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Digging through a box of stuff that came from my folk's house when they down sized and moved out I came across this old oak box. A little google research suggests it was made in the early 1900s. Many other examples can be found with a google image search. This one though has what I think is an assortment of recipes collected by my mother and grandmother. Many of the recipes in it I recognize from family meals served to my family of 8 over several decades. I have no offspring to hand it down to, but thought sharing all the recipes broadly would insure they survive. I started "The Recipe Box" blog to post photos and the text of each recipe from the box. https://myshawwalkerrecipebox.blogspot.com/ I've been adding a few each day. I'll stop when every recipe in the box has been posted there. Have a look. 4D

Old surveyors never retire, they just go find new "horizons".

I made this little ring box for my grand daughter. It's made out of Pine with a special brass hinge mount. I put a blue crystal on top with blue velvet inlay on inside top and bottom. I finished with blonde shellac. Thanks for looking! Cheers! MrRick

I am working on this basket illusion box. It is made from holly. It is around 3” in diameter and 2.5” tall.

Just finished these little lids, they are small. About 2.25" or just less than 60mm in diameter. The gift shop they go to sells loose tea and herbs in bulk. The owner wanted these little lids to dress up 4oz mason jars. Sycamore limbs are ideal for making a natural or live edge knob and the trees are always providing material to work with, always. The natural edge knobs go quickly and it occurred to me to try doing some of the knobs cross grain. Pretty happy this look and anxious to see what Cindy (shop owner) thinks of them.

Starting to feel a little sentimental.

I'd like to have 3 seasons, not real fond of the fourth one and that's the reason Spring is my favorite. It's the farthest season from the one I want to lose.

Working on shop update/reorganization/repair. Eventually I'll gain about 200 Sq ft, along with additional of a minisplit, but right now it is a mess!

Monday? Monday? ( Song title?) have errands to run....not sure about any shop time, today... Stay tuned.. Might hang this out on our front door, later...

A LOT LESS! Today was a shop cleaning day I tripped over a tool box yesterday. That did it. Even today I spilled my coffee, TWICE, during the cleaning. I did find a box of old spindles that made a nice lamp.

The theater shop has one overhead door that we use to unload lumber and load up set pieces to take to the theater. We rent the building but repairs are on us. The door is very odd sized, 73" wide and about 7' tall. The lower two sections are getting water damage. So rather than pay $1000+- for a new door (and we might get evicted when the current owner sells the property and re-develops), we (the shop manager and I) re-built the bottom two sections and will install this weekend. Less than $100 in materials, including paint and weather strip. We bought some #1 joist material that was pretty knot free (and could cut around most of what was there). We rip saw out the pith, yielding us some nice quarter- and rift-sawn stock.* Planed down to 1 5/16" to match the upper two sections. Bought a sheet of 1/4" ACX plywood and got to it. Most of the lumber was notoriously warped, but we worked around that. Both the table saw and the miter saw bound up when sawing. The other interesting thing is the plywood was made in 2022. So I guess they don't sell a lot of it because it was near the top of the 12" high stack. Below is the result, waiting for the glue to dry (exterior PVA) * Just as an aside, the ripping a joist is the same process I used to make the frame for the workbench in the photo. #1 rift-sawn knot free SYP is the result.

Needs more clamps!!!

Currently sitting on the bench... Got the 4th corner dovetailed, so I could glue up the box... This was also on the bench, today... Had 4 rebates to do....and made a mess of my floor.. Waiting on glue to cure, again..

Probably on the way home last day of work right Dan?

John...I live in the Vancouver lower mainland. Maple Ridge is about 15 min from the border. And yes... it's 46°F here at the moment. And wet!

@MrRick Oh I see, Maple Ridge, right on the border with USA. I was asking because our son landed in Tacoma Wash yesterday and he loves it already, the change of colors and the feel of Autumn in the air, he's a So CAL kid so seeing trees with fall colors is fun for him, and he said it's cold up there! He plans on visiting BC during one of his leaves from Ft Lewis Wash.

I live in the Northwest Rain Forest. Trees have changed all kinds of color and is beautiful. We are just ending what's called an Indian summer. But now it's raining for the Ark. You can have the rain.

I spent the morning mowing. We had our second light frost last night so that means the Butternut tree dumped more leaves. It's going to be an easy cleanup year without the mass dumping of all the leaves at once that comes with a hard frost.

need to do some math and plan out lumber quantity needed to build 10 bookcases, 48H, 24W, 9 Deep.......lots of edge banding in my future....ugh.

What did I get done over the weekend? I made three things simultaneously..............sawdust...............noise........and a tape dispenser for my 1" and 1 1/2" painters tape I use in the shop.

Odds and ends weekend. Taped the cut offs from 2 inch insulation board and made 2 more to fit windows. 5 of 7 now have 4 inches of board in them. Stuff is $40 for a 4x8 sheet, waste isn't an option ya know? Made holder for my zip ties at work. Old vacuum cleaner hard plastic tubing and added two magnets.

nice. made ours (my wife passed away just over 3 years ago) out of some nice cherry.

Been steadily moving my boards for some euro mounts towards the finish line. The rustic barn lumber board will have a curly maple shelf for a couple of items of interest. Spent a minute cleaning up all my maple board edges from my jigsaw before I get the router out for them. Yes it's the slow way of doing it but I can do it right there off my bench watching my unsolved mysteries without dragging tools outside.

NEW ELEMENT ADDED TO THE PERIODIC TABLE: ADMINISTRATIUM Investigators at a major research institution have recently discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium (Ad). This new element has no protons or electrons, thus having the atomic weight of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. In fact, an Administratium sample's mass will actually increase over time since, with each reorganization, some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. this hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass". You will know it when you see it.

I've just started making a leg rest for in front of one of our couches. I've squared up all the stock and doing all of the 16 mortise and tenons at the moment. All hand tools only.

I'm just going to stick with drawing on paper with crayons! Way beyond my meager skill. Beautiful work!!!!

Thank you for the recipes 4D!!!! And indeed, one cool box and story!

No doubt Cindy will love them, well done!

Good on you for sharing the recipes! Too bad the younger generation can't read cursive to be able to appreciate the original papers.

I thunked I had figured out how to get around all the 'leaky bowls' I've been plagued with recently. But NO! These little buggers are crafty. They change colors and layouts and sneak up on you when you're not looking. Here's the latest one to work its evil ways on me. Walnut and poplar. I'm almost scared to try any more for fear of what they may do in the future.

You're quitting a big part of your life. You'll get over it.

Here's you official US Navy Short-timers Chain direct from the Supply Cage.

John.. congrats! Retiring takes a bit getting used to especially if you're career was a busy one. For me ... "engineers never retire they just fade away". Lol.

I've seen that last video Keith, know a little about the guy, I think he's wishful thinking.

I admire you folks who have Seasons, we are headed for a warm up in the mid 90's through the week

saw another dog related sign: no need to ring the bell and get the dog involved, just text us that you are here.

I have been encouraged (drafted) into designing and building a couple of display units for a makers space in our downtown area using standard construction materials that we have on hand. I have built the table and it measures 32” high x 36” wide x 60” long. Time to build the vertical shelving unit. I’m considering a 60 to 72” hutch like display but here is my question. Is there a formula of base depth versus height to maximize the stability? I have built large circular tables and the rule of thumb is that the legs must extend 70% of the top. I.e., a 48” top needs legs that are about 30” wide ( think pedestal base). Any ideas?

Gads!! With all the dowels I already had plus all the ones I've been making lately trying different methods of making them, I realized throwing them at one end of my bench isn't cutting it as storage!! What a colossal mess!! So I decided to make storage for different size dowel. Mainly for 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2". Here are the pieces for each storage unit cut up. There will be three. Each storage unit is made up of 1/4" baltic birch plywood as a backer board and three 2" diameter x 1" pieces of scrap pipe. The 1st ring is the bottom. I used 5 minute epoxy to adhere a piece of Baltic Birch on and flush trim routed it. Vertically the 2nd ring is spaced 3" on center to the 1st. The 3rd is spaced 5" from the 2nd. Then I epoxied these on the backer board as shown here. This spacing of the rings allows for different dowel length storage. I can store as small as a 2-1/2" long piece and as long as 36" or longer with these storage units. Here's an overall dimensional view: On the back of each one I made a couple of keyhole slots which enable me to quickly pluck each storage unit off the cabinet if I need to for any reason. Thanks for looking! Feel free to comment, ask questions and " thumbs up " if you like it! Cheers! MrRick

Smitty, I just went out to the shop and made this cut with that saw blade. Here's a pic. I thing I should mention, my blade is probably 7-8 years old and the company changed hands since I bought this. I was told by a dealer the new owner kept everything the same and even bought the machinery from the former owner to keep making the blades. Anway, probably nothing to worry about but some info I thought you might want to know. To make this cut I used a scrap of QSWO and stood it on edge (clamped to my miter gauge) to make a deeper cut.