What's On Your Project List?

[crokett]

Arbitrarily excluding pens, unless it's a jig related to pens or you're attempting something for the first time, such as a kitless. For me now that the bandsaw is back operational, I want to make a shelf to hold my box of shop towels, I need to make a crosscut sled and rip fence attachment for my new-to-me tablesaw, I want to make my main work bench mobile, I have half a dozen bowl blanks that need their rough turning and I want to add shelves and doors to my lathe stand.

 

[RichAldrich]

Lots of jig ideas in the resource pages. jttheclockman and kenb259 are very innovative in their designs. Not sure what a rip fence attachment is. Mobility for your equipment is important. Good luck!

 

[jttheclockman]

My time is being consumed with the remodeling of my home. I have been working on this for the past 3 years and it maybe coming along there is still a ton of work. I will be getting a new bathroom and kitchen updated. This should take to beginning of March. My end of work is to continue moving some closets and sheetrocking and spackling. Will have a couple floors sanded and redone also this summer. Have a ton of moldings to replace as well as some oak doors. I am hoping if my health holds up this year to get a huge bulk of this work done. Shop time is nonexistent for the foreseeable future. Making pens or anything fun is quite aways away. I will say this when I do get back I will come back with a vengeance and pull all the tricks out. Have so many great ideas. So for now I live through the talents shown here. It is my break from this grind and keeps me sane. This has been a huge undertaking as well as an expensive one. This pandemic has cost me extra $$$ for sure but if not now I have no idea when. I put this off for a long time. Decided to stay in NJ after all and this was the next best choice. Anyone with a home knows the pain. Take care and be safe and wish all a great New Year. Hope all your plans come true also.

 

[jrista]

Currently building a bandsaw sled. Keeping it basic to start, just so I can get some solid 90 degree cuts, but I am planning to add some T-Track so I can do angled crosscuts and the like as well. The longer term goal is to be able to have something that will help me do segmented blank making. Trying to cut pen blanks with the fence that came with the bandsaw is quite challenging, so I'm really looking forward to getting this done.

 

[crokett]

Lots of jig ideas in the resource pages. jttheclockman and kenb259 are very innovative in their designs. Not sure what a rip fence attachment is. Mobility for your equipment is important. Good luck!

I'm going to add an attachment to the rip fence to make it a taller fence so that I can do things like add featherboards, clamp stop blocks, etc.

 

[MRDucks2]

Continuing to get shop lined out. First added wall up and electric done. Next is wood racks in storage portion and areanging it to also park Mamma's Solstice in. This includes a second wall to separate a "clean work & craft area". Getting water, gas and an open 2" pipe all laid in the next week or so. Then concrete the portion of the floor before adding more electric, a bathroom and HVAC of some sort.

 

[pewink]

It appears that a new kitchen faucet is in our future. I needed to make a trip to pick up some clear finish, so I took a look at the selection.
Oh my! On the low end, they started at $179 and exceeded $400 before I left the isle. I don't particularly care for the handle on the side of the spout, but it seemed that the majority of what was displayed.
Would also like to get a single bowl SS sink, but those prices are equally insane. Maybe we'll settle for a five gallon bucket, and the garden hose.

 

[crokett]

Continuing to get shop lined out. First added wall up and electric done. Next is wood racks in storage portion and areanging it to also park Mamma's Solstice in. This includes a second wall to separate a "clean work & craft area". Getting water, gas and an open 2" pipe all laid in the next week or so. Then concrete the portion of the floor before adding more electric, a bathroom and HVAC of some sort.

On my list for when the weather warms up is some shop improvements - insulation and a few other things. that's going to be a big project. there's lots of stuff on the walls that will have to come down to get the insulation in.

 

[pewink]

On my list for when the weather warms up is some shop improvements - insulation and a few other things. that's going to be a big project. there's lots of stuff on the walls that will have to come down to get the insulation in.

You could try the expandable insulation. It's done from the exterior of the structure. Siding strips are removed to drill the holes, and it's sprayed in. After installation, the holes get plugged, and siding replaced.

 

[pewink]

OK, I might have another project (experiment) to try. During post chasing, and clicking into information overload, I ran across Edgar's Trail Mix.
It's sounds pretty interesting, and since we have most of the ingredients from making our traditional mix, the latest batch being last evening and being the fourth since Dec. seventeenth, I might get the additional ingredients and test a small batch.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Planning a few more segmented bowls, but first need to do some field day work on the shop... dust is 1/2 inch thick on some of the shelves, work benches and light fixtures. My son just gave me his little lathe, a Jet 1014 with EVS to replace my old 1014 (that he gave me 20 years ago)... need to find a place to store it until I decide what I want to do with it... I've been using it as a buffing machine, but my step son is playing in my shop now doing pen and has been using the little lathe... he'll use the newer one until he goes back to work as a truck driver.

 

[mark james]

Oh Ahhh.... Segmented Birdhouses and Kitchen Measuring cups. Poppourri Bowls (already have the Pewter Caps).

 

[Edgar]

Refinishing my mom's old oak round table - it was the oldest piece of furniture she owned. To the best of our recollection, she got it from her grandmother.

Mom stripped off the old (very) dark finish with a chemical stripper that also caused a number of glue joints to fail. That's as far as she got before dad became ill & took all her time. They passed away in 2008 & 2009 — I finally got around to tackling this project. I disassembled it, cleaned up all the glue joints, replaced a couple of dowels, sanded everything, & glued it all back together.

I still need to give it a fresh coat of a light oak finish, but we wanted to use it to display our Nativity Scene this year.

 

[gimpy]

Learning my new cnc router
And my cnc laser

 

[Bryguy]

1) Making a sled for the lathe on which I can mount a router for octagonal and triangular pens.
2) Finding a way to organize and fit everything in my shop. I'm buried!

 

[monophoto]

Refinishing my mom's old oak round table - it was the oldest piece of furniture she owned. To the best of our recollection, she got it from her grandmother.

Mom stripped off the old (very) dark finish with a chemical stripper that also caused a number of glue joints to fail. That's as far as she got before dad became ill & took all her time. They passed away in 2008 & 2009 — I finally got around to tackling this project. I disassembled it, cleaned up all the glue joints, replaced a couple of dowels, sanded everything, & glued it all back together.

I still need to give it a fresh coat of a light oak finish, but we wanted to use it to display our Nativity Scene this year.

Edgar

I was recently turned on to a series of YouTube videos by Thomas Johnson, an antiques restorer in Maine (https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasJohnsonAntiqueFurnitureRestoration). What a craftsman! Both he and his brother have work in that field, as was their father who had a restoration business in the Baltimore area, and his daughter is similarly engaged in California. It's amazing how he's able to take a ratty, broken-down piece of furniture, and bring it back to life.

While he can strip and refinish a piece if that is what is required, his preference is to restore the existing finish, and his go-to method involves rubbing down the finish with Howard's Feed-nWax using either 4/0 steel wool or a gray Scotchbrite. I've experimented with that approach on some of my turnings, and it is amazing how much it improves the surface.

I don't have his patience, nor do I have his skills. And I certainly don't have as many clamps as he has!

 

[Edgar]

Edgar

I was recently turned on to a series of YouTube videos by Thomas Johnson, an antiques restorer in Maine (https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasJohnsonAntiqueFurnitureRestoration). What a craftsman! Both he and his brother have work in that field, as was their father who had a restoration business in the Baltimore area, and his daughter is similarly engaged in California. It's amazing how he's able to take a ratty, broken-down piece of furniture, and bring it back to life.

While he can strip and refinish a piece if that is what is required, his preference is to restore the existing finish, and his go-to method involves rubbing down the finish with Howard's Feed-nWax using either 4/0 steel wool or a gray Scotchbrite. I've experimented with that approach on some of my turnings, and it is amazing how much it improves the surface.

I don't have his patience, nor do I have his skills. And I certainly don't have as many clamps as he has!

Thanks for the link — very interesting.

I don't have a large collection of clamps, so the glue-ups took a while.

 

[JUICEDSS]

Getting ready to build a guitar storage cabinet. Picture a large dresser with slide out drawers holding electric guitars. One cabinet will hold 8 or 16 depending how deep I decide to make it. Plans all drawn up, just awaiting funds and time.

 

[Woodchipper]

It appears that a new kitchen faucet is in our future. I needed to make a trip to pick up some clear finish, so I took a look at the selection.
Oh my! On the low end, they started at $179 and exceeded $400 before I left the isle. I don't particularly care for the handle on the side of the spout, but it seemed that the majority of what was displayed.
Would also like to get a single bowl SS sink, but those prices are equally insane. Maybe we'll settle for a five gallon bucket, and the garden hose.

FWIW, we got the single bowl sink and faucet from Lowe's. It's a bit pricey but one can wash large utensils, cookie sheets and pizza pans with no interference from the divider. Our gun club got one for the same reason of convenience. It's well worth the $$$. My daughter has a sink that has one big compartment and a small one that is almost a vegetable sink. Now she wants one like Mommy.