This barely in the tool category, but oh well, I am adding on to my Dust Collection system so cutting into my 6″ S/W PVC to add a 6x 4″ wye as I re-arranged my shop again. This will make for a bit of a shorter run for the table saw and the jointer / planer combo, as well as less of a tripping hazard for the table saw run.

I got tired of having my random orbital sanders sitting on the bench full time and added a shelf for them. Nothing fancy, but they are now both easily available and somewhat out of the way.

I bought a chunk of African Blackwood for knife scales and inlay, beautiful heavy, dense hardwood, but terribly expensive compared to most, however I do like to do so things the classic way. I will post some pictures as soon as I start to re-saw it.

I bough t one of the Fast Cap long nosed pattern markers the other day, it finally arrived.

The weather here yesterday was at the perfect temperature and humidity that I could practically watch cast iron rust! I had to scotchbrite and wax all of my cast iron table tops, table saw, band saw, drill press, jointer/planer shaper etc. not fun.

Finally finished my Whiskey cabinet – mistakes were made, but it is done and hanging.

Despite the number of router bits I have, I didn’t have any Dovetail bits long enough to use in the jig I have for a sliding dovetail shelf so I bought this 1/4″ shank ones with the bearing for my cordless router.

This morning I put a hard airline through the exterior wall of my shop from the insulated side to the non-insulated side.

This tool is not new but new to me, an old post vise or blacksmith’s vise.

On the Canadian May long weekend, i was able to get my forged from scratch knife to adding a handle stage.

I tempered my forged knife, and wanted to show the colour of the blade after tempering in the toaster oven.

I got some various size brass rod off of Amazon to use for pins for the handle of the knife I am making, the various sizes will allow me to choose what will look right.

I have had some time to work on a hand forged knife from agricultural spring steel ( a spring tooth harrow spring 🙂 ) it needs some grinding, and it is not perfect, but a very good learning project. I think I have some African blackwood I will try as a handle.

Despite an unseasonably cold weekend I make time for some organization including a bracket to hang the small (6ft) step ladder up out of the way in my cold side on my garage shop where I store the canoe, kayak, and my metal working stuff along with everything else 🙂

Did anyone else watch the latest Pask Makes with his new Bosch Glide miter saw?

I had the time to create a few cribbage boards, 3 in birdseye maple, and 2 in some lighted spalted live edge “scraps”. this pic is after painting the engraving and prior to sanding off the excess.

With the social distancing and slower shipping I can’t say I have bought much for tools, however this arrived the other day, as I am looking to do a piano black mirror finish for a piece.

I finally had time to finish up this cheese board.

@sotpa its an openbuilds C-beam

kswiss wrote:Would love to see some updated pictures of the cnc

Aside from router collets and bits, I added e-stops, a touch block, dust boot, guides, clamps, hold downs etc. It is still a small machines so it does smaller projects, lots of engraving, cribbage boards etc.

The 2 biggest things have been the touch block – huge time saver and…[Read more]