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!

 

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Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below.

 

• Eastern Hemlock: Eastern Hemlock is usually 60 to 80 feet tall and has a trunk diameter of two to three feet. Much larger trees are occasionally found. It has an irregular crown.... see more

 

 

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Have a wonderful week ahead folks!

getting the snowcat ready...

Spent the weekend in the weld shop.  Got a great deal on a snow plow for my Polaris Ranger.  The guy I got it from did some custom work mating a Polaris frame to a Warn 6' blade that didn't work out too well.  I got it re-engineered and working well.  It is in almost new condition.  Also got the spring mounts welded on a new axle to fit my old trailer. 

Had a better day at the Museum Saturday. Short afternoon in the shop as we have a Widows Banquet at Church this evening. Got to unpack the tools used this wekend.

saturday and sunday was driving home from WY.  got home safely, put away a pile of deer meat from 2 deers, put everything else away, relaxing today and need to put away coolers and luggage later.

so i visited a friend's house last week, and his wife is a big fan of all things wood.  lots of fancy boxes and turned bowls featured in their house.  one grabbed my attention:  it was a turned vase, maybe 7" high, tapering from about 4" at the mouth, to about 2" at the base, with a graceful curve, and pretty thin walls (less than 1/4" by my eye).  and they were rather sad about it, as it had been turned from one solid piece of dark wood, and over time, it had cracked  and broken near the base.

 

so someone went to great length to make this, and make it beautiful, but had neglected it's long term survival.  you have to build to last, not just make the sale.

 

not something i would have made, but lesson learned.

Weekend: shuttle services, a few errands and mowing Sat/Sun afternoons.

Week ahead; normal daily duties, finish mowing in a day or two when the raining quits; wife got her Jeep back today which helps; one away volleyball match done tonight (they won), another tomorrow night and Thu. Thursday AM, shuttle step-dad to his monthly eye appointment, then lunch. Anything else TBD & will be FCFS.

Last week I finished the pull out trays for the kitchen that had disrupted normalcy for me. My wife insisted they had some priority, so with that out of the way Sunday I was able to (finally) move the last stuff for the shop out of our basement into the shop (ta-da). It only took 2 1/2 years to get to this point. This was mostly the small stuff so yesterday and today I was hanging a few more shelves in the shop and trying to find cubby holes to put everything in. With only a few exceptions I have my complete shop together for the first time since we moved here in April of '16.

4 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

With only a few exceptions I have my complete shop together for the first time since we moved here in April of '16.

No doubt it seems even longer than that Fred, but having the privilege of being in your shop, the wait was worth it IMO. It is an authentic 5 Star Shop rating.

The only thing I can you of you might have done differently would have been to build it in West Central Indiana.

On 9/24/2018 at 12:44 PM, DAB said:

so i visited a friend's house last week, and his wife is a big fan of all things wood.  lots of fancy boxes and turned bowls featured in their house.  one grabbed my attention:  it was a turned vase, maybe 7" high, tapering from about 4" at the mouth, to about 2" at the base, with a graceful curve, and pretty thin walls (less than 1/4" by my eye).  and they were rather sad about it, as it had been turned from one solid piece of dark wood, and over time, it had cracked  and broken near the base.

 

so someone went to great length to make this, and make it beautiful, but had neglected it's long term survival.  you have to build to last, not just make the sale.

 

not something i would have made, but lesson learned.

The piece may have had a hairline crack on completion or been dropped and crack showed up later. Also knots or pith in the log can do this with changes in temperature and humidity. I have never had a piece do that but it is not unheard of.

For once, the shop stayed closed on a Monday.....tuesday is a bit different...film @ 2300 ZULU

made a little printer stand today.

 

it's not fancy, but it does what it is supposed to do.

Good Morning 

Its the weekend finally 

What a stressful horrible working week

Thank God I have my hobby.

Have A safe and fantastic weekend all