Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments

[Dennis Peacock]

29 Feb 2016

Good Morning Everyone,
Today is the last day of Feb. I had to look to be sure.
Done a bit of woodturning this past weekend for a bowl that a guy at work wanted for his mother. So I turned and finished it and it will be delivered early this week.
Here is proof (Silver Maple bowl, 13" across x 3.5" tall:


And then the bottom:


Spent some time with the LOML this weekend, attended church, and watches a movie after helping work in the yard.
I weighed in this morning and I've officially lost 20 pounds. I have 63 more to go, but I'm taking this off slowly. Working out at a local gym with the LOML and watching what we eat is all it has taken so far. We are feeling better and excited about weight loss.

That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past weekend?
Best of weeks to you all.!

[Rod Sheridan]

Very nice bowl Dennis.

I went to the Hamilton wood show, at the Warplane Heritage Museum. Admission covered the wood show, and entrance to the museum, love seeing the Lancaster that they have flying.

The wood show is full of white haired guys, I wonder if hobby wood working is dying out?

Regards, Rod.

[Jim Becker]

Beautiful bowl, Dennis...I'm sure that the recipient will be thrilled!

I got a lot of work done on my buffet/hutch project and actually spend a couple hours uploading a build thread with progress. Only a few more things to go on the lower unit and then I can get cracking on the hutch/breakfront portion after a short interlude of a couple small projects around the house, including preparing an area for Professor Dr. SWMBO to put her first honey bee hive. (she had her first beekeeper class yesterday)

I was very happy to have the nice warm, sunny weather this weekend, too.

[Wayne Jolly]

Another week of no woodworking for me, but I did do a lot of cleaning up. For me, that just means putting things back where they belong. My biggest gain though, was replacing 4 old 8' T-12 light fixtures with new LED lights. That leaves 4 more 8' lights to replace, and 2 4' fixtures to replace. So far I have lowered my total power for lighting from about 1200W down to about 825W. Maybe the neighbors will stop complaining about brownouts every time I turn on my lights. :-)


Wayne

[Ben Silver]

Got a set of very basic shelves finished. Figured out I will start with less stout board down the road, they are quite heavy.

Didn't get much else finished, but I spent more time in the shop doing work than I have in some time. Just getting down to the shop is a big deal recently, my frustration levels have been rather high.

[Julie Moriarty]

Made the TUBA workbench...

As in tubafer and tubasix. It was going to be dedicated for the lathe but once I was done I decided I needed a workbench in the garage more than I needed a permanent home for the lathe.





It's just 2x4 and 2x6 construction grade pine. I glued up the top on Thursday and let it sit until Saturday. Then the work began.

Making it, I didn't even joint or plane the wood before beginning. Perfection was not my goal as I have too many things to do with the new house. I just wanted it to be solid. That was accomplished.

I took (16) 2x4s and glued them up for the top, trying my best to keep them lined up properly. I then took a power hand planer to it, bottom first. Once the bottom was reasonably flat, I did the top. I was a bit more picky on the top, using a jack plane and jointer plane before sanding it to 120. But it's not perfecto. It's a beater bench.

I already had the vise on the left. The one on the right may or may not be mounted where it is in the top pic.

In all, I used (20) 2x4s and (3) 2x6s. The latter being part of the L-shaped legs, cross ties for the legs, and a rear brace I intended to use to secure the bench to the wall. (A hack HVAC installer prevented the bench from being snug against the wall when he installed the AC lineset curving out from the wall like a surfboard.)

I worked on the bench Saturday and Sunday, out on the driveway, and had it done in time to put it in place and do some much needed rearranging in the garage. While building it, I had several neighbors stop by and chat. The neighbor next door came over and just watched me work, like a Tim Allen sitcom. The man kitty-corner across the street came over on Saturday, introduced himself, and then invited us over for a French dinner. He's a master carver and has made some amazing pieces. The neighbors across the street came over on Sunday with their relatives to see if they all guessed right as to what I was building. He builds furniture and they invited us over. I think I'll like it here.

[John Sanford]

Finished up a birthday present for my son.Shaving Set.jpgShaving Set 2.jpgRazor and Brush.jpgChop Saw Stand Drawer.jpg

Also I finally managed to build the drawer for my chop saw cart/stand. Two items off my To-Do List, along with a third item lacking pics. I finished the gap strip for my Split Top Roubo.

[Bill Adamsen]

Finished the bread board that's wide enough for baguettes. One mistake I'll not repeat (I'm sure there were other's as well) is related to the tenon on the bread board end. I terminated it about an inch from the ends. I should have either gone further or at least used a haunch. The long boards on the edges almost immediately curled up 1/32". I did drawbore the center pin and drawbored the end pin slots. I wonder if that was a good idea.

Practically speaking, it worked fine for the long baguettes, and one of my daughters immediately decided it was the best work surface in the house. That's a winning testimonial!

Thanks everyone for their comments and suggestions on how to build.