Fantastic weather all of a sudden. #Schwiemu requested a new compost bin, so I found a spot, moved the old bunny box out of the way (the hardest part of this project so far) and went to work.
Bonus challenge: Make a double compost bin using only this stack of sawmill junk that's been sitting there for years.
First time I had to use the multi function table saw hold down jig. It really expands the possibilities and increases security for certain cuts with the table saw.
Es ist doch immer wieder erstaunlich, wie Dinge einfach nahtlos* funktionieren, wenn man einfach nur alles richtig macht.
In meinem Fall: nachdem ich den Unterfadengreifer drei mal auseinandergebaut, gereinigt, zusammengebaut, und in der Anleitung nach Fehlerquellen gesucht habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Nadel falsch herum in der Nadelstange steckte, was ich natürlich bisher als Fehlerquelle ausgeschlossen hatte… 🙈
(oder vielmehr: mit Naht. Sehr guter Naht. Ohne Fadenschlaufen.)
First "real" project on my old Pfaff 30 treadle sewing machine 1: a tool roll for my recently engraved 2 Veritas plough plane blades. Thick canvas, lined with leather on the inside, sewn with a nice thick thread, and a snap button for the strap. I'm still thinking of waxing the canvas, but it's already useable.
Je suis en train de finir une commande de couteau deux clous, voici le manche qui prend forme.
La couleur rosée du bois de poirier n'a pas beaucoup d'équivalents dans nos contrées !
Any thoughts on the Robert Sorby "firmer" chisels for use in cutting mortises? They are advertised as being good for mortising, but seem less hefty than typical mortising chisels. #woodworking
First half sheet run. Needed a wood cart. So here we go. Can handle sheets in the back and a lot of misc. in front. Just need to add the last dowels but should work well. Took longer getting the pocket holes and wheels on than cutting the sheets down. 😂
Dragged the rack back down to the basement (note the muddy castors). UPSs hiding down the back now along with a PDU rack mounted.
The servers are going to hang out in the house for just a little while longer. I have a 3 way comparison video to shoot between the Rosewill LSV4500U, HL15 and Sliger CX4712 before those boxes get shipped back to the basement again.
For a hot minute I thought I'd decorate the margins with an illustrative scene with wire inlay! Big ambitions to do a series of #LordOfTheRings illustrations with copper inlay.
I've landed on much a simpler geometric pattern. More doable.
Drew the inlay pattern on the opposide side of the board (this time using the speed square... yay for having those right angles handy).
You know, woodworking has made me appreciate the real-world implications of my high school #geometry class.
There's something to be said for proofs - if you have a shape, and you know the dimensions of some of those shapes, you can also know the angles of the shape, and the dimensions of other sides.