It was interesting last time I posted this so I thought I would start it again. I'm out camping so nothing is happening in my shop this weekend, the piece I'm working on will be done next week though. Here's my view for the weekend.
Mike
I just now cleaned up and put stuff away. Been working on the wife's garden shed since 8:30 this morning.
It's over 80 out there and I FEEL like I'm over 80 so it's time to take a break. Probably won't do anything more until Monday. Tomorrow I'm either going to be manning the grill for my wife's union softball tourney, OR… if I'm not cooking, it'll be because they got rained out as right now the weather is still predicting thunderstorms tomorrow.
In case of rain, I'll be enjoying a frosty beverage and watching TV or something equally unproductive.
This morning I finally got tired of splitters in outlets and extension cords strung across the shop. So I scrounged up enough parts to change a couple single duplex to double duplex. Then it was on to my overhead retractable cord reel which had been balky for a while and then gave up the ghost about six months ago. Tore it apart and found the hot burned off the brush rigging. Soldered things up and went to put it back together. Spent 30 minutes looking for a pop rivet with no luck. So now I'm steeling myself for a trip to town. I hate going to town.
i've been in the shop all morning mainly straigthening up.i got my leecraft dado insert in the mail today and installed it and made practice cuts.my first time using a dado.so now i need to build a project using it.
Since the last "whats happening in your shop" , I am continuing progress on a lean-to on the back
of my shop.
In between the heat and rain I have managed to make some progress. Still working on it. Sometime
this evening I will post my progress.
@nitewalker
I went to the link you have on your homepage. Simplecase.org. I followed the about links to find out more about Simplecases . Well there is lots of info, but nothing explaining what a custom arcade stick enclosure is .
The website seems well done , except for the omission of a brief explanation on what a arcade stick enclosure is. Sorry, maybe I just overlooked the product explanation ?
My shop is in a horrible mess with an assortment of "projects" scattered everywhere making things impossible (honestly dangerous at this point) but I will manage to clean (shove stuff in a pile) a spot big enough to finish working up the wood for my future milkman workbench.
I am working on an end grain cutting board. Things were going smoothly until I started cleaning up some of the mess with my shop vac. About five minutes into a "total floor vacuum", I noticed the air in the shop seemed to have taken on a thicker consistency than normal.
It seems the filter on my shop vac had detached itself from its housing - so I was blowing the fine dust collected over the past few weeks all over the shop. Now I'm taking a break to literally "let the dust settle."
My new lathe got some use this week with some pens. Might do one tonight after the baby goes to sleep. I had some time to clean some stuff up. I also need to get around to making a shooting board out of a piece of melamine at some point. Also, in the process of setting up my Oneway Wolverine jig.
Just came in from working on a storage shelf unit for LP's. That's right records. Someone has hundreds of records in his collection and is having me build a 3 tiered unit with a cabinet below with frosted glass so he can put a light in it and have the doors light up. It should be able to hold about 350 records. Heavy.
After that went to check for eggs in the coop and found a 5 foot black snake. He's dead now. I hate to kill it but he can eat a lot of eggs.
Working on the roubo… glued up the last section of the top after figuring out the wagon vice. Milled all the legs to size and started milling all the wood for the stretchers. If all goes well, should be able to glue up the whole top tomorrow!!
Making a pair of 5 sided speaker stands. It is a fun little project, now that I have gotten some expert guidance on ripping angles. I am really looking forward to the finishing process. It will be a satin black on red oak. The surface needs to be smooth, but still show the grain. I will post pix when complete.
I'm making some cauls while its slow. That way I'll have them the next time I glue up panels. If I have them I'll use them. If I don't I'll wish I did.
I was at a street sale today selling some of the things I have left over from making sawdust all week. (Boxes) Had average sales so it was a good enough day.
Rain on and off all evening. Its been pouring for the last hour or so. Hopefully this passes soon. I'm
almost ready to shingle and put up siding and doors.
Today, June 1st is my 63rd birthday and I spent most of it out in my shop sizing some QSWO (running it through the planer and drum sander) for the Sideboard I am making. I have been working on this piece for the last few weeks. I am not a speedy worker and on this piece I am really taking my time. This is my first piece using QSWO and have found that it gives up slivers quite easily but I do find that it machines nicely. No heat here in Minnesota, it seems that we are having trouble getting out of the 60's, oh well, I guess that is better than being in the 90's.
Built a new top beam assembly for the swingset/fort my parents have in their yard for my brother's kids. The original members were cedar, coated in a plastic shell, like a block of cheese. The plastic was supposed to protect the wood, but it just trapped water inside, and it rotted clean through. This time it's white oak. You can't see it in the picture, but along the top and bottom, where the grain is "quarter sawn" relative to the surface, they're beautiful with ray fleck. It made me weep to think it's going into a kids' swingset. By the way, if you have one of these with the plastic coating, go out right now and cut a slit in the plastic all the way along the bottom side to give the water a place to drain.
Well, I have been turning a limb from a flowering cherry tree into a group of wooden spoons. They were going pretty well until a moment's lack of attention led to a quick slip, a jerk of a knife and a sharp impact on the end of my left thumb. "Oh crap," I said. The good part was the emergency room was able to glue it shut without stitches. Yet another value to nice sharp tools: they make nice clean - almost surgical - cuts. At least I can grin about it.
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