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Nice looking Fold Up Chair by @4DThinker. Can't wait to sit in it!

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I come across Montwood now and then and it's relaxing to just watch this woodworker do her thing, a very talented and thoughtful Chinese woodworker.

Experimenting with an idea for a shallow bowl/platter. Saw a picture in the AAW magazine but no information about the construction.

Working on SketchUp at the moment developing a new Den Coffee Table.

1 hour ago, MrRick said:

Working on SketchUp at the moment developing a new Den Coffee Table.

What version of Sketchup do you use?

@lew I use SketchUp 2017. Why? Because it was free but more important the last version before being web based. I don't want my files out there on the web via Cloud but rather only on my computer.

Lots of dovetails getting done..

Hedges were trimmed today...Chain saw needs a new chain....current chain? Have seen butter knives sharper..

1 hour ago, MrRick said:

@lew I use SketchUp 2017. Why? Because it was free but more important the last version before being web based. I don't want my files out there on the web via Cloud but rather only on my computer.

Me too. Although I wish there was another way to get models from the 3D Warehouse other than the Colada files

@lew Are you familiar with this: The Native Method (Free)Open SketchUp and click File > Import.In the file browser, change the format drop-down to COLLADA Files (*.dae).Select your file and click Import.Click File > Save As to save your geometry natively as an .skp file.

Just a simple framing job for the poster for the musical (Frozen) that a granddaughter will be in a few weeks from now. Got it together yesterday, sanded and stained today. Will need to cut the mat and glass in the next couple of days.

Signed closing papers for the house. Went shopping with son. Still had a little time to get to shop and turn a couple offset mushrooms. More turning tomorrow and if rain holds off some garden work.

A day late getting to this due to some other efforts (below). Over the weekend I had to replant my corn, we had so much rain the first planting may have managed about 1/3 of it sprouting. I took a cue from Dave last year, he had mentioned using an Earthway seeder to plant his (much larger) garden. After a few messages back and forth I decided to buy one. For 35 years I've seeded my corn by hand and could never get the spacing correct. Using the seeder and following some of Dave's suggestion I got a perfect spacing so I'm eager to see how our yield will be. Anyway, yesterday morning was a different undertaking. I have this boulder in the yard that my larger tractor can't move. It has a lift capacity of 2000#, and couldn't pick up a slightly smaller boulder we have in another spot. Anyway, I'm guessing this one weighs maybe 3500-4000# which made me think if I could break it in half, I could move it. So yesterday i rented an SDS (a big one) and drilled 4-1.5" (15-16" deep) holes across the boulder...a very poorly centered line across the rock. Then I mixed up some stuff called Dex-Pan, a demolition grout that Roly had introduced me too. Here's the results...but let me mentioned...the SDS was a handful...I hope to never need it again. I'm so sore this morning it's tough to move. Anyway, pics..first the rock, sorry I didn't put anything there for scale. Then the SDS on the second hole, with me resting between drilling episodes, then the results this morning.

3 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

some stuff called Dex-Pan,

Wow, Fred, that stuff really works! But I would miss all the giggling and anxious anticipation of the explosion and wondering where the pieces were going to land (tells you a little about my childhood).

We live in a geological area where limestone deposits are so prevalent that you are smart to get a stone clause in any excavations. Old abandoned lime kiln furnaces and current lime stone quarries follow the Appalachians from the northern end of the Cumberland Valley south through MD, WV and VA. I think I've Scuba dived in most of the abandoned quarries in the area.

today's 30 second project is shown below. had a 1/2" gap between the top of the microwave and the bottom of the cabinet. new one was just a bit shorter than the old, using the same wall bracket. filler painted black will suffice. just some scrap pine.

10 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

A day late getting to this due to some other efforts (below). Over the weekend I had to replant my corn, we had so much rain the first planting may have managed about 1/3 of it sprouting. I took a cue from Dave last year, he had mentioned using an Earthway seeder to plant his (much larger) garden. After a few messages back and forth I decided to buy one. For 35 years I've seeded my corn by hand and could never get the spacing correct. Using the seeder and following some of Dave's suggestion I got a perfect spacing so I'm eager to see how our yield will be. Anyway, yesterday morning was a different undertaking. I have this boulder in the yard that my larger tractor can't move. It has a lift capacity of 2000#, and couldn't pick up a slightly smaller boulder we have in another spot. Anyway, I'm guessing this one weighs maybe 3500-4000# which made me think if I could break it in half, I could move it. So yesterday i rented an SDS (a big one) and drilled 4-1.5" (15-16" deep) holes across the boulder...a very poorly centered line across the rock. Then I mixed up some stuff called Dex-Pan, a demolition grout that Roly had introduced me too. Here's the results...but let me mentioned...the SDS was a handful...I hope to never need it again. I'm so sore this morning it's tough to move. Anyway, pics..first the rock, sorry I didn't put anything there for scale. Then the SDS on the second hole, with me resting between drilling episodes, then the results this morning.

need to photoshop a sword where that drill is.....

This is why "Fixit Days" are so important, a memory repaired and a friend made.…

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Summoned my courage to route the groove for the t-track into the surface of my miter station. Still need to add screws and tape measure, but at least it's in place with only a couple little oops on the far end.

Final

And my method with jig, tape, and support board on exit end.

Longer section needed added board beyond my jig

1 hour ago, BB1 said:

Summoned my courage to route the groove

Always a white knuckle, breath holding process

sometimes the process is made easier if two boards are used to create a channel for the router to follow. Of coarse the natural way to make routing work is to route in the correct direction with the rotation so that the force of the cut draws the router toward the fence.

27 minutes ago, Gerald said:

the natural way to make routing work is to route in the correct direction with the rotation so that the force of the cut draws the router toward the fence

I think I did that correctly? Tried it out on a scrap piece and seemed to track ok.

I did several passes, gradually reaching the target depth. Vacuumed up the mess between each pass. Need to get a chute attachment to my vacuum for cuts like this!