I hear Crocodile Dundee in the background, sayingOriginally Posted by Jeff Heath
"That ain't a bandsaw. THIS is a Bandsaw!"
Wow! Just wow!
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I hear Crocodile Dundee in the background, saying
"That ain't a bandsaw. THIS is a Bandsaw!"
Wow! Just wow!
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Dennis, your work is appreciated with this thread. I get to read it when the weekend is well and truly over (after lunch Tuesday here). Like you, I don't get the time to do as much woodworking as I would like to due to other pressures.
This weekend I managed to finish re-polishing the kitchen cabinet doors for friends in the next town, so the car in exchange is officially mine now. The Wattyl Stylwood precatalysed lacquer was good to use and so simple after so many years of 2-pack coatings. Other than that, I spent a bit of time looking somewhat despondently at the tomato bushes, wondering if they are going to ripen. The Russian varieties are looking a bit more useful than the others. Cheers
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A good read every Monday for me too Dennis. I keep checking if it's not up early. No wood working on the week-ends for me lately. That's reserved for the three grand kids. Had a skate party for the oldest one on Saturday. I skated for the full two hours and really enjoyed the time spent with him. He is into hockey big time this year and boy has his skating improved from last year.
I've been framing walls in my daughter's basement since the New Year. Rec Room, Bath and Exercise room . Waiting for Electrical rough in now
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I know it's now Tuesday... but this past weekend I spent some time working on my first (edge grain) cutting board that's a very late Christmas gift to a good friend of mine:
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Something I've been wanting to do for a while is to build a paint booth for use in my work shop, especially during the winter season & for potentially larger projects. The LOML just came up with a project, a small basket weave hamper for our daughter that needs repainting. Sure didn't take her long to drop a project on me!
I picked up some 3/4" sched 40 PVC pipe & some 3-way pipe fittings (side outlet elbow) to construct a 5' cube that lays on a tarp & is wrapped with plastic sheeting. I also made a turntable that'll support & rotate the work piece so i can paint from one place. The cube's top is left partially open & is set under the air filtration system to draw off the fumes & airborne particles. The front opening will be closed off after painting with a drop sheet of plastic.
I have it so the pipe assembly can be taken down & brought to the garage, or outside, during the warmer seasons.
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I got a new grizzly 690 in December. I finally got around to setting it up and calibrating it. Not terribly impressed with it. But hopefully I can make it work.
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That is bandsaw is awesome! When you have time, I would absolutely LOVE to see the rest.
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Man, when you think about taking something away, people come out of the woodwork... :^) At least they are doing it now and not in a couple of months. "You remember that weekend accomplishments thread? What happened..."
Anyway back to the topic on hand. This weekend I finished my cabinet for the table saw. It is made out of some ash leftovers, with box elder for the secondary wood. The handles are leftovers from my nail cabinet handles. They are milled up from walnut. The finish is shellac buffed with wax.
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Sunday I bowled in a 9-pin tournament. Personally, I did okay, but not sure how we did as a team. It was fun, hadn't bowled there in quite a while.
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Carl, thanks. If you'd like, you can take the tour. I have my own YouTube channel on woodworking and vintage machinery restoration.
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Dennis,
However things turn out, this has been a good thread to follow and post to. I've only been here for a couple of years, but it's probably the only one that I post to repeatedly.
My younger daughter was married this weekend and we spent related time on Thursday and Saturday at the rehearsal dinner and the wedding/reception. Both locations were about a 3-1/2 hour drive away from our place near the US-Canada border, so it made for a long weekend overall. And now that the young couple is officially married, I'm officially behind schedule in completing their bed project. I'm making good progress though, and have already begun gluing up the long sections that will make up the posts and rails for the head and foot boards (I'm using lapped-miters to create 4x4" posts out of 3/4" stock). The lower thrust bearing froze up on my G513X2BF (Grizzly 17" bandsaw with foot brake). I could have ordered a replacement through Grizzly, but I was able to find an improved after-market replacement that has rubber seals. I hope to have that dropped in before I fire it up again when I need to rough cut the bed rails out of two seven-foot lengths of 8/4 x 8" red oak.
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Dennis, this thread is one I look forward to every week.
LOML and I celebrated our 31st anniversary last week and we added an additional date night on Friday. Saturday was mostly filled with household projects and the weekly chores. I received a replacement thermostatic controller for my smoker after the previous one died after 20 years. The newer controller is slightly larger (but better made and closer control) so I needed to slightly modify the back slightly. I took the opportunity to perform a deep clean and am planning to re-paint the outside after de-rusting. It is kept covered but salt air is insidious. Fixed a rod tip on a fishing rod after the eyelet let go. I cut protective pieces for a crate to send an amp cabinet across the country. Then I removed the bench and turned the shop back into the garage again after my earlier prototyping. Looking back on this, I got more accomplished than I thought.
Back to the weekly grind.
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I restored and installed a W.C. Toles quick release vise on my work bench.
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LOML was out of town so I spent a few hours "checking the box" next to one of those "kitchen enhancement" ideas on the long list – a drawer divider. The wood used is something my sawyer called Ironwood, but I'm sure it is American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana). It is the only time I've ever seen it milled into a board. It had been gathering dust in a bin at this sawyer's barn for what looked like a decade and when I asked what it was, he used the opportunity to foist the gnarly boards upon me (very generously) just to clear out the bin. It has then sat on the racks in my shop for several years. It is extremely hard, even brittle but feels so nice when planed and scraped or sanded. It has a mix of light and dark (heart) and the wood is really just suitable for short pieces as each board has so many folds and inclusions that it takes a bit of laying out.
I made the drawer insert corners with the box cutting jig and the intersectional joints with the mortiser. My mortiser is an "old arn" machine (no CNC) which actually made it a real PIA to cut the mortises. Hence the visible 'scribe marks" on the cross pieces. Flush bottom is a piece of 1/2" prefinished maple captive via a 1/4" groove milled on the perimeter with a 1/4" tongue milled on the bottom. It is not glued, but rather held together by the "slide in tight fit" on the drawer inside. Could have done a better job on the layout but it was one of those "design as you build" projects. It was built in between the dough-mixing and baking sessions for the bread which is a sourdough white/wholewheat, rye country loaf.
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Bill, both the drawer dividers and the bread look absolutely wonderful! (I'm sure the latter tastes better, however.
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Spent the weekend trying to get the shop (read: 1/2 of a two car garage) organized. Built a cabinet for my finishing supplies, did a little more work on a pet bed I designed for a family friend, installed more french cleats and cut my very first rabbet! It's horrible, but it does the job. Guess investing in box joint blades or dado set is in my near future.
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