Watcha Makin'?

[DWyatt]

I went back to look, and 8 months ago to the day I posted about finishing the first side of our closet. Yesterday I finished the other side. I wonder why my wife says she'd rather just buy it than wait on me   :D  I see the the gallery is down while Jeff works on the upgrades so I'll follow-up with a picture once things are all up and running!

Time to start working on the dining room table.

[aigheadish]

I'm the same way.

Yesterday morning I'd hoped to be "Makin'" my shower better, finally.

I have one of those tiny, like 3'x3' showers, and we have a shower caddy in there to hold soaps and shampoos and the like. When we moved in, almost 8 years ago, my short wife hung the caddy in the shower and it's low enough that i can't move my arms around at all without knocking that thing around or off the screw it's hanging by.

I've been thinking about it for months and it's been getting more and more on my nerves. This tiny shower just being made tinier by the dumb caddy. Enough! I'm moving it up, today is the day! She's fine with it.

Well, the day goes on, I knock down a tree that we then cut up and cleared the yard of. Next thing I know I've got a bourbon and I've forgotten entirely about the shower caddy, until this morning when I opened the shower curtain.

[Old Greenhorn]

Austin, you're still a young guy. I have many things around here that finally driven me crazy enough to take immediate action, and I will, very soon. It's only been 30+ years, no sense being hasty, I'm still thinking on the right way for it to be done.  ;D

[GAB]

aigheadish:
Sorry to read about you getting sidetracked.
I can vouch for you not being the only one.
GAB

[aigheadish]

It's nice that I'm not alone, you guys are funny.

I started to do it last night and got some supplies together, when I realized the caulk is out in the very cold garage, so I brought it into the house to warm up, then got back to a bourbon... Tonight may be the night!

[aigheadish]

I did it! The shower caddy is now above shoulder height! I've loaded it up and we'll see if the screw (with anchor) holds up to the weight of a full shampoo bottle and new bars of soap. 8 years in the making! Woop!

This is dumb but I'm pretty legitimately excited to take a shower in the morning to see how it goes.

[DWyatt]

Let's try this picture thing!

[DWyatt]

Working on some shop organization. This will hold 24 bolt bins, sandpaper in 5" & 6" size, my drill/impact, and eventually my chargers for drill batteries. I was short on wood. A 7"x12" piece of poplar and I will have this thing ready to hang.

[aigheadish]

I made a nice table, for the stool that I was using in place of a table, out of the cutting board that I messed up. Works beautifully. In real life they sit with the flat parts point up. Interesting, when you click on the photos they spin around, right side up ( @Jeff if you aren't aware)

[firefighter ontheside]

The judge sent me a picture of the desk in use and she said she's very happy with it.

[doc henderson]

The desk looks really great.  I love the higher res. pics, that are easily made full screen. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Thanks Doc

[Larry]

Used the "Insert image" gizmo thing" and it worked.

[doc henderson]

speaking of gizmo things Larry...  what the heck?

oh, I see a direct tab for you tube!  that will be nice.

[aigheadish]

I agree, Larry, what the heck? Can you show the other side of your sanding contraption? That looks pretty handy!

[21incher]

I think they call them rolling pin sanders. :P

[Larry]

I made the sanding tool some years ago and borrow sanding drums from my oscillating spindle sander to use. The sander works really well and is quite fast.

[aigheadish]

Thanks! That looks easy enough to cobble up.

[doc henderson]

must have bearings inside the pipe/handle.  chrome... really?

[Larry]

The silver handle is 1/8" wall aluminum conduit. I bored each end to accept bearings on my metal lathe. If you search rolling pin sander you will find commercial models. I made mine because I have a large assortment of different diameter sanding drums from my osculating spindle sander I wanted to use.

[Don P]

The commercial ones I've been around were pneumatic, you could soften or harden the drum depending on what you were doing. We called those a rolling pin and the stationary with a bigger pneumatic drum was a pump sander. That machine had a Vonnegut brushed sander head on the other side of a stationary grinder type machine. Really good machines for contoured stuff.

[Larry]

Finished off a small coffee table.  Design was influenced by George Nakashima.  I've never ever seen a curved leg as I put on this table.  Not sure I like it, but will find out in a couple of months what the public thinks, as it will be going in a exhibit.  Also experimented with a Livos oil finish and got more shine than I've ever seen out of oil.  Learned how to reliably adjust the sheen as its applied.





While messing with the table finish I made a couple of pepper shakers for a girl.



 

[GAB]

I'd never seen a Whale Tail Leg on a table before.
From the pictures it sure does look good.
GAB

[doc henderson]

Nice table Larry.  it is to the point I can see a pic and say, "I bet Larry made that".  How do you adjust the sheen.

[Larry]

Whale Tail, that's a good one!   Never would have thought that one up.

Doc, I put on two coats of oil which I call my base. Standard way, just slosh on and if I see a dry spot put on some more.  Wipe it off after 10-15 minutes. After these two coats the sheen is pretty flat. The following coats are put on very thin and as soon as I get the oil on I run the ROS over it with a Scotch Brite white pad. I go ahead and wipe immediately after the ROS but usually not much if anything to pick up. The sheen picks up after every application just a little. I let each coat dry at least 24 hours before putting down another coat. Took three of the thin coats to get the sheen I was after on this table.

A side benefit of using the Scotch Brite pad is people want to reach out and feel the wood. I always get a comment that the wood feels soooooo good.