Happy New Year! 

 

...We made it!!!

... 2020 is gone, done, out of here. 

 

..Did any of Y'all usher in the New Year like me?

I myself was studying the inside of my eyelids when the clock struck 12:00 AM.

 

So that brings us to the BIG question...(Drum Roll Please)

 

What's on your first weekend of 2021's agenda?

 

 

 

 

That dagnabbed Gunny keeps upping the bar on the workshop organization thing (who knew it existed?), so I'm labeling my drawers with their contents. But I draw the line there, none of this other stuff....if I was that organized I'd never find anything.

Helping my son remove two adjacent windows in our dining room and, install a French door in their place. That begins today, so actually not the weekend. But, whaddaya bet we'll not finish until it's truly the weekend. 

@Gene Howe

 

Hope it's warmer where you are, 22° here now. 

27 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

@Gene Howe

 

Hope it's warmer where you are, 22° here now. 

It is a bit warmer. 37F right now. 

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Did any of Y'all usher in the New Year like me?

I myself was studying the inside of my eyelids when the clock struck 12:00 AM.

Yup!

As for the shop, I'll be trying to re-organize it to make room for a few new (to me) tools acquired over the past two years. A lot of potential turning wood is headed to D.I.L.'s woodstove, and I may be getting rid of a couple of things I seldom use.

1 hour ago, HARO50 said:

Yup!

As for the shop, I'll be trying to re-organize it to make room for a few new (to me) tools acquired over the past two years. A lot of potential turning wood is headed to D.I.L.'s woodstove, and I may be getting rid of a couple of things I seldom use.

 

...So...What's a few new (to me) tools?  

 ... Anything "Old"  and Cool?

 

..Organize? ... Have to do some (a lot) of that myself. 

It rained and some fireworks when I went to sleep.  I don't celebrate the New Years with parties.  Got tired of that decades ago.  Yep, I'm a party pooper.  I had grandchildren coming for breakfast today, so I had to be up by 0700 to cook breakfast.  Project for this weekend is to continue working on this chair.  Back posts are almost loose.  Hope to get them out today.  Then will align them on the Shopsmith and bore new holes for dowels to restore the headrest.  Then will strip and sort of refinish.  It's going to be warm.  

 

Oh, taking down the tree and saving the trunk to make a locomotive.  I will post a process thread when the time comes.  

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by FlGatorwood

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

.So...What's a few new (to me) tools? 

This....

....will probably replace this.

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Anything "Old"  and Cool?

How about this? All original except the cord & plug.

 

5 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

How about this? All original except the cord & plug.

 

 

......That's more like what I'm talking about! 

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

......That's more like what I'm talking about! 

Kinda figured that! Free, too..... but shipping's a b***h!

4 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Kinda figured that! Free, too...

 

My favorite price! 

 

5 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

... but shipping's a b***h!

 

Ain't that the truth! 

John, I like that old Shopsmith 10ER in the background.  I didn't remember that you had one. Guess I'm slipping. 

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by FlGatorwood

 

About 1/3 of the wood. The miter saw may be going too. I've had it for almost 40 years. Craftsman, but dead accurate straight out of the box! I kept it because the sliding MS from Costco wasn't capable of an accurate cut, basically only for construction type work. Back in the spring I replaced that one with a FAR superior Makita, so I really don't need the smaller saw any more. Could free up 4' of wall space!

    Speaking of which, that's another recent acquisition! 

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by HARO50
Lost the first picture!

Nothing on the shop docket right now, except for some rehab on a piano bench for my daughter's neighbor.  I have a bit of the reclaimed walnut I might try to do some small projects with.

 

We are having a deferred family Christmas this afternoon.  Zoom meeting with two daughters and third coming for dinner and gifts.   Will have them get the refinished cedar chest, the electric keyboard table, the annual ornaments for the grandkids, and the Kissmas tree for them.

 

Two Saturdays in January the woodworking club will do Zoom sessions, one on "4 planes everyone should own," and another on "hand plane fettling and tuning."   Two other weekends, I'll be doing a session that the bee club puts on for beginning beekeepers.  My class will be on how to assemble the "woodenware" -- hive bodies, frames, tops and bottoms, and accessories.

 

@HARO50so what was the brand on the miter saw from Costco?

Mid 30s here today and about 2" of rain.   Glad it was not 10 degrees cooler and got 2' of snow.

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by kmealy

5 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

That dagnabbed Gunny keeps upping the bar on the workshop organization thing (who knew it existed?), so I'm labeling my drawers with their contents. But I draw the line there, none of this other stuff....if I was that organized I'd never find anything.

 

 

Oh no, we need more organization.  We shall start next project.  It will be a parts washer / sink / finishing supplies cabinet.

 

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, kmealy said:

so what was the brand on the miter saw from Costco?

King Canada. Don't know if you have that brand south of the border.

7 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

King Canada.

 

 

Nah, we have something called a President....