Going to an auction one day and spied this in another back yard

[Smallpatch]

I bought a table drill press at auction one day while spending some time close to South Fork, Colo It was just the thing I had been looking for so I could mount it up high so my eyes were next to the small drill bits I used for drilling very small holes when I did inside scroll sawing. I wanted to see if having that drill bit up where my eyes stay most of the time I could actually see where the end of the bit would be going in to the wood and not on the lines like I did sometimes causing a little trouble making the holes disappear when finished sawing a pattern out..

  Well, as I was leaving I noticed a garage sale sign next door so as I was pulling in I noticed this old lathe laying in do-do of a  horse coral.

  I looked around for a while and couldn't see anything I was interested in and said you got anything else you want to get rid of????

He said yes I do have some stuff I had almost all my life and it just sat there in my way for I bought a new better one.

  I offered 20 and he said I will help you load it.

.  I also bought a used dust extractor sitting there under the picknick table  that I only use for one of my drum sanders.  Sitting in an Rv park for 3 months got a little boring  so the next year I Loaded every thing it took to saw out the four jewelry boxes I glued together after getting back home.

   Amazing what you can do with these old machines.

[lew]

Awesome score and restore, Jess!

[Grandpadave52]

Great score and excellent recondition Patch. Looks like an old Craftsman or Atlas which IIRC, Atlas made the Craftsmans back in the day.

[Woodman]

That is a quite handsome piece of machinery you've moved into your shop!

[Smallpatch]

Montgomery Ward but no motor but the rest of it was there and I am loaded with electric motors that I been collecting  since I got out of high school in 54. 

  So I have 3 used lathes but I hardly ever use one and that is usually when I am repairing something round that got broke.

[Cal]

Great rehab on the lathe Jess.  Interesting project mounted on it too, did that project come out of an old Delta book for using a lathe?

[Smallpatch]

Cal I was just wanting to see if anyone questioned me making the thing mounted in the old lathe.  But not many people 

 was ever around any old Monkey Wards products and they might not want to comment one way or the other and look dumcoff.

  This is what the Legacy Ornamental Lathe can do plus many other great processes.

 Are you and the lady of the house through going down every road in America yet..... That reminds me there is a retired couple who has taken a picture of every post office in Texas and every town that has no post office. This was in a believe it or not mag a few years ago....I think we have been to almost all the National parks but never took a picture in any of them???? This must have been before cameras came to town so no proof.

[Cal]

16 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

Are you and the lady of the house through going down every road in America yet.....

 

Not yet Jess, lining up 2024 to be the year though.  Got multiple funerals to attend in upstate NY in June and plan to hit the tracks right after.  No driving (or not much) for me.  We're planning to take the trains and maybe a bus or two...  I want to see what's between here and there, wherever there may be

 

Eye doc a couple days ago says it's time for cataract surgery, not sure when that will get squeezed in.

Edited March 29, 2024 by Cal

[Smallpatch]

Cal you have me wondering how will you know you will have some funerals in June. Hey , that might make grieving easier than when it comes all of a sudden!!

[lew]

On 3/28/2024 at 3:20 PM, Smallpatch said:

just wanting to see if anyone questioned me making the thing mounted in the old lathe.

[Smallpatch]

Great picture Lew. I made things  for 40 years before I started taking pictures of the projects.  Then when I did start taking pictures and saving them I lost about 10 years from a computer going blank.

  Its funny for now I do lots of experimenting on everything I make and I am getting a back room full of un accepted things that just didn't turn out like I was hoping. But I tell folks thats the only way a person can get better.

   Guess I'm fixin to get Microsoft Word back on my computer. We use to have it for wife used it all the time in her stained glass doings and this is how I started making names to scroll saw as that program would let me enlarge or reduce a picture or flip it. We use to have it and it was free for lots of years so now I am up set to have to pay for it but the way I use it like in wife's name here, it's hard to do without it.

[Gene Howe]

That's one heck of a nice slab Jesse. Mesquite? 

 

[lew]

@Smallpatch, are using just Microsoft Word or the entire Microsoft Office suite ?

[Smallpatch]

Gene we made it up to the red wood forest a little more than 50 years ago and on the coast is where Cresent City Cal. is where this red wood hunk of wood came from. It stood up in three different shop next to my work tables before I finally had time to build a coffee table with the redwood base .

  Anybody that ain't seen those hugh trees cannot believe their size and it is worth driving through them before a person dyes, dies...

  The shops use to get these big stumps by driving up and down the beach and finding lots of them that the lumber jacks would dig them out of the ground and throw then in a river to get rid of them and they would float all the way out in to the ocean then back on to lots of miles of beaches. This redwood was free which was good for the cities to not have to pay to remove them and at the same time created jobs and businesses selling redwood slabs and stumps and the owners of the redwoods forest saved a bundle at the same time.

    Knowing California now it is probably against the law to clear the land that way but the land needed to be cleared seedlings to be planted causing the red wood sales shops to have to charge their customers and arm and leg for what I paid around 40 dollars for the two pieces for that coffee table. It was so big the only place we had to carry it back to Texas was in the shower stall of our camper which was to heavy to try and get it up on the rack on top of the camper. And this caused us not to take many showers until we got back home. I still have lots of smaller slabs hanging in my shop just waiting for a brain storm to use some red wood.

[Smallpatch]

Lew it is cheaper for me to just have Word cause I don't need all that other office stuff. I think it will be about 7 dollars a month

[Smallpatch]

Also Lew we have Rapid Resizer which my wife has had ever since she started doing stained glass and it use to be free and maybe still is ? I have a printer so all I have to do is put a picture in the printer and tell Rapid Resizer what I want it to do and tell it how many copies. Rapid resizer does not furnish letters so the reason I need Word for it has many letter fonts to choose from and it will tell the printer what size to make. It will even contour the letters the way I want. I did wife's name to fit the area I needed and had it to curve the name to match the top of the picture so both is needed to do most of what I been doing most of these last 20 years of so. These letters are called Old English style and have lots of ups and downs in a curvy kind of way and to me makes them more fancy 

 This is what I really like for it is what font I have been using on all my names but it is hard to find but Word lets me add more fonts to suit.

  I add these logs under the letters so the letters stays together as they were put on the paper and I just draw two lines under and make it look like a log before I start scrolling.. If you have ever scroll sawed out any individual letters and tried to glue them on some wood and make them all equal distance to each it is impossible plus getting glue all over every thing while trying

[lew]

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

Lew it is cheaper for me to just have Word cause I don't need all that other office stuff. I think it will be about 7 dollars a month

@Smallpatch, there is a free, open source program that will probably do everything you need.  Try this link

https://www.libreoffice.org/

 

 

[Cal]

20 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

Cal you have me wondering how will you know you will have some funerals in June. Hey , that might make grieving easier than when it comes all of a sudden!!

 

Jess, one of my aunts passed away in December - not many burials occur in upstate NY during the winter.  Services for her will be in June when most of the family that is scattered across the country can attend.  One of Julie's favorite aunts passed away last week; her cousins told her they would have services for her in June while we are up there also.  Both funerals will be the same day... a morning service and an afternoon service.  A mini family reunion will be held the next day...

 

20 hours ago, lew said:

 

When James started turning we found an old Delta project book for lathes for him.  One of the projects was a turning very much like the one you have pictured on the right.  He took the book to school and wanted to turn it in shop class but the teacher was like, no - no, this is a beginners shop class - that's much to complicated!!!

[lew]

3 hours ago, Cal said:

wanted to turn it in shop class but the teacher was like, no - no, this is a beginners shop class - that's much to complicated!!!

Actually, there was very little lathe work other then creating the cylinder. the "twists" were created on the drill press. There was, however, an insane amount of sanding involved. There's another unfinished one in the basement but I never could bring myself finish it.

[Smallpatch]

 Cal I understand now.  Different parts of the country has different procedures than us down here. When we say funeral that means a day or two after a person dies we hold a service in their church then a funeral procession drive to the grave yard that same day. We went to a funeral in California and they will run over slow moving cars. People can't stand to go less than 100 miles an hour at any time or any where. And we lived out there for 10 years but during WW11 the speed limit was 35 miles an hour. Time does change things.

   This is a 31 mile drive called Avenue of the Giants which is quite a ways  north of San Francisco. This is the best of the one you mentioned, which is west of Las Vegas. The trees are called different from the red woods but are of the same species or something like that.

 The third picture equals the first two pictures. Actually the red woods go on for miles and miles and highway 101 goes through this area. 

 The most beautiful drive in America is closer to the ocean which is highway #1 which is a few miles west of 101. Most of that drive lets you see the ocean from San Diego in to Washington state.

  You mentioned train or bus but you will not see very much like if you drive!

 There is a pretty train trip drive from Durango, Colo to Silverton and back where you will spend a few hours while emptying your wallet but the ride through that is kinda breath taking especially people from Texas which is mostly  barren nothing. Maybe a oil derrick here and there but thats about.

  Gleiser National Park is a drive like no other in the US but this drive is for 20 foot vehicles or less and bicycles have the right of way. Most of that drive has no railings on the falling off side of the mountains for there is no land to put the rails in to.  No busses or campers of any type allowed..  A famous saying when we are in the mountains is , "You always put me on the falling off side"

  We stay off the interstate when we go anywhere for pleasure. A person just can't see anything going the speed limit.

 My opinion only but train or bus is a waste of money. A commercial bus would be the worse kind of trip for the reason is not every one has the same taste of things to see. 

  A one time trip to Vegas and to the dam will never be forgotten.  If either of you has claustrophobia stay out of the dam for it vibrates terrible down the deeper you go in that concrete world. And the Las Vegas Blvd is something else but one needs to go into every casino or every door there is on that street... These folks have so many things to see that is unusual that one needs to walk from one end to the other in each and every casino. And the buffets are something else for any one of them which all casinos has one, you will find different types of food from maybe ten or more countries some in this world. So you  need to be hungry when going in. I always thought the buffet prices were real reasonable except the very high class casinos.