Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments

[Dennis Peacock]

20 Nov 2017

Good Morning Everyone,
I've been sick since Friday morning so my weekend has been taking meds, sleeping, drinking hot bullion, and more sleep. I feel terrible but I believe I'm on the mend. Today, my youngest son starts a new parttime job and my hopes and prayers are that he sticks with this one for a good long while. :)

I'll start this a little early in case I forget between now and Thursday...

H a p p y . . . T h a n k s g i v i n g . . . T o . . . Y o u . . . A l l !
My hope for each of you is good health, prosperity, love, and great times with family.

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

Best of weeks to you all.

[John Towns]

So good to get back into doing an actual woodworking project after many months of other activities.

I had purchased some nice cherry to make a printer cabinet with drawers. Friday night I was anxious to get the shop (I mean garage) set up for work on Saturday. After I cut the grass (hopefully not too many more cuts this year) I planed the boards to thickness and jointed them to make the 6 panels I need, saving the most interesting panel for the top.
As an added bonus, I was able to successfully use my #6 plane in the process of jointing the boards

Then I removed the clamps and sanded the panels. What fun!

Hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

John

[Jim Becker]

'Glad you're starting to feel better, Dennis...it's not fun being under the weather.

Typical weekend for me. Saturday food shopping and other house oriented things before cooking the evening meal. I kinda use Saturday as my "day off" now since I'm in the shop every other day working on my current commission project. Speaking of which, I was back at that on Sunday after a quick trip to Costco to pick up the TVs that my girls are getting as early holiday gifts. The major portion of my project is a gigantic kitchen island top (I call it a "continent" :) ) but there is also an architectural aspect in that the particular new kitchen being provided for has a coat closet and a pantry that are getting "tops" that will reflect the same material and finish that the island is receiving. Only the edges are visible, so Sunday's work was to prepare the material for the edges and build the "field" of the cabinet stops from left-over scraps of wide pine flooring from our home addition project that were hanging out in our attic. They provide for a uniform surface for "up there" to support the finished and visible edges and since the underside is relieved for the original flooring use, they should stay stable and flat, too. Once again, I leveraged the idea of flexible assembly surface space which is so much easier now that I did some slight reconfiguration of my shop to have more open space...

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This week I start finishing work once the panels are completed for on top of the pantry and coat cabinets...that's gonna be fun with that really big surface. Fortunately, I have an alternative HPLV gun that uses a remote pot which should be very helpful to me to get good reach and reduce fatigue on my right arm.

[Bryan Lisowski]

Jim, on your slider, to the right of the clamp, it appears that you attached a router table, or is that the shaper option?

[Jay Larson]

I'll second the thoughts on feeling better. On the plus side, if you forget to wish a good holidays, you can always blame the medications...

This weekend was a payback weekend. I helped a friend rip up the flooring in his house. They are have the house completely redone, and needed some help before the new flooring came in today. He is one of the guys I can pretty much count on when I need a hand, so there was no hesitation in saying yes to helping him.

Yesterday I finished the permanent step out of the back patio door. And started testing the process of making and gluing the strips for a kayak. Going to try to make a wooden tube out of the strips. Just to get used to working with the strips. And how much a person has to bevel them to get the curve you need depending on the curve of the hull.

[John K Jordan]

H a p p y . . . T h a n k s g i v i n g . . . T o . . . Y o u . . . A l l !
My hope for each of you is good health, prosperity, love, and great times with family.

...And safety and sanity in this insane world!

I certainly hope you are well recovered and very soon. And to echo what Jim B. said, it's no fun to be under the weather, especially when the weather is getting cold!

Most of my Saturday was finishing a crash preparation for Sunday lesson for about 70 elementary kids, a last minute cover for the person scheduled. Glad to say all went well.

Farm care couldn't stop so youngest grandson was here to help me!

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BTW, I really enjoy these threads you start every week! (How many years have you been doing this?) It's nice to see what others are up to. Like others, my weekend boundaries are indistinct 11 years after retirement, but that doesn't stop me. :)

JKJ

[Gregory King]

'Glad you're starting to feel better, Dennis...it's not fun being under the weather.

Typical weekend for me. Saturday food shopping and other house oriented things before cooking the evening meal. I kinda use Saturday as my "day off" now since I'm in the shop every other day working on my current commission project. Speaking of which, I was back at that on Sunday after a quick trip to Costco to pick up the TVs that my girls are getting as early holiday gifts. The major portion of my project is a gigantic kitchen island top (I call it a "continent" :) ) but there is also an architectural aspect in that the particular new kitchen being provided for has a coat closet and a pantry that are getting "tops" that will reflect the same material and finish that the island is receiving. Only the edges are visible, so Sunday's work was to prepare the material for the edges and build the "field" of the cabinet stops from left-over scraps of wide pine flooring from our home addition project that were hanging out in our attic. They provide for a uniform surface for "up there" to support the finished and visible edges and since the underside is relieved for the original flooring use, they should stay stable and flat, too. Once again, I leveraged the idea of flexible assembly surface space which is so much easier now that I did some slight reconfiguration of my shop to have more open space...

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This week I start finishing work once the panels are completed for on top of the pantry and coat cabinets...that's gonna be fun with that really big surface. Fortunately, I have an alternative HPLV gun that uses a remote pot which should be very helpful to me to get good reach and reduce fatigue on my right arm.

Nice looking shop Jim. A reminder now that winter is moving in that I need to organize as well . PS. Jim=your concrete floor is level right?

[Joe Mioux]

ugh began colonoscopy prep. this is my second time in two years.

[Mike Ontko]

ugh began colonoscopy prep. this is my second time in two years.

Ugh is right!

Dennis, hope you're back on your feet soon. The holidays are no convenient time to be laid up...or, "sick in bed with a nurse" as an old sheet metal shop teacher of mine used to say.

LOML and I purchased a new 2-horse bumper pull horse trailer this weekend. For her horse. Whoopee. Funny how she always manages to have other things to do when I ask if she wants to help me with a trip to the lumber yard.

I've also been preparing for an upcoming bed build by experimenting with the method that I'm going to use for making red oak look like antiqued pallet wood, for a rustic look that the client (my daughter and her hubby-to-be) have asked for as a wedding gift. A local supplier has a reasonably priced quantity of red oak 4/4 S2S short boards (uniform width pieces less than 6 feet in length) that I'll be resawing on my BS with a loosened 1/2" 3-tpi Timberwolf and then using the 3/8" pieces as veneers over an ash and birch ply frame. In addition to the rough-sawn pallet wood look, I'm using combinations of three different stain colors and then lightly burning the surface of some boards with a propane torch to achieve an antiqued look. The approach and construction methods (using bed rail hardware from Rockler) seem simple enough, but the wood prep and veneering process could add a few days to the overall time frame. Fortunately, I've got till mid-Februrary.

[Jim Becker]

Jim, on your slider, to the right of the clamp, it appears that you attached a router table, or is that the shaper option?

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?54500-Project-Router-Station-For-Sliding-Table-Saw&highlight=BenchDog

[Jim Becker]

PS. Jim=your concrete floor is level right?

Nope...the building was originally a 3.5 car garage. Floor slopes, but I deal with it.

[Jim Dwight]

I think colonscaphy prep is worse than "under the weather". I haven't had one in about 10 years but will need to do it again next year.

I prepped the house for Thanksgiving Saturday and prepped the old 10 inch miter saw to cut 3 5/8 crown on Sunday. I also got up the first 3 pieces of crown, the longest a little over 12 feet long up and caulked. I'd rather use my 12 inch Hitachi but it is awfully heavy and the 10 inch works fine. I had to install a taller back fence, but it has holes for that, and I put a board on for the stop including tapping a couple 1/4 holes. It is working well. I did a fourth little piece tonight but plan to wait until I can work in daylight to keep going. I will probably take Wednesday as vacation and not go back until Monday so I should chew through the other 7 pieces with finish + another that I still need to finish in that time period. I am slow but the results are pretty good. Kitchen needs about 4 more pieces cut then I move to master bath and bedroom. I will probably run out before I get it all done but will then know exactly how much more to get. I think I will get the vanity I've been waiting over 2 months for sometime next weekend so it can go in too. That might prevent me finishing the crown but there is no deadline.

[Tom Bain]

I made some solid progress on the benches for my kitchen booth, which are made from a repurposed church pew. Got them painted over the weekend (with my HVLP sprayer) and ready to install permanently. Still have to build the table part of the booth but I have temporary mock-up made out of MDF so I can play with the size/height/spacing until it feels right. Will eventually post some pics once its finally done ... whenever that is :-)

[Bruce Page]

ugh began colonoscopy prep. this is my second time in two years.
You have my sympathies Joe. I'm on a 3 year schedule, I did my second one last month. They're sooo much fun.

[Wayne Lomman]

Saturday was a trip to the Huonville agricultural show with the goats. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip each way and hot for the time of year. We did ok. The show was packed. We find that these days people flock to the small Ag shows and avoid the Hobart and Launceston Royal Shows. 23000 people through our goat section in one day.

Huonville is nearly as far south as it is possible to go in Tasmania. It is on the Huon River which is the home of the Huon pine, my all time favourite timber. Cheers

[John K Jordan]

Saturday was a trip to the Huonville agricultural show with the goats. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip each way and hot for the time of year. We did ok. The show was packed. We find that these days people flock to the small Ag shows and avoid the Hobart and Launceston Royal Shows. 23000 people through our goat section in one day.

Huonville is nearly as far south as it is possible to go in Tasmania. It is on the Huon River which is the home of the Huon pine, my all time favourite timber. Cheers

That's interesting! How many goats do you have and take? Are these shows for "show" animals, milk, meat, anything? How about a photo or two?

I used to raise goats for pets, to sell, and occasionally milk and I loved them. Unfortunately I had to sell them all when I got llamas and alpacas since they share the same parasites and I don't have the facilities to keep them separated.

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Just curious, do people keep llamas in Tasmania?

JKJ

[Joe Mioux]

You have my sympathies Joe. I'm on a 3 year schedule, I did my second one last month. They're sooo much fun.

thanks. its done, this one was pretty fast. no polyps, so I'm good for 7 years.

[Bill Graham]

Afternoons last week, part of the weekend and a couple evenings this week got me a wall in the shop cleaned up, a compressed air supply that doesn't have to be hauled out of the closet and a permanent home for the jointer:

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It all started last Wednesday when I picked up the CAT 2040 (http://www.californiaairtools.com/ultra-quiet-series-of-air-compressors/4-0-hp-air-compressors/cat-20040c/) compressor from the Big Ernge, got it home, fired it up and it sure is quiet! So now my little Rolair VT20 (https://www.rolair.com/products/air-compressors/hand-carry/vt20tb) and the old 13-gal reservoir tank can come out from under the stairs and find a new home(my storage room and a Dumpster, respectively), the new compressor will go into the same closet and take up less space. So Thursday I spent most of the day trimming excess open-cell spray foam from the stairwell closet walls and the bottom of the stairs(everyone likes neat, right?), running the 240V line from the subpanel and wiring up a motor-rated switch with an outlet so I could shut off power without crawling into the closet to unplug it. Hauled the compressor into it's new home, plugged in and fired up and she roared like a lion! Literally, it shook the walls.

I had put up some 1/4" ply on the inside of the stairwell back wall for the foam spray(waste of money, open-cell foam blocks sound just about as well as R-13 fiberglass batts, call it just about useless) and I figured the plywood was essentially a drum head. So the plywood came out, all the foam got removed from the wall behind and I put in two bags of Roxul Safe'n'Sound batts, two layers in the areas that went below the stairs. That was Friday and Saturday. Turned on the compressor and the lion purred, I eliminated everything but some low-freq rumble. I'm good for now, I can deal with that later.

Sunday I decided I could make better use of the near wall than using it to hang a Fletcher 3000 (https://www.fletcherviscom.com/frame-joining-material-cutting-products/3000-multi-material-cutter)board cutter that I bought in my picture-framing days and hasn't been used in at least 6 years. The space was a good fit for my jointer which has lived in the back of the basement and rolled out for use and(because of the PITA factor) hasn't been used nearly as much as I'd like. So the Fletcher went off to the storeroom, I ran another 240 outlet on the same circuit and the jointer emerged into the light of day. :D

Monday was putting together the air filter/regulator manifold and hooking it up. I have a leak or two to troubleshoot but finally I have an air source in the shop that doesn't involve hauling out a compressor, hooking it up to a reserve tank and waiting for it to come up to pressure, then waiting for it to build up pressure in the middle of a spray job or using the blowgun. It's the simple things that make life so much easier, right?

Tonight I moved the stuff hanging on the wall around so it wasn't blocking the switches and added another hose caddy to organize things a little better.

I know it doesn't sound like much, I didn't build anything at all. But it has really improved my workflow, in a 260 sft. basement shop that's a big plus. Not to mention the time saved by having tools readily available that don't have to be dragged out and set up.

I hope all of you had an equally productive weekend! :)

[John Sanford]

puttered some, made some weird Acadian Lamb Stew. (That's what I'm callin' it, 'cause it's got apples and cranberries in it.)

Turned a 5" tall or so snowman out of Douglas Fir on Saturday, and then turned a "Christmas tree" like shape out of another piece of DF on Sunday. Also, went to see Thor: Ragnarok with one of my sons. Barring a few quibbles on my part, it is an excellent movie.