14 hours ago, Gunny said:

Haven't seen my shop in 2 months.  Been that busy with work.  It's insane how busy this new place is.

 

Word got out they hire the best.

 

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by HandyDan

Sitting on the bench, this morning...tools that were used...

Results?

Yes, it is clamped to my bench..

 

Waiting on glue to dry..again...

Because I had to fix a split..again..

Before that "fix"...ran this around..

Stay tuned...

Fixing my buddy up something rustic for his smaller kill here...barnwood is from the scrap pile of the barn on his place that has been torn down. I cut about 8" off to get it more to size. Not going for extra white on this one but will give it a once over when I get a little reassembly done.
 

 

Waiting on Witch's Brew to dry...

On 2/24/2023 at 12:58 PM, steven newman said:

Waiting on Witch's Brew to dry...

 

 

Excellent. 

Did some cleaning, last night...

Stuff that needed tossed out..

And sorted through a stack of leftovers..

 

 

.

There were some big finds...

But, a lot needed to be resaw...ever see a 1 x 6 x 24" Knot?   Others had bark all over one face...and down both edges..

 

So, what is on the bench, right now?

These 4 slices, is all that is left from a BAD 1 x 6 x 5' plank...and there is still a bit of bark...the stack behind it?

Ran a saw kerf all the way around...over on the tablesaw....these will soon see one of these...

Thinking the one on the right will work just fine...the other is a 7point, Disston D-112 ( D-8 with a fancy handle) thumbhole is a D8 about 2" longer, and is a 5-1/2 ppi Rip.    I use the D-112 as a crosscut...

 

Will see what I can make out of that stack of Leftovers...besides Firewood..

 

 

The parts for my Benjamin 392PA came in. 

 

As long as I am replacing valves and tuning up, why not get rid of that ugly varnish.....

 

and "Keep Walnut Beautiful" with a new shellac finish.  Plus, I get to try out a shellac finish!

 

 

Work still in progress.  I need a few more layers of shellac and then probably a paste wax on top of it.

Sweet. Agree once you get sufficient coats of shellac applied, I'd wax too. Beautiful firearm.

11 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Sweet. Agree once you get sufficient coats of shellac applied, I'd wax too. Beautiful firearm.

Thanks.  It's one of the best squirrel/rabbit slayers around. 

A "Before"..

And an After...

Right before clamp #8 went on....blocking the view..

On 3/3/2023 at 12:55 PM, Thad said:

The parts for my Benjamin 392PA came in. 

 

As long as I am replacing valves and tuning up, why not get rid of that ugly varnish.....

 

and "Keep Walnut Beautiful" with a new shellac finish.  Plus, I get to try out a shellac finish!

 

 

Work still in progress.  I need a few more layers of shellac and then probably a paste wax on top of it.

 

 

I'm a plinker myself...air rifles are tremendous fun. Great project there. 

With the temps in the 70s today, I might get some more resin poured on Phyl's coffee table this afternoon.  This morning though, will be more work on a scroll saw stand. 

7 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

With the temps in the 70s today, I might get some more resin poured on Phyl's coffee table this afternoon.  This morning though, will be more work on a scroll saw stand. 

 

PIP's of both those projects Gene, please!

6 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

With the temps in the 70s today.......

We are also having a cold snap here in L. A. ( Lower Alabama).  Got down to dang near 50* this morning and the high is only forecast to be 80*.

havent had as much shop time as i would like, the rain, created a jungle here, so been dealing with that, have a couple feral cats i need to deal with, traps aren't working so, other alternatives are being considered, they are leaving messes and their marks everywhere, the gave my hot rod a bath and that was the last straw. they will be dealt with, weeds weeds every where some weeds and not the good shite.

 

found a hole in one of my tarps covering a bunk of ash, so. off to the tarp store, then ole gal limped in the drive way with a flat, and yeah, new tire time, tires were bought for her suv a week ago, how does a wheel weight managed to get stabbed in a tire. 

so, monday is tire shop day, probably have to wait for them to order one, so ugh. 

thinking i might hit up a new drive thru chain, Angies lobsters and grab a po boy lobster sammy and call it a day, it is sunday the day of rest is it not, 

happy days

rj in az, and yeah gonna hit maybe 70 today, shorts weather just around the corner

 

1 hour ago, Thad said:

We are also having a cold snap here in L. A. ( Lower Alabama).  Got down to dang near 50* this morning and the high is only forecast to be 80*.

Hate it when that happens. I remember a similar day like that here. IIRC, it was last September...or maybe last June

This is getting annoying. I tried to post this in "Home improvements" and when attempting to post it I was repeatedly asked to put in a title, this after rejecting the addition of pictures, giving me an ERROR 200 code.

 

OK, so everything is working in this forum.

 

My wife had a mixed/matched set of draws under the knee wall in our house that was always a mess, so she asked me to build some cabinets to go there, about six ago, "No EIGHT years!" Ok, eight years ago. So I figured she really wants them and I've put this project on hold for about as long as possible. 

Appling the old time-tested law, "Happy Wife, Happy Life" I figured I better get it started, leading to another problem, "You never finish anything."

Guilty.

On the flip side of the coin, we have the man rule "I can do that for you but I'm going to need to buy a couple of tools"

She wanted 16' of cabinets, 26" out from the wall which puts the face of them a round 58"(+/-) high, intentionally put in bold because the ceiling goes one way and the floor goes the other with a nice hook down at the end. It's at least a 120 house, that wasn't maintained, with suspect workmanship bringing it up to the condition it's in, so there's a lot of give and take as to hanging the doors that might have been worked out awhile ago.

 

The window at the end will be trimmed out in Walnut and Butternut and I have secured assurances that it won't be painted like everything else here. 

I get to start sanding tomorrow when she's gone for two days to Eastern MA. She doesn't like noise or paint fumes.

11 minutes ago, frenchwwr said:

she asked me to build some cabinets to go there, about six ago, "No EIGHT years!" Ok, eight years ago. So I figured she really wants them and I've put this project on hold for about as long as possible. 

Appling the old time-tested law, "Happy Wife, Happy Life" I figured I better get it started, leading to another problem, "You never finish anything."

Guilty.

No question about it, we have to be brothers

12 minutes ago, frenchwwr said:

On the flip side of the coin, we have the man rule "I can do that for you but I'm going to need to buy a couple of tools"

Sooo...what did you get?

Waiting on glue to dry...again...

Lid for the Box Project...