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!

 

My mind is always spinning with new ideas to have fun in the shop, lately I have been infatuated with the old American Longrifles, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc etc. I would love to build one, or many. Just for fun we ordered a plan for a Virginia Longrifle from Track of the Wolf and my son and I are anxious to do something with it, but for now we'll just watch YouTube videos of other people building and firing these majestic firearms of the past. I still have a ton of Honey Do's around the house to complete before I can get back on any extra curricular work. First on the list is our fence needs re-building!

 

Image below, my son excited to get his hands on these full scale Virginia Longrifle plans, so was I! This rifle is to be built as a .50 cal.

 

We got our plans here:

Track of the Wolf - Muzzle Loading & Black Powder Guns Kits, Parts, Accoutrements, Rendezvous Gear & Primitive Americana

WWW.TRACKOFTHEWOLF.COM

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Muzzle Loading & Black Powder Guns Kits, Parts, Accoutrements, Rendezvous Gear & Primitive Americana.

 

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Culture: Haida
Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, BC
Yellow and red cedar ca 1870
MOA purchase, 1960 (H.R. MacMillan Funds)
A7103 a-b
Great bentwood chests were considered heirlooms, treasured within families and often passed down through the generations.
This unique chest, with its projecting bear snout and paws, was collected in the 1870s by the Reverend W.H. Collison while he was a missionary at Old Massett.
Photo: Don Hitchcock 2012
Text: Display, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

 

 

This diagram shows what is necessary to get a tight fit, with no gaps. Notice that the profile of one side of the channel is curved, while the other is straight. Thus when the board is bent, the thin wood bends in an arc, which is supported by the corresponding arc on one side of the channel, leaving little or no gap to be filled with pitch or filler of some kind. This method will give a solid and long lasting, hard wearing corner.

Source: Don's Maps

 

 

What an interesting chest that is.

The worst of the big, yellow, sticky pollen from pine & oak trees is now behind us - and I am breathing better to boot.  Yesterday the wife & I took down all the window screens for the annual wash and washed all windows in & out.

Saturday I had a good burn pile of sticks & limbs that had come down during the winter.  To make it all good and legal I tossed a bunch of brussel sprouts and potatoes in the coals for supper.  Man was that good eating!

I still have a good bit of yard work to complete, and about two days before expected rain.  Reckon I will be outside today & tomorrow

Busy weekend and as much as I got done, still have more drawers to reconfigure.

 

Got three small end tables to make. Knew I shouda held off packing out the shop. 

Have to venture out today and get a battery.  This time spending the money won't be the bad part.  Just going out will cause most of the angst.  Gotta love it.  Yard work is in my plans for the week.  Did a little cleanup Saturday and enjoyed being outside.

1st car to look at of the day. Locked up motor. No oil or coolant in this thing. Ticket reads " check transmission has funny noise."

 

Yeah okay, how about that clunk on attempting start?

It's Monday..enough said....maybe Tuesday I can start on a til for the hand planes?  

31 minutes ago, steven newman said:

It's Monday..enough said....maybe Tuesday I can start on a til for the hand planes?  

That's next for me this week. Have a drawer that will fit my limited collection.  Doing some shuffling as of late.  Little small things that make the shop more organized.

 

 

Warning...keep them block planes in separate compartments....things are as bad as mice....place two together in a drawer,come back later..and there are 8 in the same spot..

You have been warned...

 

 

need to go out and buy a few sticks of Lumber....to keep the shop going, of course...

3 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Warning...keep them block planes in separate compartments....things are as bad as mice....place two together in a drawer,come back later..and there are 8 in the same spot..

You have been warned...

 

 

need to go out and buy a few sticks of Lumber....to keep the shop going, of course...

So they are like my electrical and plumbing supplies? Mating at night like rabbits.

    This morning have spent 3 hours waiting for the club computer to update so I can prepare program for upcoming virtual meeting a week from Saturday. I hate waiting for computers and really despise when they seem to have a mind of their own!!

 

   This afternoon I will put a few more things in drawers and start prepping my demo for the club. Oh what I did on the weekend was mostly cleaning stuff( you know the things you just cannot find a place for) off my workbenches and into drawers.

 

     Almost forgot Saturday getting the shop closed so I could get ready for a Zoom meeting with the club Executive committee. I close the garage door and the peavey that was propped next to the door fell into the door and blocked it . So here I am with the wire on the door spun off the reel and only a hour til meeting. Well miracles do happen and I got the wire rolled back on and door doe=wn in 30 minutes. This was not my first problem with the door in the shop but it was the first time I fixed (I hope) it myself.

3 minutes ago, Gerald said:

    This morning have spent 3 hours waiting for the club computer to update so I can prepare program for upcoming virtual meeting a week from Saturday. I hate waiting for computers and really despise when they seem to have a mind of their own!!

 

   This afternoon I will put a few more things in drawers and start prepping my demo for the club. Oh what I did on the weekend was mostly cleaning stuff( you know the things you just cannot find a place for) off my workbenches and into drawers.

 

     Almost forgot Saturday getting the shop closed so I could get ready for a Zoom meeting with the club Executive committee. I close the garage door and the peavey that was propped next to the door fell into the door and blocked it . So here I am with the wire on the door spun off the reel and only a hour til meeting. Well miracles do happen and I got the wire rolled back on and door doe=wn in 30 minutes. This was not my first problem with the door in the shop but it was the first time I fixed (I hope) it myself.

What is this meeting stuff?  Sounds like work, or in my case sit in the back of the room and catch a nap after speaker gets started. Maybe 30 seconds?

Yeah work for me . Last year our membership jumped from 41 to 75 just because we moved our meeting location. Hoping to keep the momentum going but this will make 3 months in a row and no meeting so we have to do something. February was a near record flood and now this virus is not helping anything.

8 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Well miracles do happen and I got the wire rolled back on and door doe=wn in 30 minutes.

 

Not an easy job.  Hard part is keeping the other side from unraveling while  you are doing it.

Shout out to Interstate Batteries.  Bought this battery for my Polaris side by side August, 2018.  It failed completely recently.  They replaced it N/C today.  They stood behind their product and they are made in the USA.

 

 

Just replaced an Interstate in the 250. It was totally shot. It only lasted 9 years. Couldn't even get a pro rated price. 

...Had 4 Interstate batteries in a row that all crapped out in less than 1 month, finally told them to give me a cash refund. Replaced them with a Farm and Fleet battery that has lasted more than 5 years so far. 

Edited April 6, 20206 yr by Larry Buskirk

Lumber for most of the new Plane Til has been bought...and a box of screws.   Hammer til is sitting out in the firepit...could not salvaged a thing, but a few screws..

 

Will start one the rest of the "demo" tomorrow...then start on the new Plane Til....

John, thank you for the lead off this Monday.  I hope to follow your path building or attempting to build one of those old rifles.  Also, thank you for all the other information.  I have kept up with most of it.  These weekend, I had a few minutes for some personal therapy.  Here is what I got done.  I remove the bark to keep out a little bug that lives here.  The bug gets under the bark and lay eggs and then you have worm holes all through the wood.  The ends are coated with Anchor Seal.  This Bradford pear will be cut into 2 1/4" X 2 1/4" for rolling pins.  

 

 

I have one of those, made mine a table of sorts, with wheels even.  My wife was worried the Cats would be able to move it.  Yeah, okay.