Spent my shop time yesterday doing very small projects , sanding bottoms of bowls, cleaning up some gifted wood, putting tools away, weighing the sweet gum I just put in the kiln. 

 

Had a bowl with some tear out on bottom rings. Very difficult to sand so tried riffler files and that did pretty good to the point it looked like sanding scratches easily removed with 220. Would have never thought that as a solution.

 

Still lots of small things to pickup but I did get those cutoffs hauled to firewood pile. It never ceases to amaze at the things I put off until it just looks like normal shop clutter when it is really unfinished projects.

 

Now it is your turn to tell about all those projects you have unfinished. Oh and I did not tell all about the vase with a crack to be laced, the box from a club demo to finish and raffle off, the box lid with spiral cut but no bottom. MMMM maybe another shop cleanup day soon.

Well, I just finished up refinishing the 3 kitchen articles. Needed to get that finishing out of the way so I could start on a flat work piece.

 

We received a visit from a former neighbor. She is from Greece and brought a big pan of spanakopita pie. She lost her husband to Covid and then a year her home was destroyed by fire. While she was here she saw the pizza peal I made some years back. She said she lost her "turn out" board in the fire. It is a board she uses to turn over the spanakopita pie half way through the baking process. I had her son get me the measurements and have started on gluing up strips of various species to make her a new one.

 

I have collected just about all of the jaw sets for my Easy Chuck. I had been keeping them in a drawer under the lathe. The drawer was pretty full and the jaws sets were getting mixed up. Went to Harbor Freight and got a couple of their magnet tool holder strips. Took a while to find a suitable place to mount the strips. I thought about the front of the lathe but they would be too easily knocked loose.

I have zero wall space left anywhere in the shop. Finally settled on more overhead storage. A while back I made a tilt down storage bin for my lathe sanding supplies. It's just a long box that fits between the floor joist (basement ceiling) and hinged at the end so it can swing down when I need to get stuff. Mounted the magnetic strips to the back of the box. 

Box swung down-

 

 

Box up between the joist-

 

Moved a few other lathe jigs around a found room to store the Easy Wood Cole jaws up there too.

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