Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments....

[Dennis Peacock]

Well, another weekend has come and gone.

Cold weather here, but no rain. Yea!!!!

Spent the weekend OnCall for "work" so shop time was limited. I'm still in the process of making the custom knife case for the bowie knife made by Master Bladesmith Ron Newton. I expect to have it done and delivered this week.

So what did YOU do this weekend?

Best of week to you all.

[Jim Fancher]

I finished my son's Pinewood Derby car Saturday morning around 3 am. I got to try out a few new router bits. :D By 10:30 am he won the Wolves class trophy and barely lost the Pack Championship. He won the whole thing last year.

I cleaned the garage ... er, shop. Woohoo! I can walk around now. Now it's time to get it seriously junked up.

[Kelly C. Hanna]

I put this new 350 into the C-20 on Saturday...am finishing up the final connections today. Easiest header installation I have ever done! My shop is full of truck parts, but the stack is getting smaller!!! :D :D :D

The whole story can be seen here... (http://www.bowtiemadness.com/BuffaloMotorSwap.html)

[Dave Anderson NH]

A less productive weekend than hoped. Went to Woodcraft Saturday to buy some carving gouges and discovered that I'd left my wallet on the dining room table at home. Wasted 3+ hours driving back and forth and BSing with the folks there. Blanked out some hammer handles on the bandsaw, restocked the firewood rack in the shop before the snow storm hit us. Spent Sunday morning shoveling and running the snow blower to get rid of 18" of white stuff. It could have been much worse though- parts of Mass and coastal New England got as much as 36". Sunday afternoon was shop time working on a bowsaw frame, cleaning up disorganized areas of the shop and doing a little inspirational woodworking reading- Mussey's book on John and Thomas Seymour the Federal Period furnituremakers. Vegged in front of the TV Sunday nite watching the Patriots whoop the Steelers.

[Jeff Sudmeier]

I didn't get any work done. Flew home from Tampa on Saturday and picked up the Squirel cage/blower for the air filter...

[Jack Hogoboom]

Cleaned my shop (again) and put finish on my new Sjoberg bench (discussed elsewhere). My shop needs a complete reorganization, but I don't have the insight or energy to tackle it yet. I need a little kick-start to get back into building things....

Jack

[Kurt Aebi]

Too Darn Cold to do anything!

We had a high temperature of +10°F! WOW What a heatwave!

Started snowing Saturday and left us with 10-12" or therabouts' really tough to tell with the wind-blowing and all, but that is the amount I blew off the driveway.

The old 10 horse snowthrower still does a fantastic job of clearing the snow. Even what the plows leave at the end of the driveway. 3 Hours start to finish!

Then it was off to Church and back home.

Then it was time for football! I was hoping for an all PA Super Bowl, but I also like the Pat's - so it is still okay!

Watch Out EAGLES and bring your "A"-Game you're gonna need it. Should be a real good game.

[Scott Coffelt]

- Turned platter on Friday Night see other post.
- Went to a local auction on Saturday see othe post.
- Took son to see Monster Trucks on Sunday see other post.

[Bob Winkler]

Couldn't go out 'cause of the snow, so I continued my shop basement shop renovation:

- finished mounting my Delta BS on a roll around cart with integral lumber storage
- Hung 9' of wall cabinets for additional parts/tool storage. I saved time and bought prebuilt cabinets from Lowes (I feel a little guilty about not building them myself.
- Install new CMS on my Ridgid miter saw stand and moved to the basement shop
- Converted my old CMS stand to a new mini lathe and grinder stand. Good cleaning and new coats of poly were all it needed.

Can't wait to be finished the renovation and use the darn stuff.:o

Bob

[Andy London]

We had our third blizzard in a row yesterday,-34 windchill and four feet of snow on the ground has left for a lot of shop time, even the roads have been closed. Well actually I have been spending a lot of time on my old Farmall H as well plowing away.

I tried this joint 5 years ago and a few times since but it never turned out as planned:) I spent part of yesterday tuning tools up and decided to get this thing right, I am very pleased with the results.

The first is Birdseye Caboa, the second Lacewood and Nogal....Lots of fun working in 64th's :eek:

Having fun in the snow...err...Shop:)

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[Jim Becker]

Unfortunately, no woodworking for me this weekend...too cold to even bother trying to warm up the shop to an acceptable level in a reasonable amount of time. I did work on some SketchUp! drawing work for a potential future addition to the house, did a little shopping with Dr. SWMBO before the snow started hot-and-heavy, plowed out after the storm abated (it's snowing again "as we speak" on Monday afternoon!) and ate too much as usual. Oh, yet...I actually watched two football games (first since last year's SuperBowl...); pleased with the results of one, mixed on the other. It would have been unique to have a two-PA team SuperBowl, but the Pats will certainly be entertaining. DVD of the week was the second Harry Potter film. Very enjoyable.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Saturday, I worked on getting my office cleaned up. Started catching up on some paperwork following the installation I was involved in during December. Sunday, 2 football games. Did go into my new shop for the first time in 6 weeks to reacquaint myself with my last point of electrical installation. Between games went to BORG and bought a motion sensor light to mount outside the shop. Now that things have slowed down somewhat at work, I need to get back into the shop!

[Terry Hatfield]

I turned this.........

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Into this.......

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Now I got a little extra roon for plane storage. :D

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[Lou Morrissette]

Built a bench for my ancient Sears sander on Saturday. Spent some time getting ready for the pedicted blizzard. They did not disappoint us. Final totals here were 32" of snow moved around by 65mph winds. Sunday was spent puttering in the shop and watching the Patriots win another impressive playoff game.

Lou

[Fred Voorhees]

It's almost getting to be an old story, but, more work on the bar room project. The good news is that the darned thing is almost done. Spent this weekend applying nearly a gallon of Waterlox high gloss finish in the room. The room itself is now done as far as finish goes. I still have four bookshelf shelves and the removable fireplace top that needs the high gloss finish applied. Those articles are out in the woodshop and will be finished out there and then brung into the bar room. The odors from the Waterlox were fairly strong and I ended up purchasing a respirator with the removeable disks for use while applying it. The Waterlox provides a very deep, heavy gloss. I was surprised.

I have run into a situation as to the television part of the room. It will be situated up in the corner of the room where the cieling meets the adjacent two walls. In this fashion, it will be viewable from the entire bar area. Only thing though, tube televisions these days are massive AND weigh a freakin ton! I was hoping to have one of these for the room as they are quite affordable. However, their weight and needing to be set on a shelf up in the corner of the room aren't mixing well in my mind. I will still be using a shelf to sit the tv on, however, the wife and I went out looking at much lighter, and unfortunately, much more expensive flat screen HD-ready tv's. Hope to have one within a week. Will have the DirecTV installer back in in a week or so to extend a line to the new room and it looks as though everything will be ready for this years Daytona 500 broadcast.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. I did spent a few hours Saturday night and Sunday AM blowing snow from the driveway. I guess we got a total of about 15 inches over the weekend.

[Keith Christopher]

worked on the mirror I'm making, aquired some clamps that were my grandfathers and cleaned a couple a bit. Played in the snow with my kids and watched my daughter ride a snowboard for the first time. and I tell you she's a natural. which of course scares me.

[JayStPeter]

I played Mr. mom on Saturday. I got my first shop time in a while on Sunday. I worked on an interesting little project designed by my 5 yr. old son. I'll make a post out of it when time permits. I attempted to shovel the snow off the driveway, but gave up on that idea when I realized it was actually a couple inches of ice.
It was good and windy as I was chipping away at my truck. More than once I was blown down the driveway. It actually became kind of fun to "windsurf" the driveway.

Jay

[Chris Padilla]

Should be rockin' the shop/garage this weekend! Whoo-hoo...a major milestone. I'm just doing the little things here and there to get ready for the rockers. Yeah, I know...pics, and time to update my thread.... :)

[Matt Meiser]

Got to take off most of Friday since I was out of town last week so I got to work on a few projects:
- built a cabinet for under my workbench to hold my Leigh jig
- cleaned up and repaired a childs table and chair set my mother gave us for my daughter. She figured she'd never get to it since she got it when my brother who is 23 was 2.
- built a countertop for in my office in the shop. I did this as a trial to see if I could do it. It is covered with plastic laminate on top and on the front with an oak band showing through at the top edge. We're thinking of doing this in our kitchen which would involve building quite a bit of contertops if I do it myself. We decided we like it, so we may do another test when we redo our master bath.

That will probably be it for the next two weeks. I'm travelling for work again this week and next week we are taking a vaction to Vegas for a couple days.

[Tim Morton]

Besides shoveling and trying to keep warm, I managed to gut my entire shop before settling in to watch some football last night...now I have all next weekend with no football to get some work done towards remodling it....

go pats!!!!

[Tim Palmer]

Finished my table saw Router Table and I am happy as a clam. I have been very busy with work and have had very little shop time so getting out there was really great here are a couple of pics. Thanks for looking
Tim

[Jerry Crawford]

This is my weekend - inletting this lock into a smooth rifle test piece. About 8 hours of work in this little space. Almost all of it done with a 1/8" and 1/4" chisel.
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[Dan Gill]

I bought a chunk of plywood and started on a swivel-top tool stand. It's from a Wood workshop issue, and I'll put my planer and belt/disk sander on it. It's made from that one sheet of ply and some other scraps I had laying around, so it's going to be uglier than homemade soap. The edge banding is a combination of maple, red oak, ash, and something else I can't identify. Sort of a Frankenstein's Monster . . .

[Doug Shepard]

The shop is still too cold to work and after all the snow removal Sat. & Sun., didn't have a lot of energy left over for WW anyway. But my TurboCad order showed up Fri. so I got that installed this weekend and started thru the ref. manuals and tutorials.

[Dennis Peacock]

This is my weekend - inletting this lock into a smooth rifle test piece. About 8 hours of work in this little space. Almost all of it done with a 1/8" and 1/4" chisel.
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Jerry,

I hear ya on the inletting or hand inlay stuff like that. Seems to take 4-ever!!! One thing that can reduce the amount of time carving into the wood like that is a dremel with the nice router base setup for the dremel and the straight cutter. That's what I use for cutouts on the custom knife boxes I make. Saves a lot of time and you can get is "close" with the dremel and then finish it off by hand. Works good. ;)

[Jerry Crawford]

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean Dennis. I use exactly that setup to excavate most of the initial wood removal and to get a nice smooth initial bottom flat for the lock plate to index against. Once I start dropping in the individual pieces I have to switch to my small chisels (although I do occasionally cheat with the dremmel :o )

[Byron Trantham]

This Hutch was built for one of my clients and I finished it this weekend. All that is left is the glass. I'm waiting for a glass cutter - hopefully today. :cool:

[Chuck Fischer]

I put this new 350 into the C-20 on Saturday...am finishing up the final connections today. Easiest header installation I have ever done! My shop is full of truck parts, but the stack is getting smaller!!! :D :D :D

The whole story can be seen here... (http://www.bowtiemadness.com/BuffaloMotorSwap.html)
Kelly, I hope you post some photos of that ride when you are done! I've always wanted to build an old C-10 or C-20.

Chuck

[Jim Young]

Built a dust collection box for the miter saw AND a clamp rack for all the Bessey's. Finally have those clamps off the floor.

[Kelly C. Hanna]

Kelly, I hope you post some photos of that ride when you are done! I've always wanted to build an old C-10 or C-20.

Chuck
Will do Chuck. I'll have some new pages up when I finish with the motor break in.