Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments

[Dennis Peacock]

13 Mar 2017

Good Morning Everyone,
It's been a really tough week of oncall duty for the day job. 3 hours sleep since early Saturday morning and I'm past exhausted.
Nothing going on in the shop at the moment, been helping the LOML with an upholstery job for a friend. And still learning how to cook when time permits on Saturdays.

That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past weekend?

Best of weeks to you all.

[Brian Henderson]

Really didn't get anything done over the weekend. Working on a top secret birthday present for my oldest daughter, got a major glue up done on Friday and had planned to get it out of the clamps, it just didn't happen that way.

[Rod Sheridan]

Diann and I went to Canada Blooms/Home Show, that may have been a mistake.

Diann now has all sorts of ideas to add to the job list:(

[Sean Hagerty]

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I finished the randomness portion of this, now to get the next panel cut and then mix the pieces!!

[Vince Rosypal]

A productive but frustrating weekend....
Finished paint on sub woofer amp and wiring of trigger to turn on... not wood working but my other passion/obsession
Finished box joint sled jig and put it to use on a replacement steamer trunk tray for my mother in law. Jig worked very well.
Cut up all pieces for the tray and glued up.... that where the frustration came in.... glue up did not go well.... its together but not as pretty as dry fit was.... all part of learning I guess

[Michael Stockdale]

FINALLY... I have a workbench! Final two coats of BLO/Spar varnish/mineral spirits... Ready to work!

Mike

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[Shawn Pixley]

LOML was sick all weekend. I spent my time nursing, cooking, cleaning and taking care of all of the household chores.

[Sean Hagerty]

FINALLY... I have a workbench! Final two coats of BLO/Spar varnish/mineral spirits... Ready to work!

Mike

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Very Nice, I hope to have one this nice some day!

Sean

[Michael Gagne]

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Getting close to finishing my red oak Roubo workbench. Need to drill some holdfast holes and maybe add a sliding deadman. Working with a solid slab was a bear.
Mike

[Patrick Lesher]

FINALLY... I have a workbench! Final two coats of BLO/Spar varnish/mineral spirits... Ready to work!

Mike

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That is absolutely gorgeous. Almost too beautiful to work on.

[Jay Larson]

First weekend at home for a while. Two weeks ago I was in Las Vegas for the USBC Open bowling tournament, and last weekend I was up in Minneapolis to visit my fiance. She is there on a contract job for 13 weeks.
Anyway, this weekend I had another bowling tournament on Saturday. Then yesterday it was cleaning day. And then I got to playing with a Raspberry PI micro-computer. Looking to make a game cabinet eventually.
Oh yeah, I did clean up some of the yard of the flotsam and jetsam from the wind storms lately.

[Garth Almgren]

With my dad's help, I started and finished drywalling my office shed in about 9 hours of work over Saturday and Sunday.
It must be said, drywall lifts are such a wonderful and helpful invention! I rented one for the ceiling and upper walls on Saturday and finished the lower part of the walls (with all the outlet cutouts) on Sunday.
I also rented a small interior scaffold to help with the next steps (mudding and taping: my least favorite part of construction).

[Samuel Green]

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Started my handtool cabinet build. Decided to repurpose an old bookshelf instead of tossing it. Eventually will build a nice one but this should work for now!

[Jim Becker]

No woodworking for me since I'm still in central Florida dealing with my father's medical situation. But I did get some "pony" time on Saturday when a long-time friend who lives in Florida now came to a beautiful equestrian facility right up the street from where the 'rents live and I got to hang out and photograph them. Dealing with a family member's medical issues is very stressful, especially while trying to also work "the real job" simultaneously while living in hotel rooms. :o So I was very thankful for the diversion.

That said, I also get to miss "da storm"...Professor Dr. SWMBO and the girls will have to deal with it. (eek!)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Fm-gGgOKw

[Dan Rude]

I cleaned up my basement remodel/shop move to the smaller space. Needed to make room to host a Pinewood Derby build. Had only the Scout troop leader and son show. So with my son we had 2 boys. I will have another one next Sunday, the following Saturday is the big race. This is my son's last year, he is transitioning to Boy Scouts now. Dan

[Malcolm Schweizer]

I also started on repurposing a cabinet as a plane cabinet, and finally got to planing my bench top (the bottom of it) prior to chopping the mortises.

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[Chris Hachet]

FINALLY... I have a workbench! Final two coats of BLO/Spar varnish/mineral spirits... Ready to work!

Mike

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That looks fantastic...

[Chris Hachet]

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Started my handtool cabinet build. Decided to repurpose an old bookshelf instead of tossing it. Eventually will build a nice one but this should work for now!


Impressive tool collection, I like the way you have it organized.

[Dale Murray]

I dont know if this counts.

I scored a nice deal on some wood; 8bf Bubinga, 2bf Bolivian rosewood, 11bf of Fiddle Back maple (14.5" wide, figured full width and length).

A bit over $200 for all of it, this included that big roll of veneer and a small piece of curly maple, too.

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