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Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
Nov 6, 2016 - 10:59pm PT
I hate wood.
It twists, warps, cracks, breaks and bends your nails.
You have to f*#k with the knots and irregularities.
It puts slivers in your hands and ass(if you happen to sit on them), and makes you hit your thumb with a hammer.
F

climber
away from the ground
Nov 8, 2016 - 09:02am PT
c wilmot

climber
Nov 8, 2016 - 09:50am PT

some spoons and such carved green with birch the utility company kindly dropped for me on the side of the road
squishy

Mountain climber
Nov 8, 2016 - 10:01am PT
Drone racing in the palm of your hand..
Edge

Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
Nov 8, 2016 - 11:07am PT


I pity the faux!
steve s

Trad climber
eldo
Nov 8, 2016 - 11:30am PT
edge, nice beam. is that chad in first photo?
Edge

Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
Nov 8, 2016 - 12:29pm PT
is that Chad in the first photo?

And I thought he was just infamous in his own mind.

Prod

Trad climber
Nov 8, 2016 - 12:32pm PT
Uh Edge.....

Aren't you supposed to be on the clock?

Prod.
F

climber
away from the ground
Nov 8, 2016 - 12:35pm PT
Nice looking scarf, Edge. The contrasting grain draws your eye to it.


One down. Five more sections to go.
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Nov 8, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Nov 9, 2016 - 05:30pm PT
You folks all got me going with your fabulous projects. So as we approach winter up here in the PNW, I thought maybe I'd try some woodworking as opposed to endless remodeling.

The first thing to tackle, other than cleaning the basement and ordering a bunch of sh#t, seemed like a sharpening pond w/ a bench hook. Used some pre-finished, bull-nose chair rail we ran around the top of the bathroom wainscoting from some years back. Need to finish it up and wait for all the Shapton diamond glass stones and stone holders to arrive and will then be open for business.

Should make for a more pleasant winter and Rhoda is already thinking up things she wants made...



Oh, and do need to refinish the surface of the table saw after years of it being used as a utility bench (any advice?).

Next up - a crosscut sled and have ordered a Bench Dog 27" x 16" cast iron router extension and lift for the table saw.



Also need to do something about a proper workbench, but that'll have to wait a bit.

Now all I need is something more than crude remodeling skills - so many youtube videos - so little time, sigh. Have any favorite woodworking channels?
Contractor

Boulder climber
CA
Nov 9, 2016 - 06:07pm PT

I'm building this mid-centry modern, a large traditional coastal home a few blocks away and various remodels. This pays the bills and puts the kids through college but I lay in bed at night and think about the trails, crags and bivy's I'm working on with my buddies.

Edge

Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
Nov 9, 2016 - 06:12pm PT

Oh, and do need to refinish the surface of the table saw after years of it being used as a utility bench (any advice?).

Healyje, these are the bomb for removing rust from metal.

http://www.garrettwade.com/wonderbar-rust-eraser-gp.html
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 9, 2016 - 06:31pm PT
Healy, Edge shoulda told ya to order an extra can of elbow grease for those pads.
They're messy but effective. After you get it to operating room standards put a coat of one
of the myriad rust inhibitors on it. Some years ago Fine Woodworking did a review of them.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Nov 9, 2016 - 08:49pm PT
Edge, thanks for that link. Reilly, I'll take that under advisement and look for those finish treatments.
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Nov 9, 2016 - 09:20pm PT
^^ Always fun to take a look-see at your latest projects EVERYONE OF YOU.

Last year I started taking note of the many fine metal fabrication ideas and was inspired to get a wire welding rig and accessories so that I could play around and teach myself a thing or two, and maybe do something handy.

I started with simple practice welds and quickly moved on to fixing things like broken landscaping and tree-trimming tools. Then I fixed my snow blower which was rusting and rotten from MANY years of neglect.

This summer I saw the need to make a hand rail to improve the safety of the steps to the parking place I dug out a couple of years back.

Here's a sequence of photos I shared with friends on Facebook showing my project from initial fabrication to the final coat of paint.






I love this welding and grinding sh*t.
More grinding than welding of course.
;>)
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Nov 10, 2016 - 06:55am PT
Thanks treez.

Bill, yeah, nice, would like to learn welding as well.
Hendo1

Trad climber
Toronto
Nov 10, 2016 - 07:33am PT
This was a huge project. The dry stone wall along the driveway has been falling apart for years and I thought rebuilding it could be my first big retirement chore.

The initial estimate was it would take five days. But I thought, let's be realistic, and revised that to seven days.

It took twenty-two days!

Hendo1

Trad climber
Toronto
Nov 10, 2016 - 07:38am PT
My girlfriend's grandson had been asking me for a while to build him a robot. So last weekend we got around to it. He planned it (obviously) and I did the construction.

He asked me what we should call it. I suggested names like Zzzardov or Grechminq. He went with Bob.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Nov 12, 2016 - 02:06am PT
Nice table!

Got the cast iron router table extension installed on the table saw. Interesting experience, but it's on there and sitting flush with the table saw top.

But I can now see that with this woodworking business there are going be various 'barrier-to-entry' tests of temperament, composure, will, ingenuity, patience, ability to read and follow the instructions, pre-assembly of all parts, etc - so far I mainly have the swearing part down cold.

Also learned that a freehanded router is powerful beast and will go its own way in a heartbeat if your concentration lapses.

Along with that lesson was a another about what wood may or may not be routable / appropriate for a given task / jig.

Ok, wtf, who knew air tools are that frigging cool even if the compressor is noisy.

And I could be mistaken, but it seems like I could spend from now till next Thanksgiving getting things, getting things organized, getting things setup right, getting things sharp enough, making jigs, buying yet more f*#king clamps and generally dicking around having a good time without ever actually making anything. In fact, I'm beginning to think all those guys on youtube don't actually build anything, they just like messing around with all the tools and jigs.

This is all feeling a bit runout 5.10-ish at the moment, hopefully it will get easier and I will get smarter. Probably should just defer on the whole Japanese planes deal until I can figure out if I'm cut out for this sort of thing and am actually getting calmer and any smarter. Also, I don't think those Japanese guys use brad nailers and I'm now officially addicted to mine.

Edge - you must be a veritable Bachar of woodworking, crikey.
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