Coffee's ready...

[Clucksandgiggle]

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Well Sour The lamb dropped 6 inches of snow yesterday! I will regard it as mutton crap! So much for a gentle lamb!
God Bless!

 

[sourland]

"Mutton crap"

turned on us here too. About 5" of fluff with more scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday. I'm going to find that darn woodchuck and shoot him.

 

[karl E lutz]

dawgonedest liar ever in the history of groundhawgs day!

 

[sourland]

Oh my I just ate 4 cinnamon buns hot out of the oven. It sure seemed like a good idea.

But now.

 

[rancher hicks]

Oh my I just ate 4 cinnamon buns hot out of the oven. It sure seemed like a good idea.

But now.

That's what you get for not sharing.

 

[quercus21]

Morning people,
Good to see everyone is doing good and up to their antics. The snow is starting to melt around here, no major flooding as of yet. I am getting antsy with starting the garden. I know this is going to be a busy year. I have a couple of large projects I want to finish by fall, finish replacing the window, replacing the shop doors with insulated ones, and the big project....... replacing a exterior wall in the "sun room".

I have to seriously start thinking about more chicks this year. I was going to split the order between rangers and xs. Get them at the same time and see what happens. Our eggers need replacing and at the moment, looking for pullets.

The shop has been a very steady flow of work. Winding down another custom jewelry box (curly maple and black walnut). I have to admit, I broken down and bought a duplicator for my lathe. I made a few french rolling pins for a local baker, and well........ It's time consuming making a true flat surface.

The better half dogged a bullet and is doing good. I'm just getting older and smellier, plus I need a good shave and hair cut.
Anyways, Enjoy your day
Kaj

 

[vehve]

Kaj, I just had an idea for your lathe. Put in some sort of guard rail that's parallel with the mid axis of the lathe, say 3 inches from the axis. Say you want to make an two inch diameter rolling pin, you measure 2 inches from the end of whatever tool you use for shaping the wood, and put a clamp at that point. Resting the tool against the guard rail, the clamp won't let the tool go closer than one inch from the axis, and you'd get a perfect 2 inch cylinder. Pretty quickly even, I think.

I wonder what happened to the better half's grandfathers lathe. I hope her uncle has it somewhere still. He hogged all the good stuff from his wood working shed. We were still living in an apartment at that point, so I didn't have anywhere to put all the stuff.

How about some pictures of your projects? It would be nice to see. I'm going to have to build a bunny hutch and run soon, I threw together a mobile tractor and it's pretty much finished now, our bunny is coming tomorrow. But I don't want the tractor to be her permanent residence, especially when we get her pregnant.

 

[quercus21]

Morning People,
A cold snap has moved back in last night. I haven't burned so much locust as I have this year. The ole wood stove is holding up pretty good. Temps up today, upper twenties to low thirties.

@vehve - I try to keep the tool rest pretty close to the work piece. I usually rough it down to within 1/4" - 3/8" of the finish piece, hit with the carbon tooling ( I have no idea what the real name for those things are), then finishing with a scrapper. All along, keeping the tool rest in line with the bed and parallel with the work piece. This is if the center has a flat spot. Then I run the taper to the ends. Some pins start the taper right from the middle and no real flat spot. It takes about 30 mins - 40 min per pin.

Off to the mill for some black cherry and soft maple...........

Enjoy your day
Kaj

 

[quercus21]

Forgot:

The last custom box, I still had pictures of.

Black walnut, stained with a dark chestnut stain, maple pulls stained with clear stain, finished with shellac and wax.





Usually there is small drawers on the right or left side from the top to the bottom. They wanted all necklace slides.

I am looking forward to the one I am working on now, curly/tiger maple. Worst everyone that sees it, has to touch it.

Enjoy
Kaj