Weekend Project

Re: Weekend Project

Robert Weber

>Hoping to get the attic bedroom completely mudded this weekend.

Neander content: I hung the drywall with square head screws and a corded drill. I found that the easiest way to get accurate results was to leave the screws a little proud with the drill. Then I went back over them and sunk them precisely beneath the surface of the drywall with a Stanley Brace with a Lee Valley adaptor with a square head bit (with a, with a ...)

And how's this for neander... Mowed my lawn yesterday for the first time with my new rotary push mower. Sure, it took a little longer, but is was peaceful, and burned no gas, just calories.

Have a great weekend!

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Steve Kubien

>Continue with the shop clean-up to make it an enviroment to work in. Plan on a making a scrub plane for show and tell at Darryl's Galoot BBQ which takes place in a couple of weeks. Going to the zoo with the kids so they can meet Dora the Explorer. It will be mad-house but I plan on taking a 16oz Estwing to help deal with the crowds.

Take care everyone and have fun!

Steve Kubien

Ajax, Ontario

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Sawtill saga continues

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>I'll be bustin the clamps off the carcas glue up tonight and attaching the back carcas. Need to prefinish the back panels and cut to size. Then figure out what color milk paint to go on the carcas and get that ordered too. Then I start on it's drawers. Now the real fun... going to look at a new shop cat if he hasen't been adpoted yet.

Funny...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Thought sure there'd be a "*PIC*" in the subject line...

Get after it, already!

Re: Weekend Project

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Gonna be a slow movin weekend. I had to euthanize my shop dog and faithful companion of 13 years. He was a large black lab named Petey.The hip displasia got him.

Funny thing. I buried both my parents and this hurt more.

If I can get motivated I have finishing touches on LOML's side table. Just gotta figure how I want to attach the top and then apply a finish.

Have a great weekend everyone and hug your dog.---Jack

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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I'll be a cro-magnon woodworker tomorrow, perhaps complete with pics, as if plans hold out I will be getting a few butternut logs cut on a saw mill run by steam engines. I have started down another slippery slope and joined the St. Joe Valley Old Engine Association, although hopefully the brakes will hold out well. I have odds and ends still left over to do that I should have done earlier this week, and always plan on catching up on the weekends, such as signing and mailing a number of checks.

I had a pile of tools left after I sorted out the good stuff from junk boxes, and cleaned the shop a few weeks back and put it all into boxes. My in-laws live next door to the steam show, so that's the weekend to have a garbage sale. I put miscellaneous junk in boxes for $1 each or $10 for the box, and had about a hundred bucks at the end of the day today. Naturally I have to find various places to spend it, so I went over to the steam show which of course always has junk for sale, and found a set of #4 trammel points like new in the original box for $12, so now I have a little less money and one more box in the grandchildren's college fund.

Re: Weekend Project

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Jack

My sympathies are with you. We had to put down a (Black-coated) retriever in February this year. She was just so tired and ill at 14-1/2 years. It was very hard losing a close member of the family, as she had become. We take comfort in the knowledge that she had a good life with us and had been well loved.

Take care.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>Just how far down this bottomless list am I going to get this time? Here's where it starts:

� Make a frame saw to fit a blade I bought on impulse at Woodcraft on Monday. I would probably have been smarter to start with an old ripsaw blade, but the price was reasonable, assuming the steel is good quality.

� Sharpen a 5.5 ppi D8 thumbhole rip that followed me home from 5ive Barns on Saturday, and maybe patch a new horn onto the handle. That's the reasonable thing to do, but if I don't watch myself, I'll start making a new handle, instead of proceeding on down the list.

I'll have need for either the framesaw or the D8 on Wednesday, so I have to get one of them working.

� Turn a handle for an Andy Lincoln special carbide burnisher, which also followed me home on Saturday.

� Glue up some strips of ash, carbon fiber and epoxy into a bent lamination for a replacement wishbone tiller.

� Make some NACA 0012 airfoil templates for shaping a rudder or two.

� Glue up some strips of wood for a rudder. I have some catalpa and mahogany, and another half inch or so of something else should be enough to start with.

� Mow the lawn, before the summer heat, humidity and rain return.

� Not much chance I'll get any farther, so I'll not bore you with legions of things I probably won't get close to.

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, Florida

>My shop is back! The contractor removed the pile of debris from in front of it, and his electrician laid new conduit and pulled new wire to replace the one that an errant Bobcat driver tore up almost three months ago.

Now I have to straighten up the mess I have made of it - in addition to the usual clutter, I have been tossing stuff around by flashlight during the outage.

Actual woodworking: Chloe the Dachshund has a bulging disk in her spine, so SWMBO has ordered more ramps and things for the doorways, etc., to ease Chloe's walking.

Dang Jack

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>I know that must of hurt, and I feel for ya'. Not miuch consolation is it. Take it easy alright, perhaps it's best no to use any P'tools the weekend eh?

I see the age creeping into Nipper my Jack Russell Terrier, and it hurts now knowing what's coming. Just don't know what I'll do when the time comes, it's to hard to think about.

Todd O.

Re: Dang Jack

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Todd, I knew it was coming for over a year. I just kept an eye on him making sure he wasn't hurting and he was enjoying life. I spent more time with him in that year. When it was time we both knew it.He was tired. Enjoy your pup while you can.---Jack

I feel for you...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Just went through a similar thing. My Heart goes out to you.