Made a couple pens to replenish the inventory and toyed around with a zebra mechanical pencil and made it better 
What did you do in your shop today?
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@Wildthings needed a piece of walnut with live edges to make a large charcuterie board for a Christmas gift. I cut this one for him. Black Walnut with live edges that measures 34 x 16 x 5/4. Should make a beautiful one. Love this wood.
Yessir that is going to work out great!! Too bad she's here this weekend!
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Please post a photo of the finished board. It is ready to ship first thing tomorrow morning. I'll send you the info.
It ain’t pretty...BUT.... its functional and FREE!!
I need to get organized by my lathe. This is an old quilt display thingy. Its been sitting around the house for years doing nothing. Now it’s a useful member of the shop.
Try not to judge me to bad! Haha
I need to get organized by my lathe. This is an old quilt display thingy. Its been sitting around the house for years doing nothing. Now it’s a useful member of the shop.
Try not to judge me to bad! Haha
Hey, if it works for you that's all that matters!
Not in the shop today, but I did sit down and design my next build. I hope to run the heat in the garage a couple days this week, and most of the next week, and get a good head start on this build. Will probably do much of the assembly in the basement so I don't have to pay to perpetually try to keep an uninsulated garage heated for too long.
Hutch for our kitchen since our kitchen is on the small side and is short on storage and counter space. This will house all our stuff for making coffee, tea, cocktails, drinks, pouring wine, etc. If I take enough pics during the build process, I'll do a thread on the build. Have some neat details/ideas I'm going to incorporate into this, including housing our Keurig (which only sees use once or twice a week, since we have other coffee brewing methods we prefer) on a pull out shelf inside the base, behind the door, thus leaving a lot more counter space for things like the coffee grinder and electric kettle and space to work at. (We're kinda serious about our coffee around here.) Overall size will be about 36" wide, 19" deep, and 6' 4" tall.
Hutch for our kitchen since our kitchen is on the small side and is short on storage and counter space. This will house all our stuff for making coffee, tea, cocktails, drinks, pouring wine, etc. If I take enough pics during the build process, I'll do a thread on the build. Have some neat details/ideas I'm going to incorporate into this, including housing our Keurig (which only sees use once or twice a week, since we have other coffee brewing methods we prefer) on a pull out shelf inside the base, behind the door, thus leaving a lot more counter space for things like the coffee grinder and electric kettle and space to work at. (We're kinda serious about our coffee around here.) Overall size will be about 36" wide, 19" deep, and 6' 4" tall.
Some of us prefer to do our design work with pencil on paper.
I thought it was for poking people that keep asking what you're doing
I thought it was for poking people that keep asking what you're doing
These Pentels would work great for poking...
Some of us prefer to do our design work with pencil on paper.
Actually so do I. I can just barely get by with Sketch Up, just enough to get some basic dimensions down but that is about it. I prefer to do a pencil drawing, but generally not as neat as the one you show.
I tried to play around with and learn Sketch Up a couple times, and just gave up. I wouldn't mind getting the chance to actually learn how to use it, but I just don't have the time to sit down and go through that process of learning it. But, it is nice that there are many who still design with pencil and paper. My drawings aren't always as neat or detailed as this one is. Sometimes it's just a really rough sketch that is definitely far from being to scale with a few dimensions scribbled on it. But with this piece I needed to go detailed and to scale on a drawing as I needed to be able to see how things would look in proportion/scale. And I'm glad I did. I think every line on that page was erased and redrawn at least once, sometimes changed, sometimes unchanged, and many lines more than once, as I played around with different things. If I built with the first sets of dimensions/ideas in my head with a rough sketch and just a couple dimensions scribbled down, I know the piece wouldn't turn out anywhere near as nice as the design I settled on (and that my wife has fallen in love with and signed off on).
I also think that sometimes I just like drawing out detailed plans, lol. For a short while as a kid I wanted to be an architect. As I started high school I wanted to get into engineering. Then I decided on a completely different path!
Know anyone interested in a vintage Singer treadle sewing machine in Western VA / East TN area?
https://www.estatesales.net/VA/Abingdon/24210/2089206
WOW!!! Man has some really awesome collection of belongings. Worth just looking at to appreciate everything he has.
Holy Balls. I want the Studebaker and the Thompson. I already have one of those sewing machines.
SEE what I mean?
I love old clocks. Based on his belongings I am sure nothing will be in my budget.
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I cant even look. I'm wanting one of those sewing machines but it's not in the budget at this time.
Has anybody heard from @Mike Hill lately?