The furniture bank got a collection of about 100 pieces of RTA furniture. It's a wide variety from chairs to bookshelves to tables to dressers. One of the common themes seems to be now fabric drawers. They come folded up, have a panel that goes in the bottom and a stiff front where the handles are attached. I think we did about 20 such drawers in the units we did this morning.

The donor as specified they are not for re-sale, so they are all going to "clients" who are people coming out of homelessness.

We also got about 300 desks from a local university's dorm remodel. We take off the back shelf, re-cut the pieces and create a dresser from the four exising drawers and then add two shelves in the knee-hole.

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Current "work area"

vs..current NON-working area..

Blue roll is a roll of "City" trash bags...have 5 full ones sitting out at the curb, now...The dryer can be moved back a bit...to access the washer...and I was able to fit the top drawer into it's spot in the case..

Not a whole lot of room down here....Drawer #2 still s assembled and glued up..drawer #3 needs cleaned up, fitted to the case.

Drawers and 2 doors need these installed..

Thumb IS healing..SLOWLY....Does NOT like the D-handled Scoop shovel in use, right now...

Drains are working a bit better....still not correctly...

Meeting the Bank people in the morning, to see how much we can borrow to buy this house...otherwise..we will have to move...where? Have no clue. Been THAT kind of a year...needs to end SOON.

1 hour ago, steven newman said:

Thumb IS healing..SLOWLY....Does NOT like the D-handled Scoop shovel in use, right now...

Drains are working a bit better....still not correctly...

Meeting the Bank people in the morning, to see how much we can borrow to buy this house...otherwise..we will have to move...where? Have no clue. Been THAT kind of a year...needs to end SOON.

Hang in there Bandit. In my prayers. Better days ahead.

Other than shelves in new house and shop I have not done any real woodworking in well over a year. Starting to feel like a rough in carpenter with all that is going on and now gathering materials to add to the lean-to for mower.

Not a whole lotta skill in the ginormous cutting board on steroids but the design is cool. A lady contracted me to build this to cover her double sink. The flag case was a recent custom build for a decorated WWII vet that recently passed. The center section house the 21 cartridges that were fired at his funeral. I wasn’t thrilled with their stain choice but it isn’t my case.

47 minutes ago, Ron Dudelston said:

Not a whole lotta skill in the ginormous cutting board on steroids but the design is cool. A lady contracted me to build this to cover her double sink. The flag case was a recent custom build for a decorated WWII vet that recently passed. The center section house the 21 cartridges that were fired at his funeral. I wasn’t thrilled with their stain choice but it isn’t my case.

Looks like your Unisaw still has the original R-I motor in it.

Hardly any woodworking going on around here, I'm knee deep in re-stuccoing the wall on the south side of my house. The previous owner built this place and didn't use contractors, so the work can be substandard. Lack of control joints is likely what killed the stucco, that and not rasping the foam before application. Many pros don't rasp either but then they are putting up new foam and getting right on the stucco. This stuff sat around for a looooong time in the NM sun and definitely needed to be cleaned up before putting on the mud.

I'm pretty confident that what I'm doing with it now will last longer than I will at this point!

I did get a little woodworking in, finished up the last few steps of sanding some grips last week and shipped 86 off to my vendor. Looking forward to a nice check in a week or two so I can pay for my bags of stucco!

I've been volunteering here a bit over 10 years. We were off to a slow start (mostly due to funding and space), but now we're doing over 2000 tables a year, usually one or two mornings a week. I am currently mostly doing repairs of donated furniture

11 hours ago, JWD said:

Looks like your Unisaw still has the original R-I motor in it.

Thanks. I just rebuilt it last fall and I have a spare motor stashed. That saw was built in 1947 and I wouldn’t trade it for a new one.

2 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

Thanks. I just rebuilt it last fall and I have a spare motor stashed. That saw was built in 1947 and I wouldn’t trade it for a new one.

I was going to rebuild mine several years ago, the main fault was the brushes were worn to the point where it wouldn't always start. But between lack of time and how very short the wires for connecting everything were, I ended up just replacing it with a modern Leeson. Opted for the 2 HP and it's been plenty. Almost a drop in fit, the connection box on the Leeson was too tall for the cut out in the side of the saw, so I stole the shorter one from the old R-I motor. I was sorry to see the old bullet end motor go, as they are pretty and fit so well with the look of a vintage saw, but I have to admit, I like the higher speed motor better. I've never bogged down even the 2 HP one, though I bet the troubles I had with the old R-I motor bogging could have been related to age and abuse rather than any inherent flaw in the design. I've seen smaller motors and electro-magnets weaken over the years when overheated, stands to reason that could have been some of the trouble with my R-I motor.

Anyway, I like seeing yours still in use - nice set up!

I like that Kreg miter guide too, that is the one I use as well. I like that it has a nice solid pin for the pre-set positions, it's accurate but not fussy.

5 hours ago, JWD said:

I was going to rebuild mine several years ago, the main fault was the brushes were worn to the point where it wouldn't always start. But between lack of time and how very short the wires for connecting everything were, I ended up just replacing it with a modern Leeson. Opted for the 2 HP and it's been plenty. Almost a drop in fit, the connection box on the Leeson was too tall for the cut out in the side of the saw, so I stole the shorter one from the old R-I motor. I was sorry to see the old bullet end motor go, as they are pretty and fit so well with the look of a vintage saw, but I have to admit, I like the higher speed motor better. I've never bogged down even the 2 HP one, though I bet the troubles I had with the old R-I motor bogging could have been related to age and abuse rather than any inherent flaw in the design. I've seen smaller motors and electro-magnets weaken over the years when overheated, stands to reason that could have been some of the trouble with my R-I motor.

Anyway, I like seeing yours still in use - nice set up!

I like that Kreg miter guide too, that is the one I use as well. I like that it has a nice solid pin for the pre-set positions, it's accurate but not fussy.

My motor was having an issue starting and the brushes were gone. I replaced a

Both bearings, brushes, bracelet and cleaned the commutator. The start up was a bit time consuming but it purrs now.

WHEN I get enough room to work..

I might be able to work on the Door, at least....

1 hour ago, steven newman said:

WHEN I get enough room to work..

Try having an outdoor shop, it becomes when the weather lets me work.