What did you do in your shop today?

[T. Ben]

I'm gluing up some of the Corian I got from @Schroedc .

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[Tony]

Tony, are you using ordinary epoxy for that, or do you need a specific adhesive?

@woodman6415 taught me you can do it just fine with medium CA. He's done hundreds of countertops so I guess he knows what he's talking about.

 

[Tom Smart]

More outside shop stuff. Whacked the u know what outta this crape myrtle.

 

[trc65]

Good to see the daffodils! We are probably a week or more till we see the first ones here.

 

[Tom Smart]

Good to see the daffodils! We are probably a week or more till we see the first ones here.

Only thing we can plant the deer won’t eat.

 

[woodtickgreg]

I scored a few more free mig wire reels today. I liked the air hose holder so much I think I'll make a couple more for extension cords.

 

[woodtickgreg]

I finished up the tray for the spindle sander on the drill press cart.
Free full extension drawer slides.
I made the panel about 1/16" to big and had to cut it down to get the drawer slides to work. Oops.
It works very smoothly and makes it much easier to get the sander in and out.

 

[Gdurfey]

@woodtickgreg , thought about making one of those reels spin so you would wind things up? Trying to picture it, but maybe. Like those reels.

 

[Schroedc]

Got some sewing machine bases finished and urethaned, they get waxed and shipped tomorrow, and then decided to finish a project I started over a year ago, got the Maple and Walnut Butcher Block top mounted to a set of Singer treadle irons, made the drawer, sanded and urethaned it all and tomorrow or Saturday I'll rub it out and start using it for my sewing machine.

 

[woodtickgreg]

@Schroedc I like those trays brother. It's kinda strange how time just slips by when life gets in the way. Happens to me all the time, to many projects and not enough time when your trying to earn a living.

 

[Schroedc]

@Schroedc I like those trays brother. It's kinda strange how time just slips by when life gets in the way. Happens to me all the time, to many projects and not enough time when your trying to earn a living.

Yeah, today I was moving that top around yet again and kinda lost my Sugar, Honey, Ice Tea and decided to get it done. Those bases have a market but right now, by the time you ship them they aren't cheap. I'm working on getting a simpler one made up that doesn't have the storage on the end and see if I can get it to a reasonable shipping point.

 

[Gdurfey]

@Schroedc , really like the top. We have several bases to do as projects, none are singer so don’t feel as though I am destroying a valuable antique. Most of the cabinets have so much water damage and such they aren’t salvageable. So I figured do different types of tables.

Great example. Weren’t you saying you were trying to develop some more products?

 

[Schroedc]

@Schroedc , really like the top. We have several bases to do as projects, none are singer so don’t feel as though I am destroying a valuable antique. Most of the cabinets have so much water damage and such they aren’t salvageable. So I figured do different types of tables.

Great example. Weren’t you saying you were trying to develop some more products?

The table was made for me to keep, we have a guy in the area that slaps a to on a base and sells it under 100.00 so I won't compete as I wouldn't let tables like that one go cheap. Yeah, I'm still trying to work through some ideas but right now with everything shutting down and the possibility of shelter in place restrictions on the horizon, mostly I'm working to get a few last orders done and shipped

 

[phinds]

By a serendipitous confluence of events (*) Mark (@Mr. Peet ) dropped off a big box of wood pieces yesterday from his latest big haul and it was 65 degrees out in the garage today so I got out there for almost the only time in a couple of months (it's unheated).

I've partially processed just about all of them but only have pics so far of these nine (less than half of the total). Most of them are 12" long and widths vary from 3" to 8".

I still need to do the end grain fine sanding. So far I've identified one as imbuia (not shown) and one as almost certainly a Eucalypt. I have no idea what any of the others are and of course neither does Mark or he wouldn't have left them for me to do the hard work.

For those of you who haven't met Mark, he's approximately the size of Paul Bunyan and the box of samples was very big and must have weighted about 60 lbs. I'm old and weak and I couldn't even get it off the workbench. He just laughs. <obscene reference removed by the moderator>

* I'm practicing non-Latin big words because Mark keeps using big Latin ones

 

[Schroedc]

These all got packed up and handed off to UPS to get them to their new homes-

 

[woodtickgreg]

Very cool Colin!

 

[woodtickgreg]

I made some food safe cutting board and wood utensil finish.

 

[trc65]

Neat idea! How big are those, 2oz or so?

 

[woodtickgreg]

Neat idea! How big are those, 2oz or so?

Ish, lol. I dont really know, a friends wife gave them to me. Kinda cool little jars though to give with a cutting board when you sell one. It makes it a little more personal. Lol
I did a little how to on it in the classroom.

 

[phinds]

So, it's shellac and what else?