Weekend Projects

Re: Weekend Projects

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>Hey Ernie,

I actually got a lot of what I mentioned in your last weekend's feature done, if not actually during the weekend, at least during the week. The framesaw works like a charm, but I need to make a couple refinements before I post pictures.

This weekend we're having a Moth regatta over at Union Lake, and a party for Mothies this evening. With the bad weather predicted, if I'm not mostly patching small boats on Sunday, I'll be cleaning up the yard, woods and fields after the storm. I'm afraid some of our friends in Florida, David Barnett especially, and Mike Fitterling, and Todd O, Don Thompson and Rod Peterson, are going to have a very rough weekend.

Stay dry!

Re: Weekend Projects

Ernie Miller Topeka

>I forgot about that we are having a huricane party at my house tonight going to watch the weather channel and sip wine every time they say Hurricane! Might even make some big waves in the above ground pool in the back yard. Weather is real cool here for this time of year. More like late September.

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David Miller from Iowa

>My 18 year old son, who lives out of state with his mother, is coming in to stay for a week and I�m taking some time off. He�s the only one of my kids that it really into woodworking. He was carving wooden spoons with spokeshaves on the shaving horse when he was 12. Taught him how to dovetail a couple Christmases ago and he isn�t half bad. Over spring break, we made a trebuchet about 7 feet tall at the pivot and used my 145# anvil for the counterweight � threw a fist size stone about 300 feet once we got it tuned. Not sure what we�ll be up to this week, but I still have to put a top on the workbench I�m making (which will be his as soon as he gets a place), still have couple 45s I got off of eBay this week that need put in order, and there are a couple auctions advertising woodworking tools. Maybe it�s time he learned to file saws�

Have a good weekend everyone.

Finish up my first wooden plane

Steve Kubien

>I hope to finish off my first wooden plane this weekend. I built a Shepherd shoulder last year from one of their kits but this will be my first from-scratch plane. I hope it works out. It's a scrub plane so very little of it is critical. In fact, I suppose the only really important part is being sure the bed and iron meet closely along with the wedge. That, and looking into a dojo for my 4 year old so she can become a ninja are my plans. Karate-do for her, maybe aikido for me.

Take care everyone!

Steve Kubien who likes the weather-channel-hurricane-watch idea!

Ajax, Ontario

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Sean Evoy

>Feels like fall around Ottawa, too. Some outdoor projects to do before fall really hits, like finish the caulking around the window frames out back. More work on the base of my workbench, so I can stop trying to plane on my t@bles@w. Start the plane making floats I've got all the materials for but have been procrastinating over. Oh yeah, and get back to the dojo to work off some of the stress from this week. Of course, that's the plan. More likely than not, I'll get swept up in the excitement of the Olympics and end up enjoying some sport I'd never bother to follow ordinarily.

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Mike Lietzow

>Arranging new shop this weekend. Follow link separate thread.

Cheers,

Mike


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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Completely. There was a weird overcast, extra muggy out, a few spirited gusts of wind, but that was it. No rain at all.

Andrew went over the house in 1992. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. What a pain. Don't want no more hurricanes. I'm too old for them.

[Pain def.: broken arm, sprained back, double hernia, from cleaning-up and subsequent repairs, including the obligatory fall from a ladder.]