Good Monday morning!

Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

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@StaticLV2 has a great workbench project underway, looks like he's approaching it in a good way. Good Static!

 

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My favorite Pre-Industrial woodworkers are at it again with this freshly made video on how to restore a wooden hand plane, enjoy!

 

 

After getting around 5" of rain over the weekend, I'm listening to the grass/weeds grow. 

 

 

send some of that H20 our way, we be a dry heat, lol, and in a dry spell for sure, monsoon is slow in arriving and not providing much needed ''wet''

 

rj in az

Took most of Sunday for R&R. 

Enjoying a bit more of it this morning on the patio, with coffee, watching the birds frolic in the fountain, doing their morning ablutions, while I plan the day. Thinking most of it will be at the BS, cutting 12 Limbert table legs. All in keeping with my resolve to quash my ADD and keep at one project until completion. We'll see how that goes. 

52 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I'm listening to the grass/weeds grow

Some folks may not believe it, but you can hear corn grow. Way out in the country far from interstate highways and airline routes, where the silence is deafening, a field of corn makes a subtle crackling noise.

 

Sunday porch cutting of a curb-found piece of wood. I must be speeding up The Process; it's only been 4 1/2 months from Find to Cut.

 

Plus some squaring duties for future jewelry trays. Plus a resolution to 000 buff my entire saw and apply paste wax.

 

nice one, and find.

 

i'm a gonna make some additional stand offs for my dust collection, need to get the gates out from wall a tad, to make connections easy.

also epoxied some boards the gal is building, cracks and knots, ugh, why is it i always get the stuff everywhere. lol.

 

gonna take a field trip to south east valley today, fella has some nice cookies that gal wants to try and make some clocks, and the rule of day is, what the wife wants she gets, happy wife, real happy life. lol

happy monday, gonna be a barn burner here in the desert.

rj in az

Monday?  What..again?

 

Need to stop in at Harbor Freight, today.....buy a bag of "Acid Brushes"......so I can spread a bunch of glue into a bunch of wooden fingers..

And see about doing a glue-up....have a supply of cauls at the ready...have a week to get this box done....Then see what I have left over for August..

Pick-up-sticks game of the week after weekend storms. Lots of noise + wind...minimal rain. Still considered a high drought zone. Soybeans show it.

Family fun night tomorrow evening at church sponsored by our youth groups. Cookout, games, fellowship as many of our youth will be returning to campus soon.

 

Hope to get some garage time since mowing has fallen off urgent list. Too many tasks and projects to count. Need to recharge my motivation batteries but can't find the charger.

 

Be safe, work smart not harder, keep cool, stay hydrated and remember the "rule of ten."

34 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Pick-up-sticks game of the week after weekend storms.

 Yep, since it cooled off a bit I took a walk around the yard. Wonder when those two trees came down? 

36 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Lots of noise + wind...minimal rain. Still considered a high drought zone.

 Was trying to send a bit more your way we got just under 5" mostly overnight Friday into Saturday AM then Saturday overnight into Sunday AM. They've still got us in the "High Drought" catagory even after that 5". 

 

41 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Need to recharge my motivation batteries but can't find the charger.

 When you find it, tell mine to go home. 

Monday AGAIN?

Bad part about going into Harbor Freight.....they have a Clearance Aisle on the way to where the Acid Brushes were.....

 

New 4" x 36" sanding belt....plus 2 packs of sanding discs for my ROS....

 

Dangerous place....

Oh yes we are the people running in the race
Buying up the bargains in the ol' marketplace
Another sale on something, we'll buy it while it's hot
Save a lot of money spending money we don't got
We Save a lot of money spending money we don't got

 

Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Consumer"

19 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Oh yes we are the people running in the race
Buying up the bargains in the ol' marketplace
Another sale on something, we'll buy it while it's hot
Save a lot of money spending money we don't got
We Save a lot of money spending money we don't got

 

Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Consumer"

Yep. Spend money on something because it is a good sale but I don't need it right now,,,or maybe never

Yup! I've probably got $1,000 worth of tools I've never used. But they were all REAL good bargains!

While I am not as active here, still fairly busy on projects at home. Just take longer as I get accustomed to work load at new job. 6 weeks in, still beat every day. Pay is good though. 

 

Have 2 grinders now. Made a drawer with sliding tray.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by Gunny

The NEW sanding belt...

Old one was worn out...even changed out the 6" disc,,,

What the shop has for a ROS...and

these 2 were $0.67 each..4 @ 5"discs per pack....the belt was $2.99....got almost 2 months out of the last belt...including doing plane rehabs..

 

 

1 hour ago, Gunny said:

Have 2 grinders now. Made a drawer with sliding tray.

 

 

1 hour ago, Gunny said:

 

 

 

Great idea. I recently acquired a second grinder but mine are used for carving and maybe cutting metal from time to time. May have to build this into the drawer they rest in.

 

It is Tuesday afternoon, just got home from work.  Exhausted from 2 hard days on the line.  Unbelievable how busy this place is...

 

Nap time!