Looks like it's that time of the week again. 

 

Rain day until around noon here "Two Weeks From Anywhere". 

Not sure what I'll be doing this Labor Day weekend. 

 

What's on Your Weekend Agenda? 

 

 

 

Visiting beautiful Mableton, Ga today and will be working with our daughter on  plans for house projects that she would like (us) to take on.

Tomorrow the four of us head out for New Orleans.  Looks like it might be a rainy weekend in The Big Easy- I hope not.’

Got a family reunion to attend.  I always look forward to seeing my cousins and their families.

Phyl bought an L shaped desk for her sewing room. We had to did assemble it in the store...Office Depot...to get it in the bed of the truck. It will remain there for a while. Several years ago,I had made her a desk for that room. Two ea. 22"X22" drawered oak pedestals spanned with a double layer of formica covered MDF. Now, she wants those pedestals to replace the two crappy ones that came with the house, that support a counter in the kitchen area. That counter houses a desk top computer and printer as well as other miscellaneous stuff. 

So...there needs to be some simple alterations made to the pedestals. Then the present crappy pedestals will have to be removed and hauled to the dump. 

Then, that monster MDF top needs ripped down and trimmed out to fit in the new location.

I'm a bit slower as I age. This may take longer than the weekend.

 

 

49 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

I'm a bit slower as I age. This may take longer than the weekend.

 

 That's my story and I'm sticking with it. 

West Liberty, Ohio's annual Labor Day Fest ...intend to try to get there tomorrow..Tractor Fest!

Working on a plant table for the girlfriend's place.  I had some left over 8/4 white oak from building a door in 2020, so I figured that would make good legs.  Have a bunch of short 4/4 African mahogany offcuts from another door, built last year, figured those would make good slats (in place of a solid top).  Next I needed something for the rails - going to build this like a table - legs with rails M-T'd, then square slats instead of a top.  I could use red oak for the rails - she would likely never notice, but it would bug me every time I see it!  So I went down to El Paso to get a couple 4/4 white oak boards today.  Just got home.

 

Don't you all love how we can rarely seem to build something out of leftovers without having to go buy 1.5x as much more to do it?

 

The lumber yard in El Paso is impressive, unexpectedly so.  I'd been there before, but only in the main warehouse where they have just a little hardwood and lots of sheet goods.  Since I wanted rough sawn wood (that they said they had) I had to go in the 3rd warehouse in the back - and found units and units of every kind of hardwood I use regularly, most if not all available in rough as well as straightlined surfaced 4/4 (rough is what I like).  Several also available in #1 common - very handy for stuff that will be cut short and thin, like poplar for secondary parts like frame pieces and drawer sides.

Started today traveling a couple counties East to attend a NOON funeral; mother of a lady who attends our church. Our Pastor conducted the services. Since returning home, I've done absolutely nothing except get the mail. D7 of this sweltering heat and humidity has caught up with me.

 

Yard really needs mowed but storms in the forecast tomorrow and Sunday so looks like I'll be working Monday on my day off. Church services and responsibilities Sunday.

 

Mrs. will be home three consecutive days. Nothing good (for me) usually comes from these events. At least it's supposed to cool down significantly.

41 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Yard really needs mowed

Looks good from here Dave. 

Just got a chance to get on here. Sold a firemans turnout from the estate this morning and had to ship it after lunch. Electric skellet I use in shop to melt wax expired so I found one at Goodwill for 8. Out of milk so who gets tapped for that trip but they had Blue Bell ice cream and ground chuck on sale . So I got a fresh burger and desert out of that trip. 

 

My new Peke respirator helmet came in today and I used it in the shop . Very nice. Worked on Christmas pics later.

 

Grandson is coming down after the Ole Miss game tomorrow and his grandmother has plans. So do I but I did not tell her.

It is all well and good, to sit by a window in the house, and watch a Frog Drowner shower roll by....to where I can only see 40'.......it is a whole different game, when one is driving down the highway during one...did that this evening....was NOT fun.....must have snuck over from the Indiana Border...because it also stank....

 

Thermometer that the Chevy has...was reading right at 99 degrees..outside of the car....all that storm did was drop the temps down to 88 degrees.....currently?  76 mostly clear...and dark outside..

I was cleaning out a kitchen drawer the other day and found something way back in the back of the drawer I must have hidden from my wife years ago.

A wooden rolling pin. 

I came close to throwing it away but I said NO I can do something with that. So yesterday I cut it in half and made two sanding spindles out of the wood that I can use on my drill press.

I watched several Youtube videos and settled on a design that is fairly easy to replace the sandpaper on. I had to build a jig to hold the round wood steady so I could cut a 3/8" grove  down the length of the spindle using my table saw. The video I got this idea from the guy used a strip of metal to wedge the ends of the sandpaper into the grove. I didn't like the idea of using metal for obvious reasons so I used a piece of a ginormous zip tie to wedge the ends of the paper into the grove.

 

 

Having two spindles gives me the capability of having two different girts available at any time.

 

 

 I took it a step further and made a dust collection box for it. The collector works surprisingly well.

 

 

It may not oscillate but it will elevate (a couple of inches anyway). I will finish it tomorrow and that will wrap up all I have planned for the weekend. We are supposed to have cooler, and possibly wetter, weather the next couple of days so I am sure I will find something else to do in the shop.

Working on the South end of my barn. I'm adding a window in the loft so the vampires can't squat there anymore.

That was the plan until I was headed to the dump when I saw this beauty on the side of the road 

An Excaliber Router Table with a lift. Looks like it spent a lot of time in a barn, maybe I can talk the vampires into cleaning it up on their way out.

16 minutes ago, frenchwwr said:

An Excaliber Router Table with a lift. Looks like it spent a lot of time in a barn, maybe I can talk the vampires into cleaning it up on their way out

Let the vampires fend for themselves. That's a great score Kevin! Gonna take a wee bit of work,  BUT, can't beat the price. All I ever find around here is Ikea stuff and doesn't even include the Allen wrenches.

second coat of poly on QSWO box for a friend.  if good, then done, attach hardware tomorrow and deliver Wednesday 

 

The deference a day makes

I'm having some issues with the lift but it should loosen up with all the PB Blaster I've sprayed into it. There isn't a Collet or collet nut, I'm hoping these are standard items on routers

20 hours ago, Bubba said:

It may not oscillate but it will elevate (a couple of inches anyway).

Great use for an old rolling pin, Bubba! FWIW, some years back I came across an article where someone had built something similar. He extended the center rod slightly and mounted a bearing under the table to steady the end of the sander. Another idea, if you want to try it, was a foot pedal that pulled on the wheel via a rope, to oscillate the assembly.

Results from the Tractor Fest....was a bit too hard to take a bunch of pictures, as this was weighing down my arm...

$25 for the Stanley No. 6c, Type 8...and

For aStanley No. 3, type 15...that needed a lever cap..well...

Need to get rid of the "Rudolph Red Nose", though

 

A little over a mile of walking past all the vendors..

Didn't even stop to take better photos of these things..

As most of the Tractors were already in the Parade...which made things rough to get out of town..

2 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

The deference a day makes

 

I'm having some issues with the lift but it should loosen up with all the PB Blaster I've sprayed into it. There isn't a Collet or collet nut, I'm hoping these are standard items on routers

That is amazing. Is that top cast iron?

Yes it is