November first and the chill is in the air as we are in the fall season. I love this time of year with all of the wonderful colors in the trees and the beautiful blue sky. It is a great time to get to work in the shop and not have to have heat or air. It is comfortable and enjoyable.

I will finish up the 2nd Green Egg Table this weekend, finish the slats for the third porch swing that I had to come to and end on and start the panels for a cedar chest. Lot to get done this weekend and I hope I can get it all pushed through.

Tonight I will be setup for First Friday Craft Show in downtown Florence. We only have one more after this one which will be the first Friday in December and the official lighting of the Christmas lights.

This was my booth last month and we had a huge crowd come by. Setup behind me was even a snow machine making artificial snow. I know many of you don't need that but it was a nice effect.

So last night I put the oil on some edge grain cutting boards.

This should give me a pretty good inventory for tonight. Hope we have some early Christmas shoppers or some Early Black Friday shoppers.

So what's on your agenda this weekend. We here are TPW love to see the projects you are working on. Are you working in the shop, home improvement, HDL, getting ready for winter, recovering from the storms, or planing a weekend in front of the TV with some R&R. Please share your projects with us and we love to see pictures.

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John Moody
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I will be spraying a seal coat of shellac on my daughter's headboard today. Tomorrow I should be able to spray the finish coats on it so I can get it installed on Monday. My wife Tami is turning 50 on Sunday so we will be having dinner out with the family.

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

allenworsham@earthlink.net

'Graze in every man's field, but always give your own milk' J. Vernon McGee

Sound great Allen, Please tell Tami Happy Birthday from Beth and me.

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John Moody
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Well I'll be making a few ornaments out of a bunch of scraps, and making some pen kits that have been sitting a while. Also thanks to John Morris posting the pepper grinder kits, I will be ordering a couple of those this weekend too if the customer pays for them.

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Charles Nicholls
Site Host
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Proud supporter of The Wounded Warrior Project, Homes For Our Troops and the NRA

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I will be putting the finishing touches on 3 of the 17" Military plaques for a few of our heroes that spent 20+ years protecting our country.

Also - have some half dozen maps that have been ordered that I have to really get started on.  Other orders are also in the queue.

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
EX-21 (Presently on the floor. Using my 6-year old 788 ! ! ! ! !
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'

John,

Don't forget you have to change the locks on " The Stash "

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

I cleaned the rust off of the metal lathe bed and ways using Larry's method using razor blades, scotch-brite pads & WD40. Last night I tore down the 3 & 4 jaw chuck, took them to work and cleaned them up in the hot tank. This morning I lubed and reassembled the chucks and they're smooth as glass. Wednesday I finished tearing down & de-rusting the carriage & I lubed and re-assembled the carriage this morning. This afternoon I'll concentrate on the gear train and tomorrow I'll probably pull the motor and clean it up. 

After 2 cans of WD40 4 scotch brite pads several layers of skin on my fingers and about 40 hours of labor the lathe will have all the rust removed and no signs of pitting on any machined surfaces, just some small stains. I'm hoping to have it operational next weekend. The only part I have to replace is a drive belt. Not bad at all for a free lathe!

here's the before and after.

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Great job Mike, hopefully your fingers will heal soon

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Charles Nicholls
Site Host
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Proud supporter of The Wounded Warrior Project, Homes For Our Troops and the NRA

http://www.etsy.com/shop/nichollswoodworks

Thanks for the reminder Larry. I like to have let that slip.

Larry Buskirk said:

John,

Don't forget you have to change the locks on " The Stash "

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

The cog wheels for the router lift arrived today! YAY!!!! Took 3 weeks.
Got them installed just now, so I can begin work again on the brief case tomorrow.

The kitchen project.  It is the song that never ends.  I need to be building flag cases becasue I just sold my last one (4th one in 3 weeks) but mama comes first.

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Ron Dudelston
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That's smart, keeping Mama happy. As Allen would say "Happy wife, happy life" I know that I'm thinking that way a lot lately and it WORKS!!!!

Ron Dudelston said:

The kitchen project.  It is the song that never ends.  I need to be building flag cases becasue I just sold my last one (4th one in 3 weeks) but mama comes first.

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Ron Dudelston
Site Administrator

Above and Beyond WoodWorks

will be cutting and filing frets and leveling them this weekend. Not a job to be rushed. It will be hard not too, after they are done I can string up the dulcimer and let her sing. Oh I better not forget to put the bridge and nut on first.

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Ron didn't anyone ever tell you once you start a home improvement job it never ends.

Ron Dudelston said:

The kitchen project.  It is the song that never ends.  I need to be building flag cases becasue I just sold my last one (4th one in 3 weeks) but mama comes first.

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Ron Dudelston
Site Administrator

Above and Beyond WoodWorks

I'll be working on my next set of cornhole boards.

I'm a very slow learner Phil.

Phil Chestnut said:

Ron didn't anyone ever tell you once you start a home improvement job it never ends.

Ron Dudelston said:

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Well just got back late last night from Missouri and slept late this morning.  Hopefully this is last trip this year and maybe now can start getting back to normal here.  The wife mother's house finally closed and now we need to wait few more weeks on the probate court to do there thing.  Normally a 6 to 7 hour drive home ended up being about 10 hr drive.  She wanted to see several her old aunt and uncle that live in the area for they all are getting up in age and not doing too well either.  Do have a few projects on the bench but they are small and would not take long to do are finish.  Still need to finish the cutting board,  practice on the dove tail jig and practice on Grizzly band saw on re-sawing.  I do have one Christmas project I want to make for my nephew who is in the Coast Guard in Florida which I did get the plan for but need to gather up the wood material for it.  Did price the lumber out if I order it and it little more than I thought.  So looking thru my lumber rack to see if I have enough to do it.  I'll know later this week.   

Wayne E

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Wayne E

Well I got the Green Egg Table finished and delivered this weekend.

And got a pretty good start on the next porch swing. Got most of the slats cut and planed to the right size so hopefully I will get it finished next weekend.

I got the bottom supports cut out and I have the back supports marked and ready to run through the band saw.

Oh and by the way, I got the lock changed at the wood stash also. LOL.

Got to sit down for a while on Saturday night and enjoy some football. Roll Tide Roll!!!!!

How about the rest of you, how did you fair on your projects this past weekend. Were you able to bring them all to fruition?

Share some updated pictures.

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John Moody
Site Administrator


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