With the hot weather comes the humidity and with that comes the thunderstorms. It has been hot and we have had rain everyday this week, sometimes a lot and sometimes just enough to make it feel like another layer on your body. 

My shop expansion is coming along but with the rain this week I haven't accomplished as much. About the time I get things out there and ready, here comes the storms.

 

So I worked on a few other projects such as making this walnut table top for a Bistro table.

All things were going good until I plunged the router into the top and made about a six inch cut and realized I had measured to the outside of the bit instead of the inside. Yep, when you do too many things at once you make mistakes.

So I tried to make an adjustment and salvage the top but I didn't leave myself enough room when I made the first plunge cut.

 

 

The top would have fit perfect except for this little mis-calculation. So they happen to all of us and now I am making another Walnut top to cut out later.

 

I also had a lady drop two of eight chairs by the shop for me to make repairs to. I'll try to work those in as I can over the next couple of days. Most of it is just fixing the bracing and adding a little glue.

 

 

Tonight we will head to First Friday with a high of 96 and 72% humidity so it will feel like 106.

 

So what's on your agenda? We here at TPW love to see your projects so post those pictures and tell us what you are working on.

 

 

Relatives here again. I need to get to the lathe!

The only woodworking that I have done over the past few months (due to my wife's hip injury) was making up 3 simple boxes for my wife's school office. The photo shows the original box that was made about 30 years ago by a parent and did nice box joints using 3/8" plywood with the bottom glued into rabbit joints. They had 3 of them but this one was the last survivor and beyond repairing as the bottom was all covered with layers of glue. So I made them out of 1/2" Baltic Birch Plywood with glued rabbit joints on the sides and dados on the bottom and shot 1" finish nails through the side pieces for reinforcement. Then I painted them a bright blue color to match the school's colors. The School Secretary was very happy and couldn't wait to toss the last old box. 

My wife will be having her "Total Hip Replacement Surgery" next Wednesday August 10th so I will be busy keeping her happy.

Happy Wife, Happy Life!  

Boy, those will hold a lot of papers! Nice job!

 

Hope Tami's operation/recovery is speedy and uneventful. 

Best of luck,Tammi. Take good care of her, Allen. I know you will.

 

Severe thunder storms here today. Electricity off an on. We have a backup generator but the inconsistent power interruptions make power tool woodworking almost impossible. I'm just sanding the ottomans but the lights flickering makes even sanding problematic. I think I'll sit on the deck and watch it rain. Pick it up tomorrow. It sure cooled off. About 58 now.

This week, I've been building a seven shelf bookcase for my daughter.  I built it from 3/4" Baltic birch plywood and trimmed it out with maple.  My daughter wanted to assist so I let her drill the shelf pin holes.  She wants it left natural so next week I'll shoot some lacquer on it.  The hole in the base will be an electrical outlet.  Monday, I go shopping for a new AR15.  Yippee. 

Nice cabinet! Good idea to buy while you can still get them.

Edited August 6, 20169 yr by lew

 Monday, I go shopping for a new AR15.  Yippee. 

 

So, the sales were good? 

Like Lew said, get 'em while you can.

Not bad sales. Including the orders and post show sales, I made about $700. I'll kick in a couple hundred more and get a decent one plus a 1000 rounds or so of

plinkers.  

16 hours ago, Allen Worsham said:

The only woodworking that I have done over the past few months (due to my wife's hip injury) was making up 3 simple boxes for my wife's school office. The photo shows the original box that was made about 30 years ago by a parent and did nice box joints using 3/8" plywood with the bottom glued into rabbit joints. They had 3 of them but this one was the last survivor and beyond repairing as the bottom was all covered with layers of glue. So I made them out of 1/2" Baltic Birch Plywood with glued rabbit joints on the sides and dados on the bottom and shot 1" finish nails through the side pieces for reinforcement. Then I painted them a bright blue color to match the school's colors. The School Secretary was very happy and couldn't wait to toss the last old box. 

My wife will be having her "Total Hip Replacement Surgery" next Wednesday August 10th so I will be busy keeping her happy.

Happy Wife, Happy Life!  

 

Love the boxes Allen. So many uses in the shop come to mind.

 

Allen, I hope Tami gets through it all with flying colors and she does not experience too much discomfort. We'll be thinking of her on the big day.

 

No woodworking for this kid this weekend. Pulled a long week this past week in the heat, long overtime days, I plugged in some long hours, and my body feels it. I feel beat, weak, and drawn out, and my patience is very short, when my patience gets short, I know I've hit it too hard at the day job. But the construction jobs I am on are working overtime to meet deadlines and that means I am pulling the same hours. I almost had to go in today but some deadlines where not met by our contractors thus things were set back a tad, relieving me and my crew from working today! Yipee! But hey, the money is good, and I got a kid going to college, so I'll take that overtime any time I can get it!

 

That being said, after I rest up today and shake this crappy physical feeling off, we got a Minor League ball game to catch tonight for the San Diego Padres. Their Minor League is the Lake Elsinore Storms near where I live. We go often, I love the minor league games more than I like the pro games. It's a smaller venue, t-shirts and water balloons get sling shotted into the stands, and the food is cheaper, the tickets are way cheaper, and the players make errors! They make some beautiful errors that just make the game real, not so sterile like the pro games.

 

Our goofy mascot "Thunder" seen below.

 

Tomorrow we'll be getting ready to get Abuela, or grandma packed up and ready to hit the road back to Panama. My wife's mom has been here for two months and it's been wonderful having her. We'll miss her!

 

But, I love to read my woodworking literature at night while laying in bed, so I'll at least get to think wood this weekend!

Have a wonderful weekend yall, and please be safe in all you do.