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One of my favorite gals, Anne of All Trades talks about Spoon Carving and she has some great tips, enjoy!

 

Productive weekend in the yard, at least on Saturday. Sunday was a bit too wet for outside stuff so I piddled in the shop.

Busy week ahead for me.  Packing up and heading out for a bit...

Will be checking in occasionally but no log in or replying.

See y'all later

hoping to get started on residing the garden shed also finish up the little natural edge bowls.

Fixed the Focus yesterday, $50.00 versus $290.00. 

Still recovering from a busy weekend and a rough day yesterday. Woke up about 2A with full on-set of kidney stone symptoms. About a 8.0/10 pain scale. Debated going to ER; took my on hand medications for such occurances. Relented and took a pain pill about 5A plus drinking large amounts of water and xtra large heating pad. Finally dozed off about 8A. Pain pill helped, as did nausea pills. Napped off/on through mid-afternoon. No pain medications for last 18 hours. Feeling better today; just tired.

 

Still have the boys through Wednesday. Their baseball season starts tonight. Alternating nights for them but games every night this week. Church related meetings later week. Desperately need to mow but rain off/on through tomorrow. Have a few garden plants need to get out too.

Got a ton...well, several pounds....of  mostly walnut scraps. Most all 3/4" and, largely irregular in shape. Lots of curvy ones, Also, a smattering of mesquite, maple, and cedar. I'll be milling it all to get at least one straight side and two straight ends. Will be giving that shop made jointer sled a real work out. All to make ready for resawing. With scroll saw projects in mind, the thicknesses will be 1/8",  up through 1/2" in eighths.  Lotta planer work, too. Really gonna give my DC system a work out, as well.    

Cut the grass except where it was too wet.  Yesterday I cut some valve stems and ground them sharp to use to make more awls.

Too many errands to run, today....might keep me out of the shop.....

 

Beltsander bit me thumb yesterday.....all 30 tenons are milled..some will need fine tuned....need a lumber run, today...am about 3 planks short......Have to set up the Router table, later...all slats will need a round-over milled....even the seat slats(5 of them)   Might be a busy week?

hose day here.  setting out 500' of hoses for the spring/summer.  have 3 rainwater cisterns that i use for both drinking water and watering what is left of the gardens.  sigh.

 

also hopefully fixed a slow leak on the truck tire.  double sigh.

 

it's always something.

Interesting article on spoon carving, @John Morris.   I've carved a few.  I would recommend Wille Sundqvist's book that covers both spoon carving and carving techniques.  I never knew there were so many carving strokes before I read his book.  

Swedish Carving Techniques

Have never carved a spoon but have turned several and used arbortec to hollow bowl. Good video. Still no power in shop, supposed to fix early in the morning

Lumber run done....4 planks @ 1 x 6 x 5' = $6 total

 

Harbor Freight 6" clamp...old one wasn't holding settings....exchanged for now one....FREE

 

Errands run...then Rehab for my eyes..working on "Lazy Eyes"

 

Shop is closed for today...that "Monday" thing..

Yesterday was a washout with all day that lasted past getting dark out. 

22 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Cut the grass except where it was too wet.

 Did you leave those yellow wildflowers that the pollinators like? 

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 Did you leave those yellow wildflowers that the pollinators like? 

 

They got run over.  The riding mower wouldn't fit between the rows of them. 

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 Did you leave those yellow wildflowers that the pollinators like?

 I think the salt trucks add those seeds to the salt in the winter. Devil strips could feed a large colony of bees.

Spent a few hours Saturday cleaning the shop, some projects I want to start. Sometimes life can keep a person quite busy.

3 hours ago, HandyDan said:

 

They got run over.  The riding mower wouldn't fit between the rows of them. 

 

3 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

 I think the salt trucks add those seeds to the salt in the winter. Devil strips could feed a large colony of bees.

Spent a few hours Saturday cleaning the shop, some projects I want to start. Sometimes life can keep a person quite busy.

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I know it is Tuesday but like the old song say "I don't like Mondays". This week. Technically a vacation week. Still have paperwork to do. Move my daughter from Nashville back to Chattanooga Wednesday the to Louisville Ky on the 29th. Try to get time with the CNC. Oh yeah had to replace both AC/Heat units too. 

 

On a lighter side and proud daddy moment My daughter first team All Academic for softball and third team all conference, AND I had 2 people want me to make them some coasters...

 

Have a good one!