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As you all can see Mark built a wonderful cubby storage for his mothers kitchen. We are honored to have Mark with us once again and showing off his work, Mark is special Alumni in our community, Wounded Warrior, and a site challenged woodworker, yet he builds some pretty wonderful items and crafts in his shop. Have any of you wondered what it would be like to work in your existing shop, virtually blind? Well Mark does! He has the power machinery that we all have, and through special techniques Mark has learned to use the Tablesaw without losing any digits, and all the other mainstay powered equipment you'd expect to have as a woodworker. Job well done Mark! And it's great to see ya around here Mark!

 

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Gunsmith: David Cooley (American, Pennsylvania 1790–1856)

Medium: Wood (curly maple, ash), steel, silver, brass

David Cooley's rifles have an uncluttered appearance and feature crisp, high relief carving, fine engraving, and elegant overall architecture. This is perhaps the most refined of his few surviving works. He was strongly influenced by his proximity to two important schools of gunmaking: the Emmitsburg School, to the south in Maryland, and the Chambersburg School, to the west in Franklin County. Source: The Met150

 

 

 

 

Just finishing off a birch wood bowl....

Work on progress on organizers for screwdriver drawer. Realized over weekend that I had no good reason for 1000 screw drivers.  Used magnets to hold in position.

 

 

Monday? Ah....no..Not again....

 

Have a box being made..

I think I can wait until Tuesday arrives with the wind..

We're just hanging around. Waiting till the 29th to leave here for good. 

Yesterday afternoon/evening were feted with a going away get together attended by many of the friends we've made over the years. About 50 folks showed up. We were gifted several bottles of home brewed apple wine and a quart Mason jar of apple jack. Haven't uncorked the wine but, that Apple Jack is some fine, potent stuff! Two wee sips was enough. As usual for these get togethers, almost everyone brought a dish or two. Also as usual, it all was mighty good. 

Took lots of pictures. They'll get viewed often in the next several months. Gonna invoke some bittersweet memories. We're really sad to leave our friends. 

Nothing Good. 

Helping neighbors clean up yards, plus mine, laundry, getting gas to return to kind neighbors who loaned gasoline to me to run the generator.  Banks are open today, schools not.  Grocery stores stocking chilled and frozen foods plus meats.  Reminds me of March this year.  I will be a little sparse here as I am sure I will be exhausted at the end of the days until all these yards are cleaned.  Cox Communications came by this morning, replacing or correcting dangling wires.  So, normalcy is in sight.  

5 hours ago, steven newman said:

Monday? Ah....no..Not again....

Christmas at Gunny's tonight. Courtesy of @steven newman

 

 

Edited September 22, 20205 yr by Gunny

Many years ago, in my earlier years of married life when we purchased our first home, the previous owner left behind a complete set of dies and taps in wooden cases. I mentioned it to him and he told me I could keep them. After a few years, Never using them, I decided I'll never use these things and decided to give them to someone who could use them. Looking back now, I probably never would have used the dies, but there have been times when I wished I hadn't let the taps go, at least the smaller ones. These photos have taken me back to those days. Now, I don't even remember who they were given to.

8 minutes ago, Al B said:

I probably never would have used the dies, but there have been times when I wished I hadn't let the taps go, at least the smaller ones.

You would be surprised how handy they are.  At work it is not abnormal to have a hole that needs rethreaded or tapped a size bigger.  Drill bit set to complete that miracle is $300.  Never mind the taps, and they do get worn down or break on occasion.  Now at home since I use they at work I see more uses for them and again bail myself out of a jam or just use them to manufacture something.  

 

Steve gave me several larger ones that do not typically come in a standard set.  Expands my collection nicely.  Next will be a build for holding the expansion set.

Edited September 22, 20205 yr by Gunny

Today I stained both oak cradles that I’ve been building.  One walnut and one golden mahogany.  Hopefully by this time next week I’ve moved on to a pair of side tables.

@Ron Dudelston that is a wonderful piece of work! You know I also noticed the saw horses too, those look very convenient and light, very nice sir.

The horses are stackable and I store them up in the barn loft.  Great for quick projects.

25 minutes ago, Ron Dudelston said:

The horses are stackable and I store them up in the barn loft.  Great for quick projects.

I'd like to see a pic of the horses, when you can.

This is a week of outside work and planning for completion of the living room/dining room.

Last week, @FlGatorwood was gracious enough to send some rain our way.  I am not sure how much as my gauge only holds five inches and it ran over.  The Macon TV stations reported 7".  Following that rain I have been wanting to build a fire and get shed of a bunch of limbs, sticks, scraps and such.  That day is today!  I will spend most all day watching and feeding the fire, about 4:30 or so I will wrap a couple potatoes in foil and bury them in the coals for tonights supper.  I would have already done this but it has been a bit windy/breezy; supposed to be pretty calm today.

In anticipation of today I got the shop cleaned out yesterday, toted out a couple armfuls of scraps to the burn pit and used the leaf blower to finish up the job.

 

I have a dr. visit tomorrow.  Following that I will run a few errands and pick up/order the final pieces of trim for the LR/DR.  There is the large air return duct for the HVAC which ugly thing takes up prime real estate and just looks "bad".  I have been wrestling with what to do to fix the ugliness for a year now.  Time to make a decision and move forward...  That project will be on my mind all day today so that I can get the trim necessary to make it more better, at least more better than it currently is...

Work continues on making organizers for this drawer. Magnets hold them in place.

 

Gunny--- just for kicks, check out JIS [Japanese Industrial Standard] I replaced all my regular Phillips screwdrivers with a small set of jis.  These simply do not cam out screw heads as easily as regular ones seem to do. Especially work well for small foreign metric applications. Works for me.

Screwdriver drawer completed.  Two other drawers have trays in finishing room. Red is straight slot, blue is Phillips and black is Torx.

 

 

 

Saaaweet, Gunny.