Tag Archives: woodwork
Get it while you can
After my trip downtown I went to the Woodcraft store in Bloomington–I had a pretty good discount coupon. After a nice chat with wolfsword, who works there, I looked around and saw an Auriou rasp. These have been very well reviewed, but the company is going out of business. So that is what I bought. There are all sorts of other interesting tools I might have chosen, but I expect to have another chance at most of those. Not so one of these rasps.
If I had a hammer….
Well, three hammers….
http://www.break.com/index/skills-with-a-hammer.html
not recommended by Norm Abrams or Roy Underhill.
Saturday work and play
Sunday Cleaning
As mia_mcdavid wrote, we did indeed clean out the rumpus room today. I had hoped to make some progress there, but we did far more than I had expected. It really is looking sort of decent, as garage/workrooms go. The next step for me is to clean off my workbenches, both the old one that came with the house and the one that I built here specifically for woodworking with hand tools. For that I will need to find and/or make some storage. I have some ideas about how to do that, but I probably will not get much done until next weekend.
One way or another, almost all weekend I have been doing things with mia_mcdavid. It has been good.
“Six Days shalt thou labor, as much as thou art able….”
“The Seventh the same, and clean out the stable.”
Lathe work on YouTube
See Turning a Bowl on a Foot-powered Lathe and
Battle of the Bowl Turners.
I need to get my foot-powered lathe set up again!
Mankato
My experience with colgaffneyis at Mankato was quite different from Big Island. Continue reading
The weekend
Plans Made, and other news
I made my travel arrangements for Colorado Springs–going out Thursday morning, returning Sunday afternoon (assuming no new medical crisis). No problems arranging this at the office, to my considerable relief.