Weekend Projects

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David Miller from Iowa

>I hope to complete the 1/4 sawn oak top on the new workbench this weekend. It is almost ready to attach to the base, which will only take a few minutes, and maybe I can make progress toward hanging the Record #53 on it. Had the workshop strewn with about 30 to-be-fettled planes I have been accumulating all summer, but gave up on them and boxed them all up to await a burst of enthusiasm (and the aquisition of about 10 totes) next spring. Just bought 3 acres with about 300' feet of riverfront on a sizeable waterway here in rural Iowa, and need to get a small shed put up out there to house the Brush Hog. Will probably make my own "kit" by stick framing the walls in my shop, hauling them out there and slappping it together. The precut kits at the home center look like they have crummy wood and none-to-precise cutting. I can do better from scratch, although it may end up costing more than the kit.

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>Looks like some one has dreams of a retirement home or weekend get away in there mind. UMMM river front UMMM acreage. Druel slurp slurp.

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David Miller from Iowa

>LOML keeps wanting to look at house floorplans and curtains but I keep saying we first need a heated 30'x50' metal building from which we can launch the house project. She has gone so far as to accuse me of likely backing out on the house deal once I get my shop up. Sheeze...

Still a few years away - have to get all the kids through college first.

It's Alive...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Yes! The saw till will come to life this weekend. I put the final coat of BLO it last night (I hope).

Then it's up to the roof for gutter cleaning and roof inspecting. Then comes demoing a hot tub (and I don't mean trying one out)... :(.

Pictures?

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Pictures. Pictures? Pictures. Pictures? Pictures? Pictures... Pictures!

Consider yourself hounded for pictures. Again.

Gift Boxes...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Remember them? I posted questions about them, oh - I dunno - in June or so? Making a couple little cherry presentation boxes for some especially helpful neighbor ladies. One's done (picture below), 'cept for flocking the interior. Second one's in the vise now, sides being faired with the trust rusty #18 (Sorry, Sr. Burr - I gave up on the paperweight 60-1/2, and am still looking for a bargain 65). Hope to get both finished up this weekend, wax 'em up good next week after the oil's dry, and buy some gift-labelled wine to go in them by week's end.

I've been takin lots of them...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Not to worry my good man! You'll just have to wait with baited breath (just don't breath on me;).

No love...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>Making me wait, just like a commoner. Oh, wait - I guess 'commoner' is a few rungs up the evolutionary ladder for me. Well, ok then...

It's OK....Don't feel bad

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Sr. Scott, I'll bet your palm feels a lot better not using it...doesn't it? Those boxes are looking good. Did the homemade dowel plate make those pins?

Speaking of them boxes, you may want to make one to bury the 60.5 in;). Have a great weekend dude!

Palms and dowels...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>The palm pain wasn't the worst of it - the lateral adjustment on the 60-1/2 (read: the slop in the lever cap) is so bad that, after a few minutes of planing with it, I'm gouging one side and doing nothing to t'other. And the 18 is just as good on the end grain I'm seeing on this project, so bag it. It's a handy little plane, but I think it's going back to the eBay hell from whence it came, to either start a 65 budget, or become a recurring donation for WC.

The dowels are from the lawnmower blade, er, um, dowel plate I made. They work fine, but tend to break unless the blank is sized just right, and need to be used immediately after they come out of the plate - there's some compression happening in the plate, and if left to sit for a while, they swell up enough that they won't (easily) fit in the mating hole. That was a fun learning experience...

When'll the till pictures be up? And how do the gas springs work? Oh - waitaminute...

18 and 65

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I own both, and like both. The 18, a little smaller than the 65, is nicer for one-handed work.

bargain 65

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I gave up looking for a bargain 65. Got three very poor examples to show for it.I finally sprung,paid the price($62 I think it was)and got a nice unused clean WWII era 65 that I use all the time.They're out there.---Jack

Re: bargain 65

Jack Guzman from Maine

>that's more than I paid for any used handplane I own.And that includes a #8($32)---Jack

See that?

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>You're talking about my general price range ($35 and under) for anything. Oh well - 65'll have to wait. Maybe when I eBay off some more old grad school textbooks. Sigh...

Hey thats a great looking box.

Victor Parisian - Houston

>Thinking along the same lines for gifts to family member.

Can happen

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>$12, and I didn't know what I'd bought from the junk shop until later - it was just a nice looking plane.

But: that's in the course of 25+ years of finding by wandering around. If you want it in the near future, you'll probably have to pay more.

Well...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>I got my 18 for $12 last year on eBay. It's got about no nickle and just a little japanning, but it's a Sweetheart, baby!

Scott, not holding my breath on the $12 eBay 65s...

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>The weekend's over, and I just got home. I didn't get any woodworking done, but did bring home a piece of curly purpleheart, with a request to make it into the top of a hall table. Note that this is not a gloat -- this is going to be a very difficult piece of wood to tame, if I manage to tame it at all. Also, took my Translucent Arkansas to show to some geologists and palaentologists at USGS. Nobody could identify the "fossil", but I now have some scholarly opinions that it may not really be a fossil, just some sort of natural deformation. And, on Saturday attended a lecture and Q&A session with Sam Maloof, at the Renwick Gallery. That was definitely a humbling experience.

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L. Hanson - N. Idaho

>This past week and weekend saw me making new handles for some new rasps and files, and another couple of saws - a patternmaker's saw and another dovetail saw:

Leif

www.norsewoodsmith.com




Making handles for tanged tools

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steve knight

>I was busy trying not to be sore this weekend (G)