Well....another weekend has come and gone.......Now I know many of you had plans for what you were going to get done over the weekend......so tell us all about it...
Here is what I did:
On Friday afternoon I traveled North to Terry Hatfield's house, only a 2.5 hours drive....Terry and I were invited to visit with Bob Lasley (Mr. Router Teacher) and his SWMBO for the weekend. Terry and I headed out to Tulsa, OK Friday afternoon and arrived at Bob's place around 6 PM....I did learn that I have to drive with one hand on the steering wheel and the other full of money to toss out the window for those "cotton-pickin' " toll booths......Nope....we ain't got nern in these parts...so I wasn't used to just tossing money into some funny lookin' hole that turned a light on that said "Thank You" each time you fed it enough money. Yup, Terry warned me about just driving through without feeding those money hungry machines....said instead of paying a few bucks....I would get a visit from the law and have to pay a $90 fine....so I kept tossing money until each toll money eater was satisfied to let me go.
We visited with Bob and SWMBO Friday night and crashed a few hours before we got up on Saturday to head out to the Woodcraft Store in Tulsa.....BOY.....was "that" ever a treat for me!!! I had never seen nor visited a Woodcraft store before and I was like a kid in a new toy store...!!! Too many things and not enough money or space in the car to bring it all back.
The rest of the day was spent working with Bob in his shop learing about routers, inlay and we got to try our hands at through dovetails with the Akeida Dovetail Jig. I was impressed with the simple setup of the jig, but was not real happy with how hard it was to "see" where to guide the router so as to NOT cut between the fingers of the jig. After a little practice with the jig, it got a little bit easier...but not as easy as my PC OmniJig. The Akeida was a very nice jig and easy to work and setup.
Bob and a project for each of us to make out of some Ambrosia Maple...we made the box frame for a CD box with through dovetails on all 4 corners and while we were setting all that up Jeff (can't remember his last name) who lives on a few miles from Bob and Jeff....it was a great pleasure to meet you and spend a little time with you. We got the boxes dovetailed and the sides fitted together and we ran out of time and had to head back to Terry's place for Saturday night.
Bob Lasley had a "gift" for each of us when we arrived. He made us a sanding block with Maple and Wawabima with a brass scew and wing nut. Very Very nice Bob and LOML said that I can't use it in the shop for sanding.....it's too purddy to get dirty so I guess she is going to keep it here in the house like a trophy!!!!!
Many THANKS to Bob and Barbra Lasley for the wonderful time I had while there and for the grand hospitality during our visit.
I spent the night at Terry's place and we talked over DC stuff and worked on his web site a little more. I got home late Sunday afternoon and I am beat.......I need to get to bed now and get some sleep.!!! :-)
Now.....get out there and visit other X-Ponders, Creek Waders, Centralians and Woodchippers......I have never met a woodworker from any of these sites that I didn't like.
WHEW!!!! enough for now....I will post a few picks of our trip and the sanding block Bob gave me later this week.
Best of Weeks,