Creeker’s Past Weeks Accomplishments

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I finished the breadboard edges on the 2 sections of the extending/retracting portions of the table top for table I am building. With the grain running across the table, laying out and cutting the breadboard edges was critical so they would align between the two sections. Using a marking knife instead of a pencil, was critical and provided the results I wanted! Today I started the layout for the hidden hinges on the butterfly sections and then on to their breadboard edges. I will install the hinges first then unfold the butterfly extension to layout the breadboard edges for it so they will align with the other 2 sections of the table top.

[Christian Hawkshaw]

I finished up on an armoire that have been working on for several months: https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread....-An-Armoire%85. Helped my daughter’s boyfriend make a cutting board. My next project will be a major shop cleaning and shop cabinets.

[Jimmy Harris]

I've spent the past few days resawing hard maple with my old Disston D-8 to make a toolbox for my wrenches out of scrap. And let me tell you, that thumbhole is not a gimmick! It makes a huge difference both in power and control. Needless to say, I'm pretty sore after 20 hours of hand sawing in three days. You find out every muscle you use when sawing, and quite a few will surprise you (like abs and obliques). But it's still better than going to the gym. And my sawing technique has never been better!

[Jim Becker]

This past week I finished up the Systainer storage project, albeit I'm going to call it "phase one" as I plan on a couple more cabinets on top of those between the door and the flattening table when I get more material...it's flexible in that it can take the sliding drawers or fixed shelving so some additional storage space will allow me to better organize some other things. They are based on the Tanos plan for their sliding drawer/shell product but utilize inexpensive full extension slides and simple drawer/shelves for the Systainers that were relieved on the CNC to hold onto the "feet". But in a nutshell, I'm very happy with how things turned out. I'll be doing a thread when I have time to process all the photos, but here's the end result to-date:

SystainerCabinets.jpg ShopSystainerAdded.jpg

I also took care of some spring landscaping tasks on the nicer days.

This week I have a few additional shop organization things I want to take care of and some planning for a few home improvement things to come this spring and summer.

[Tom M King]

I had to turn in a timber management plan to keep the timberland in "land use" reduced tax range. The Southeast is covered with Pine stands managed where the priority is minimum time between rotation. They're taught how to do this type of timber management plan in schools, and not for what I want to do. That's why Yellow Pine has such a bad reputation these days. I didn't want to have our woods turn into one of those, so it's completely differently managed to produce maximum quality clear saw logs. Long story shortened, I was able to get my plan approved in the process in spite of our woods looking like what they learn in school not to do. Getting my plan completed and approved I felt was a great accomplishment for the week. The difference in property tax every year would have been substantial otherwise.

[Bruce Page]

This past week I finished up the Systainer storage project, albeit I'm going to call it "phase one" as I plan on a couple more cabinets on top of those between the door and the flattening table when I get more material...it's flexible in that it can take the sliding drawers or fixed shelving so some additional storage space will allow me to better organize some other things. They are based on the Tanos plan for their sliding drawer/shell product but utilize inexpensive full extension slides and simple drawer/shelves for the Systainers that were relieved on the CNC to hold onto the "feet". But in a nutshell, I'm very happy with how things turned out. I'll be doing a thread when I have time to process all the photos, but here's the end result to-date:

SystainerCabinets.jpg ShopSystainerAdded.jpg

I also took care of some spring landscaping tasks on the nicer days.

This week I have a few additional shop organization things I want to take care of and some planning for a few home improvement things to come this spring and summer.

Your shop has filled up nicely. That is a lot of floor mats.

[Jim Becker]

Your shop has filled up nicely. That is a lot of floor mats.

And only one of them is new...all the rest came from the old shop and our old kitchen. (brick floor) It worked out nicely for the new shop for sure!

[Mark Leifer]

I’m taking a class in Veneering and Marquetry at the local community college and we have a project assignment due each week. Here’s assignment #9, a 10x10 inch checkerboard. Mine has maple and ebony squares one inch on a side, 0.022” thick, with a bubinga border. (At least I think it’s bubinga. I ordered a 15 lb box of assorted off-cuts and leftovers from a veneer supplier and none of the woods are identified.) The finish is shellac applied with the French polishing technique. I’m getting the hang of this!

IMG_1652.jpg

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I’m taking a class in Veneering and Marquetry at the local community college and we have a project assignment due each week. Here’s assignment #9, a 10x10 inch checkerboard. Mine has maple and ebony squares one inch on a side, 0.022” thick, with a bubinga border. (At least I think it’s bubinga. I ordered a 15 lb box of assorted off-cuts and leftovers from a veneer supplier and none of the woods are identified.) The finish is shellac applied with the French polishing technique. I’m getting the hang of this!

IMG_1652.jpg

Nicely done Mark!

[Cameron Wood]

This is more of this weeks accomplishments, but it will be last week soon...

I've worked on this property since the '80s, and built the garage/guest house in 1990. A giant bay tree just fell, leading to the discovery of a rotted 8X8 post supporting the back porch.

The landscape crew is going to fix it, along with the fences etc. that the tree took out, but I am supplying a piece of stock for the repair. Dry 8X8 redwood is not that easy to come by. I was just given a 6X12 beam that came from a bridge, so I used some of that, cutting and re-gluing to get the dimension.

The clients habitually over-water the landscaping, so things stay soggy- I've repaired other stuff there.

IMG_4942.jpgIMG_4944.jpegIMG_4946.jpeg

[Alan Lightstone]

This past week I finished up the Systainer storage project, albeit I'm going to call it "phase one" as I plan on a couple more cabinets on top of those between the door and the flattening table when I get more material...it's flexible in that it can take the sliding drawers or fixed shelving so some additional storage space will allow me to better organize some other things. They are based on the Tanos plan for their sliding drawer/shell product but utilize inexpensive full extension slides and simple drawer/shelves for the Systainers that were relieved on the CNC to hold onto the "feet". But in a nutshell, I'm very happy with how things turned out. I'll be doing a thread when I have time to process all the photos, but here's the end result to-date:

SystainerCabinets.jpg ShopSystainerAdded.jpg

I also took care of some spring landscaping tasks on the nicer days.

This week I have a few additional shop organization things I want to take care of and some planning for a few home improvement things to come this spring and summer.

Nice job on those, Jim. I just got lazy and ordered the Festool ones years ago, for a ridiculously high amount of money. Yours are prettier, and look more useful.

[Myles Moran]

I finally got to do some serious cutting on my 17" grizzly bandsaw. I resawed some 8/4 poplar into 4/4 without the saw breaking a sweat. Going from a 1/3 hp 12" saw to 2 hp 17" saw was a big jump, but the speed and power still amazed me.

That poplar has now been milled and cut into a collar for a kegerator build so I can finally stop having to bottle my homebrew beer. In true woodworker fashion, I dovetailed the box together even though its going to be painted. Nothing like a small detail that nobody else will ever see.