What did you do in your shop today?

Tony said:
I spent the day making pinch bowls. I've sold about 25 this season thanks to @JR Parks showing me how to turn them!
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Those are cool Tony, I have a lady who sells some of my stuff in her gallery, she is always asking for little stuff, might have to spin a few. Do you use cole jaws for these?
 
barry richardson said:
Those are cool Tony, I have a lady who sells some of my stuff in her gallery, she is always asking for little stuff, might have to spin a few. Do you use cole jaws for these?
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Thanks Barry! To finish the bottom, yes, Cole jaws. Here is what I use to turn most of it:
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A faceplate with a waste block, double sided turning tape.
 
Started with changing the bag on one of my dust collectors. I use this one mostly hooked up to the planer or jointer.
20191214_155203.webp so since I have a bag of nice clean and dry wood chips.....
20191214_155213.webp And a pot of wax......
20191214_154239.webp Its a good time to make fire starters. I need to get rid of all the egg cartons, part of the shop cleaning project.
20191214_154228.webp I fill the cartons and then tamp them down with this little aluminum practice turning.
20191214_160703.webp Then pour the melted wax over the wood chips.
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I still have a double stack of cartons to fill so I can get rid of them. I have a friend with a wood burner that will happily take most of them.
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I've got plenty of wax, I bought 3 tubs like this dirt cheap at an auction.
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I have melted several pots of wax to make the fire starters. Still have more to go to get this project done and off my list.
20191214_180702.webp so while the pots of wax are melting I started to remove the nails from some salvaged plywood box tops. I intend to use the plywood for my hand plane collection shelves. The wood came from India.
20191214_193146.webp Each piece has 3 boards nailed to it with clinched nails.
20191214_193210.webp Interesting wood for the boards of unknown species. About 1/2" thick, bandsaw cut. I have no idea what I could use them for but it's definitely an exotic wood. I'll run em through the planer to see what I have.
20191214_193603.webp some are light woods and some are dark.
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Went down to my shop to buff out the spray on poly I did on a bottle stopper. Going down to the basement later to try and turn some Christmas gifts.
 
woodtickgreg said:
I have melted several pots of wax to make the fire starters. Still have more to go to get this project done and off my list.
View attachment 175613 so while the pots of wax are melting I started to remove the nails from some salvaged plywood box tops. I intend to use the plywood for my hand plane collection shelves. The wood came from India.
View attachment 175614 Each piece has 3 boards nailed to it with clinched nails.
View attachment 175615 Interesting wood for the boards of unknown species. About 1/2" thick, bandsaw cut. I have no idea what I could use them for but it's definitely an exotic wood. I'll run em through the planer to see what I have.
View attachment 175616 some are light woods and some are dark.
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I see you haven't done much turning on the Rikon lathe you bought.:lol2:
 
Yesterday my shop got loaded into a Uhaul truck. Tomorrow I drive it to where we're moving to as part of our first load. The second, and final, load will happen when we are actually moving. Will be nice to break up the move into a couple trips instead of one big load and go at the end.

It was a bit chilly loading up the truck too. Single digit temps, windchill about -15F!
 
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Sprung said:
Yesterday my shop got loaded into a Uhaul truck. Tomorrow I drive it to where we're moving to as part of our first load. The second, and final, load will happen when we are actually moving. Will be nice to break up the move into a couple trips instead of one big load and go at the end.

It was a bit chilly loading up the truck too. Single digit temps, windchill about -15F!
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Safe travels Matt!
 
Tony said:
Safe travels Matt!
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Thanks, Tony! This is a quick there and back trip. Leave tomorrow, unload tomorrow night, attend to a few other things while in town, drop off the truck, and drive back Tuesday.

With the cold, we didn't pack things in the truck as well as I would have liked to, but it was just too cold. Four of us got the truck loaded in 1 1/2 hours.
 
Tony said:
I see you haven't done much turning on the Rikon lathe you bought.:lol2:
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Nope, brand new 5 year old lathe still in the box! One of the many reasons I'm trying to get the shop cleaned up and operational. I'm getting there albeit slowly.
 
I have been working on bee hives lately. Today I finishing up a hive to catch bee swarms.
 
Getting a little more time in the shop today after household chores and grocery shopping with Betty.

Here's what I have so far on the fire starters.
20191215_171950.webp working on the last and final batch now. Wax is slow to melt safely.
20191215_172023.webp While melting the wax I got the last of the boards removed from the plywood and de-nailed. Interesting stack of Indian mystery wood. Cant wait to run this stuff through the planer and see what it looks like. It is hard.
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