Good Monday Morning!

Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

Our weekend

I am building a shade structure behind our home, and our son is building a fence.

How do you teach your son to use a hand saw? Show him the fundamentals, then give him a stack of old fence boards to saw in half so they'll fit in the Green waste can. He begged for my Skil Saw once, only once. Proud of him. He's been using a handsaw off and on for a few years, he said with this stack of wood he finally got it, just leave the kid alone is the best thing often times.

 

New members

Please welcome the following members to our community.

@kentb, @Artie, @S johnson

To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message.

 

What's It

Our January "What's It" is up and running, and we are off to a great start with commentary and suggestions . We'd also like to congratulate @p_toad for his MWTCA Membership win last month. These What's It's aren't easy folks, if they were, the fine folks at MWTCA would have had them nailed down by now, we are hoping that someone has seen one before and can recognize them, and provide a verifiable reference for them as well so we can solve the mysteries. Good luck!

     

Featured image of the week

Attribution: Patriot Woodworker @Shane Whitlock specializes in restoring old machinery and tools, see more of his creations at http://www.shanewhitlock.com/index.htm

Source: http://shanewhitlock.com/photo/v/misc/oliverts/after/IMG_1649a.jpg.html

Working on fixing an old table's broken leg.

 

BTW, the link to Shane's image is broken- just the image, not the sites

Edited January 15, 20188 yr by lew

1 minute ago, lew said:

BTW, the link to Shane's image is broken- just the image, not the sites

Should be ok now Lew, thanks

2 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Should be ok now Lew, thanks

Yep!

Shane's Oliver saw restore is spectacular!

Weekend Update: Picked up the truck from it's transmission transplant Friday. Everything seems good and no pink fluid showing in the snow. Made a quick pick while I was out; Swim conference finals were Saturday; Team finished 5th OA; girls again swam their best times for the events they participated in; one podium finish 7th; good day!

Coming Week; away swim meets Tu/Th and all day invitational on Sa; usual daily transport duties assuming school is in session?? Hang out here when I can for my sanity.

 

Schools ended up cancelled today due to weather so kids are all home again today; snowing & too cold to put them outside; apparently there are laws about that...they've attended 4 days of school so far in 2018 and one of those was a 2 hour delay.

That is one beautiful piece of old American iron. Great job, Shane. Hey Dave, is that Oliver the same co. as the tractor co.?

Since there are extra days in my schedule, after a little of Stick's advice for doing whatever, I think I'll cut me some mesquite. Might even run it through the planer. At some point, all the bark has to come off, too. That stuff is tight! Ahh well, the B12 is kickin' in. I'll get that done today, too. 

21 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Hey Dave, is that Oliver the same co. as the tractor co.?

I'd never thought about that connection Gene, but a quick search seems there was no association. Very interesting to see what their market share once was in the vocational training departments.

http://www.olivermachinery.com/History/

Love the old 'arn and that one looks like it weighs a ton. Got the lower half of my closet shelf done. Will work on the upper maybe today but doubt it as going to the range after lunch . 

Dang, that's a good looking saw 

Gerald if I remember correctly, the saw weighed just over 1200 lbs.

11 minutes ago, Shane Whitlock said:

Dang, that's a good looking saw 
Gerald if I remember correctly, the saw weighed just over 1200 lbs.

I sure love that Oliver style,

Oliver is still alive believe it or not, and it still possesses some of the Oliver ol timely design features, though I believe they are manufactured offshore now? Nothing compared to Shane's ol Oliver. Here's the link if anyone is interested.

http://www.olivermachinery.net/

Dave, thanks for the Oliver history link. That was some interesting reading.

Took a look at their 10" table saws on their sales site. Not as expensive as I thought. Not cheap, though. Around $2300 for the basic saw. Lots of extras that look interesting.  

I did not get the lights up like I wanted, but I did  get the air line complete into the shop complete (I ran 1/2" black iron pipe).  I also hung two cabinets (one was a sweet deal I got from Lowe's somebody had ordered but changed their mind, I got it for about $50, reg $175). I also finished up the ceiling on one side of the shop (I had one area opened for access when i finished the wiring). And, I got the lights laid out where I want them to go. The wife kept interrupting me with paint colors for the living room. I like earth tones, but she is afraid they will class with the mounts and the pine board ceiling. I did pick one color - Polar Bear. If she paints that, I can then say I have a polar bear on the wall 

1 hour ago, Chips N Dust said:

I did not get the lights up like I wanted

Christmas is over Chips!

I know I know, just harassing ya.

17 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Christmas is over Chips!

I know I know, just harassing ya.

I was wanting to get a head start on next year...

the downside to mondays is that you spend about 1/7 of your life on a monday.  unless you are special, then sometimes you can spend 3 days in one week on a monday.

 

nothing going on here presently.  spending money on a lawyer to enforce some covenants.  fun.

 

guess i could start work on my office design and office furniture design.  that sounds like work.

This week I complete a pair of cherry bookcases.  Next up is a "family freebie".  My nephew and I get to build a table with matching benches for his wife.  Good thing is that we don't have to finish it.....she will .......whoopie!

Work today.   Restore board meeting and pick up a couple of more chainsaw chains tomorrow.   Downhill the rest of the week.  

No shop time this weekend, just taking a break. Saturday we did a little picking but came home empty handed. Nothing out there called my name. 

 

Sunday was was a relaxing day in the recliner and the tv on but not focusing on it. 

 

Today I worked a shift at the indoor range. I had a shooter with two Colt Army single six guns. I got to shoot the 357 and boy was the action smooth. I’ve got to have one if any of you run across one. His nephew had a 1894 Colt they found in a used car in 1960. Wow!

 

i did manage to keep the drool off his nice gun. 

 

Dealt with the snow and went to lunch with my brother and his wife Saturday.  Sunday I messed with some larger tops I am making.  Some of them just don't want to behave when spun.  Have tracked the reason down to balance.  I kept adding tape to one side until it smoothed out.  First thing you know the day was used up.  Boys and their toys.