Weekend projects.

Re: Weekend projects.

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Saturdy:

Build a rack or two to hold some chisels. Won't be nothing fancy, but they'll get them organized and within reach.

Probably zap some more tools. Seems I've been doing that alot again latly. Wish stuff would quit following me home. Yeah right ;~)

Sunday:

Weather permitting I hope to get off Shark tooth hunting with a fellow that I was fortunate enough to meet. He is the Grandson of a friend of mine, and goes shark tooth hunting almost every Sunday, and has invited me to come along! :~) Contingincy plan is more Tool Organizing.

Todd O.

Re: Weekend projects.

Steve Roxberg

>I will practice cutting dovetails by hand with my (stealth gloat coming) Lie-Neilsen dovetail saw.

Should be an interesting weekend, I intend to cut my first ones in some soft pine, unless someone recommends a better choice. I do have some poplar around.

Re: Weekend projects.

deanj

>Use the poplar...

Re: Weekend projects.

Jack from Maine

>Anything but pine. The wood is soft,easy to drive a nail into but it is difficult to dovetail.Not the wood to practice on. Ian Kirby suggests poplar or mahogany for practice.---Jack

Here Here...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Use the poplar you'll have a much better first experance.

A sharpening...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>fool. My 4.5, 5 and 7 all need sharpening along with a few chisels. Then I get too clean up a recently scored Preston quirk router.

Re: Weekend projects.

Jack from Maine

>I got to build a new bed. Me and LOML both have back issues and the 20 year old mattress is getting real lumpy.Right now we have plywood between the mattress and box spring and that don't do squat.So---I'm gonna build a platform up high enough for under bed storage and put a new firm mattress on top with no box spring.Leave a space at the head and at my leisure I'll make a nice headboard for alarm clocks,lamps,books and such.

Anyone else have back troubles? Hints on type of mattress? Ever done this?

Have a fun weekend. ---Crackerjack

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Dennis

>May want to try a waterbed with a heater,with waveless baffels, been sleeping on one here for years and it works for us.

Dennis

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Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>Ikea sells good mattresses that are much thicker than most but aren't quite as high as a separate box spring and mattress. Very comfortable. You can also get a mattress cover about 2" thick that makes it even better.

Best, Ted

I can't get out of them

Jack from Maine

>Thanks but I never liked waterbeds.Kind of fun to play in but not for sleep.---Crackerjack

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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Don't know how long it's been since you last looked at a waterbed, but they have really changed. Some of them its hard to tell the difference between a regular mattress and the water mattress.

Finished one thing this morning... *PICS*

Scott Post

>I rubbed out the shellac on this sycamore blanket chest this morning and brought it upstairs. The second picture shows the dovetailed tray that slides side to side for more storage. Later today I'll start rough cutting stock for another blanket chest in walnut. I veneered a top for it a couple weekends ago (walnut burl with maple/beech stringing).

Here's the top for the walnut chest:

Re: Finished one thing this morning... *PICS*

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>Great work, Scott. Did you use a veneer press or clamps on the Walnut burl top?

Best, Ted

Re: Finished one thing this morning... *PICS*

Scott Post

>I used an inexpensive vacuum press from Vacupress. It was my first attempt at veneering, which can be quite a handtool oriented pursuit. I did all the edge jointing with this shooting board that has a hinged lid to keep the veneer in place:

Re: Weekend projects.

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Somewhere, I read something about moisture trapped in a mattress on top of ply. You might consider boring some ventilation holes in the plywood base for the mattress.

Hope this works out well. Sleeping poorly because your back hurts is about the worst. We found a pillow-top mattress helped some, but not as much as we'd expected. BUT, we also found that it got lumpy much faster than we expected for the price we paid. We've heard good things about these Tempurpedic mattresses, with the different densities of foam, so we bought a thin mattress topper of the foam, and it's really helped my wife, whose back is worse than mine. You might consider a Tempurpedic mattress.

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Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>Ah, very nice. I like that shooting board.

Best, Ted

Re: Weekend projects.

Alan Hamilton

>Jack,

I'll get into the back-trouble line. In my olden days as a framer, I was working on a scaffold two stories up--about twenty feet or so--when the scaffold broke and collapsed, and so did I. I had a compression fracture at T5 (the fifth thoracic vertibrae, right between the shoulder blades).

I recovered extremely well, and was nearly in as good shape as before. Then, about ten years ago, I was on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada, and in a freakish accident I re-fractured T5 and ruptured the disc. I haven't recovered from that, and I will very likely have severe back pain for the forseeable future.

I got myself a water bed, and it was wonderful. I was able to get comfortable in it, and I actually get a decent night's sleep. I had to move to up-state NY into the second floor apartment of a house built in 1863. Obviously I couldn't take my king-size water bed with me. I haven't had a really good night's sleep since.

I've tried just about every kind of bed in the last ten years. A rregular bed, a futon, and an air bed all came in and went out. I then got a really good quality (read 'expensive') mattress and box springs; I was able to sleep in it, but not all that well. I added a feather bed; and that helped some. Now I have one of those electric beds, similar to a hospital bed, that's pretty good. It helps to be able to change my position: to put my head or knees up or down a little. It's okay, but still not good.

I sincerely hope someday soon I will again be able to sleep in a water bed.

Alan

waterbeds

Jack from Maine

>I hope you get a waterbed soon. For myself,I got a firm mattress from a discount store.It's miles ahead of my 20 year old tattered dogbed. Big trial sleep is tonight.

Besides my own outdated qualms about waterbeds LOML dislikes them.Besides that and cost,another reason I'll probably never go with a waterbed is the heating part. We lose power on this old dirt road several times a year. Sometimes for a week or so. I don't think it's healthy or comfortable to sleep on cool water.That may be another misconception on my part but I'm keepin it to shore up my resistance to change.Thanks for the input though.---Jack

Re: waterbeds

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>LOML disagrees with me, but even when we had the waterbed heated, I was cold lying in it. I think you lose body heat to the water any time it's below 98.6 degrees, and if it's at that temperature, (a) it's too hot, and (b) you can sleep for the sound of the electric meter whirring.

Especially if you lose power, it's not a good plan - and they're much higher maintenance than a mattress, springing leaks occasionally.

Hope your new mattress works for you.

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>from drool all over it. NICE work, and your shooting board design is clever.

Re: Weekend projects.

Benjamin Meyer

>Select Comfort!!! The one thing my wife and I actually spent money on when we were first married was a select comfort bed. I have had back problems on occasion in the past, but none since we got this bed. Its not cheap, but its well worth the price. Just like tools, you get what you pay for.