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| 9 days ago |
Poetry - 3 replies I would never admit it but I do like some poems and heres one that is a favorite Plant: So that your heart can grow Love: So that God may see kin in that body and invite that soul over for tea and rolls Sing: because it is a prayer this suffering earth needs Laugh: because it is the purest sound |
| 18 days ago |
Furnace Died - 1 reply Just in time for old man winter, the house furnace died. The service guy for Bryant came by and “Red Tagged”it due to a rusted out heat exchanger. we have over 4,000 sq ft of home not including the basement so we need a furnace that can crank out 90 to 100,000 BTU. new Bryant high effienciency furnace, two stage…............... |
| 41 days ago |
Almost done - 10 replies Sooo close to being done I can taste it but sadly Old Winter is just around the corner and I am not comfortable on a tin can boat with 150 miles of open water around me, cold, very cold. I just dont like those 10’ waves and the way the water freezes to everything, including me and my tools…....not to mention sinking. I could have ... |
| 49 days ago |
WARNING - 25 replies I thought I would share this so that no one might have it happen to them. I have a big 5 HP air compressor that drives almost everything in the shop including but not limited to my air sanders, drilling, driving, mechanical tools, and my spray booth finishing equipment. It cranks out 21 cfm and albeit the compressor itself is old, she’s... |
| 246 days ago |
Honey Do Project. - 1 reply The only way my finger didnt hurt was to keep it above my head and having the bride down in Florida with the kids gave me an opportunity to fix an eye-sore she constantly wanted fixed. The front entrance hallway. Ever single drywall screw popped ….......and nothing fits in the front entrance, like ladders and scaffolding due to the foot... |
| 256 days ago |
33 years - 23 replies As i type left handed despite being right handed I ponder my 33 years of woodworking as a hobby and career and cant help but think about the statistics claiming that serious woodworking accidents happen mostly to the novice and seasoned old timer. Recently I took on a joiner, young, ambitous, and clever. I hired him as a co-op high school stu... |
| 266 days ago |
Tweeking - 2 replies Ive had this project on the go for way too long and finally its coming to a close. The doors are hung on fancy pewter butt hinges. The kind with three holes that are “non adjustable”, the kind most folks curse, where language that exits their mouth could make milk curdle, and every time I use them I “curse them” so I&#... |
| 281 days ago |
It just wont end - 5 replies Way too big for the shop and sure will be happy to it go. Appliances include 2 dishwashers, one sub zero feezer, one subzero fridge, one subzero fridge/freezer, wine fridge,pop dispenser, drawer microwave….......one 48” six burner with grill and double ovens, ice maker. All cabinets are maple veneer plycore 3/4”, 1/2̶... |
| 312 days ago |
Bashing the USA - 41 replies I’m a Canadian and proud of it. I have blood relatives in the USA and many dear and close friends south of the border and when I hear a fellow Canadian bash an American and always being the devils advocate I come back with these quotes “you could have heard a pin drop when” When in England, at a fairly large conference, Co... |
| 320 days ago |
The Next Great Depression. - 89 replies Is it happening now. Seems like every single day, every single hour, another 10,000 people are being laid off. Hundreds, even thousands of stores shutting down, saw mills closing and loggers sent home. The price of lobster hasnt been this low in decades…..............but the price of cocoa has never been higher. Its not a crisis limited... |
| 531 days ago |
shop - 12 replies the floor, footings and walls with in floor radiant heat ready walls going up second floor, floor truss going up in three sections by crane done my Delta bandsaw with spray booth in the foreground progress stroke sander, poitras jointer and king thickness planer Altendorf 10’ slider SCM shap... |
| 554 days ago |
Porter Cable Omni Jig ? - 3 replies I do hand done dovetails but…........the job at hand requires a low cost, low labour dove tailed drawers. I borrowed a 24” Omni dovetail jig. It has straight fingers only (not like the liegh jig)............anybody out there have any pics, tips etc on how to use this beast????? TIA Cheers |
| 621 days ago |
SNOW - 25 replies The Diary of a Snow ShovelerDecember 86:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow! December 9We woke to a beautifu... |
| 631 days ago |
PLEDGE the problems with - 26 replies Hi I hope that some out there have an answer for my problem. ..........PLEDGE. The furniture polish in a spray can that every one seems to love, including my significant other. Personally I have banned it from my home and anything I do for any one else, I put a disclaimer on my product, that in the event they use pledge, the the warrenty on t... |
| 634 days ago |
Entertainment Cabinet - 6 replies Sadly I never got a picture of this unit when it was completed and had my PC stolen with no back up files so this is all I have. Its a TV/Entertainment unit. The TV sits down in the middle section on an automated TV lift. The music components are on either side with a roll out for CD/DVDs. Book matched and in sequence burly mappa panels wi... |
| 646 days ago |
Entertainment Center - 6 replies This was done many moons ago, but it is one of the projects that I have done that rank in the top ten. made out of maple veneers onto wiggle wood, curve ply, what ever floats your boat, using a friends vacumn press. The curved doors when closed make a nice display and when opened the TV behind it is exposed leaving soft lighting to reflec... |
| 671 days ago |
My Morning Chuckle - 6 replies Good morning. What better way to start a day than with a smile. Charitable Contributions The United Way realized that it had never received a donation from the city’s most successful lawyer. So a United Way volunteer paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office. The volunteer opened the meeting by saying, ‘Our re... |
| 672 days ago |
Question about puppets - 2 replies I would like to mke my significant others, son, a puppet. he has quite a nice collection, most of them the kind suspended from strings so they can walk and jump etc. But he keeps asking for a “ventriliquests” puppet (not sure about the spelling). The kind you sit on your lap and it talks…......like chucky (lol) Has any on... |
| 721 days ago |
Hutch and Buffet - 19 replies This project has sat in the shop for months as I only work on it in my spare time (which I have very little of). Its a four piece hutch and buffet measuring approx., 2’ deep x 6’ long and almost 8’ high. The top cove mould is one piece, the hutch, the buffet, and the base are seperate assemblies. The buffet top and gables ar... |
| 771 days ago |
My Barn/Shop - 6 replies As usual my timing is always perfect. We started this shop about two years ago to the day, just in time for winter dumping of white slush, powder and ice,and bone chilling temperatures. Some how we managed to get the roof on without ruining the inside….....................there is a god. The wind here is ferocious in the winter. You can... |
