Large gouges really aren’t required, Garry. After getting it round, the outside is done with a 1/2” spindle gouge. Most any sized roughing gouge will work.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Well, I threw a couple of pieces of wood across the shop. The first I didn’t find until I threw the second one. I had moved the shop vac before the second flew. So, here is my gavel and block, some assembly and finish required......
Texas ebony, maple, and wild maple of some type ( I think)
Texas ebony, maple, and wild maple of some type ( I think)
Sucks that it came off but I'm glad you made it out unscathed! Looks good so far though!
Honey-do shop time here lately...no time to even eek out a gavel. 
Been working on screening in lower deck of house, weather permitting getting approx 6' section done each day for outer perimeter, and reconfiguring scaffold for next section. 4 sections done, working on building screen panels and trim for 5th section now. This pic is of first two sections. Each section has an upper screen about 30" tall by 6' wide using window screen frame material then covering/securing with 1-1/2 wide trim. The middle section is done using Screeneze...great stuff, but not cheap. Doesn't require spline like most screen, good for bigger spans. The lower sections I'll do later after deciding if i'm going to put hog wire in there also like I did on upper deck rails. Those at least won't require scaffolding.
Been working on screening in lower deck of house, weather permitting getting approx 6' section done each day for outer perimeter, and reconfiguring scaffold for next section. 4 sections done, working on building screen panels and trim for 5th section now. This pic is of first two sections. Each section has an upper screen about 30" tall by 6' wide using window screen frame material then covering/securing with 1-1/2 wide trim. The middle section is done using Screeneze...great stuff, but not cheap. Doesn't require spline like most screen, good for bigger spans. The lower sections I'll do later after deciding if i'm going to put hog wire in there also like I did on upper deck rails. Those at least won't require scaffolding.
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It's to damn hot for me to be outside today so I worked in the nice cool basement shop. I dont do well in heat.
I finished the sanding on my sisters spoon thingys.
And got a coat of my food safe finish on them. The one on the far right is the sample she sent me to duplicate. They are pretty close, I hope she likes them.
Then I started making a cut list/wood list that I need to salvage to build a shooting bench.
I saw the bench online and thought it was pretty cool. Printed off the free plans and awai I go. I k ow some places where I can salvage the pallets to make this, I will modify the plan a bit and use 2x4 instead of 2x6, itll still be plenty strong. Itll go to my friends place out in the country for all of us to use.
I finished the sanding on my sisters spoon thingys.
And got a coat of my food safe finish on them. The one on the far right is the sample she sent me to duplicate. They are pretty close, I hope she likes them.
Then I started making a cut list/wood list that I need to salvage to build a shooting bench.
I saw the bench online and thought it was pretty cool. Printed off the free plans and awai I go. I k ow some places where I can salvage the pallets to make this, I will modify the plan a bit and use 2x4 instead of 2x6, itll still be plenty strong. Itll go to my friends place out in the country for all of us to use.
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I made an ornament.
I noticed some funny looking lines on the cutting boards I'm making so decided I better turn all the inserts on the Shelix. Found two broken inserts, so I got them changed out as well.
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Yikes, those little pieces could do some damage if they were not contained a few out of the machine when running.
Greg, I invented a Portable Shooting Bench back in '91. It's no longer a viable patent, so I can't send a link. No hardware is needed to set it up, right or left handed depending how you set it up, and set up is less than 30 seconds. Patent office abstract; A knockdown or collapsible article of furniture which, in a disassembled state, utilizes some of it's components to interlock and create a storage package for the remainder of the components. in the disassembled state, two side panels operated in conjunction with a support member and a locking key to create a box or envelope that holds the remaining pieces of the article of furniture. ..... I made it out of 1/2" Baltic Birch. I'll try to find a picture and post it.......... Jerry (in Tucson)
Gonna let that hollow form sit in here awhile. It has to shed about 10% more moisture.
Spend a couple of days organizing my lumber in the small shed at the house. @Eric Rorabaugh will notice the vast improvement. I now know where most species are. Now I need to do this at the big barn but that may be this fall. Getting warm here these days. Yes, that is curly cherry on the left. Lots more of it in the barn.
How can I post something and NOT have @FranklinWorkshops see it?? I think he has a problem, I am just too far away for an intervention........
I am a woodaholic, I admit it. Is there a "Woodaholic Anonymous" organization?
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Yea there is Larry. I am the president and you must send all your wood to me. I don't have a problem...I don't think...
Yes, it goes by the name of Woodbarter.
Remind me when our next WAA meeting is so I can try to skip it. Thank God WAA interventions usually fail...
Well, not much related to wood, but I restored a Pachinko machine the wife and I picked up at a yard sale bout a year ago. Didn't do a complete restoration. Just a good cleaning. It works. Before and after pics.
Years ago I traveled often to Japan on business and one of my associates there took me to a Pachinko parlor. It was a lot of fun but I've not seen a machine in long time. Where did you find this one? It's a classic.
Went by a yard sale in our neighborhood bout 4-5 blocks away. Didn't ask how they came about it. We had a neighbor when we lived in Las Cruces, NM that had one. Only reason we knew what it was when we saw it.