What are you working on....

Nice work

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

You're as worried as I am about putting a board in upside down or backwards. Comforting.

Nice looking chest.

Re: Misapplying paint to my Anarchist's

Bruce, a MN Galoot

I know the feeling about finishing. AFAIC, once it's glued together, it's done.

Keep plugging away, and remember to post pics.

Re: Writing a Report, Cursing a Kitchen Job

Tom Colligan

Bill, please don't deprive us of what you leaned from Steve at the weekend conference. Though we on this forum don't like the electronic tools, I'll bet 95% of us have and use them. So anything you have to offer please let us know or direct us to where we can read your write up. By the way, the annual membership fee to SAPFM alone is worthe the annual issue each January, no? Tia, Tom.

Getting geared up...

Scott in Douglassville

...for a Windsor chair class in early October. Anyone around Reading, we need a fourth!

Well, lemme see...

James Watriss

-Rush job on two built in units: Media cabinet on one wall, two bookcases with a connecting window seat/ chest and an overhead arch on another wall. Total allotted time was 3 weeks. Halfway there now. Not much hand tool use, but I did finally get around to making a cutting table for my track saw that efficiently breaks down sheet goods. I do have a table saw, but this will be easier and more accurate, and most likely be faster.

-Doing drawings for some solid wood bookcases. There will be room for hand work on these, I think.

-Trying to keep my wife sane, as we start to approach the third trimester.

-Just rode 70 miles in an AIDS/HIV benefit ride on Saturday. (Filling in for the wife, who was advised not to do the ride.)

Oh, that will be a life changing event

Bill Tindall

And other "changing" as well!

Re: Oh, that will be a life changing event

TomD

I delivered our third, kinda came on fast. One gets a lot of unjustified credit for "delivering", though there are things that are required to be done. Glad it wasn't our second who needed minor resuscitation. I have resuscitated several thousand fish, but it may not be the same thing. Delivering kids is a great home project if you get a chance. The other kind of changing I have no idea what goes on with that.

"Delivering kids is a great home project"

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

as is raising them.

Re: Writing a Report, Cursing a Kitchen Job

William Duffield

Deprivations are not on the schedule. I'll post here as well as on the SAPFM forum, and maybe a reference to the post on "Hand Tools" over on "Messages". I'm sure we'll get more views and more discussion here than anywhere else.

Steve mentioned more than once on Saturday, that he was a firm believer in hand tool woodworking, just not in unnecessary hand tool woodworking. If you can find a way to get equivalent results with power tools and get it done more quickly (and safely) use the power tools.

A very funny piece of advise he offered: Whatever method you use (e.g, back saw or table saw) to cut your tails, make sure you leave the neck of the socket between the tails no more than 3/16" wide (towards delicate) since you can't do that with a router bit, and you don't want them to look like they were cut with a router dovetail jig.