Love those rare days when a no commitment day comes along! Congrats on the progress!
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What did you do in your shop today?
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No shop work today but a shop safety reminder.
I spent the day oiling my porch decking. Part of the process involved wiping any excess stain off before it became sticky/gummy. That generated a few oily rags. I put them in one of the empty gallon sized cans as I was done with each with the intent of putting water on them and then the top. By the time I got to that step when finished, the rags had generated enough heat to begin smoking. Took care of that with a larger container of water where they rest outside before a trip to the landfill in the morning. I should have spread them out on the ground rather than containing them.
I made the mistake of showing my wife. Now she is worried the porch is going to combust.
I spent the day oiling my porch decking. Part of the process involved wiping any excess stain off before it became sticky/gummy. That generated a few oily rags. I put them in one of the empty gallon sized cans as I was done with each with the intent of putting water on them and then the top. By the time I got to that step when finished, the rags had generated enough heat to begin smoking. Took care of that with a larger container of water where they rest outside before a trip to the landfill in the morning. I should have spread them out on the ground rather than containing them.
I made the mistake of showing my wife. Now she is worried the porch is going to combust.
I would have set the can in the fire ring or in our case, in the burn barrel or in the driveway. Letting them burn would have likely been the safest and most environmentaly friendly thing.
I finished/refinished wood floors for30+ years and always spread stain rags overnite before thinking of disposing of them. Best to wet them even after overnite drying.
I don’t have any of those things so it would essentially be an open flame, but I agree in principle.
Fortunately, you were on top of things! Had a friend that piled rags on his wooden workshop floor. Burned a hole right through the floor, but fortunately the fire did not spread! Spontaneous combustion is real! Chuck
Craft Supply had a sale on Artisan dye last week so ordered a few at about half the price of my usuals to compare. Single coat saturation isn‘t even close, two coats is still inferior, adage “get what you pay for” prevails again.
Science experiments are cool.
The new dye appears to have more transparency, at least in the pictures.
Yeah very much so, not necessarily a bad thing. Prefer a dye with more solids, easier to add alcohol to thin if desired vs numerous coats of a thin dye to achieve a solid color. The last pic is 3 coats of Artisan on the front two vs 1 coat Fiebings on the back one and still is not as dark. Think the Artisan looks ok but took 3 times the effort and product to achieve a comparable result. Won’t buy the Artisan again.
Roughed out a few today
Not today, but yesterday, I thought I was finally done with that Hickory job I started what seem like 10 years ago, but it's only been 1 1/2 years. Stated out as a cabinet addition in the dining room, then from there to the huge bedroom closet to build shelves, drawers and hanger spaces, then to a 48" square kitchen Island with 12 drawers, then the cabinets. I thought I was done, but Oh No, we want you to build cabinets for the laundry room.
During the build of the closet cabinet, he indicated he wanted all cabinets to have crown molding. Ok, so I made it for the closet and the added cabinet. I believe that was 2" wide molding and was a piece of cake making on the table saw with the molding cutters I have. I installed it in the closet first, then went to the added cabinet.
After installing it, he determined he didn't like the gap, 1/8", above the doors on the added cabinet. We agreed on a 5/8" gap, and I started to duplicate it and some for the rest of what was going to be needed for the kitchen. I had some issues with trying to get it to look as good as the 2", but finally got something that was acceptable. It ended up at 1 1/2" wide, and made of Hickory. If you don't know, doing this Hickory, the closer I got to my final dimensions, the worse the tear outs got.
Anyway, I the started the build on the kitchen. When the install started, it went really good, but I was short about 13" on that crown molding. I tried making a piece, but didn't have any thing at the house for comparison, so had to go back to his place and take a piece off a cabinet, come back home and try to duplicate it.
While removing the piece of crown molding, he stated he wanted me to build a couple cabinets for the laundry room. So, I built them and installed yesterday. He then indicated that he wants a linen cabinet in another room of the house. OH NO, another freeking cabinet. I thought I was done with him. It's going to be a simple 24" wide x 95" tall with that crown molding. It will have 6 raised panel arched doors that will be about 11 1/2" x what ever the 3 equal spaces are in height. Making and arched door that narrow is pretty easy, but it's tearout city on the arched portion of the door rail. I'm gonna need to make a few extra top rails in order to get 6 good ones.
I might go back to his place and get some pictures cuz you can't fully appreciate or condemn what I've gone through on this job from hell. ............... Nubs
During the build of the closet cabinet, he indicated he wanted all cabinets to have crown molding. Ok, so I made it for the closet and the added cabinet. I believe that was 2" wide molding and was a piece of cake making on the table saw with the molding cutters I have. I installed it in the closet first, then went to the added cabinet.
After installing it, he determined he didn't like the gap, 1/8", above the doors on the added cabinet. We agreed on a 5/8" gap, and I started to duplicate it and some for the rest of what was going to be needed for the kitchen. I had some issues with trying to get it to look as good as the 2", but finally got something that was acceptable. It ended up at 1 1/2" wide, and made of Hickory. If you don't know, doing this Hickory, the closer I got to my final dimensions, the worse the tear outs got.
Anyway, I the started the build on the kitchen. When the install started, it went really good, but I was short about 13" on that crown molding. I tried making a piece, but didn't have any thing at the house for comparison, so had to go back to his place and take a piece off a cabinet, come back home and try to duplicate it.
While removing the piece of crown molding, he stated he wanted me to build a couple cabinets for the laundry room. So, I built them and installed yesterday. He then indicated that he wants a linen cabinet in another room of the house. OH NO, another freeking cabinet. I thought I was done with him. It's going to be a simple 24" wide x 95" tall with that crown molding. It will have 6 raised panel arched doors that will be about 11 1/2" x what ever the 3 equal spaces are in height. Making and arched door that narrow is pretty easy, but it's tearout city on the arched portion of the door rail. I'm gonna need to make a few extra top rails in order to get 6 good ones.
I might go back to his place and get some pictures cuz you can't fully appreciate or condemn what I've gone through on this job from hell. ............... Nubs
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Did you get paid well at least?
Our camper really needed a place for shoes - small camper with a family of four and the various shoes and sandals and crocs that come along and the area by the door (and the side of our bed) was always a mess. I cut into the panel in the under bed storage and built this cubby to slide in there. It takes up a small corner of the under bed storage, but well worth it. 1/2" baltic birch plywood for the cabinet and shelves. Maple painted white for the face frame. I even used the piece of panel I cut out as the back panel of the cubby. Visible screws from the front was really the only way to attach it, as one side and the bottom wouldn't be accessible to bring screws in from the back side. Sought to design and build it so it looked like it belonged as part of the camper. My wife is very happy with it, as am I. And it will be nice to not be tripping on shoes in the camper.
Yep. Just cashed one of two checks. This one was 9 thousand, and the other one awhile back was close to the same. The Island, closet and added cabinets were paid way back. Don't remember the amounts, but I actually made a few bucks even though I'm doing this guy a favor building these. He's a woodturning club member who thought I could do a good job since I had my own cabinet/furniture business since 1978. Time is immaterial to him, so there is no rush. ................. Nubs
Yes, I can. You are in "oh, by the way" territory. Have been for a full year. My condolences. I have been there. Only bright point, I wasn't cutting hickory. My customers all want their natural cherry crown molding to look seamless so you have to carefully pick through to find close colored boards. Unfortunately my supplier doesn't give a darn and my boss won't let us make our own trims. We spend up to a couple grand on trims on a large kitchen. Before we begin install.
Or Columbo's - "One more thing!"
Did some sheet metal work. Made a dust chute for my old planer.
Nice! I've found planers spit out more sawdust than just about any piece of equipment. Can't see well from the pic, but do the boards feed through under the hood you designed? Chuck
So far no problem with feed. I ran about 60 lineal feet of 1x6 thru 4 passes without any problem. The hood is hinged.
As some of the chips are escaping I am going to look for some bristle brush type door sweeps to fill the gaps.
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