Projecting, tinkering, fiddle-farting around: whatcha building? (3 Viewers)

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That’s a cool lamp. Is it a push button, to turn it on?
Yes, illuminated latching push button. When on, the ring around the button glows orange.
 
Always wanted to try one of those knife kits that I see at Woodcraft/Rockler, where you buy the steel ready for handles (scales) to be installed. Decided to give the cheeze knife kit a try, for some Christmas gifts. Pretty happy how they came out, especially since this is my first time doing this.

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Woods left -> right are Bloodwood, curly hard maple (2), Brazilian rosewood, Morado, and Black Walnut

Finish is also something I thought I'd try: CA adhesive (Superglue). You quickly wipe on a couple of thin coats, then sand back to wood with 800-grit. Then I applied 6 more thin coats (it dries in seconds), and sanded with 800, 1000, and 3000 grit paper. Then a quick buff with a cotton wheel.

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Those are beautiful
 
Vertical smoker/grill. Making it up as I go.

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Just finished this "little" project today. Saw this on the YouTubes a few months ago, always wanted to try it. This is a birthday present for a friend, he really loves American flags.

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This started out as a 2x12 that I found at my favorite local lumber yard (Eldredge Lumber in Portsmouth). Fun, interesting project, lots more work than I expected, but that's OK. At the end I really didn't want to wimp out and paint on the stars, and I hated the stars routed out with a Dremel, so I sharpened up my new Narex chisels and got to work.

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Pretty happy with how it turned out, I think he will be pumped to get it.
 
Beautiful!
 
Just finished this "little" project today. Saw this on the YouTubes a few months ago, always wanted to try it. This is a birthday present for a friend, he really loves American flags.

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This started out as a 2x12 that I found at my favorite local lumber yard (Eldredge Lumber in Portsmouth). Fun, interesting project, lots more work than I expected, but that's OK. At the end I really didn't want to wimp out and paint on the stars, and I hated the stars routed out with a Dremel, so I sharpened up my new Narex chisels and got to work.

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Pretty happy with how it turned out, I think he will be pumped to get it.
Wow, that's really cool!
 
I mentioned in my warehouse fire thread that I partially remodeled the tiny house in front of my shop seven years ago and moved my offices in there. I went without a stove in the kitchen until this year, determined to tackle the deferred maintenance of properly wiring the house. So this last summer I was able to finally move the electrical along far enough to finally put in a stove.

Ever since then I’ve been daydreaming about cutting up some angle iron and making some shelf racks for either side of the stove. Well last week the planets aligned and I was able to build the racks. All the shelving is castoffs or recycled pallet wood. Today I finished a drawer for the right side rack.

The plan is to make an overhead rack with a range hood as well, then disassemble everything to get the metal powderpainted.
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The thick slabs of wood you see in the pics are remnants from the furniture guy who used to rent part of the North Hollywood warehouse from me. He moved out a couple of years before the fire, but we have stayed on good terms. I dumpster dive his place a few times a year, usually before camping trips. But I have also rescued dimensional hardwoods from pallets.
 
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Very cool! The thick wood blocks remined me of a new task of wood kitchen stuff maintenance: wooden cutting board and wooden utensil love:
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working on the wooden utensils now, cutting boards will take the sanding down first, then oil, then wax
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Thank you. It does, pretty funny. It’s from an estimated 300 year old oak that fell over.
I want to try one of those some day. I need to get the courage up to mix up that much $$$ epoxy at one time.
 
Making some more progress on my English Wheel. I figured out what I wanted to do for the legs, set the working height I wanted, worked up some patterns, and cut the steel. Next steps are to making mounting plates so the legs will bolt to the frame and also feet for the legs.

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Very cool. I like the design, it definitely won’t flex.
 

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