What did you do in your shop today?

Love the contrast in the placard, what if you cut accent pieces for each corner out of the other wood. Say maybe a small cross in each corner, burnished the edges so they jump off the maple, then sand the faces back. Could be easily attached with brads. Just thinkin out loud here.
 
rocky1 said:
Love the contrast in the placard, what if you cut accent pieces for each corner out of the other wood. Say maybe a small cross in each corner, burnished the edges so they jump off the maple, then sand the faces back. Could be easily attached with brads. Just thinkin out loud here.
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Ain't got time for that now! :sarcastic: The frame will be on its way to Michigan tomorrow, and I've got a full day today to keep me busy!
 
Couple end grain cutting boards from Zebrawood. Bottom thinner, smaller one is cutoffs from the top one. No finish on the smaller yet. Mineral oil/beeswax on the top.

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I finally found my faceplate,if you could see my garage you’d understand. So I started a bowl this evening,I’ll finish it up tomorrow Purple Heart,yellow heart and padauk..

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C3475228-9FAC-4E5A-BF7D-9F3E3666427F.webp Went out to finish the bowl,had my first nasty catch,yanked the tool right out of my hands. WOW!! Tried to fix the damage.....well that didn’t work.:unknown::givebeer:
 
Luckily it missed me and ended up on the other side of the garage,a couple lessons learned.
 
DKMD said:
Started another cracked bowl... still got a few more patches to drill and plug.

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Replace a crack with a knot, I like it! In my experience, in order to get a good clean hole with a forstner, the piece needs to be clamped and the bit square to the piece, do you take it to the drillpress to drill, or use a hand drill?
 
Pharmacyguy-Jim said:
Share your lessons for those of who haven’t spun a bowl.
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Well,#1– i,for whatever reason,i mounted it using a mortise(I think that’s the right term) instead of a tenon,bad idea especially for the segmented bowl.#2 measure as you go so you don’t get to thin.:punish:
 
I walked through mine several times over the weekend as I filled the 1 gallon paint cans from the 5 gallon paint buckets.

*sigh*
 
Actually did something out in the shop. Not fine woodworking. Maybe not even woodworking at all but it checked an item off my wife's list.

Last week we bought a 2 drawer lateral file cabinet from Nextdoor. It was fairly inexpensive but after we got it home it was probably something we should have turned down. I did notice that the bottom was out of one of the drawers but didn't think that would be a big deal to fix. It wasn't until after getting it home that I saw that the back of one of drawers had been broken out. It was that compressed chipboard stuff.

Made a trip to pick up some plywood (I also picked up the 3/4 BB for the other project, extra 1/2 BB for containers for my shop drawers, and some 1/8 BB for drawer bottoms - and that stuff is expensive!) and rebuilt both drawers.

The drawer fronts are still in fine shape so I kept those.

I didn't realize that the hardware for setting up drawers was available to 'normal' people. Stuff like:

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Which is very similar to what was used in this cabinet or I may have just built one. Even with replacing the drawers sides and bottom it was cheaper to go this way in the long run.

At any rate, we now have a two drawer lateral file cabinet (about 26" wide) that has much sturdier drawers and I have one project checked off the list. All in all not a bad 3 or 4 hours.
 
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