Retirement Projects
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If memory serves, your shop is almost ridiculously clean. Don't you find the lathe throws dust/chips everywhere?0
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Yeah, it makes quite a mess. Good campfire starter stuff though.2
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Love the wood projects!0
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This is my latest project:
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Crocheted giraffes!! How cute!!0
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Made another bowl for a Christmas gift between fire calls, one medical, cancelled, and then a chimney fire in driving rain and sleet way up the mountain. I'd forgotten how much fun being cold, wet and miserable was.
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A couple of my misbegotten crafts projects. First one is a little book with a folded-paper cover; the folding makes the pointed tab/pocket closure on the outside, and some small angular pockets on the inside. There's a light-gauge textured-metal point on the tab. Pages are various art papers. One might use it for text or visual journaling.
Second is a necklace. The skull was a thing I made from polymer clay (yes, the stuff kids use and bake in a toaster oven to harden) as part of an activity in a group I'm in, and aged with acrylics. I tab-set it on a sheet-copper backplate, oxidized the copper, and strung it with some agates, pyrite, carnelian, glass, sea-urchin spines, and I don't remember what-all.
Yes, I am this kind of weirdo.
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New bench vise for the shop3 -
Thanks Wayne0
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Yes, it is. Very nice. I can’t afford a lot of their stuff, but treat myself when I can. I have some nice spokeshaves, planes , saws from there. This was a lot of fit and finish work. Cherry for the jaw pieces, with a 2 degree chamfer on the front one.2
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Last night and today’s project, the third and final Christmas gift for the kids. Made a wooden bowl for each family, finished in food safe beeswax finish.
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Awesome!!2
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d_thomas02 wrote: »Final product, ready for today's gathering. (Lady did the painting, lighting, and bow on top. I moved it around for her.)
Borrowing your idea to make some Christmas gifts, Mr. Thomas. Thank you for the inspiration.4 -
Ot sure what this is, or what it's good for. Practice piece doing a technique to mAke a three cornered piece. It starts as a cube on the lathe mounted on the through axis.5 -
Finished some Christmas gifts tonight. Idea shamelessly stolen from @d_thomas02 in this thread. Thanks again, sir! Tomorrow we add some lights.
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Finally made it out to the forge last Sunday. Just tinkering with a few items, heating and beating. Lasted about an hour before having to shut it down and head inside to elevate and ice the knee.
Apparently a lot of standing in mostly one spot with little to no knee movement is not what the doctor ordered.
I'm a little disappointed with only an hour but still a good first step back into the smithy. Next time I'll try walking around more between heats and see.3 -
Todays project. A mahogany jewelry box with a tinted epoxy insert.
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Nice work, Farback.1
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Thanks Steve0
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Very nice. Wood is such good stuff.
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A quick one hour project on the band saw.
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I recently got the chance of a lifetime to acquire some 1950's tools and lumber. I had told a friend of mine who's relatives had gone into care and later both passed away that if any of these old tools were being sold, I'd like to make a bid. It came as a complete surprise, but the executors gifted the entire shop and lumber to me. They know me and my work, and felt the items should go to someone who would use and appreciate them.
They had belonged to this person's father, Reverend Olsen. He passed away in the late 1950's, and the equipment was moved at least once but never used since the 50's. I refurbished it all and it's working like the quality machinery of it's time. You can't get this quality anymore. I still have a lot of work to steel wool the beds back to original, but what a pleasure to work with this equipment.
I also got a treasure trove of wood, all dry for 50 years. Oak, maple, mahogany, birch, walnut, birds eye maple, and some very old large clear pine. My shop looks like a museum, and I'm in my happy place. There's a photo of Rev. Olsen hanging over my work bench. He can watch these tools working again, but likely things I'm a sissy for wearing all the PPE. Some things change.
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A once in a lifetime find. You deserve it. Congrats!0
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Some of those tools remind me *so much* of the ones in my (carpenter) dad's workshop. How fun to see!
His were auctioned - his own plan and action after he became blind in an accident and could no longer use them - so I have only a few hand tools.
I'm sure Rev. Olsen is smiling down on your shop. I don't see how these things could be in better hands.0 -
Thanks guys! It really is a privilege to put these great tools back to work.1
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Nice gift, Farback. I'm certain you will put everything to good use.1
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Awesome sawdust generation technology!! I haven't laid claim to my father's toys since he's still using 'em. I hope he keeps using 'em for a good long time. At age 81 (going to 82 in Feb), he's still busy tinkering.1
