What did you do in your shop today?

Was going to do a little work on the lathe in the basement, but with about 4" of rain since Saturday night, there's a bit of a stream running through my corner of the basement...

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Did at least get the vacuum pump fired up. You hear that @Don Ratcliff - I'm working on stabilizing stuff! (Just not your stuff yet. Your stuff is next.)
 
Schroedc said:
...booked a 3 day show in November that has an entry fee of a bit over 2600.00
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Tony said:
... costing me $500 and I'm nervous as hell about making money! Tony
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Kudos to both of you for taking a chance. I'm pretty sure I don't have anything that I could sell for that much/have that much on hand to cover everything. It's a leap of faith that I've spent some time looking over the cliff but not yet worked up the intestinal fortitude to step off yet.
 
kweinert said:
Kudos to both of you for taking a chance. I'm pretty sure I don't have anything that I could sell for that much/have that much on hand to cover everything. It's a leap of faith that I've spent some time looking over the cliff but not yet worked up the intestinal fortitude to step off yet.
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Ken, you don't need to jump off a cliff, start by stepping off a curb. Most of the shows I do are $25-$50 to enter. This one is by far the most expensive one I've ever done. It scares the crap out of me, but if I flop it won't be the end of the world. I lose that money, I won't be buying any wood or tools for a good ling time, but I won't lose my house or anything. Trust me, if I can do it, you certainly can! Tony
 
Tony said:
Ken, you don't need to jump off a cliff, start by stepping off a curb. Most of the shows I do are $25-$50 to enter. This one is by far the most expensive one I've ever done. It scares the crap out of me, but if I flop it won't be the end of the world. I lose that money, I won't be buying any wood or tools for a good ling time, but I won't lose my house or anything. Trust me, if I can do it, you certainly can! Tony
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I do some of the smaller ones as well. I usually make the booth fee ($50 - $75) but not much more. That, I think (hope) is more the venue than what I have (the community get together type of thing with politicians and other unsavory types around giving out free stuff.)

I'm doing a much smaller community type thing the first weekend of November (only hand crafted items, folks putting it on hand selected vendors) that they say has done really well in the past. I guess now we'll see if it's my stuff or my venues that have been the issue.
 
kweinert said:
I do some of the smaller ones as well. I usually make the booth fee ($50 - $75) but not much more. That, I think (hope) is more the venue than what I have (the community get together type of thing with politicians and other unsavory types around giving out free stuff.)

I'm doing a much smaller community type thing the first weekend of November (only hand crafted items, folks putting it on hand selected vendors) that they say has done really well in the past. I guess now we'll see if it's my stuff or my venues that have been the issue.
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Good luck Ken! Tony
 
Made a cane, made a Camphor box, sanded & rubbed in a coat of polyurethane on my new hat!!
Show this weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida. Getting as much done for it as I can.
(Hat is NOT for sale) !

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Spinartist said:
Made a cane, made a Camphor box, & sanded & rubbed in a coat of polyurethane on it!!
Show this weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida. Getting as much done for it as I can.
(Hat is NOT for sale) !

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Love the upturn detail on that rim. You always have at least one masochistic detail in your work don’t you? :sarcastic:
 
This should be "what did I do for the last three months". But this is one of them. Finished building the stand and setting up this router table. Has both horizontal and vertical functions, a X Y table, and can also do pin routing. Need a couple more tweaks and ready to fire up.

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OK second shop cabinet/fixture completed this weekend. Portable miter saw stand with fold down extensions. It is just a basic 10" non slider, but will do everything I need it to do. Installed the Kreg flip stop set up. One more little chore and then back to making some real furniture!

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Spinartist said:
Show us the pen you made that's "yours". The one you use at your desk!!

:popcorn: I'm just wondering how cool it is!!
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I've got a rack of about a dozen at my desk but I'll get a photo of the stainless and dyed black ash burl rollerball I use later tonight. Taking tickets for a volleyball game for a couple hours before going back to the shop.
 
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