Creeker's Past Week's Accomplishments

[Dennis Peacock]

13 Mar 2023

Greetings,
No real shop time this past week due to work, stuff needing to get done around the house and I finally decided it was time to get away from work for an entire weekend....for the 1st time in almost 20 years, I had a full weekend of doing nothing but relaxing, watching a movie or two and thinking about projects I need to finish. IMHO, it's amazing at how expensive things have gotten in my world of woodworking. Makes one wonder how people can afford to even get started in woodworking now days. Spent some time helping The LOML with her MS Excel and MS Access college homework. Good thing that I've got about 40 years in the I.T. industry from operations to programming to sys-admin work, networking, and various operating systems and storage. I'm ready to retire from IT work.....Maybe this time next year, I'll look at what it will look like for retirement.

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

Best of weeks to you all!

[Jim Becker]

It's good to just "chill" once in awhile, Dennis. When the days start to blur for me, I know it's time to do just that!

Finished up the slab-flattening/tracksawing/embiggened-assembly table setup this past week and hope to start using it soon on some of the larger material I have stacked and stored. Also started planning for the sidewalk between the shop and the house as the cute throw rug walkway just is not a good long term solution. Lastly, spend some time doing some CNC work for a friend who does resin inlay work. He had a bunch of things needing to be designed and cut and I finished that up this afternoon. There was a bit more use of a tiny 1mm endmill for several pieces than I have used in the past but it worked splendidly! He also gave me a bunch of actual piano parts to make into three interesting charcuterie boards in my copious free time. It will be an interesting project that undoubtedly is going to require a few custom fixtures to do certain things.

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Next up in the shop is building a cabinet for under the saw to hold accessories and an "improved" version of my blade storage.

[Eugene Dixon]

Spent time turning green, I think, Hackberry. Neighbor stopped by and made a much needed carb adjustment to the Husky 65, thankfully.

[Paul F Franklin]

I finished up the desk trays. Now working on a rolling laundry cart. I'm still finalizing the design, but have ordered support hardware for the drop leaf, and some laminate samples. I think I have enough lumber and plywood in my stash. Slowly accumulating the required items for a welding class I'm taking in May. Finished and submitted my taxes and already got the small refunds I was due. Played a bunch more pickleball.

[Jim Becker]

Slowly accumulating the required items for a welding class I'm taking in May.

That's something I'm actually considering doing myself.

[Jacob Mac]

Finished and installed some handrails in my basement. Also accidentally cut through the power cord to my miter saw being outrageously careless. So I also got to do some soldering.

[Paul F Franklin]

That's something I'm actually considering doing myself.

Had a surprisingly hard time finding an intro class targeted for weekend warriors. Classes I could find around here are targeted at career training. I've done some welding, but would like to up my game a bit. The Marc Adams School in Indiana had just the ticket.

[Paul F Franklin]

Finished and installed some handrails in my basement. Also accidentally cut through the power cord to my miter saw being outrageously careless. So I also got to do some soldering.

Ooh, bet that was exciting for a couple of seconds!

[Jacob Mac]

Mostly bewilderment followed by deep disappointment in myself.

[Jim Becker]

Had a surprisingly hard time finding an intro class targeted for weekend warriors. Classes I could find around here are targeted at career training. I've done some welding, but would like to up my game a bit. The Marc Adams School in Indiana had just the ticket.

The local vocational high school has lots of things for adult summer classes and I'm hoping something like that might pop up for welding.

[Jim Becker]

Mostly bewilderment followed by deep disappointment in myself.

Look at the bright side...it wasn't a body part and you can fix it yourself!

[Cameron Wood]

I made a box for the wheel sander (see review), and a few other bits, but spent most of the week scrounging the estate of a neighbor that just passed away.
I hauled off close to 1,000 bf of construction lumber from 6x12 on down, a couple of 8/4 planks (mahogany!), and a bunch of fancy little things- some of it worth some money.
One fun thing is a thickness gauge that measures to .01 mm

[Dan Rude]

I am down in Biloxi,MS at the Back Bay Mission with our Church for Spring Break. We have done some maintanence on the Campus, painting, Replacing Ceiling tiles that were wrecked during some roof leaks, one crew rebuilt the Ramp to the Homeless Day Center. Today we finished up on the campus and went over to the House we are rehabing for one of the local families. the siding was removed by a College Group from MI and we are putting up new sheathing. When that is done we are siding with Hardie Board. When we pulled off the siding we found several Sill timbers were rotted and termites. Jacking up the house and taking out the bad Sill sections and replacing them, adding an additional Pier support. We replaced the family's Water Heater and got it hooked up yet today before leaving for the night. We have 1.5 days left before heading back up to to WI.

[James Jayko]

Finally finished this…3AC9340F-12FB-461F-90AD-8A5C6DAE27DE.jpg

[jim gossage]

It's good to just "chill" once in awhile, Dennis. When the days start to blur for me, I know it's time to do just that!

Also started planning for the sidewalk between the shop and the house as the cute throw rug walkway just is not a good long term solution.

Jim,

Why go with a sidewalk when you can dig a tunnel, Colin Furze style!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVLim5tVwU

But beware if you click this link, you might spend hours in the quirky and mesmerizing world of this hilarious and very talented Brit.

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