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By Peter Lanyon Furniture

 

Have all the parts cut for the rocking horse Mimi ordered. Lots of sanding, finessing and finishing yet to go.

2 face grain cutting boards packed and ready for delivery this week.

Building two white oak cradles.

Working on shoe rack for living room.  

 

Got this far with pictures.  Current status is waiting for more glue to dry to continue work.  Have quite a bit of fancy work to go before finally assembly.  

 

 

 

Shop is empty!!! All swept, too. Truck and trailer loaded for the penultimate trip to southern AZ. The final load will be the Polaris on the trailer. Likely 9/30. 

Did a little cleaning and finish up on some small projects. That said I began turning a cherry burl my son gave me over two year ago and finished it today. Now waiting for BLO to cure so can do  shellac

Got both lawns mowed and purchased some hardware for a project.  School starts for me tomorrow.  I need these refresher courses.  

Sanded my front entrance deck today. Ready for a marine primer coat that will be followed with a marine anti slip paint. Hoping it is worth the extra work and cost.

5 rehabs done over the weekend....good thing this was my "day off"

Nail sets were ok..the other 2?  PEXTO 8" dividers, and C.W. F.'s calipers..

Then  a plane or 2

Front one is by Sargent, the other is by Stanley( jack plane is for parts..)

The  Sargent VBM is a #3 size

Seems to be either a #408, or a #5408, about 1917?...the Stanley?

Refinished the handles, after removing the flaky black paint from them..Seems to be a Stanley No. 4, Type 20 (1962-)

And the fifth of the weekend?   From Rusty & Krusty..

To almost like new..

Has a readable etch....Henry Disston & Sons.....20" panel saw.  Also seems to be from around 1917, or so...

 

Busy weekend...had sore feet, walking around all them tractors and vendors, plus 7 yard sales...

 

 

Edited September 8, 20205 yr by steven newman

Hurry up and wait, got tools coming in just picked up the EWT Mid Sized Rougher which will be nice to have.  Gotta wait on my blanks to get in before I can completely get started so nothing  going on until Wensday at the earliest.

1 hour ago, steven newman said:

PEXTO 8" dividers

Interesting! I have the identical item, but a 10" model. Checked the name on it... P S & W. Peck, Stow and Wilcox! Which, somewhere down the line, became PEXTO!

John

according to a blurb over on Practicalmachinist...

 

"they were using "PEXTO" as a trademark in 1914, even when their company name was Peck, Stowe etc. . . .
http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artif...ow-wilcox.html"

 

if you're not familiar with http://alloy-artifacts.org/

it's a good resource and you can waste spend a lot of time reading over there... 

My stained glass project is frustrating me. Glass cutting is inconsistent and it is difficult to produce identical pieces. With wood you can sand and shape to make what you need. Leave a little extra stock and just fit it. You can set up equipment to get the thickness and width you need. With glass it is different. Make as bad score and there is no recovery. You just need to start over. The skills needed require much trial and error, mostly error for me and that is just the cutting phase. I haven't even arrived at the soldering stage. It is humbling to watch some elderly lady just step up and make it look easy. I have a glass grinder with a 3/4 inch diameter but cleaning up a straight edge is hard to keep smooth. I have a small belt/disc sander combo but I can't find belts or discs that will grind glass. I am super frustrated and have shifted over to the Danish style bench finding comfort in working with wood. 

 

Don't pay attention to my pissing and moaning. I am struggling and I am sure it will pass as I keep working at it.   

JJ - if you need some glass working tips, try to contact @Smallpatch.  I don't think 'patch does any glass, but Mrs. 'patch does, and beautiful work at that.  It may be a technique issue, or it may be that you just need another 20 years of practice

2 hours ago, Cal said:

JJ - if you need some glass working tips, try to contact @Smallpatch.  I don't think 'patch does any glass, but Mrs. 'patch does, and beautiful work at that.  It may be a technique issue, or it may be that you just need another 20 years of practice

I am a pro in one aspect of this.  I can break any glass.

Edited September 11, 20205 yr by Gunny

Yep, Cal is right for my wife is good at glass cutting and sometimes she just breathes on the solder to get the right heat. 

JJ if I may ask a question do you use the little straight glass cutter or the cutter built in the shape of a gun???? When wife first started out all she had were the straight models but the day she switched over to the larger cutter the frowns left her face and she would come in the house with smiles a mile wide!  

  It was that or maybe she had a boy friend hid in her shop????

 

21 hours ago, junglejohn said:

I have a glass grinder with a 3/4 inch diameter but cleaning up a straight edge is hard to keep smooth.

I hear you.  The man who taught me was an engineer and was very meticulous fitting the glass.  Do you mark the glass with a sharpie?  Then if you cut the line, that should leave enough for grinding to a good fit, since the tracing was outside the pattern.  Sometimes I fit it so tight that there isn't room for the copper foil!

 

Another long time stained glass hobbyist didn't seem to worry about really close fits, since the solder filled the gaps anyway.

 

Hopefully your first project has few pieces and not many small ones.  

Jim

Jim she has been working with glass for over 20 years.

  She made this lion in about 2005 from this pattern and it is what I did out of wood in about 2015. I'm sure the scroll saw I used was way easier than her cutting the glass. Seems like it is about 20 x 20". Shes never backed off of a pattern that had lots of long long very thin pieces of glass to cut that I can remember!!!

  After I retired and we moved to the lake she was still an RN but then all of a sudden she said I am through being a nurse and now I want to do stained glass...she had never been around anyone that did that kind of work but all I had to do for her was build her some jigs that was square. She wanted me to build frames for her works but would bring the terribly out of square things to me and expect me to whup out something right quick... All the rest was her learning from where ever.....

  She ruined both of her wrist from all the pressure she exerts cutting the glass and had to have both operated on last year but still refuses to stop working glass.. The operation did fix her up.

 So from what I am reading from your post and was mentioned here from a couple of guys is practice practice practice....

  I installed a real big exaust fan in one end of her shop with a big air conditioner in the other end to get that acid smell out real quick. Another thing you need to do....!

Edited September 11, 20205 yr by Smallpatch

On 9/11/2020 at 10:15 AM, Smallpatch said:

Yep, Cal is right for my wife is good at glass cutting and sometimes she just breathes on the solder to get the right heat. 

JJ if I may ask a question do you use the little straight glass cutter or the cutter built in the shape of a gun???? When wife first started out all she had were the straight models but the day she switched over to the larger cutter the frowns left her face and she would come in the house with smiles a mile wide!  

  It was that or maybe she had a boy friend hid in her shop????

 

I went to the glass warehouse an purchased a pistol grip cutter and I am finding unprecedented success! It is much easier to control and make consistent cuts. Maybe all of those years welding a 1911 is paying off. I fired expert with it and now I am on my way to being an expert here. But remember the definition of an expert. A ex is a has been and a spurt is a drip under pressure.