Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments.....

[Terry Hatfield]

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Well, Saturday I spent tweaking the new truck. I got all the emblems removed, the windows tinted and got a good wax job on it.

It sure is purty.....

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Sorry for the repeated gloat.

Sunday I spent on the lake fishing with a good buddy. It was rainy and windy but we still caught quite a few and had a really good time.

Everyone have a good week,

t

[Steve Clardy]

making a box support for a upper staircase platform for a pine staircase I started. [1 of four staircases I have going].
Got it all built then discovered I did not allow for the actual platform floor thickness, 1 3/8" too wide. So I am revaping that this moring. Arrrghhhh

Also got the shop addition wall between the mech. room and spray room sheeted up and sealed off. Also got some drywall hung in the spray room on the ceiling. Cool weather is HERE and need some heat in there when spraying, so I need to keep at it as time permits. Also need to get the blowed in insulation up there to keep the heat in as I will be using a 8' baseboard heater in there for heat.
Got some book work done.
Steve

[keith zimmerman]

Spent this weekend pre-building three window shelving units to be installed in a coffeshop in Minneapolis later this week. The units will provide display space for products and plants, and perhaps even a modicum of window security. I will supply photos of the completed shelves after installation.

I also finished my last three natural edged bowls by buffing them on my Beall system.

Next weekend, I will be going to the woodworking show in Minneapolis and joining the Minnesota area Creekers for a get-together. Sounds like fun to me.

keithz

[Dan Gill]

In between shopping for a new/used car for my son, my men's group and church stuff, I installed some spice racks, got the mouldings finished and put up for my kitchen cabinets and started cleaning up my shop. Worked a little on figuring out how I want to build my plywood cart.

Good news: The kitchen is done!

Bad news: I still didn't find a suitable car.

[Roger Fitzsimonds]

Well I had quite a bit of shop time this weekend I am building things for a craft show the 23 of this month. so far I have 5 wooden trash cans 7/8th completed and a couple of gun racks unfinished. this weekend looks to be a staining and sealing weekend. I must have been getting tired sunday because I was sanding on my 9 in disk sander and lost my concentration and the board flipped and my little finger got half the side sanded off. So I shook it off and wrapped a paper towel around it so I could finish. Well I ended up sanding the rest of the finger , so I shut it down for the day. then Stupidity struck me for the third time and I went to burn our burn pile. My wife had poured gasoline ( I thought it was Kerosene, which was what I told her) on the pile. I made a torch and threw it on to well it didn't catch. so I walked up to the pile and threw a match on it. It caught burned to hair off of one leg and my right arm. shortened my beard,eye brows and the right side of my hair. no real burns but it smelled liked burned hair until I took a shower.

slightly smokin
Roger

[Michael Stafford]

Roger, thank goodness you weren't using anything dangerous. Sounds like me...

[Jim Fancher]

I started cleaning my garage out. I have a few projects to do over the winter and I need the room. I've pulled everything out, boxed it and labeled it.

Ok ... so I only have half of it done. It was sounding good.

[John Miliunas]

Sadly, not a fun weekend. It started off Fri., when the stationary windows we had delivered turned out to all be the wrong size! *Their* fault, but screwed up my next few weekends! Did manage to start on kitchen project, which was also filled with many "surprises"! Getting tired of this old house in a real hurry!

[Tom LaRussa]

I spent the weekend making 130 marking knife blades from O-1 tool steel precision ground bar stock. Made all of the cuts to length, ground the shanks to width, stamped the Chester Toolworks acorn logo on the blanks, ground points, ground blade bevels, and got 60 of them heat treated.

Dave,

Speaking of Chester Toolworks, when are you going to get your web site up?

[Norman Hitt]

I spent most of the weekend visiting with my youngest daughter and a friend of hers that came home with her for the weekend. Saturday, mowed the lawn, and made a pair of stilts for a friend to use at a costume party and built a prototype blast gate. Sunday watched football with the family and enjoyed a couple of great meals of the wifes cooking, (which she doesn't do often anymore since she "Divorced the Kitchen" when the daughters moved away).

[Rich Konopka]

I met Rob Russell for lunch on Friday. As it turns out he works for one of my accounts. It was nice to meet and no we did not take pic's

Rob was leaving for a month long vacation down under !!

Other than that I spent the rest of the weekend on a trip to the beautiful state of New Hampshire. The weather was perect and the foilage was bright. My daughter had a soccer tournament. They lost in the semi-final match which had 2 Over times and it took 6 penalty kicks to finally decide the winner.

[Dan Gill]

My wife had poured gasoline ( I thought it was Kerosene, which was what I told her) on the pile.

Wow! You are lucky to be alive. I did the same thing a couple of times when I was a young lad. A friend of a friend and his father were both killed a few months back by gasoline and a burn pile. They were doing the WORST thing - pouring gasoline on a fire already going. Flame traveled up the stream and exploded the can.

Count yourself blessed!

[Mark J Bachler]

Besides sawing lumber (see wood gloat) I got some more done on the addition on the shop to house the dust collector & future larger air compressor.

[Steve Clardy]

Sadly, not a fun weekend. It started off Fri., when the stationary windows we had delivered turned out to all be the wrong size! *Their* fault, but screwed up my next few weekends! Did manage to start on kitchen project, which was also filled with many "surprises"! Getting tired of this old house in a real hurry!

Well hang in there John. I will show some progress eventually.
At least thats what I tell my wife.
Our old house has been in the REMODEL stage since we purchased the place. 1995. It is framed in Oak, been added on several times, resided several, on and on. Never ending seems like. Window here, window there.

Steve

[Kurt Aebi]

Spent Saturday working on the living room remodel - it has expanded into the entryway and stairway to the upstairs. Picked up the Tongue & Groove (V-Groove) knotty pine paneling for the walls (76 1x6 & 76 1x8's - the cool thing is that if you put a 1x6 then a 1x8, your coverage is exactly 1 ft.). Also picked up around 9 half-pints of stain for LOML to pick from.

Sunday was spent repairing the bottom panel of a co-worker's garage door - his wife smashed into it last winter. He has placed an order for me to make a replacement and we wanted to just patch up the original to make it through the winter and give me time to ake one for him.

Hopefully, this weekend I will be able to get my new Hydronic Panel Radiators installed and get all the air purged from them and not be without heat for more than 1 day. LOML has to pick out the stain quickly, so I can get the paneling up behind where the radiators are going, can't get behind them once installed. Boy are the tools required for dealing with PEX tubing expensive - $204.00 for the crimpers alone! NOt to mention the assorted hardware, fittings, etc. Wow!

Well anyway - Y'all have a good week.