Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments..... [Archive] - Sawmill Creek Woodworking Community

Dennis Peacock

01-23-2006, 10:33 AM

Good Morning and yes.....another weekend has come and gone. It's time to share what you planned for your weekend AND IF you got done what you had hopes of getting done. ;)

No shop time for me. I was oncall again at work this week 102 hours of work during a week that only has 168 hours in it. Just doesn't leave much time for anything else. I came off call today and I'm happy but Exhausted.

So....what did YOU get done this weekend in your shop or around your home?

Best of weeks to you all.

Jim Becker

01-23-2006, 10:37 AM

I actually got in the shop this weekend to do a little turning (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=29912). Otherwise, I was working on some SketchUp! renderings of home addition ideas (we want to start looking at it more seriously soon), checking out why water was coming in through an 18" thick stone wall in the girls room, draining a couple inches of water out of the fish pond due to the recent rain, spending time at the playground and attempting to find time to sleep soundly. (The latter sounds like something Dennis needs!)

Have a great week.

Steve Ash

01-23-2006, 10:41 AM

Busy weekend for me Dennis, finished my wifes oak nightstand on Saturday night, then made a cherry plaque for a distinguished 3rd. District commander who will be visiting our local American Legion, made a birdseye maple picture frame for a friend who just lost his father and I thought a picture of his dad in a BE Maple frame would be a nice thing to do for him.

My wife and I paid Larry Merlau and his wife a visit on Sunday afternoon...made for a nice weekend here.

Scott Coffelt

01-23-2006, 10:41 AM

I was finally able to find some time in the shop on Saturday. I was working on a new vanity for our master bath. The front is curly cherry, anyways I was having a heck of a time getting the doors to line up. It is a modern design, so no face frames and the doors are solid panels with 1/8" gaps. Well after about an hour I leaned on the cabinet and realized that it rocked. looked below and saw that one of the legs was not touching. I used those plastic adjustable legs you get from Rockler. I screwed the one leg up a little more and everything started lining up. So I finished the door and drawer adjustments, sanded and put a coat of wipe-on poly/ura blend. Some steel wool on Sunday. I still need to put three more coats on, but Sunday was spent installing some new faucet fixtures in the guest bathroom and of course football.

Brian Buckley

01-23-2006, 10:58 AM

I spent the weekend in Austin, Texas at the Mini Max seminar. I learned alot about my 410 Combo from Sam and others. Super bunch of people in attendance.
It did turn out to be very expensive. They had way to many "good deals" to turn down.

Ryan Ricks

01-23-2006, 11:03 AM

I went to the Woodworking show in Indianapolis. I have had my eye on an Incra table saw fence since I got my router system 4 years ago. I received permission from LOML and came home fence system in hand. Now I just need to set it up!

-Ryan

Jim Fancher

01-23-2006, 11:03 AM

It was the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby weekend for our Pack. My son won 1st place in his Den as well as Pack Champion.

Right before we left I whipped up a 2nd car for the Open Class. It took all of 10 minutes. It won 1st place. :D I entered it under my youngest son's name and he got a kick out of accepting the trophy.

The Fancher Clan cruised out of there with three 1st place trophies. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday. We all had a blast.

Tyler Howell

01-23-2006, 11:20 AM

A little home remuttling. Mostly spent time at my moms doing some plumbing installing grab bars. She bounced off the floor last week and took some fixtures with her:( . We got her and the house patched up I think.

Jim Fancher

01-23-2006, 11:28 AM

JayStPeter

01-23-2006, 11:31 AM

It's kind of strange, but since having the baby a few weeks ago I actually have more weekend shop time than usual. We cleared our calendar in anticipation of the baby so there's nothing else really going on.
I got my spray booth up and sprayed my router table this weekend. The router table has been functionally complete for a long time now, but no finish ... just the ticket for trying out a new finishing technique.
I got the booth up on Saturday, which involved learning to use a new ... uhhhh ... power tool? ... the sewing machine.
Sunday, I disassembled the table, sanded, 1 coat of sealer and 2 coats of wb lacquer, and reassembled the table. I also managed some time to excercise and play with the kids.
I'll do a thread on my spray booth one night this week when time permits.

Jay

Bert Johansen

01-23-2006, 11:38 AM

A long-overdue project, I completed an air-filtration "tower." About 4 years ago a customer was about to toss a 240-volt blower motor and squirrel cage from an old HVAC system. I offered to take it off his hands-HA! It sat in my shop gathering dust until this weekend. The tower is 75" tall and houses the blower on the bottom. One vertical side is solid, and the other three incorporate a total of nine 16X25 filters.

I picked up several 240-volt "contactors" from Marlin P. Jones (www.mpj.com) for less than $5.00 each. (They are listed as "refurbished" but came out-of-the box brand spanking new.) I previously used one for my 240-volt DC system that collects sawdust from my various machines. These devices are activated with a 115-volt connection from a switch. Rocker switch cost about $10 from the local hardware store.

Tower is built from plywood and SPF left over from various projects. Total cost about $25. And it moves a LOT of air!

Bert

Brad Schmid

01-23-2006, 11:49 AM

Finished a Cherry plate rail shelf for the living room for display of some antique plates, and spent time cleaning the shop on Saturday. Sunday afternoon took 7yr old son to Johnson Space Center for his birthday and monitored the Steeler game from my cell phone:D In the evening, I fitted the fronts for 8 inset drawers and watched the NFC championship game. With any luck and time, I'll finish dovetailing the drawers and get them assembled over the next week or so (if I can stay away from the spinny thing long enough;)). All in all, a good weekend:)

Art Mulder

01-23-2006, 12:29 PM

We're getting ready to do some room shuffling, so it is mostly going to be home-oriented work over the next little while.

My beloved is (reluctantly) giving up her sewing room - since we need to use it as a bedroom - and will relocate to the tv room in the basement. So the tv room was emptied and the tv reconfigged into the playroom. The single bulb fixture was pulled out and on Saturday evening I wired up two four-foot T8 fixtures with daylight bulbs (6000 degree kelvin, quite white!) to brighten up the space and make up for the lack of a window.

Mass production in action: a two tube electronic ballast T8 fixture, complete with a wraparound bezel, was cheaper than a single tube, no bezel, fixture.

Furthermore, since the TV room is on the other side of the wall from my basement shop, I then spent a couple hours on Sunday afternoon cutting and fitting 1/8" thick panels in place to block/seal the joist space that connects the two rooms. (there is no ceiling in either space, and we're keeping it like that.) Just to be as complete as possible, I also taped all the seams/cracks. This, along with the new DC that I got over christmas, should hopefully keep the dust out of my beloved's sewing machines.

The next thing will probably be re-fitting the sewing room closet to suit the reach of a five year old... (I hate stock closets. The design is so useless)

Tyler Howell

01-23-2006, 12:36 PM

Jim Hager

01-23-2006, 12:37 PM

I planned on doing a set of flat panel doors for a customer this weekend and did get that done on Saturday. I hired a helper for the day and we finished up on 34 doors and 16 drawer fronts. Sunday I didn't mean to get a lot done but wound up staying in the shop all day anyway and got the panels glued and cut to size for the next order of 46 raised panel doors for next weekend. I fooled around with learning how to make arched top rails for making glass paneled doors and discovered a method using my home made rail jig. Then I did 8 glass paneled doors. I actually got more done than I meant to do so I guess that is a good thing.

Don Baer

01-23-2006, 12:39 PM

Did some plumbing, I hate plumbing. Fixed a leak under kitchen sink, I hate plumbing, Fixed coldwater faucet in my sink in the master bath, I hate plumbing, replaced shower head in master bath, I hate plumbing.

I did get some shop time in I spent the rest of the weekend sanding and sanding the table I am working on I hope to be ready to put the first coast on finish on it next weekend if I can get the sanding done this week.

Oh did I metion I hate plumbing

:(

Andy London

01-23-2006, 12:51 PM

For me this weekend was devoted to learning how to transfer video from dv to the computer...OMG...six software packages later I discovered some are excellent for transferring to DVD, some are great for editing and some are excellent if you want to email a clip, one I just could not understand.... I have yet to find one that is great in all three areas.

Two Christmas's ago I purchased LOML a ZR mini DV camera. At the time I didn't have the right powerhouse for a comuter to offload the video and edit it however I upgraded at Christmas with a new multi media Dell computer.

I spent close to 20 hours on the weekend trying to learn this or at least try to get it right.

So, as a trial, I did a 5 min workshop tour for avery good friend of mine Ivor in Calgary and it is located at the link below. If you are dial up I would suggest you avoid the clip as it's 50 megs in size but suite yourself.

It's a crash video of the shop, mainly to see if I could get this to work. It plays with the standard Windows Media Player which is free, the quality is as good as I dare go to in order to keep the file size down. It was taken at night and I can brighten it up etc but this is just a test. I think however I can shrink the resolution and get a much smaller file size.....perhaps next weekend's project:)

I think this will be super handy when it comes to explaining turning and certain other things, jigs etc.

It is free from all spyware and garbage as I host the website on our servers at work:D

http://www.picframer.ca/shop_video.htm

Mike Evertsen

01-23-2006, 1:07 PM

not much done this weekend in the shop. put a coat of poly on the 1st batch of chairs saturday then I couldn't do anymore work out there. sunday I cleaned the shop some to make room for another table for staining and poly.

Tyler Howell

01-23-2006, 2:14 PM

Did some plumbing, I hate plumbing. Fixed a leak under kitchen sink, I hate plumbing, Fixed coldwater faucet in my sink in the master bath, I hate plumbing, replaced shower head in master bath, I hate plumbing.

Oh did I metion I hate plumbing

:(

Don't hold back Don, Tell us how you really feel about plumbing. :p

Had to take the door and vanity doors off my mom's bath to get at the faucet lines. I still like plumbing, but it wiped out a whole weekend. My tail was draggin yesterday.

Dave Carey

01-23-2006, 2:27 PM

Had a great weekend especially because there was no plumbing involved. I'm with Don on that. Saw "Mrs. Henderson" starring Judi Densch on Sat. Great movie but I like anything she's in. Also had time alone to watch the Fine Wood Working DVD on Mastering Your Bandsaw. Got it from Netflix based on a tip from someone at this site. Not quite Judi Densch quality acting but well worth the time. Finished a band saw box that was actually a Christmas (last) present and started on some small heart shaped boxes for Valentine's Day. Would include a picture but my daughter absconded with my digital camera. Great weekend marred only by my wife's enquiry as to when I was going to do this year's taxes.

Tyler Howell

01-23-2006, 3:18 PM

Ouch! Glad to hear she's doing ok. That's scary no matter what age you are.
Thanks Jim,
It's been touch and go for a while here

Gregg Mason

01-23-2006, 5:02 PM

Made a couple of push blocks and ordered a new Freud F410 40 tooth blade and the Freud Box joint set.

Gregg

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Vaughn McMillan

01-23-2006, 5:21 PM

Did the first (important) deep cut on my bandsaw (discussed in an earlier thread) then set up and used my first router bridge for flattening a pair of end grain cutting boards.

- Vaughn

Ed Breen

01-23-2006, 5:42 PM

Well Dennis,
It was a rough weekend for me. First of all we had to watch all the rain fall in Arkansas while we poor Okies are still dry. Weekend started out in fine fettle. I went out to the shop to work on a table (5 slats, 4legs and 4 bolsters tied with string) that i got in Mountain view for $4.00 That was when the deputy came to the door to tell us that there was a grass fire accross the turnpike (we back up to the pike) and to be ready to evacuate! Had to get out and hustle all the hoses in my world, about 8 lengths and get them laid out back of the shop. The shop backs up to 21/2 acres of scoth pines!!! Could see the flames and smoke, but it didn't cross. Thank heaven!! Sunday started working the black milk paint off the table in preparation for finish coats. Then started ripping red oak down to size and thickness. Our old grandfather clock was destroyed some years back, and I decided to build the one featured in last edition of Woodsmith. Am using red oak instead of 1/4 sawn white since the old clock was red oak, and I happen to have 120 bd ft laying around.
All in all a typical weekend.
Ed

Chris Padilla

01-23-2006, 6:00 PM

I didn't do anything but watch my beloved Broncos fall miserably to the Steelers! :(

Oh, I'm cleaning up the garage here and there, too. Man, will that sucker ever get itself done?? ;)

Thomas Prondzinski

01-23-2006, 6:08 PM

Stayed up late Friday in shop,no time Sat. Took a gander at some Red Elm trees and possibly some cherry from my corn supplier.Went to brothers to take more measurements for Laundry cabinets and pantry door. In shop on Sunday,just about done with customers dresser.

Tom

Joe Unni

01-23-2006, 6:17 PM

Saturday - I finished milling the cases for 7 frameless, upper kitchen wall cabinets. All in plain sliced red oak...very nice stuff. Movie night with the kids.

Sunday - gymnastics in the morning, "spin art" in the afternoon and TONS of year-end paperwork.

-joe

Jim O'Dell

01-23-2006, 7:07 PM

Chris, it's no wonder you don't have the garage/shop finished yet. You seldom post here, so your mind must be on other things!! :p I want to see that shop in use! And remember, if I'm pointing my finger at you, I've got THREE fingers pointed back at myself..... Jim.

Mark Rios

01-23-2006, 7:24 PM

I didn't do anything but watch my beloved Broncos fall miserably to the Steelers! :(

Oh, I'm cleaning up the garage here and there, too. Man, will that sucker ever get itself done?? ;)

Chris, your beloved Broncos suck! You should follow a real (local) team, one that wins.......like the Niners or the Raiders.:D :D :D

For my weekend I finished up a big fence job that will be allowing me to make my next big tool purchase.

Matt Meiser

01-23-2006, 7:42 PM

Saturday I went to the North American International Auto Show with my brother to check out the new cars. Its amazing how my taste in cars has changed since the last time I went 14 years ago. Now my first thoughts are how much?, followed by looking at mileage, the interior room and trunk space. Sunday I spent several hours in the shop tuning my saw and working on several other shop things.

Bob Noles

01-23-2006, 7:44 PM

Well..... I certainly didn't do any plumbing (that was last weekend):D :D

Much rain and slop over the 2 days. I did get in the shop for a couple of hours for some lathe practice and the rest of the time was spent taking it easy with the LOML and not doing much of anything for a change. Did slip in a couple of hours reading and WW DVD watching.

Fred Voorhees

01-23-2006, 8:10 PM

An abnormal weekend for me this time around. Spent Friday afternoon and all day Saturday and Sunday hawking souvenir programs at the Greater Philadelphia Sports and Outdoor Exposition at the Ft. Washington (PA) expo center. Both my wife and I occasionally get to spend the weekend doing this and it provides us the opportunity to meet up with many people, get out for the weekend and also to pick up some extra spending cash. For the work that we perform, it is really easy cash. Oh yeah, I also got to meet the Motor City Madman - Ted Nugent. Ted of course is a big hunter and outdoorsman and he was the highlight guest of the weekend and spent quite a bit of time at both autograph sessions and doing some hunting seminars.