I had to make an unexpected trip out of town today, so I am sorry for being late in post my Friday question. However it is still Friday and I know you all were wondering what had happened.

 

I have been also getting ready today for a two day craft show. Octoberfest in a small community a few miles from my house. I will be there from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday and 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sunday. I drove by this afternoon to see where to setup and there was a crowd already gathering and it doesn't even open until in the morning. Finished up three more cutting boards tonight so I am hoping I have enough. I was taking a Cedar Chest, but I had a someone stop by the shop and purchase it so I don't have another one ready yet. Guess I'll just have to show pictures of the chest.

 

Won't get any shop time this weekend or time to work on the projects on the house. Oh well that is okay, I probably need the break anyway.

 

I have another show next Friday so what ever I sell this weekend will need to get replaced by next Friday. Wow will that be a busy week (I HOPE!!).

 

So what are you working on? Are you getting Christmas projects started? Have you noticed that it is just THREE MONTHS AWAY!!

 

While we are having this great weather, what are you working on in your shop or house?

 

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

Last weekend I was working on putting down hardwood floors. Sorry right now this is the only picture I have, the others are on my son's camera.

 

 

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

Looks good John. Post some more pics when you get a chance. The wife want's hard wood but I'm not sure I want to put it in just yet. It'll have to wait till spring.

We needed to dress up our 100 year old house a little. My wife mentioned flower boxes. So while see was visting in So. Calif. I had 3 of these on my bench.

The weather is turning so wrong time to be planting flowers, so I made the flowers while I worked on the boxes.

Needless to say, she loved them!

 

 

 

 

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

Now those are the kind of flowers that my wife and I need here in So. California! We have "Black Thumbs" as opposed to "Green Thumbs" as we have been known to kill silk plants.


Harry Brink said:

We needed to dress up our 100 year old house a little. My wife mentioned flower boxes. So while see was visting in So. Calif. I had 3 of these on my bench.

The weather is turning so wrong time to be planting flowers, so I made the flowers while I worked on the boxes.

Needless to say, she loved them!

 

 

 

 

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

As for what's on my workbench this weekend, the same stuff that was on it last weekend waiting for me to get around cleaning it up before starting on my Christmas stuff. This past week I was busy helping our "adopted son" Christian get ready for his move up to northern Calif. to take a staff position at a church up there to work with children's and youth ministry and lead worship. I had to do some repairs on his car as well as help him clean out some stuff. He left Friday afternoon for the 12 hour drive north and got there safely this morning. Now we have to clean out the bedroom he has been using and get it switched back over to a guest room for friends and relatives for the coming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. But next week I will be picking up the lumber to make up a bunch of cutting boards as well as making a few more children's knock down rocking chairs to sell at my wife's and my daughter's school where they work. Teachers make great clients as they love hand made things and they are so busy during November and December that they can't get out to shop. So I have no problem "Pimping out" my wife and daughter to sell my crafts.

 

 

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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

This was my Sat. morning 8AM -1PM then it was off to my regular job, We had a good time and sold a few things. And the wife enjoyed a big bag of boiled peanuts

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Looks good Greg.  After recovering (we had 3 grandkids) Friday night, I had to rework some cabinet doors from an RV that belongs to a cousins.  Sunday afternoon will be spent finishing a pair of handles for an antique tiller.

 

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Ron Dudelston
Above and Beyond WoodWorks

I'm working on installing a woodstove. It is kind of silly, with hundreds of acres in the most heavily forested state in the nation, I only burn propane, so this year I grabbed the woodstove out of my grandmothers house (she is dead and her house is vacant) and decided to add it into my home.

 

This weekend was installing the fire proof pad it sits on. I got some slate tile, broke it all up and then cemented that down to some Durarock substrate so that it looked like flagstone. Then in order to catch any embers that roll out of the stove, I built a wooden curb, but lined the inside of it with cut slate and mortar. In this way, if any embers roll out, it won't roll onto my ash flooring.

 

Today I am hoping to get started on the metal chimney. I got most of the parts to do that so I hope to make some headway as it is getting very cold out and a nice woodstove to take the chill off would be good. I am just a bit nervous as out of 6 houses on this hill, mine is the only one yet to burn down from a woodstove. Hopefully though I can beat the odds! (LOL)

 Seems I have TWO more of those Stove Storage Trays to make.   One will have SYP as the tray's bottom, with Ash edging/handles.    The other, well, as soon as I figure out WHAT wood it is....I can then call it as it is.  Just more of those old rafters.     FREE WOOD!

 

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'and may the road raise up to meet ye'

Well, here's part of my week's work. There were four of the small keepsake boxes built but two shipped on Friday. The flag case on the left will ship tomorrow and the other is up for sale.

 

 

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Ron Dudelston
Above and Beyond WoodWorks

Nice work Ron. bob

 

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Bob Kloes
www.bobkloes.com

Thanks guys!

 

 

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Ron Dudelston
Above and Beyond WoodWorks

Nice work Ron. Love those memory boxes.

 

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

Harry, I love those flowers. Now that is the kind that I could keep alive. Great looking boxes and flowers. Those are really nice.

 

Harry Brink said:

We needed to dress up our 100 year old house a little. My wife mentioned flower boxes. So while see was visting in So. Calif. I had 3 of these on my bench.

The weather is turning so wrong time to be planting flowers, so I made the flowers while I worked on the boxes.

Needless to say, she loved them!

 

 

 

 

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

Charles I wish you could attend with me also. There was another woodworker doing pens and I never got a chance to see his. He did stop by my booth to check my pens out. I was working my booth by my self most of the time so I could leave and look around.

 

Hope this one turns out the way you want it to. Best of luck.

 

Charles Nicholls said:

Have fun at the craft shows John, wish I was there too.

I'll be working on a Majestic Sr., might get it done today or tomorrow morning barring any sort of problems. It will be done in matching pieces of Amboyna burl (the only two pieces I managed to save out of the hunk I told you all that I mangled trying to cut it straight lol), so that should be fun. I had hoped that my Cherrybark oak pieces would have been here by now but it seems they got lost in the mail somewhere, so I will have to figure out what to use for my Nouveau Sceptre that will be following the Majestic. Should be a fun weekend.

Whatever you all are doing this weekend, have fun doing it. Life is too short not to have fun at every chance you get.

 

Great looking floor so far John.

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Charles

Allen, sounds like your schedule is about as busy as mine. I have a great craft show this weekend and another coming up Friday. I sold out of a lot of my cutting boards, so this is going to be a busy week working and trying to get home and into the shop.

 

Keep the sawdust coming.

 

Allen Worsham said:

As for what's on my workbench this weekend, the same stuff that was on it last weekend waiting for me to get around cleaning it up before starting on my Christmas stuff. This past week I was busy helping our "adopted son" Christian get ready for his move up to northern Calif. to take a staff position at a church up there to work with children's and youth ministry and lead worship. I had to do some repairs on his car as well as help him clean out some stuff. He left Friday afternoon for the 12 hour drive north and got there safely this morning. Now we have to clean out the bedroom he has been using and get it switched back over to a guest room for friends and relatives for the coming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. But next week I will be picking up the lumber to make up a bunch of cutting boards as well as making a few more children's knock down rocking chairs to sell at my wife's and my daughter's school where they work. Teachers make great clients as they love hand made things and they are so busy during November and December that they can't get out to shop. So I have no problem "Pimping out" my wife and daughter to sell my crafts.

 

 

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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

Greg, great looking setup. I hope you have a great sale. It is a good time of the year to sale a few items as people are already shopping for Christmas.

 

Pictures are not real good, they came from my phone and the sun was in the wrong place. This was my booth setup this weekend. I was at the end of a row, but it was the first booth next to one of the entrances to the park.

 

It was very windy in the morning so I have the sides on my tent. I pulled them back later in the day when I took this picture.

 

 

 

Tables had to be covered and the covers had to go all the way to the ground at this show. You had to be setup an hour before they opened the gates and you couldn't start taking down until they closed at 5:00 pm.

 

Two long days, but well worth it for me.

 

 

Greg Aksdal said:

 

 

This was my Sat. morning 8AM -1PM then it was off to my regular job, We had a good time and sold a few things. And the wife enjoyed a big bag of boiled peanuts

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

So give us an update on the Woodstove Travis. I used to heat my house with wood and loved the smell of the fire burning and wood around the house. It also kept the house much warmer than with the central unit.

 

Travis Johnson said:

I'm working on installing a woodstove. It is kind of silly, with hundreds of acres in the most heavily forested state in the nation, I only burn propane, so this year I grabbed the woodstove out of my grandmothers house (she is dead and her house is vacant) and decided to add it into my home.

 

This weekend was installing the fire proof pad it sits on. I got some slate tile, broke it all up and then cemented that down to some Durarock substrate so that it looked like flagstone. Then in order to catch any embers that roll out of the stove, I built a wooden curb, but lined the inside of it with cut slate and mortar. In this way, if any embers roll out, it won't roll onto my ash flooring.

 

Today I am hoping to get started on the metal chimney. I got most of the parts to do that so I hope to make some headway as it is getting very cold out and a nice woodstove to take the chill off would be good. I am just a bit nervous as out of 6 houses on this hill, mine is the only one yet to burn down from a woodstove. Hopefully though I can beat the odds! (LOL)

Another person having a busy woodworking time. I really like the keep sake boxes. Very nice finish that shows lots of pretty grain.

 

I got an order this week my self for a flag case. I'll have to give you a call on that one.

 

Nice work Ron!

Ron Dudelston said:

Well, here's part of my week's work. There were four of the small keepsake boxes built but two shipped on Friday. The flag case on the left will ship tomorrow and the other is up for sale.

 

 

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Ron Dudelston
Above and Beyond WoodWorks