weekend projects

Re: weekend projects

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Hey Ernie. Spring is definitely in the air.The sap is running in the maples and I heard a woodpecker yesterday.Also,a sure sign,between the snow banks we got mud.

I plan on working on a CD cabinet I'm making for a large collection of music.It's going to have storage in the doors to limit wall space taken up.I'm almost done assembling the main box,the doors will be next.

Have fun with it---Jack

Re: weekend projects

Steve Kubien

>I've got some power tool work to do for my mom (she teaches tole painting/folk art) and I hope to get back at finishing the guitar stand I started for the contest a few months back. I've got a firm deadline on that as April 11th is the birthday of its recipient. As the fact the the recipient is my sensei and he can kick my butt...I better get moving on it.

Take care,

Steve Kubien

-if SWMBO'd asks, it only cost $15

Shop cleanup, I hope

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I picked up a Kennedy rollaway tool chest a couple of weekends ago. Three 2" drawers, two 4" drawers, and a cave in the bottom (hate those, but some time I'll figure out what kind of drawer to put in). Turns out to be too wide to replace the cheap one I've got in one corner (sheet metal tools, electrical tools, auto tools like oil-filter wrenches), so it's going to become chisel and spokeshave and block plane and other small plane (including good ol' No. 75) and other stuff storage. BUT I can't move it into the shoplet until I do major cleanup.

That assumes I can get some of the long list of non-shop stuff done, including taking #1 son back to the doctor for a follow up on his surgery, done yesterday.

Re: weekend projects

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Yup, Spring is here on the Cohansey, or will be by tomorrow. I have made note that it has officially arrived a couple of miles down the road, as there daffodils open in someone's front yard. We've got crocuses blooming in our lawn, and should have daffodils open at the Loxahatchee Toolworks by the end of the weekend.

Last week, we had a storm, and an Eastern cottonwood came down, across where we plant the pole beans, so I've got to saw it up and haul it off to the brush pile and firewood stack. I'm not looking forward to donning the protective gear and cranking up the Poulon.

I'm working on a spindle steady rest that will fit both lathes, so I will make some progress on that. We have an order for a bed that needs it.

There are seeds to plant in the ground, more to plant in flats to put in the hot house, spring bulbs, roses and daylilies to plant, all the weeds are trying to get a jump on me, again, and LOML wants to go to the Borg to get some bedding plants.

Rain predicted, so...

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

>Despite the early spring & unseasonable weather here in Oregon, I'll be able to ignore the yard & garden and get in some shop time, if all goes well.

I'm close to being done with the door to the cabinet I've been working on, well, more or less forever. A little tweaking on the panel, and a bit of cleanup, and it'll be ready to glue.

Maybe I'll even have time to start work on the back panel... Anything is possible, I suppose.

Other than that, yeah, I've got a fair bit of shop clean up to do, too!

jk