated electric bicycle.
What's better than a nice set of training wheels!!!!
On Thursday Oct. 27th my 85 year old dear friend Herbie left my woodturning studio on his electric bike @ 1:00 pm. At 2:30 he called me to come pick up his bike at the hospital saying he scuffed up his ankle a bit by clipping a curb going 5 mph & falling over. It was worse than percieved.
Dislocated ankle & a few broken ankle bones. Surgery & 2 nights in hospital.He showed up at a show we were doing together a week later on Friday afternoon with a new lower leg cast after having 30 pins pulled out of his ankle bones that morning!
What a maniac! He's turning wood now with bag over cast!!Today we presented Herbie his newly updated electric bicycle.
What's better than a nice set of training wheels!!!!
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I got a trike I made when I used to work at Pratt. It made getting around soooo much easier. If I were closer, I'd modify it to fit the motor an let em use it....it's collecting rust now....
I rescued several lonely pieces of pretty from the firewood pile before the fire goddess cinches them up in her grapple like mitts of might to force feed that little overfed black box in the basement.
Reason #1, I don't have any 'blistered sugar maple' or # 2, 'curly sugar maple' in my wood collection. Helped a guy clear up a 40"DBH. I asked for three sections, I did all right. As a bonus, some sugar tapping stain, yet another one to add.
Reason #1, I don't have any 'blistered sugar maple' or # 2, 'curly sugar maple' in my wood collection. Helped a guy clear up a 40"DBH. I asked for three sections, I did all right. As a bonus, some sugar tapping stain, yet another one to add.
I've got some KD pieces around of maple with tap holes with the distinctive stripes if you need any.