Here we are already in the middle of February and only days away from Valentine Day. I hope you have taken a  little time out to pick out something really nice for your valentine.

 

So I have been out of the shop for just over a week. But I am ready to go again and look forward to getting into the shop this weekend. We should have really good weather here and I am ready. I have cutting boards, and furniture pieces to either work on, cut out or finish so I can just take my pick this weekend. The main thing is I will get in some shop time.

 

So what is on your Patriot Woodworker agenda this weekend? We here at TPW love to hear about and see all of your projects and the projects that are in progress. Share with us your project and any pictures you have. 

 

I'll be looking forward to seeing what all of you are doing since I have been out to pocket for a coupe of weeks.

 

 

Kitchen table/island top glue up. This could take a while.

Building folding wine tables.  Its time to build stock.

Nothing being done in the shop right now. Finished up with some bedroom renovation this past week and have been doing some deep cleaning in the downstairs as we had some old friends over for dinner on Tuesday night and Friday night and got to catch up as well as getting together with some missionary friends on furlough from Africa on Wednesday which was a blast. Today Tami had some stuff to do in her classroom and needed me to do some repairs in her class. Tomorrow night Tami and I will get dressed up and go to a Valentine's Day dinner at church. Happy Wife, Happy Life.

The usual for me, last minute sanding and prep-work for this weekends show. We'll be visiting the tropics in Madison WI it will be 80+ degrees in the Bolz conservatory rain forest while the outside temps hover right around 0.

8 hours ago, John Hechel said:

The usual for me, last minute sanding and prep-work for this weekends show. We'll be visiting the tropics in Madison WI it will be 80+ degrees in the Bolz conservatory rain forest while the outside temps hover right around 0.

John, you really need to migrate south for shows in the winter.

Three more mortises to cut and then assemble chair back #2. Assembly should begin next week. 

After assembly, there's a few corbels to cut and install, then on to finish.

On 3/3 my prep for radiation therapy begins. So I will be out of action till mid April. Hope to get the chairs to upholstery soon after.

5 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Three more mortises to cut and then assemble chair back #2. Assembly should begin next week. 

After assembly, there's a few corbels to cut and install, then on to finish.

On 3/3 my prep for radiation therapy begins. So I will be out of action till mid April. Hope to get the chairs to upholstery soon after.

Gene, I wish you the best of all and everything with your upcoming therapies, charge forward and carry on!!!!

Thanks for the good wishes, John. Will do. Never a thought otherwise.

10 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

John, you really need to migrate south for shows in the winter.

It really wasn't that bad today the Temps climbed 20 degrees from -7 all the way up to+14. Besides the full time job prevents me from moving. 

Not much of the schedule...other than replacing a handle on a chisel..

Too much of the white crud outside, wind chill is a phrase they should outlaw.....and anything below 55 Degrees should be banned.    maybe I should hibernate?

Yea! Looks good now that the tang is fully inserted.

I agree about banning temps below 55. 

HA! My only known valentine, is a full grown male black cat. Not much of a valentine if you ask me LOL. That said, he can be quite a lovable cat when he wants to be.

 

I didn't get a lot of time on the lathe this week or weekend due to being sick again but I got a bit of work done. I made a few file handles for some tree fellers, I'll update this post when I get the images properly loaded to the gallery.

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.

 

Edit, well once again I seem to be having issues getting images to upload correctly. I'll put it in bugs just in case.

 

Edited February 15, 20169 yr by Charles Nicholls

As it turned out I got no time in the shop over the weekend.

 

We started the morning out with breakfast out and then headed to the car lot to look into trading to purchasing a new(used) truck. Friday night we drove through the lot and saw on that we both really liked and wanted to see what we could do. It was a one owner 2011 F150 Lariat package with 46,000 miles. They traded it in on another new truck. 

 

So after spending most of the day and afternoon there, we drove off with our old truck and the 2011. It was our Valentine gift to each other.

 

 

Then as we do most ever Saturday night we headed out to the Auction. Beth has seen this vanity online that they were going to auction and she really loved it and had a vanity bench that matched the style of this old vanity. So when it came up for bid I started it off and continued until I won it. She said it was her Valentine gift and loved it. When momma is happy everyone is happy.

 

 

Rain has set in and it has been raining since Sunday so I haven't been out to the shop much and really haven't done much work. Most of my time has been spent getting tags and insurance and everything swapped over.

 

Hope you all had a great weekend and got to have a great time with your Valentine!!!!

Nice looking truck and vanity!

I've heard that phrase some where before, Happy Wife Happy Life!

Nice Truck John!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 hours ago, Harry Brink said:

Nice looking truck and vanity!

I've heard that phrase some where before, Happy Wife Happy Life!

the heck with the wife Harry! Happy husband Happy home!!!

That helps John Morris but I tend to agree with Allen on the "Happy Wife, Happy Life"

38 minutes ago, Harry Brink said:

That helps John Morris but I tend to agree with Allen on the "Happy Wife, Happy Life"

I do too Harry, but the phrase seems to be used waaaay too much today though, I just had to throw a thought provoking garble of words out there. Pay no attention to me!