What did you do in your shop today?
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The culmination of experimenting, taking y’alls advise, learning from y’all, etc. I wanted to see the results of tinting the Cactus Juice so I only used my dyed box elder. The 5th is a piece of the curly, spalted maple from @FranklinWorkshops. In truth, I know I should have drilled and turned some of these a few weeks ago and made sure my stabilizing technique was good, but I had done a little with a friend a few years ago and I had the confidence from WoodBarter. Used Dr’s Woodshop Pens Plus finish. Like the looks and feel, will see how it holds up.
They all look fantastic,but the red one for some reason really catches my eye.
Love the 3 tiny pens 
Very nice work, the blue one is my favorite. Tony
They all look great, Garry.
Bought some dried sticks and flowers to put in the redwood vase. Momma is happy!
I don’t get it. Why did you have to buy dried sticks? Don’t you have trees in OK that might have dried sticks on them?
Well, it's not fine woodworking, but I'm being that a 6 year old granddaughter is going to be happy.
Farmhouse style bed for an American Girl doll.
Hard to see, but it's light pink because I could buy that returned gallon for less than a quart of white :)
Farmhouse style bed for an American Girl doll.
Hard to see, but it's light pink because I could buy that returned gallon for less than a quart of white :)
All this time, I thought you were married...
Guess it depends on the day. The day I have to buy sticks, I won’t be. I have bought dirt though.
You'd be surprised at some of the colors on the inside of the nephew's bee hive lids for the same reason. Local hardware store piles all his returned paint up and cuts him deals when he gets tired of walking around it.
It ain't exactly high end woodworking but it does have to be precise to work right! Drilling lots of holes and lots of laser engraving the last few days in my shop. Next few days we get to sand and urethane all of them and then assemble once the hinges show up.
Started to reorganize in the shed this evening. First step was to restack some lumber. The cherry is dry now, so it needed to go from sticker stacked to dead stacked. On the lumber rack, a dozen boards got moved from the middle section to the lower section. Then 2/3 of the middle section was previously on the top. Then 300BF of cherry got moved from a stack next to the rack to the top section. What's left on stickers is 100BF of ash that there is no room on the rack for. But I'll be making that into a workbench later this summer. When I know I will have two days of cooler weather, no rain, and plenty of free time I'll need to move the ash out of the shed, reorganize the shed, move some stuff from the garage into the shed, and then eventually get the ash into the garage - stacked who knows where in the garage because it's not like I have any room in there either!
Reminds me, I need to get out there abbr get that sewing machine.
I've done nothing with it, except that it's collected some sanding dust on top from being parked next to the belt sander! Right now it's a nice shade of pink on top until I vacuum it again.
Turned a little square plate from some elm burl to serve as a saucer for a honey bottle/bear... no matter what, the cabinet seems to get sticky after a while, so I thought it might help to put a little plate under it.
I guess a fancy burl plate won't get sticky. Good thinking.
Beautiful