New Member, First Post

[Sean Graflund]

Just saying hi. Located this forum from another one, I've cruised various forums on the internet and can never find enough information. I always enjoy discussing woodworking with other fellows and is has increased my knowledge greatly.

A little about me, I'm still a relative newbie at woodworking, been at it for about a two years. Started with just a circular saw, drill, hammer, and some nails and screws. Didn't know a thing about what tool was what, always awed at watching Norm and didn't know what each tool he used was for ....

Started gaining more knowledge, crusing woodworking forums and watching diy shows, and about a year ago wife and I bought our first house together. I'm 27, we've been married for 2 years. We bought a 2000 sq. ft 1 story ranch in Waterford, MI with a 900 sq. foot attached garage that has now come home to my shop. The back corner of the garage, about a 25 x 15 area + some is where I do most of my work. I've gathered most of the equipment I've needed in that time, you can see a shop pic here:

http://home.comcast.net/~sgraflund/5.jpg

and I have a lot more here if anyone is interested:

http://home.comcast.net/~sgraflund/shopnew.html

Most of the last year has been setting up shop, I've done a few small furniture projects but nothing big. Latest is an oak easel I'm finishing for LOML ... from there it's a oak bookcase for my grandma for xmas, and from there it's an oak waterbed (can someone say i've got deals on oak lately, hehe)..

Just wanted to say hi and hope to talk to you all in the future.

Sean

[Noah Alkinburgh]

Sean,

Welcome to the Creek! Its a great place, so pull up a log and stick your feet in or just wade right in. People here are really helpful and full of opinions :D

You have a nice looking shop! You may want to take a look at the Samill TOS agreement. Part of our community here is that we don't use screen names for our main user name.

Look forward to seeing some of your work and having your input here at the Creek!

Noah

[Ken Salisbury]

Glad you are here !! You will find this a very informative woodworking site. As Noah mentioned in his response you must provide a real first and last name as a requirement of the Sawmill Creek Terms of Service (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/terms.php)(please read them). If you will e-mail me (ken@oldrebelworkshop.com)that information I will have your registration information corrected accordingly.


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[Ted Shrader]

Sean -

Welcome to the Creek. Lots of friendly folks here with an unlimited supply of knowledge. Pull up a log and settle in.

Ted

[Von Bickley]

Sean,
Welcome to the Creek. Lots of good people here that really enjoy talking about woodworking.

[Steve Clardy]

Nice shop full of tools I see. Looks like you have a little wall space left for more clamps. Ha.
This SMC site is hazardous to your time. Nice place. Steve

[Sean Graflund]

Thanks for the welcome guys!

And thanks Ken for getting my handle changed to my name ..

Nope .. no more room for clamps :) hehehe ...

But if I got more I'd definately find some!

[Bob Lasley]

Welcome Sean,

Glad you found us. We're always happy to see another sawdust creator around here.

Bob

[Ace Karner]

Welcome to the Creek. Now that you've had you're first encounter with Ken the Old Rebel Curmudgeon, you'll find that much to his chagrin, he's really just a big ole Teddy bear. LOL

[Terry Hatfield]

Hey Sean,

Welcome to the Creek!!!!!!!

Come on in a stay a while. I think you will really like this place. I sure do.

Did you get those water bed plans I sent you????

Terry

[Tom Sweeney]

How You doin?

Welcome to the Creek - I'm sure you'll find it a great place with lots of helpful & friendly folks.

Nice lookin shop setup you have. I wish mine was that organized :rolleyes:

Looks like you still have room in there for a nice lathe setup though :eek:

[John Miliunas]

Welcome aboard, Sean! Bet you're the Clamp King in your neighborhood! (Just plain old can't have enough clamps, you know...!) Anyhow, as others have said: Nice place to hang your hat and sit a spell. We have some of the best WW folks around visiting regularly! Come back often and stay long. :cool:

[Sean Graflund]

Thanks again everybody ..

Terry, yup, got the waterbed plans, thanks! Got the lumber, ended up getting 5/4 for the sides instead of 8/4 ... i'm hoping 5/4 will hold well enough, would think so with it being oak .. but 8/4 was too expensive local .... 5/4 was still $2.50 / bf .. 8/4 was about $5 b/f

[Jim Becker]

Terry, yup, got the waterbed plans, thanks! Got the lumber, ended up getting 5/4 for the sides instead of 8/4 ... i'm hoping 5/4 will hold well enough, would think so with it being oak .. but 8/4 was too expensive local .... 5/4 was still $2.50 / bf .. 8/4 was about $5 b/f

Sean, welcome aboard!

Regarding your waterbed...don't forget that you get stresses with this type of bed that you don't get with traditional matresses. The lateral pressure that the matress can exert, especially when occupied, can be quite high, so those sides need to be as beefy as possible. I would be concerned with the 5/4 material in that respect as it only has slightly more than half the mass as 8/4 material will have. Some form of reinforcement should be considered, be it via doubling or via steel, especially if the bed will be larger than twin size and be accomodating one or more adults...

[Sean Graflund]

Jim,

Thanks for the info ... the 5/4 stock I got is actually a little over 1 1/4" thick rough ... it's all in good shape so I should be able to get away with getting it down to 1 1/8" or so after planing ... plus it's oak ..

Currently our bed is king size pine 8/4, at 1 1/2" thick .. I figured because oak is stronger and a harder wood than pine (soft obviously), that it will take the strain of having me at 6/5" and 300lbs and my wife in the bed ..

[Carl Eyman]

Buy flood insurance Carl