I hope you got your valentine a nice gift and had a great time this past week. But here we are on another Friday and for some a long three day weekend. Plenty of time to work in some shop time, home improvement, and maybe a few HDL items.

I finished up four cutting boards last night as I get ready for the craft season to start. I also have cedar chest on  my bench to finish the new skirt around the bottom. I think I am going to have to sand this whole chest down and put a new finish on it. I don't think I am going to be able to match what was there.

I picked up a 1/2" piece of plywood and I hope to get the templates and patterns for the knock down rocker from Allen cut out this weekend.

Also got a few new pen kits in and will try to get a few pen turned.

I also got out some cherry this week and will try to get some challenge coin holders made. If you haven't made any yet and you are looking for a project to work on this long weekend, check out John's instructions on the challenge coin holders and see if you can turn out a few of those.

So there are some projects for me and an idea for you to work on.

What are you doing this weekend in the shop, house, or yard?

Show us your projects as you are working on them and when you get them finished.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

I will tell you is "NOT" on my workbench and that is the 5 large (43"x43"x1") frames that I made for church!

I got the last coat of finish sprayed on them on Wednesday and delivered them today along with the mounting hardware. They will be hanging those on Monday.

I still have to finish up the 5 smaller (36"x26") frames to spray the top coat on, but I had to get the large frames out first. They already have the seal coat of shellac on them and just need a light sand and then spray the polycrylic.

 

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

allenworsham@earthlink.net

http://www.awcreationsandwoodcrafts.com

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

Friday nite is date nite:

I'm making Sashimi

6 more Crosses and Hearts, Saturday morning is Bible study, the rest of the day is going to Monster Trucks with 2 of my grandsons. Sunday maybe I'll do my taxes.

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

I have to make up a Chevy truck business card holder. Customer wants it delivered on Tuesday.  I want to finish the maple laminated bowl I have on the lathe which has the 1/4 inch walnut between the bowl layers.  It just needs some more sanding so plan to work on that first.   Need to get some more bowls cut out and glued up so I can turn them. 

Yippee it's the weekend!!!!

SQ

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Happiness is wood chips flying!

Story of my life! Day late and a dollar short!

Cliff R said:

Friday nite is date nite:

I'm making Sashimi

Finished the router lift and now it's on to the Challenge Coin Holders and a podium for my brother-in-law's church. Rolling pin blanks are waiting to be turned, too.

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Lew-
Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Orders are a good thing Charles.  Congrats!

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Ron Dudelston
Above and Beyond WoodWorks

A busy bunch. Glad to hear you all have things to work on in the shop.

I spend the day turning up my table saw. After I changed the belts I forgot to align the table top to the blade so before I could get started this morning on any projects I got into the turning. Got the miter slots aligned with the blade and the fence adjusted to the slots. Stop and picked up a new freud blade today so the saw was finally ready to go. I got one cutting board glued up today and three more cut out, planed and ready to glue and clamp. I didn't get as far as I wanted but I am happy with the table saw tune up. It really cut good today. I think it has been needing all of this attention.

Stopped by my wood warehouse and picked up a nice piece of Cherry to make some coin displays with so maybe I can but those out tomorrow afternoon. I also picked up a cherry board to cut the rings out for a board bowl. I am really wanting to get that cut tomorrow. Who knows.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

John

Thanks for the reminder about maintenance which is so very important. The better we care for our machines the better the give us what we seek,

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

I know Wayne, sometimes we seem to be in such a hurry we put up with things not being just right for the sake of getting a job done. I meant to go through all of this the other night when I put the top back on and just didn't. Thankfully I didn't use the table saw and remembered it when I got to the shop Saturday morning. The funny thing was I was reading an article in the WoodCraft magazine on turning up your table saw earlier in the week.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Well here we are now starting another week. Well at least some of us. Some have a nice long three day weekend.

So how did you do on your weekend projects? Were you able to finish or are the still on the bench. I didn't get all that I wanted to done. I had to put up a large mirror in the down stairs bathroom and then change out the light fixture. That sorta pulled me out of the shoe for a bit. I guess I will try to finish up a few items tonight.

What about a project update or pictures of you latest project. I see that Susie got the bowl finished and posted. Wow it is nice. Let's see some other projects.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

I finished these two projects up, and cut a nativity cross for a customer, just need to assemble it and put a finish on it. 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Greg those are both great projects. Thanks for posting the update.

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John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Honey do list is paint the 3 bedrooms and hall.  That involves moving a lot of stuff and many tarps.

Charles, you don't want to be out on the water?  Nothing around but seagulls.