What did you do in your shop today?

[FranklinWorkshops]

Went to my large storage barn and brought home three 12/4 black walnut crotches. Will be cutting these into bowl blanks for you turners.
They've been air-dried for 15 years but were waxed to help prevent checking.

 

[gman2431]

Spoken like a true 21st century woodworker. If it's not attached to a 3hp motor, it's not for woodworking these days.

In the shop today I re-sawed a nice 1" thick of rosewood for an Etsy customer in California. She makes customized artist sketch pads for the rich people and uses wood for the covers. Was 9.75" wide and 13 long. Turned out great with two pieces 3/16ths thick and one 1//4" thick. No reaction wood in it which surprised me.

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So what ya cut those with?

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

Easy, a chain saw followed by my SCMI 18" bandsaw. Those slabs weigh a lot. Took two of us to load them this morning.

 

[Don Ratcliff]

Yea but he's an inch to the right off his line....
But when you're liquored up you see double. So maybe he is on his line...

I just noticed that even though by closing both eyes and @Brink still seeing triple but having the ability to cut straight, he still cannot count. Look at the numbers on the end grain of the boards... How that made any sense in keeping them in the right order is a monkey mystery for sure.

 

[Brink]

I just noticed that even though by closing both eyes and @Brink still seeing triple but having the ability to cut straight, he still cannot count. Look at the numbers on the end grain of the boards... How that made any sense in keeping them in the right order is a monkey mystery for sure.

It made perfect sense to me

 

[Wildthings]

Spoken like a true 21st century woodworker. If it's not attached to a 3hp motor, it's not for woodworking these days.

In the shop today I re-sawed a nice 1" thick of rosewood for an Etsy customer in California. She makes customized artist sketch pads for the rich people and uses wood for the covers. Was 9.75" wide and 13 long. Turned out great with two pieces 3/16ths thick and one 1//4" thick. No reaction wood in it which surprised me.

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Gorgeous! Rip saw or Crosscut saw?

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

Neither. Table saw with thin-kerf Forrest blade as far as it would reach, bandsaw to cut the rest of the way thru the board, and Performax thickness sander to clean everything up. I always re-saw starting with the table saw.

 

[Wildthings]

Went to my large storage barn and brought home three 12/4 black walnut crotches. Will be cutting these into bowl blanks for you turners.
They've been air-dried for 15 years but were waxed to help prevent checking.

I wanna see your barn!!

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

I wanna see your barn!!

I'm going back up next week and will make photos. Big barn that belongs to an old friend. He lets me store lumber there.

 

[NeilYeag]

I decided to manicure my right hand thumb with a 40 grit flap disc. Will spare you the pics. Not pretty. Going to leave a mark! So no shop time for a few days.

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

I decided to manicure my right hand thumb with a 40 grit flap disc. Will spare you the pics. Not pretty. Going to leave a mark! So no shop time for a few days.

That makes me shiver thinking about it.

 

[Tony]

I decided to manicure my right hand thumb with a 40 grit flap disc. Will spare you the pics. Not pretty. Going to leave a mark! So no shop time for a few days.

I did it a week ago on a 80 grit 6x48 belt sander. I feel your pain Neil!

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

Nothing in my shop but my wife and I were able to stop by (@Spinartist) Lee's shop today on the way back from the keys. He gave me some pen blanks and a chunk of crabwood and gave my wife an awesome lidded box (packed up so I'll get pics when I get back home). Was great to see him again. Here we are with my wood and the rest that he got from @woodtickgreg. Greg, I think I'm going to have to place an order for some for mine.

 

[Schroedc]

Got three of these things into boxes and ready for UPS

 

[Sprung]

Got more work done on the drawers for the outfeed table. At this point they just need drawer fronts - which will get done as soon as the snow in front of the shed is melted enough to allow me to get into it when all my lumber is. There's a little bit of side to side slop/play because it appears I read a measurement wrong, but they will work just fine for shop drawers.

Up next is the drawers for the router table. I have the pieces all cut to width, but still plenty of work yet to do on those drawers.

 

[Wildthings]

Nothing in my shop but my wife and I were able to stop by (@Spinartist) Lee's shop today on the way back from the keys. He gave me some pen blanks and a chunk of crabwood and gave my wife an awesome lidded box (packed up so I'll get pics when I get back home). Was great to see him again. Here we are with my wood and the rest that he got from @woodtickgreg. Greg, I think I'm going to have to place an order for some for mine.

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Does he wear that hat all the time or just adorns it for pictures? Me I'd wear it always

 

[Lou Currier]

I have to admit that hat is something else! How he does it is beyond me.

 

[ripjack13]

I started another mallet because the last one cracked to heck on me....

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

I started another mallet because the last one cracked to heck on me....

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Did you start with green wood? Surprised there was that much drying stress.

 

[Lou Currier]

That’s what you get for trying to use that cheep wood.