It has been a long time since I had any fun in my shop.
1st, Put the finishing touches on a small activity table for the girls I started last spring.
2nd, Cleaned up a mess of sawdust (yes it was fun) See this post.
3rd, The real problem with my dust collection system is the only switch I...
After only sporadic work in my shop I am back in a big way. Last week I finished a slew of pens and sent them out. Here is a picture:
Since then I have been working on a MAME machine. It is a big arcade machine that emulates almost any old arcade game. I have the main carcass 90% finished...
I had to remake a door frame for the work truck. After getting it built and the 1st coat of finish on it I decided to see how the art work fit in so I could make the molding to hold it in.
I AM 3" SHORT ON BOTH THE HEIGHT AND WIDTH:kamahlitu:kamahlitu!!!!
I just trashed $55 worth of 8/4 red...
Stay tuned for a thread where we take a box cutter made from plastic, ran over by a fork lift, and revived in a wooden rendition that will be used daily. Another father and son project. Lots of pictures forth coming. And of course a great project story told by my son, 02Ranger. He tells a...
I've upgraded a few of my disk drives on my home computer and NAS. I have some older ones to give away. There is:
WD WDE6400 640GB. SATA 3.0 Gb/sec 7200 RPM
-------Ben325e
WD WD7500AACS 750GB SATA 3.0 Gb/sec 7200 RPM-----RayH
Hitachi hde721010sla330 SATA 3.0Gb/sec 1TB 7200 RPM...
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just to let you know I found out that CHARLOTTE, NC has been added to the woodworking show tour for 2011... I am so glad they worked it out to make it back to NC but since it is last min most people probally will not know about it...
I do not work for them but here is the link so others...
Yesterday I roughly milled out all those big boards I got from Jeff Mills. I cut off the bark and cut out the checks and knots. They are now all rough cut boards that I can handle.:eusa_danc Then after lunch I started on a bed for the youngest grand daughter.:cool: The head and foot boards are...
The Board of Directors held an in person meeting today and among the topics of discussion was the need to have an open conference call type meeting that would include all of the BOD and Staff. The proposed conference call would include the entire staff of North Carolina Woodworker and should...
Can anyone tell what kind of wood this is - SIL harvested it yesterday and was spliting it today - he says it splits easy but it is heavy and very dense - I took a pic of the bark but it turned out bad - as usual with my pics - we are thinking more in the line of the nut family
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Arizona Silhouette has sold out of these and they are not going to restock per website info
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I have been wanting to get some of these so I went to this site http://yoyospin.com/tutorials/ This guy is the one that has the "how to" videos on the Arizona site = So I emailed...
Thought I'd share the progress on my latest project. This is the panel for another serving tray. It is wetted down with some DNA for the pic. Panel is walnut, the oval is bubinga, and the rose is maple and :icon_scra I can't remember. I hope to put some stringing around the oval tonight (wish me...
As I stated in this thread
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f19/looking-snowman-pattern-26967/
my daughter wanted a snowman ornament that she can put pictures of the twins and her son in. I tried to make a pattern but decided to ask the pro scrollers if they had one that I could use -...
Trying to get some Christmas gifts done and wanted to make this for my MIL - she loves to garden - you guys that have made these what -if anything- do you see I have done right/wrong - seems to me that it is not tapered enough :icon_scra Let me know so that I can get it right
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In-law that is.My oldest daughter got married yesterday:eusa_danc:tinysmile_cry_t:.A happy time but sad time too. I worry that she has got a good one.But I have to let go and trust that SHE made a good choice:icon_scra.I am SOOOOO proud of her.
Oh ya Randy if you need...
BOTTLE STOPPER:slap: :roll: I thought this one was pretty cool - I took a piece of Corian?? (counter top material) and epoxied it to the side of a 4/4 piece of BW and turned this out of it - going to try another one after supper
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I have been thinking that a group buy for some Anchorseal might be in order, so I made a few calls. Here is what we've got.
Anchorseal-clear
55 gal drum-$277.75
275 gal tote-$1388.75
This breaks out as follows:
Anchorseal $5.05/gal
I suggest that at this savings we go with the...
Some big deliveries today and quite a few nice finds to add to the mix...
LN Scrub Plane
Set of LN Mortise Chisels
LN Router Plane
LN Shoulder Plane
LN Dowel Plate
Adria Tenon Saw
Tim Hoff Dovetail Saw (Spruce Creek)
NOS Greenlee Chisel
NOS Swan Gouge Chisel
Excellant Witherby Chisel
Very Nice...