I always wear my wood hat at shows & woodturning club events. Sometimes to the grocery store too!!
What did you do in your shop today?
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I always wear my wood hat at shows & woodturning club events. Sometimes to the grocery store too!!
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Did you make a whole new case for the machines? If you did I would be interested to see what you did. I have some ideas for a new case for a couple of my machines.
It read 12% on my meter. It had been sitting in my garage for about a year. I didn't think it would do that when I brought it inside the house. I keep the house at 62-64 F....so something weird is going on....
Must have some reaction wood stresses and the move indoors was just enough to trigger it. I've seen it happen before but not with wood down to 12%. I know loggers don't want trees that have grown at a significant angle to the ground for that reason. They say that stresses inside the wood will make it difficult to keep the wood flat and sound. It will also "honeycomb" on occasion with the wood structure actually separating inside the board. Also wood under a big limb on a tree will have compression curl from the weight of the limb and this is also a form of reaction wood.
Those are just bases, no cover. Allows folks to display machines and use them without having to put in a cabinet
Bummer, I wanted to use some of the black locust I have, but I'm afraid it would do the same thing. Mine is totally dry, but I noticed that the blanks I cut from it now have checks, caused by stress relief I reckon.....
Black Locust would make a great mallet. Suggest you let it rest for a few days and see if the checks get worse. If they do, firewood. If not, you might be able to trim off the checks and still be ok. Wood does strange things sometimes. It many ways, it is still alive since the cells will pick up and shed water with the seasons and the change in temps and humidity. That's why solid wood antique furniture pops and cracks so much in a house.
What I do in my shop today? Built the frame, for this picture, from old fence boards, to complete this project.
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Your eye for making a dead duck look like art is unbelievable. Awesome work as always.
Spectacular work all around Barry!
Made serious progress on drawer building. Got the drawers for the router table done today. All that is left to do for the drawers on the router and outfeed tables is to cut and install drawer fronts and pulls. I plan to make pulls from wood instead of spending a bunch of money buying some. I do plan to add a shelf in under the drawers on the left side of the outfeed table.
Also, let's see if anyone can figure out what I did wrong and had to fix in making some of the router table drawers...
My wife was gone a good chunk of the day. She was nice enough to bring me home some lunch to eat in the shop instead of making me heat up leftovers for myself.
Also, let's see if anyone can figure out what I did wrong and had to fix in making some of the router table drawers...
My wife was gone a good chunk of the day. She was nice enough to bring me home some lunch to eat in the shop instead of making me heat up leftovers for myself.
You have a sweet wife. I do too.
Saw Zall'd a shed in half today, dismantled it and loaded on trailer to resetup here at my place. Amd here i thoight I would have All day in the shop...
Now ALL my wife's stuff will be out out my shop and I can reorganize and buy new tools!!
I've saved up quite a bit of money and have been itching to blow it on a new bandsaw first then a big lathe. Once this place is clear of her crap I will have plenty room .
Got home cracked a beer and did a rough sand on a new trout net I gotta have done for a local guide who is leaving for Alaska here soon to guide for the summer. First time making a boat net with a long handle vut its coming along. I'll save the routing of it for tomorrow... I'm whooped and beer is tasting good.
Now ALL my wife's stuff will be out out my shop and I can reorganize and buy new tools!!
I've saved up quite a bit of money and have been itching to blow it on a new bandsaw first then a big lathe. Once this place is clear of her crap I will have plenty room .Got home cracked a beer and did a rough sand on a new trout net I gotta have done for a local guide who is leaving for Alaska here soon to guide for the summer. First time making a boat net with a long handle vut its coming along. I'll save the routing of it for tomorrow... I'm whooped and beer is tasting good.
No pictures, but I spent a good chunk of the day in and out of the shop. It was a really nice day outside - got up to about 50 w/ no wind. Only way it could have been nicer outside is if it was sunny instead of overcast! Had the garage door opened up today. Got the burn barrel out and burned a whole bunch of scrap wood. Did a little bit of cleaning/rearranging in the shop and moved some stuff to the shed that didn't need to be in the shop. Also got some lumber out of the shed for some upcoming projects - enough snow had melted that I could get to the shed.
Still got a little more to burn and I plan to do that later this week when I'll be working on cleaning some stuff out of the shed. Making a lumber run to Wisconsin in a little over a week for a load of cherry and ash, at least 400BF, so I've gotta make some space in the shed to stack it.
Still got a little more to burn and I plan to do that later this week when I'll be working on cleaning some stuff out of the shed. Making a lumber run to Wisconsin in a little over a week for a load of cherry and ash, at least 400BF, so I've gotta make some space in the shed to stack it.
Stopped into to @Spinartist studio while I was in the neighborhood. He showed me his hollowing setup that uses a spy camera.
Let me know if you'll be passing by my place
I worked overtime today, got home, found out I got into an art show I've been wanting to do in July, then hit myself in the head with a wooden Christmas tree, found my hollowing setup and got pictures of it so it can go to a new home, fell on my face after tripping over my chainsaw, whacked my head again with a chunk of 8/4 Walnut. Decided to call it a day.
Wouldn't you if someone shot you out of the air, stuffed ya and shoved a wire up your ---- and hung you on a picture?? LOL
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