What did you do in your shop today?

And I got an extra Banjo for him. He's in the vortex now! We got him!
 
BTW, @Tony , congratulations on the lathe! I need to get a bigger one too one of these days. Actually I need a lot of things one of these days. Let me know when you learn to play the banjo. I've got another off center friend who plays too. Maybe I can introduce you. All you'll need then is a guitar player, a river, a canoe and ......
 
So, in the process of building a new outfeed/assembly/storage table thing I got to the place where I need to cut some dados.I, of course can't find my dado stack. However, I had my blade up and the plate off so I thought I'd look inside to see how bad the sawdust was in there as I'm not the best about remembering to turn it on for quick cuts.

To my surprise it was really pretty ggod, just some accumulations around the corners. To get it cleaner I turned on the dust collector and put a longer wand on the air hose. Stirred up some dust, got it sucked out, and now I just have some small cutoffs that fell down that I'll have to take off the side to get to one of these days.

Still haven't found the dado stack. Might be time to upgrade :)
 
Well I am making @Spinartist a new tool rest and I need to custom turn the post size between centers on my metal lathe. When I restored it I had to replace the headstock, so now I knew the tailstock would not be in alignment. So here's a little set up I did to get me in the ball park and close enough tolerance for a tool post.

Just insert 2 dead centers, 1 in the spindle and 1 in the tail stock. Bring them in slowly and pinch a razor blade between them. I added brass shim stock to the tail stock to bring it up, it took .015" to get it close. It was way off.
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The object is to get it to hold the blade straight in all directions. You can do this in a wood lathe too!
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When I get my test bar done I will dial it in even more. But this will do for now.
 
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@Tony here's some more pics of the banjo that's going to be coming your way. I probably won't be able to get it packaged up until the weekend though and shipped next week.

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A round clamp as an extra.
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Didn't do anything in the shop but was off yesterday and this morning. Made a little wineberry jelly and peach jelly and canned about 3 quarts and 35 pints of pickles!
 
It was too hot to do much in the shop today, but I was able to clean up and get rid of some black locust shavings and do some creative writing.
 
Now that I got the old house on the market I can concentrate on getting the new shop straighten and up to par. Still got to keep busy mounting ducks up like this White Wing Scoter whose going to be staring down a Surf Scoter on the same rock when it's finished

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I've been a couple hundred miles from my shop all week. Did get to tie some flies today to help out with one of the merit badge counselors here at camp trying to teach the kids. Apparently a couple classes ended up getting taught by counselors with no knowledge of the subjects.... Would have been a lot better had the director spoke up on Monday asking for folks with knowledge in those areas to assist. Most of the adults end up sitting around a lot and we're glad to help.
 
Got some stuff cleaned up and hung up (sign, plaque stepson made for me, etc), used the edge of the garage door at the top to hang the smaller clamps.

I did order a new dado stack. I don't recall who made the old one (it's been a bunch of years since I bought it) but this new Freud one is *much* heavier. Seems to have a lot more heft to it.

We're off to her brother's for dinner tonight but I think I'll be cutting dados tomorrow.
 
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