Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Weekend Projects
Ernie Miller Topeka
>It is almost time to start woodworking! Just a couple more hours and it�s the WEEKEND! I don�t know how much time I will get in the shop but it will be cool and I will do my best if the in-law�s don�t keep me out of it. I hope to get most of the bar glued up. Do a little more work on the bench drawer boxes. And maybe get the treadle lathe up and running. I just want to spend time in the shop. Every One Have a Safe and ROCKIN GOOD WEEKEND!!!!
My weekend project?
Christopher Fitch @ Memphis
>Coming up with an inventory of items that the burglars who broke into our house yesterday stole.
It's a long list... In terms of personal items, I got plowed and my wife lucked out to some extent.
*sigh*
At least the police came and took a good report and even got some fingerprints.
Also, they only stole one tool that I had sitting in my office. We lucked out in some respects.
They took 3 TVs, camera, camcorder, my son's handheld game, DVD player, VCR, 85 of my DVDs, my brand new makita impact driver, and some change in boxes that my wife and I had.
The two weird things they took were a basket of lotion my wife had and a bag of curtains she just bought.
Fortunately they were ignorant of the value of a stack of hand planes I had by my desk. Also, they started on the computers but did not take any of them.
Oh well...
Re: My weekend project?
Ernie Miller Topeka
>Bummer dude! there is nothing worse than having you house broke into.
It's already shot pretty good
Steve Kubien
>While not as bad as Christopher Fitch's situation, I just got finished re-ending a young lady in her Rav4. First accident I've ever been in. Broken headlight and nobody was hurt.
Other than that, taking rugrat #1 fishing, going to a wedding, finish painting the living room. In other words, little to no shop time.
Take care everybody,
Steve Kubien
Ajax, Ontario
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Re: Weekend Projects
Doug LIttlejohn
>Still have to finish my shop before any WW'g can start!!.
Sat - work on painting outside of house (actually all prep work at this time, whew!!)
Sun - Start wall covering and roof on building extension (so I have plasce to put the JUNK I have stored in what wll be shop. THen when junk is out, I can build out the hay barn into a nice shop. I will move in by the end of this year, I will!! (only waited 2 years so far).
Then it's back to work. Same schedule (weekend)for the next several months.
The good and the bad...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>The good, working on my saw till. The bad, The Mother in laws birthday on Sat. OH JOY!
Re: Weekend Projects
Jack Guzman from Maine
>I got more to do on the end table I was working on last weekend. Finish shaping the top and build and install the drawer.
LOML just found me a new tuit. She just got 10 new spoons for her ever growing spoon collection. They cover almost a whole wall so I think it's time to get cracking on design of a new display system for her.Anyone got any ideas?What she has now is one large 4 tiered rack about two feet wide that I built a couple years ago and a bunch of smaller ones of all different shapes that she found at flea markets.I'm thinking of something 3 dimensional to get more spoons in the limited wall space we have to use.
Have a fun weekend everyone.---Jack
Sounds promising...
Steve Kubien
>Let's see some pics when you are done. Now before you start, I mean the saw till not the mother-in-law! Sheesh, do I have to spell it out for ya?
Steve Kubien
AJax, Ontario
One of us is confused
Bob Hackett
>Are you really going to give your MIL a saw till for her birthday?If it`s what she asked for,you sure married into the right family!
Mainely,Bob
Different set of handtools and instructions
Bob Hackett
>After going to the Montsweag flea market on the way to Portland to pick up a rug for SWMBO(the kind of rug you put on the floor,not her head),I`ll be helping the new neighbors build stone steps up the ledge so they can get from thier new house to thier new driveway.We have about 8 of the 20 or so steps made.I only have about an hour`s worth(in small increments) of hammer swinging per day left in my right arm.Luckily the new neighbor is a fast learner and we have plenty of nice big slabs of granite for him to learn on.He`s making good progress for a commercial artist from Joysee.His wife says he sleeps VERY soundly since we started the project.He must,he usually arrives at the site about an hour after I do.
Mainely,Bob
Still No Power in the Shop
Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, Florida
>The *#%$!! contractor said that the electrician would be by to restore power to the shop yesterday, but no show. I think maybe I will get a flashlight, and go in the shop to fondle my planes. (sniff)