Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments...

[Dennis Peacock]

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope everyone had a good weekend. For me it was helping Mark Cothren with an in progress baby cradle for his "on the way" 1st grandbaby. Things are going along very well on the cradle.

I delivered the first set of 3 cabinets to the 2nd Chance Youth Ranch on Friday. What a nice place. I'll be able to take pictures on my next visit, so I'll be posting pics on my next visit to the youth ranch.

Zahid Naqvi came by Saturday and we worked on making a few wooden handplanes. If everything works out? Man, I'll have a very nice wooden handplane.

I did not play bass on Sunday as it was a day I wasn't scheduled to play so it was really a good day to relax after church and catnap on the couch. Something I very rarely ever do any more. Sure felt good though.

It back to work today and back in the shop tonight.

So what did YOU do this weekend?

Best of weeks to you all.....

[Sam Chambers]

Got some shop time - first in a long while. Started installing my new Biesemeyer TS fence. Might have finished it if I could have re-used my old extension table, but I'm having to build a new one. Pics to follow.

[Jim Becker]

It's still the weekend here for me...'taking a comp day since I lost nearly my entire weekend last week to business travel, although I did have a most excellent 'Creeker visit (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42963) as part of that. So far, I have not been in the shop, but plan on some time there today in between running errands, and playing daddy before and after school. When I do get in there, it will be to work on some additional finishing steps on the natural edge walnut bench project (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42271&highlight=Project%3A) I started two weeks ago.

[Don Baer]

Got up Saturday morning and loaded up the truck, LOML and I drove 7 1/2 hrs from Queen Creek, AZ to Pahrump, Neveda. checked into our hotel, then went to my bothers house to attend his wedding, After the reciption went back to the Hotel/Casino and proceed to have a few pops and feed the machines, I actually came out $100 ahead. Church Sunday morning. Stopped by the brothers house to say by to my brother and his new wife, then drove 7 1/2 hours back to queen creek. A very long 2 days but worth it.

[Maurice Metzger]

My wife and I went to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the rest of the weekend I mostly spent preparing stock.

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Maurice

[Steve Clardy]

Worked on the present Maple cab job I have going now on saturday.
Sunday started the same way, then I decided to do some shuffling around in the shop, wood scraps and such.
Got some extra junk, tools,electrical stuff listed on ebay.
Got carried away with that and never did get back to the 36" vanity I had started.

[Ralph Barhorst]

An old barn that had been originally built in the 1840s was torn down last year. All of the old beams were saved and the barn was rebuilt on Saturday. Well at least the beams were all put up on Saturday.

Earlier in the week some new timbers were cut to replace the sill for the barn. About 50 members of the "Timber Framers Guild of America" were on hand to help cut the timbers and erect the barn.

The barn was erected on the site of the Carriage Hill Metropark just north of Dayton, Ohio.

It was quite an event with a large crowd of on-lookers.

Here is a picture of one of the new sill joints and the raising of the first wall.

[Robert Mayer]

No woodworking this weekend. I was in NYC for my company and got to visit the metropolitan museum of art. The place has some unreal displays of woodworking. Check out the pernament collection they have online:

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewHigh.asp?dep=1&viewmode=0&set=02

The have 5 pieces of goddard furniture there, and they are amazing in person. Ill post the few pictures that came out later.

[Hank Knight]

Shrimp season opened in South Carolina for non commercial, "sport" shrimpers. I went Saturday with my friend who lives in Beaufort and we caught 25 pounds of shrimp in a little over two hours. I was so sore from throwing the net (see pic below) I could hardly get out of bed Sunday.

Yesterday morning we took a long cruise up the Ashepoo river into the ACE Basin. The ACE basin is an enormous maritime forest and esturine system bordered by the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers that is set aside and protected by the State and the feds. It's absolutely beautiful, not a human or a building as for as you can see in any direction. It's teeming with wildlife and will remain in it's pristine state forever, thanks to the State's acquisition of much of it and conservation easements from private landowners for the rest.

Here's a shot of me throwing the cast net. On a good day, every cast will yield anywhere from a dozen to several dozen shrimp. It's not woodworking but it's great fun.

Hank

[Mark Pruitt]

Six bowls...three lived, two died, one fractured:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=43020

It was good to end the weekend on a positive note. It was also good to see LOML get back from her weekend trip. 100 hours and 30 minutes till the next weekend!:D

[Keith Outten]

I spent part of my weekend working with my Dad building a spike harrow for our tractor. Below is a picture of my 83 year young welder working on the harrow in the last bay of my shop.

Friday afternoon I started my weekend by pulling a walnut stump out of the ground, literally. Using a ten ton come-a-long and the two adjacent trees I was able to pull the stump cleanly out of the ground with most of the roots intact.

Anyone looking for walnut roots?

No picture it didn't happen...I have included a pic of the walnut stump to satisfy the pic police.

[Larry Fox]

No ww'ing on Saturday. Sunday, sprayed shellac sealer coat on final 21 of 35 door panels for my kitchen project. Sanding / color coats this week and - if the weather holds - final topcoats on Saturday and I should be done with them.

[Tyler Howell]

Plenty of shop time. Dimensioned some ruff sawn and recycled oak with hand and power planes. spent a couple hours fabricating DC for a power hand plane. It kicked out more dust than I collected. Light and fluffies knee deep, all over the house, in my pockets, shoes, under......http://graphics.hotmail.com/i.p.emdgust.gif. everywhere. Stained and sealed some trim.
Also played with an antique nautical lamp. Going to wire it up for a sailing friend. A little family time is always nice. Dr Daughter is in town.:D

Play safe.

[Scott Coffelt]

Wife was out of town, so I was on kid duty all weekend, not that that is bad as my son is close to 7. But it does mean that I had to be the one driving him around.

Did get some time to work on the master bath remodel. I completed a curly cherry frame and doors to cover the front of the Jacuzzi. Grouted the slate floor throughout the week, so I was able to get it cleaned up and sealed. Put a finish on the teak Jacuzzi step. That chewed up all weekend.

[Zahid Naqvi]

As Dennis stated, spent a few hours at Dennis' to shape a high angle smoother. Turned out pretty nice. Pictures to follow on the neander side soon. Got stock glued up for two more smoothers and a 35 degree block plane.

[Chip Olson]

Got into the shop for a bit on Sunday and worked on the drawers and pull-outs for the cabinets. Experimented with a technique I read about in PW for fixing gaps in dovetails, which is gluing in a thin wedge of the same wood. Seemed to work OK and shows less than the wood filler I was using. (If you are getting the impression here that my dovetailing skills are less than stellar, even using a jig, that would be a correct inference.) Also got started with final sanding and rounding off the top edges, accidentally rounding the front edge of a drawer that is going to get a false front attached. Oopsie. Will need to come up with a way to fix that. Wonder if my cove bit is a match for the roundover bit. A couple more to go and they'll be ready for finishing.

[Lon LeBlanc]

Spent Saturday on the Home Tour here in Lake Arrowhead. Lots of beautiful woodwork to look at, including one home that was almost all knotty pine T&G inside, with some walnut colored crown moulding. Lovely.

Spent Sunday rearranging the buildup under the house, and putting away the scraps of OSB and ply that I've scrounged (w/permission of Gen Contractors) from houses under construction here in the mtns. I'm planning to have my new shop shelving done for virtually free, and maybe even have enough to build my first workbench for the cost of a vice only.

Met with the engineers this AM, to go over the initial plans for the Garage/Shop/Storage/Attic sewing room/workout space. We're on our way!!

Cheers to all.

Lon

[JayStPeter]

I've been in San Diego on business a lot lately babysitting a newly installed system. Had the weekend off so I rented a Harley and cruised some excellent roads. Wish I had my sportbike, but even more wish I had my gear. The tops of my hands are purple from sunburn since the rental joint didn't have any gloves.

Jay

[Jim O'Dell]

I had a long weekend. Took vacation days Thurs. and Fri., but only got into the shop once...to show some friends visiting from Tuscon. They were here for the wife to judge sweepstakes (puppies) at our dog show. We don't have a puppy to show (under a certain age) so were able to have her and her husband here at our house. So Thursday was cleaning day :eek:, and Friday they came in about 11:30. Headed off to our favorite Mexican food joint (Uncle Julio's.. MMMMMMMMMMMMM) and then to the dog show in Dallas. No supper until after the dog show, so we stopped at 10:30 pm for ice cream at the Slab Creamery, at least I think that's the name. Slept in late Sat. am. Then went to lunch before they headed back. Very good time with even better friends! Got a little rain Sat. and Sun. afternoons. Worked on the computer, replacing a bad router so both could get internet again. Still need to get the network going so I can print on the printer in my wife's studio. Then back to work bright and early this am. I'm beat!!! (and I don't know why :D ) Jim.