Keep going Kevin, you will be a day older tomorrow

Beautiful job Peter. I wish I had more cabinet building experience.

PI_Woodworker wrote:

redwood wrote:
I’m not sure Lon, I’ll try to remember to check at our next meeting on the 12th.

Thanks much. I am envious of your club. No woodworking club here local. I would have to 45 miles to get to the closest one I know of.

Here you go Lon, lot’s to choose from.
http://lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm

To finish up on these bookend kits, I made a set for myself and stained and sealed them. Not my best work, but they are OK.

PI_Woodworker wrote:Thanks much. I am envious of your club. No woodworking club here local. I would have to 45 miles to get to the closest one I know of.

Well my club is about a 1/2 away. In the winter, I’ll miss some meeting due to conditions I don’t want to drive in. I’ve been a member for about a year and a half. I may be the youngest…[Read more]

PI_Woodworker wrote:That clock is something else. Are there any plans for that clock that may be available somewhere Mark?

I’m not sure Lon, I’ll try to remember to check at our next meeting on the 12th.

It’s amazing to me that people can come up with work like that. It is a perpetual? clock, i.e no external power source. I know that he said…[Read more]

cmeyer25 wrote:I have a question – on long slabs (I’m working on a 9’ one right now) how do you cut the ends square to the board without having a straight edge, and then, maybe even more importantly, how do you make sure the ends are parallel to each other?

That would probably depend on how accurate it needs to be. I would probably snap a chalk…[Read more]

PI_Woodworker wrote:My money is on Mark’s version looking the best. Nice work! The grooves/beadings really add a great touch.

Don’t underestimate the others in my club, they make things that I can’t even think of doing. Most of them are true woodworkers that have been doing things a long time. The only advantage I have is the CNC machine, t…[Read more]

Ok, so the bookends are supposed to be a kit and they wanted everything predrilled. Well, I figure I might as well put them together and then I will disassemble them and place the kits in a baggie. Whomever get’s these kits will be responsible for gluing, assembly and finishing them. Multiple people in our woodworkers club are making their own…[Read more]

Ok, my little braces have been cut out. I program small tabs on the sides to hold them in place, so they don’t go flying.

smallerstick wrote:Got the raised panels done for the end panels for the vanity build. Roughed out the shape on the table saw and finished with the Stanley #140 skew block plane. I was pleased with the finish on the cross grain bevels.

Now that’s true woodworking Peter, looks great

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:That is some detailed work on those book ends. Can’t wait to see them done.

Well that may or not be a problem. They are meant to be supplied as a kit, unfinished. I have to predrill everything, so I may have one assembled for view.

For my woodworker’s group, we are making some bookends for a charity group. Here is my start. These will be the braces and measure 4″x4″. They are being cut out of 3/4″ pine and I will double them up, one of each style, so they have a choice. One pic is my practice carve of each, to make sure my tooling was OK. The next pic is after the first…[Read more]

visqueen is plastic sheeting. It just slows down the curing and holds the water in probably better. Burlap is fine. For footings, we never put anything on the poured concrete. For slabs, I rarely saw the concrete contractors put anything over the concrete. It might have something to do with the weather here.

What’s with the elevated mixer? That looks like a accident waiting to happen.

Miamicuse wrote:The lumps you have in the mixer, were there lumps in the bags as you dump them or the lumps formed as you mixed. If the lumps are already in the bags then mostly likely some moisture has entered the bags previously.

Good point, though that wouldn’t explain the chunks sticking to the mixer.

Excessive slop means too much water in the mix. Moisture should rise to the top, and some slop may occur, but not that much. Allow it to set up a little longer before you trowel it. The ideal mixture is when everything is just damp, not watery. You might need to add just a slight more to be able to work the concrete and finish it, especially on…[Read more]

Unless your footing is over a foot thick, I would thing one layer of rebar would be enough. For a foot wide, I would think that 2 sticks would be plenty. Remember, you should have at least 2-3″ of concrete around each piece of rebar.

I think the epoxy coating is just to prevent rusting out.

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Might end up dumping a bag into a bin first and shovelling in smaller amounts at a time into the mixer rather than holding bags up high and dumping in from full just to be safe.

Have your kid dump those bags, That’s what kids are for!

Yes, that’s what my kids did when they worked for me, but I think Kevin’s k…[Read more]

By the way, in the future, they sell little plastic j-bolt hangers that attach to your form, so that they are in place and at the right elevation prior to the pour. For that matter, if you can figure out how to pre set any anchors going into the concrete ahead of time, it will make things much easier. Any time you try to put the anchors in after…[Read more]