Yup! Maple w/ some nice Ambrosia in it. Can't wait to see it pop with some finish on it.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Yup! Maple w/ some nice Ambrosia in it. Can't wait to see it pop with some finish on it.
Ambrosia is one of those things I always sold as "paint grade" maple since I thought it was a defect. This stuff was impossible to sell 15 years ago. Now everybody wants it. Glad I still have a stack because it came into fashion while I wasn't looking. I'll have to pull some out.
Yeah, it is some nice looking wood. I need to pick some up sometime - the Woodcraft I was at today sells it for $4.50/BF and has some nice looking boards of it too.
Aside from sanding and oiling 20 trivets I turned these 1 handed pepper mills.
Red Eucalyptus and Afromosia.
Red Eucalyptus and Afromosia.
I made design change opportunity .....
Made 15 spindles fer a restoration shop.
Almost done with the urn. I used ebony in the middle as a ring/collar...and redwood burl for the top....
Sprayed the lid...almost done..
Well, my one-year-old granddaughter, son and daughter-in-law arrived from Colorado to southern CT and came up to spend the night with us. I rarely get to see them so this morning we all ate and played and did family stuff before they left temporarily. I spent time in my shop working on my two Foredom rotary units--cleaning the shafts and getting them up to snuff. Then I went to Salvation Army on the prowl for good knives--found eight that I can sharpen and resell--two older Gerbers, two Henckels' chefs, a nice vintage Russell Green River Works bread knife, a huge Cutco knife, an old Gotham (Soligen) slicer, and a rare Sheffield "Firth" spreader from the turn of the last century. Added these to a lucky eBay snag of a 1950's Schlieper fan-logo stag-handle hunter with sheath! Repaired the sheath stitching. Then I did a couple hours of online research/prowling. Good knife week; it's how I pay for improvements and supplies when I've been too idle with lutherie. Tomorrow I'll finish the old Alvarez 12-string that I'm redoing for a customer that I didn't get to today and start sharpening the new knives for selling. Busy week coming up but my shop is still a mess where I've been digging out some Indian rosewood for a luthier friend and left things tumbled. It seems I never get my shop cleaned up! Need to get the dogs (and ME!) out into the woods for a romp if the rains stop.
Sounds like a good productive day.
Well, I fixed a cheap step stool just to knock off one of the honey dos.
Then I started on those triple vase items for the craft show and promptly created a design change opportunity.
The original that I did had the base sitting flat on the table. When I set up the stop on the drill press for the dowels to attach the top (which are set down from the top) without thinking I flipped the side around and drilled the next hole.
On both sides. Well, as a result I took it in to show my wife the difference. This change lifts the bottom off the table.
Turns out we both like it better so I continued for the other 5 of the them.
All holes drilled, knocked together. Im going to have to make an adjustment because I have a hole off somewhere (I think it's in the ends of the base) so they don't sit flat at the moment.
Then I started on those triple vase items for the craft show and promptly created a design change opportunity.
The original that I did had the base sitting flat on the table. When I set up the stop on the drill press for the dowels to attach the top (which are set down from the top) without thinking I flipped the side around and drilled the next hole.
On both sides. Well, as a result I took it in to show my wife the difference. This change lifts the bottom off the table.
Turns out we both like it better so I continued for the other 5 of the them.
All holes drilled, knocked together. Im going to have to make an adjustment because I have a hole off somewhere (I think it's in the ends of the base) so they don't sit flat at the moment.
Hey you have a nice wood stash there Ken!
Turned a little bowl, then carved on this some, gonna be a bull frog, then battened down the hatches cause the remnants of hurricane Rosa are arriving here from the pacific and supposed to dump a lot of rain and wind starting tonight or tomorrow...
Too tall? Or just right?
I don't what it is but really is a good job of turning. Nice bead around the bottom.
What is it 
and we need a blue lighter for reference.
and we need a blue lighter for reference.
It is an air horn for the truck build that @ripjack13 is building or a leprechaun stool!
I was going with a spaceship....
The wife wants me to just add a small foot. And a cover. The way it sits in the picture, its upside down for her idea. I flipped it over and made the stand to look like it was taking off, thinking the fbe would look like the thrust coming out....
The wife wants me to just add a small foot. And a cover. The way it sits in the picture, its upside down for her idea. I flipped it over and made the stand to look like it was taking off, thinking the fbe would look like the thrust coming out....
I don't what it is but really is a good job of turning. Nice bead around the bottom.
What is it
How about a mushroom?
