This has been a busy week starting with last Saturday. I got called in to work in the range for Sig Sauer day. It was awesome as these guys are top of the line trainers. 

 

I had the pleasure of meeting and working alongside Panda, one of the Sig academy top trainers. 

 

 

You could pay $5.00 and shoot all the guns on the table and they furnished the ammo. 

 

 

Yesterday I finally got the screen door I made to the customer and installed. 

 

 

 

Since everything was out of square on the door frame I had to trim the door to fit. 

 

All is is good and everything worked. 

 

We also delivered a Green Egg table yesterday. So today we are back on the Oak tables to finish them. 

 

 

 

I know many of you will be traveling to the meet this weekend and hope to see lots of pictures and hear many stories. Have a great time, wish I was with you. 

 

So so how about the rest of you? What’s on you agenda this weekend. 

 

We we love to see and hear about your projects. 

 

Whatever yiu you do have fun and be safe. 

 

 

 

IMHO you can't get better than Sig Sauer. Probably 1K rounds thru my 226 and never a jam. Now if I could just locate a screw that came out of one of the replacement grips.  

 

Screen door looks fabulous!

Lew, you'll find that screw....maybe. Have you looked in that "last place" yet.

 

John, the screen door is really nice. Great job. 

 

Picky work for me, this weekend. But, the light is getting brighter. Ever have a project that fought you from the start? I'm really anxious to get started on the planer head replacement.

 

i like my Berettas, but have 2 Sigs.

 

what wood did you use for the screen door?  how thick and wide?  my wife wants me to make some for our house next spring.

 

just spent an hour shoveling dirt/sand/mud down in our arroyo.  trying to create a drainage channel so the rain water won't back up so much.  dirt is heavy.  i'm sweaty and dirty.  supposed to rain tomorrow, will see if what i did worked.

I often do repair work on furniture/building parts (windows, etc.) for friends from our church. Seems as word gets around if you work cheap!!  Anyway, I got a new project from an older couple that had been given a very old sailboat....and was asked to refinish several hatch covers/doors/etc. What the heck I said, why not? Something new to work on and I might just learn something new. 

 

Once I had the pieces home, closer examination revealed much more was needed besides sand and finish!! 4 days into the job and I still haven't opened a can of varnish. Veneer seems to have  worn away/peeled away in numerous locations requiring reattachment and careful "smoothing". So my weekend will be filled with gluing up patches and finally some sanding in preparation for finish. 

Gotta love those friends!!

if you want to donate materials and your time, that's great.  but when people approach me and Expect  me to donate materials and time, then that gets my dander up.

 

who are you to command my time?  

 

 

I quit working for nothing. Now I have all the free time I want. and they can find some other sucker. My machinery, time, and overhead is gonna be on the bill too! 

Almost everything done in my shop is fun. When I'm asked to do a paying job, (thankfully, not often) my quote is definitely influenced by the fun factor...or lack thereof. 

Been working on a train wreck in our youth pastor’s home.  A contractor job gone bad and we’re trying to right it.  Tomorrow, meet and greet.  Sunday TLOML’s family reunion.  

Today was glue-up day....

Couple of splits...two are from whomever Lowes paid to make the panel....and one from too fat of a wedge..

All packed up, for tomorrow...

Will check after supper on the glue up   may bring it along, tomorrow...

5 hours ago, DAB said:

i like my Berettas, but have 2 Sigs.

 

what wood did you use for the screen door?  how thick and wide?  my wife wants me to make some for our house next spring.

 

just spent an hour shoveling dirt/sand/mud down in our arroyo.  trying to create a drainage channel so the rain water won't back up so much.  dirt is heavy.  i'm sweaty and dirty.  supposed to rain tomorrow, will see if what i did worked.

I used Poplar for the wood. 1 3/8 thick. This was a custom size door. It was 40” wide and 80” tall. Can’t just buy that size at the store. I used Fiberglass screen the second time. That’s another story. I did route a 1/8” channel for the screen spline to fit in and then made pieces to cover where I routed out for the spline channel.

 

 

6 hours ago, lew said:

IMHO you can't get better than Sig Sauer. Probably 1K rounds thru my 226 and never a jam. Now if I could just locate a screw that came out of one of the replacement grips.  

 

Screen door looks fabulous!

If you can’t find it let me know and I might have one.

 

2 hours ago, John Moody said:

If you can’t find it let me know and I might have one.

Thanks!

Didn't realize it was gone until the last time I went shooting. I'll try Sig customer service. Problem is that these grips are not the original P226. A buddy got them at a gun show- so I'll have to do some research.

John, you are busy my friend!

 

Got a ton of shop organizing to do, and working on a woodworking project for my job, and one for my daughter, she needs planter boxes done before Monday, as she heads back to college, and moves into her dorm, she is taking the planter boxes with her. Been selling off my equipment, sold my bandsaw, and router table, and a fellow is coming over Sunday to pick up my Table Saw. Just put my 6" Jointer up for sale on Craigslist, should move by the end of the weekend, and I am setting my big aircraft carrier workbench/assembly table out on the curb for takers. DOWNSIZING!

Finished the garage shelves today . Pics later. That winds my week.

John, if you get no takers on the free bench, put a price on it. It'll be gone overnight.

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

John, if you get no takers on the free bench, put a price on it. It'll be gone overnight.

Aint that the truth!

 

14 hours ago, John Morris said:

John, you are busy my friend!

 

Got a ton of shop organizing to do, and working on a woodworking project for my job, and one for my daughter, she needs planter boxes done before Monday, as she heads back to college, and moves into her dorm, she is taking the planter boxes with her. Been selling off my equipment, sold my bandsaw, and router table, and a fellow is coming over Sunday to pick up my Table Saw. Just put my 6" Jointer up for sale on Craigslist, should move by the end of the weekend, and I am setting my big aircraft carrier workbench/assembly table out on the curb for takers. DOWNSIZING!

So are you selling off your tools to move to Kentucky like Tami and I are?

 

After the purge of power tools, what are you going to use to make saw dust with?

7 hours ago, Allen Worsham said:

So are you selling off your tools to move to Kentucky like Tami and I are?

 

After the purge of power tools, what are you going to use to make saw dust with?

Oh how I wish Allen, oh how I wish, as a matter of fact I told Tonya that I may wait for you guys on the I-10 as you pass by with your U-Haul and I'd jump in the trailer and sneak in with you all! But then she reminded me, "Honey, you got family here", oh ya!!!!

 

Allen, for my fine sawdust capabilities I am turning to my newest acquisition, my second hand ShopSmith, as seen below just minutes after the fellow dropped it off and received my cash last weekend.

The work I am delving into, shaker chairs and shaker crafts, and eventually windsors, require mainly hand tooling, so I am going through a conversion of sorts you could say, from a machined shop, to a hand tooling shop, I have been converting over the last 3 or 4 years, and now I am completely ready to make the plunge head first. After careful thought and planning, I can see maybe only a few operations that require power for my chairs, such as turning spindles, but beyond that, it's all hand. I have the Shopsmith as my umbilical cord. I do love it so far, this weekend I am building a couple projects and the SS has given me everything I have asked of it, thus far, I have used the table saw function, and the drill press function, both fine, and I'll be adding the Bandsaw and surface planer to it as funding permits. The sell of my machinery is paying for this adventure, and I'll have leftover funding for additional hand tools I need. These are great times and fun times in the ol Morris shop, thanks for asking Allen.

 

 

 

John, you might consider a Dewalt 735, instead. Just sayin'.