Workshop Ramblings #4: Too Many Hobbies!

Maybe you need to get a house boat. You could put a workshop in it and kill two birds with one stone :^)

i have several hobbies as well so i know how you feel. I am into photography messing with computers playing with electronics building rc airplanes and flying them as well as the obvious woodworking. It does get hard to do them without it getting in the way of life.

-- Got Wood?

After this post caught my eye, I looked over your series about vintage tools. There I saw my Craftsman planer. I bought mine from a guy who had fixed it up and used it to make picture frames for the photographs that he took. He had decided to do something else and I picked it up along with a desk that we really needed for $75. He had welded up a very nice stand to go under it. One thing that I did not notice was that one of the blades had a notch out of it and while trying to grind the notch out, I managed to snap the blade in half.
While attending an estate sale, I picked up a set of blades for a buck fifty that were just sharpened. Now I may have to adopt your paint scheme as I really like how yours looks. I am also toying with the idea of making it into a small drum sander since I now have a DeWalt planer.

-- jstegall

My friend you can only make the d ecisions about your free time that’s when your able otherwise I am afraid you just have to duck and dive like the rest of us do.Sorry I could not offer a more palatable form of advice really sorryLOLenjoy what you have my friend.God Bless Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

This morning it was raining, so I combined two of my hobbies. I made a built in tackle box holder for the boat. In the afternoon the sun was out, so I had to go throw a line in the water.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.