Nice.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Beautiful piece Steve!
The accents really bring it together 
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It's absolutely a thing of beauty Steve, I'm so very glad that you decided to finish it. I have enjoyed watching it all come together. It is a style that I really like.I'm calling it done except for buffing it out. Will do that this weekend after it cures out. Ordered a bankers chair and a banker lamp for now to go with it. Will make a chair some time in the future but the wife said get one till then so I did.View attachment 130154
Well done sir, well done.
Ya all know I wasn't sure if l wanted to finish this but now I'm glad ya talked me into it.
@steve bellinger , that rocks...not implying wobbly...just rocks!
The desk is a thing of beauty, Steve!
Haven't posted in this thread in awhile so here's what I've been working on. I've got a booth at a big festival up near Dallas in October, 60,000 people go every year. Biggest show I've ever done, pretty nervous about it. I'm trying to get just a ton of stuff built. A lot of cutting boards, some turnings, etc. We'll see what ends up happening! Tony
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Thanks Greg! You ought to think about making some of the cheese cutters, you got plenty of wood and they're easy, quick to make, and sell like hotcakes! Tony
Where near Dallas is show? My brother has house in Fort Worth & I need to go visit!
Dude!! If you got all that made up, you got room for more WOOD!!
Lee, the show is in Waxahachie which is South of Dallas. You should come to SWAT in August, a bunch of us will be there for that! Tony
@Sprung What did that cost you to build? Want to build another and ship it to me?
Seriously though, I need one and haven't gotten around to building one yet....
Which hardware are you using for the cheese cutters? Those are sharp and I could see moving some up here....
@Sprung What did that cost you to build? Want to build another and ship it to me?
Seriously though, I need one and haven't gotten around to building one yet....
I'm into it probably about $60 to $70 for what you see pictured. I'd have to find receipts from Menards to get the prices of the items that I bought there to know the exact cost. The manifold and vacuum gauge I picked up from Amazon and the rest from Menards. I figured I'd add the vacuum gauge to the manifold because it was cheaper to add one there than it would be to add one to each of 4 chambers to accomplish the same thing. Didn't take long to put it all together - maybe 45 minutes, and that included keeping an eye on and entertaining my wife and two sons who were in the garage with me to make sure none of them hurt themselves or got into things they shouldn't.
I gave thought to saving some money by skipping the quick connects and just hard plumbing the vacuum line and lids to the manifold, but really wanted the ability to remove them for storage and to help avoid a rat's nest of tubing. I've got 40' of 1/4" vacuum hose to plumb it all with - about half of that will be dedicated to relocating my vacuum pump to outside of my turning area in the basement so it's not so loud in there if I want to do something while the pump is running.
With the time and hassle of buying all the parts to build anothed, I'd have to sell the unit for at least $140 to get me interested in making another one!
I'm into it probably about $60 to $70 for what you see pictured. I'd have to find receipts from Menards to get the prices of the items that I bought there to know the exact cost. The manifold and vacuum gauge I picked up from Amazon and the rest from Menards. I figured I'd add the vacuum gauge to the manifold because it was cheaper to add one there than it would be to add one to each of 4 chambers to accomplish the same thing. Didn't take long to put it all together - maybe 45 minutes, and that included keeping an eye on and entertaining my wife and two sons who were in the garage with me to make sure none of them hurt themselves or got into things they shouldn't.
I gave thought to saving some money by skipping the quick connects and just hard plumbing the vacuum line and lids to the manifold, but really wanted the ability to remove them for storage and to help avoid a rat's nest of tubing. I've got 40' of 1/4" vacuum hose to plumb it all with - about half of that will be dedicated to relocating my vacuum pump to outside of my turning area in the basement so it's not so loud in there if I want to do something while the pump is running.
With the time and hassle of buying all the parts to build anothed, I'd have to sell the unit for at least $140 to get me interested in making another one!
Thanks, that gives me a ballpark, I'll have to look up that manifold and build one next week.
Colin, these came from Prodyne. I got mine from a group buy on LAP but you can buy them directly from them. Woodcraft has them, but they're $12. That's too rich for my blood! Tony