12 hours ago, John Hechel said:

My wife is facing a double mastectomy due to ductal carcinoma.

 

Wishing you both the best John. BTDT 

23 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Let's go "Curb Shopping" 

 

Four vans and a trailer - that's some serious curb shopping y'all are doing!!!

 

20 hours ago, Gunny said:

Cut 12 of these last night, then 4 more for a smaller set. Dry fit looks good. No fasteners, all joinery.. Will be a bathroom cabinet for friend's house.  Design is a picture of one she found online.

 

That looks super Gunny, a few more pics of this please as work progresses

 

13 hours ago, John Hechel said:

for us it's been good and bad.

 

Prayers out for you & the Mrs. John.

 

 

Friday was taken up with a bunch of odds & ends.  Had the rear window in truck #2 replaced.  Sandblasted a few mugs and one pie plate.  Cleaned up the Duster and then off to look at some auction stuff.  I bid on a couple house air filters, hoping to get one.

Saturday, today, I plan to go to a local car show.  I think it's been about two years since I've attended a show.  Been to a few cruise ins, but this will be the first show since covid that I will have put the car in.

1 hour ago, Cal said:

Four vans and a trailer - that's some serious curb shopping y'all are doing!!!

 

I'm just the shuttle driver this time around. Waiting for the phone to ring. 

15 hours ago, John Hechel said:

My wife is facing a double mastectomy due to ductal carcinoma. We're still in the testing phases but am expecting surgery in about 2 weeks. 

John, I join the others in wishing for the best. Hang tough; I'm sure this isn't easy to go through.

Glued up all my dry fit work.

 

Started edge banding bottom shelf.

 

43 minutes ago, Gunny said:

Started edge banding bottom shelf.

 

Great progress!

Looks like your purple clamp stands could be a mite longer. 

Now THOSE are Big Boy clamps!   ˆˆˆ

 

 

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by Woodman
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17 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Great progress!

Looks like your purple clamp stands could be a mite longer. 

 

Never have enough clamps. Or enough of right size 

yesterday's task at the range:

 

made the sticks that keep the target stands organized.

 

nominal target sticks are 1x2s, so 3/4x1-1/2 actual.  but that makes for a snug fit.  so these sticks are shaved down from those dimensions, and are about 11/16 x 1-3/8, making it easier to remove and return the target stands when they are needed for a match.  total of 72 stands, most stacks have 10, two stacks have 11, 7 stacks total.  sticks are 32" long, painted red so they are not mistaken for an actual target stick (those are unpainted), with a white top, so it's a bit easier to see the top when re-stacking the stands in the somewhat dim Conex container they live in.  tops are also chamfered a bit too.

 

not the biggest or most complicated project, but it solves a problem, so i'll call it a success.  makes everyone's life a little easier going forward on match days.

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by DAB

Phone rang had to meet neighbor at storage cell #6 to unload the G3500, trailer, & Astro van.

They found me something I needed.  

I'll put it in @HARO50's  "Curb Shopping" thread.

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by Larry Buskirk

All set to get out to the shop today and make some sawdust.  

I have been working on a drill press table for a bit for the franken-smith dedicated drill press and due to life it has been on hold for a minute.  Have some ash that I plan on using for home made t-track, all I have to do is put a 5/16” slot in it and then run a t-cutter down it.  Easy peasy, right? 

 

Well, Murphy is a jerk, so 3” into the first piece the Freud 5/16” double flute straight bit decides to become a 2-piece bit…

I am walking away to look for alternatives and get my head back in the game after that little disaster.

20 minutes ago, StaticLV2 said:

All set to get out to the shop today and make some sawdust.  

I have been working on a drill press table for a bit for the franken-smith dedicated drill press and due to life it has been on hold for a minute.  Have some ash that I plan on using for home made t-track, all I have to do is put a 5/16” slot in it and then run a t-cutter down it.  Easy peasy, right? 

 

Well, Murphy is a jerk, so 3” into the first piece the Freud 5/16” double flute straight bit decides to become a 2-piece bit…

I am walking away to look for alternatives and get my head back in the game after that little disaster.

Hmmm....maybe a little solder? 

On a more serious note,  try making your initial groove on the TS, first. 

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by Gene Howe

9 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Hmmm....maybe a little solder? 

On a more serious note,  try making your initial groove on the TS, first. 

That is actually an excellent idea and one that I plan on implementing immediately.  Thanks for kicking my head into thinking about this from another direction!

52 minutes ago, StaticLV2 said:

double flute straight bit decides to become a 2-piece bit…

But no blood? 

 

I'm not yet ready for that dedication. I'll be doing lap joint bead board on a table saw next week, hopefully. I bet @steven newman has a plane which would do it too; another thing to learn. Redundancy is good.

43 minutes ago, Woodman said:

I bet @steven newman has a plane which would do it too;

 

 How much you wanna bet he'll have it done with hand tools before you can get your table saw. 

Stanley No. 45...does indeed have a 5/16" wide bit

 

That is a nice looking No. 45.

 

I am gradually building up my hand tool collection and that is definitely on the list of must haves.

So far I have a  No. 5, a couple of antique molding planes, a wood body jointing length plane, a No. 62 replica, and a good block plane.

The next thing I really need to do in the hand tool department though is build an actual bench.

 

18 hours ago, steven newman said:

Stanley No. 45...does indeed have a 5/16" wide bit

 

I'll keep an eye out for the estate sale "orange lunch box" tucked far under a laundry table ...

 

So a rebate plane will made lap-joint wall board. I'm thinking of ripping 3/8" planks at some point, to make T&G panels. Maybe a little fine for the No. 45?