Miamicuse wrote:You guys up north have no idea what hot and humid really is

You’re right on that one. I’ll take a hard pass on finding out…lol.

Hot and humid here too. Yech.

Saturday night we had thunderstorms and the dog kept us awake for most of it. She really doesn’t like them. Needless to say, Sunday was a write off because we were both so tired. We had a pretty good storm and it just adds to the humidity when the sun comes out. I am not fond of always feeling damp.

Sorpa wrote:Am I paranoid? Enough?

That makes me nervous too. I think I would have spent some time learning how to do some sort of timber frame scarf joint there. Those mending plate connectors, and the way they are being used, looks to me to be a problem just waiting to happen.

@Doobie

The chairs came out really nice. You did a pretty good job there. Have you contacted Fuji about the hose? I would hope that there is some sort of warranty on that. I have only seen the units at shows and they seem a good unit. Seems that the hose is a pretty critical unit to be failing on it. I have considered an HLVP system at…[Read more]

Well,
We had another viewing today. Returning visit. We went to the neighbours and could over hear them talking about where to put a hot tub outside. They didn’t even look in the house, just at the outside. Talking about installing a patio door, where was the septic tank, putting in another patio, etc.
We will see if there is an offer in the…[Read more]

GTokley wrote:Has your wife changed her mind in selling your place with this project?

No, we are still going to try to sell. We think if it doesn’t go by fall we will take it off the market for winter though and put it back on next spring. Neither of us are too thrilled with the idea of moving in the snow.

Boschmanbrian wrote:what is it that you are thinking about getting that was different than the original idea

I still trying to remember the original idea. I think there may have been the 12V drill/driver set, a colt router, and a 5″ sander. Some consumables like OMT blades and maybe another item. Just not sure though.

Well, SWMBO has decided she wants one more project for the home. She is looking at the hardware right now to put up some sliding barn style doors to the master bathroom. I guess I’ll be getting some pine and making a set of doors.

I had a list. I was going to wait. I’ve got the points. I lost the list.

Sharpened all the kitchen knives today. They needed it.

utopia78 wrote:I’m Chris and use to post here with the BTP crew quite often.

Welcome back!

GTokley wrote:Yup winters can be brutal up north. I had a small taste of Northen Ontario.

Timmins area. Farther than we planned, but inexpensive and nice homes.

Nothing happening around here. Bad weather and with the place up for sale, no motivation.

Viewings still coming in, but not much in follow ups. We have been looking at places online and there are a few we would like to go see. My favourite has a double car garage plus a small shop in the basement. The down side, it’s WAY the heck up north.…[Read more]

Thunderstorms here today. Not that there was any shop time planned. There hasn’t been for a while, nor is there in the near future.

BetaCNC wrote:I am working hard to learn the relevant knowledge of CNC Router

Check out Mark Lindsay CNC channel on YouTube. He has live lessons and all of them are at his channel. Very in depth knowledge and will answer questions. Drop my name to him, he knows who I am (Jim Dockrell).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrMqMabXS5_cFcq5K9Ob-w

Boschmanbrian wrote:I noticed that the outfeed looks like you had to slightly pull up on some of the cuts , was the outfeed slightly higher

Yes, there is a little spot where it catches…sometimes. One of those things I haven’t gotten around to fixing yet. It was a throw together temp project that is still there…you know how it…[Read more]

theamcguy wrote:Nice video

Thanks. I had some trouble with the footage with banding from the LED lights. I got most of it out in post production. Still some issues with the white balance causing flare, but I am working on solving that in the future too.

Skillman wrote:They were super happy with the finally result .

I guess they are happy. It looks great. Wow! They had the right person on that job.

GTokley wrote:I got my new strop and compound yesterday and some wet and dry sandpaper. I will be using these with my carving chisels.

Nice! Mary May on YouTube has some pretty good short videos on carving and sharpening chisels.

I’d like to give it a shot, but I don’t think I can justify buying carving chisels with SWMBO.