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.

[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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[Jim Becker]

A tunnel would be, well...I was going to say "over the top", but that would be "positionaly incorrect". LOL So a sidewalk it is. The prep work got done yesterday over an hour and a half with the Big Orange Power Tool. I'll lay the forms next and then work out a time to get busy making concrete based on the weather and availability of a helper. This will be a 36' long by 36" walkway.

[Alan Lightstone]

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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Trying to decide if this is the craziest YouTube video I've ever seen. Certainly on the short list.

[jim gossage]

Trying to decide if this is the craziest YouTube video I've ever seen. Certainly on the short list.

It's the craziest I've ever seen - and also the most addictive! What else would tempt one away from the wood shop to watch a video for 150 minutes?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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]

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!