Last week I was asked by the Council of Aging to build them a set of Cornhole Boards. While researching the dimensions I found a woman who was Upcycling the boards from pallet wood.

"I HAVE PALLETS!"

 

After removing the blocks and the bottom boards I used my pneumatic nail driver to drive out the bent and crooked nails. This gun is a lot faster then than doing it with a hammer.

Then it's really easy to pull the nails.

It works great on the 1 5/8" nails

It takes a lot of prep to get these boards flat enough for a smooth finished product BUT for the price of a few dozen screws and four carriage bolts they will have their boards

 

Spent about 2 hours getting an MRI as a 4 year follow-up to my surgery.  That, and blood tests, appear to be copacetic, but will see the neurosurgeon next week.

4 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Which one? I subscribe to his channel. Entertaining guy with good presentation skills. Keeps things moving. Does a lot of interesting tool reviews. He was a former Arkansas State Trooper turned Maker/Woodworker.

He did a track saw vs. table saw comparison a couple of days ago.  Lots of good points, pros and cons.    But I'll give up my table saw when you pry it out of my cold,  dead hands.  HE does have a lot of good videos.

 

 

 

 

Not sure you have to choose  between the two.  Get them both.   Use the table saw when the board is easy enough to move over the table saw.  Use the track saw when the board is too large to be safe trying to pass over a table saw.   

 

Today I sliced the limb from the tree in my yard into four 3/4" x 2.5" x 24" boards.  Stacked them up with spacers between to dry some more before I'll clean them up and glue them together to make a small table top.  Very streaked wood. A tight grain hardwood that may be birch.  

4D

whew, managed to get drain on air compressor opened and drained, lol, probably hasn't been done in well. lets say a while, a long one.

emptied my craft show van, stored away containers of all goods in one of the extra Bedrooms, as we don't expect visitors, but have a couple more, so............. gotta give the van a once over, haven't emptied it in two years so has some ''stuff,'' you know the stuff, you seem to throw on floor, on a shelf, and well, gonna throw that away next time i'm near a can.

have shied away from shop work, decided to reload a gaggle of ammo, managed to load 3k of 10mm plinking rounds, and last nite started on reloading .45 acp, while i generally sort my brass, i grabbed a bucket that i evidently did not, and it was loaded with small primer brass along with large, argh, i managed to invent a couple new phrases, ole gal, was on patio of house with in ear shot of my reloading shack, i stepped out when she yelled at me,  when she says''richard'' i know i'm the do do. 

anyhowz, that slowed down that progress, something Zen about the one armed bandit, known as a dillon reloading gear, i managed to solve a whole lotta issues when i'm jerking that handle. 

so, back in shop tomorrow, my computer guru is due in before noon and we are gonna play with the 3d printers and the cnc, i'm slowly learning the solftware, and i have managed to invent some new words there too. ugh.

happy tuesday, temps were decent, little fan action and all was well

Rj in az

14 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

"I HAVE PALLETS!"

 

Great project and results French.  If you do the you tube video thing, a guy on there does a lot of nice stuff with the longer pallets like you have.  Epic UpCycling is the name he uses.  Here is one project:

 

 

Thanks for the video Cal but I don't think I'm in the Epic Upcycling class.

I'm more 'the Mother of Invention'/that looks fun type. I have files with screenshots of things I could build.

22 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

Thanks for the video Cal but I don't think I'm in the Epic Upcycling class.

I'm more 'the Mother of Invention'/that looks fun type. I have files with screenshots of things I could build.

 

Me too!

I use "I'm bored" time to find old pallets or old furniture or old tree limbs to "upcycle" them into glued up panels.  Not that I have an end project for them in mind, but to build of a supply of useful panels that can be put to use when my mind comes up with a project idea.  More fun and much cheaper than a trip to the lumber yard for wood after I've got a project in mind. 

As for a project with 1000+ parts my "simplify" gene would reject that in a microsecond as something I'd like to do.   

On 4/18/2023 at 4:45 PM, frenchwwr said:

Last week I was asked by the Council of Aging to build them a set of Cornhole Boards. While researching the dimensions I found a woman who was Upcycling the boards from pallet wood.

"I HAVE PALLETS!"

 

After removing the blocks and the bottom boards I used my pneumatic nail driver to drive out the bent and crooked nails. This gun is a lot faster then than doing it with a hammer.

Then it's really easy to pull the nails.

It works great on the 1 5/8" nails

It takes a lot of prep to get these boards flat enough for a smooth finished product BUT for the price of a few dozen screws and four carriage bolts they will have their boards

 

 

Just now, frenchwwr said:

 

So I got the Corn Hole Boards built for the seniors.

and built this piece so they can keep score.

One of the women has a kids' crafts class and they are going to paint them

Only woodworking I did was a little CNC work.  My Grandfather was an Architect, and among my possessions is a complete set of home design construction drawings/floor plans/elevation views he designed and drew up for my parents.  In addition I have a book of plans/perspective sheets of 50+ house designs he did to show prospective clients.  I posted on Facebook that I was looking for a younger relative that might want to take these family archives and sure enough a nephew spoke up as wanting them.  I'm shipping these to him, and found a carboard tube for the construction drawings.  The tube was 1/2" too short and needed a cap.  I found a 1.25" thick scrap of maple and used my CNC to cut a cap to solve the challenge. 

 

 

It has a 1/2" recess for the top of the drawings, and 5/8" of collar to slip over the cardboard tube.  I'll seal it with something before taping it down to ship to my nephew.

4D

Edited May 1, 20233 yr by 4DThinker

That is all round great 4D; that you still have some of the original work of your grandfather's, that someone in the family (next gen?) wanted them, and of course your CNC work

9 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

So I got the Corn Hole Boards built for the seniors.

and built this piece so they can keep score.

One of the women has a kids' crafts class and they are going to paint them

Nice of you to build those for the old folks. The score board is great, too. At first, I thought it was a cribbage board.