Actually three hubs. Thought the real bad one just bled over.
Finally finished….. Metal roof and Hardie board siding…
Stercorarius wrote:
On 10/5/2017 at 10:47 AM, Stercorarius said:Actually three hubs. Thought the real bad one just bled over.
gotta love the Flir eh Sterco!
Had to sand some floors in a large house. 3 floors plus a basement and walk in attic. Only downside was one of the owners smokes inside and the other guy working with me decides to not use a vac with the sander. Was only one day or so he didn’t use the vac but still. Main floor is almost finished. Might have been pre 1900’s when it was built.
Left my tool-laden truck and rented a car for the week, so I had to rely on a buddy’s Channellock hand tool set and a new Estwing long handled hammer I threw in the trunk to replace a starter along with calipers, pads, and rotors on an SUV while on leave. I did have to buy another set of Channellock 908 electrical pliers to crimp the connector for the starter, deciding to save $30 over the Klein stripper and crimper tools, which I also have over 600 miles away.
Used my ro150 last night with gears engaged, speed 6, and 80 grit paper. I was sanding a line I scribed on a project I was building. I have never seen an ROS sander sand so fast. Sanded like a champ. Seems a bit harder to control than other ROS sanders I have used. Seems to want to jump around. Maybe cause it is 150mm/6in vs 5in on the other ones I have used.
Made the right one yesterday and the left one today. Just trying new ideas out with the second one…first two projects with the jointer and planer:
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More clipboards on Sunday.
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Those look sweet @BMack37
Sowed up a roll for my new wrenches and finally found the only usable part of a Milwaukee tool kit. The fabric. Cost me $3 in needles.
BMack37 wrote:
More clipboards on Sunday.
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Those are pretty badass!
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2 hours ago, HiltiWpg said:
Those are pretty badass!
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Thanks! I use a clipboard everyday and figured they’d be a great first project(s) to get the planer process down. I’m pretty proud how they turned out considering they’re the first four of anything like that I’ve ever made. One has sprung a couple MMs but I expected it with how thin they are(1/4″) after putting a healthy soak of oil.
Wiring what’s going to be something called an “escape room” – some city fad where they lock you in and you need to find clues to “escape”, I guess. Not sure folks’ll come way out here for such, but maybe during the lake season.
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19 minutes ago, sparky603 said:Wiring what’s going to be something called an “escape room” – some city fad where they lock you in and you need to find clues to “escape”, I guess. Not sure folks’ll come way out here for such, but maybe during the lake season.
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Lately I’ve been obsessed with making these little reindeer…
BMack37 wrote:
On 11/12/2017 at 7:01 PM, BMack37 said:Made the right one yesterday and the left one today. Just trying new ideas out with the second one…first two projects with the jointer and planer:
BMack! Those look great man. You should sell a few. I’m sure people would buy them
Kato wrote:
4 hours ago, Kato said:Lately I’ve been obsessed with making these little reindeer…
Those actually look really cool. What’s the process?
T75R wrote:
33 minutes ago, T75R said:Those actually look really cool. What’s the process?
Draw them on this Masonite-type stuff I have, scroll blade on the jigsaw to cut them out. Easy to do, except the antlers. They’re basically the yard-sized ones you see, scaled-down to desktop sizes. They’re all pretty close to the same size, I printed a drawing on the computer and use it for the body, the legs I’ll make longer or wider as the mood suits me, and the antlers I do by hand. Draw them on a folded piece of paper then cut them out with scissors so both sides look the same. I’ve been going crazy with the antlers, making them pretty big on some of the deer. I think that’s what makes the whole thing look so cool is the outrageous antlers.
Fairly easy to do, even for the more “intricate” cuts for the antlers, it’s the sanding the corners smooth that kills me. Use the angle grinder with a flap disc on the straighter cuts but the antlers I have to use a Dremel and a 1/4″ sanding drum…which makes a hell of a mess all over me and the garage. Cleaning up is quite the process…
The “block” reindeer are a bitch because I don’t have a band saw or scroll saw, just the jigsaw. It’s hard to get the dinky scroll blade all the way through the long side of the wood. I bought longer blades but they’re a bit deeper tooth-to-spine so I can’t make the tighter cuts with them. They’re supposed to be made on the band saw, I saw a video on it a while back, that’s where I got the idea. But I’ve managed to fight through and make a few, they’re cool to make and I can’t resist. A lot of sanding on those too, but I can use the belt sander on the bigger areas so it’s not so bad.
Kato wrote:
3 hours ago, Kato said:
Draw them on this Masonite-type stuff I have, scroll blade on the jigsaw to cut them out. Easy to do, except the antlers. They’re basically the yard-sized ones you see, scaled-down to desktop sizes. They’re all pretty close to the same size, I printed a drawing on the computer and use it for the body, the legs I’ll make longer or wider as the mood suits me, and the antlers I do by hand. Draw them on a folded piece of paper then cut them out with scissors so both sides look the same. I’ve been going crazy with the antlers, making them pretty big on some of the deer. I think that’s what makes the whole thing look so cool is the outrageous antlers.
Fairly easy to do, even for the more “intricate” cuts for the antlers, it’s the sanding the corners smooth that kills me. Use the angle grinder with a flap disc on the straighter cuts but the antlers I have to use a Dremel and a 1/4″ sanding drum…which makes a hell of a mess all over me and the garage. Cleaning up is quite the process…
The “block” reindeer are a bitch because I don’t have a band saw or scroll saw, just the jigsaw. It’s hard to get the dinky scroll blade all the way through the long side of the wood. I bought longer blades but they’re a bit deeper tooth-to-spine so I can’t make the tighter cuts with them. They’re supposed to be made on the band saw, I saw a video on it a while back, that’s where I got the idea. But I’ve managed to fight through and make a few, they’re cool to make and I can’t resist. A lot of sanding on those too, but I can use the belt sander on the bigger areas so it’s not so bad.
Seems like quite the process!! I’m any case great job. Awesome to see that not having the right tool didn’t hinder the finished product.
It sounds like more than it actually is. Although it does take time doing, the actual cutting is fairly easy, the sanding is tedious but also somewhat easy. Just takes time and standing for too long gets wearing…
used my snow shovel the other day.
I’ve cut out my usual hobby of excessive drinking and have instead been making signs and other projects out of wood. I started with a basic tree shaped stocking holder similar to one Home Depot demo’ed a month or so ago. A piece of the remaining 1×4″ went to a Happy Holidays sign, then a scrap of cull fence board became signs for my brother and his fiance. They requested signs for the kids’ rooms, so I worked on those today.
Initially, I used my M18 Fuel circular saw due to the number of angles cut for the stocking holder. It’s overkill for the signs, so the DeWalt 20v Max jigsaw and the 18v Ridgid ROS and router have been put through their paces since then. The router works great for etching out signs with a 1/4″ straight bit.
I’ve gotta admit that this is therapeutic in a way. Work and school haven’t challenged me to the point where I’ve felt a need to slow down on the drinking. Learning new skills and honing them has been a refreshing change from the status quo.
The cull rack at Home Depot offers much potential for inexpensive projects, and I’m thinking about offering my crafts for free to neighbors so long as I live in the apartment. There are lots of college students and others who may appreciate rudimentary pieces of art as I strive to perfect my techniques.
The week before Christmas @justinkendall and I were working on a bottle opener for our cousin since he wanted a nice one. He had some requirements that it be a bare bones opener with no sharp points since he’s flying back to Texas. He had no idea that we were making him one and he seems absolutely thrilled with it. I don’t use my Ryobi band saw nearly as much as I thought I would since it has limited capacity and I suck at dealing with drift, but the couple of cuts I had to make on it and watching some youtube videos has me wanting to do more band saw projects. Maybe some simple small boxes.
I didn’t get any photos of the bottle opener after completing it, all I have is the photo of the resawn bocote prior to all of the work that was put into it.
We used a Rockler Bartender’s Bottle Opener kit which made it simple to put together. Justin did a lot of the shaping with a rasp and sanding sponge. I then finalized the shape mostly with them and then sanded it with the Pro 5 using 80 grit to get it to a comfortable grip. I then went over the entire thing with 120 and 220 grit sandpaper and finished it off with two coats of natural danish oil. I think it turned out really nice and wish I had gotten a few photos of it.
I have another bottle opener kit and some more bocote so I’m going to make another one. This time I’m going to use Minwax Polycrylic on it because the danish oil took forever to dry and I’m curious to see how it looks with a film finish. I’m also going to skip using the pins that come with the kit, they really don’t add much to the bottle opener other than aesthetics and are a pain to work with. On the first bottle opener I had to deburr them with sandpaper and then did the majority of trimming to size with 80 grit on the Pro 5. If I use them again I now have the belt sander to help with this issue.
T75R wrote:
On 12/20/2017 at 11:33 AM, T75R said:BMack! Those look great man. You should sell a few. I’m sure people would buy them
Thanks! Sorry I missed this earlier! I’ve had a few people try to commission me, it’s hard to price out because it’s basically a cutting board with hardware…not sure how many people want to pay $50+ for a clipboard! Though I think $50 would be reasonable compared to the $30 clipboards I see on etsy, I’m kind of a perfectionist. I think the rivets compared to a phillips screws are a huge deal to the aesthetics, as far as I can tell I’m the only one that is doing that.
BMack37 wrote:
On 12/29/2017 at 3:29 AM, BMack37 said:
Thanks! Sorry I missed this earlier! I’ve had a few people try to commission me, it’s hard to price out because it’s basically a cutting board with hardware…not sure how many people want to pay $50+ for a clipboard! Though I think $50 would be reasonable compared to the $30 clipboards I see on etsy, I’m kind of a perfectionist. I think the rivets compared to a phillips screws are a huge deal to the aesthetics, as far as I can tell I’m the only one that is doing that.
You should patent it!
This wasn’t today, I’ve been sick for like three weeks so I haven’t done much but this was the last project I did. It started with a Sarge folding knife kit I won in a giveaway.
I combined scraps of hard maple, walnut and cherry and did a rough shape on the bandsaw then cut them length-wise so I had matching scales.
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Sanding, lots of sanding and shaping(and more after this picture):
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Finished with three coats of Waterlox and polished the Waterlox finish with Simichrome.
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Feel better !!!!!
that looks sweet
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Spent yesterday organizing and adding shelfs and storage to the tool trailer, it’s got alot more to be done but much more useful now.
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IDK if you are on ContractorTalk, but if you’re not you need to be.
Search up trailers/organization.Tons of ideas in those threads.I have used a lot of the ideas in my van. I have more tools organized in my van than most contractors around here have piled on the floor of their 7×14 enclosed.
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The best trailer solution I have seen which is far from perfect is basically a tool trailer turned inside out. instead of going into the trailer you have access to everything from the outside. There were also spots for a miter saw and a table saw to where they are setup in the trailer and all you gotta do is plug the trailer in for them to work. It is not very practical for lots of tool boxes but I think the fact your two main saws are already setup and ready to go makes up for it.
Making a sign for my daughter, it’ll have her horses name on it and it’ll get hung on the horses stall at the barn. Used the Ryobi trim router to do the edges, nice router for sure. Haven’t decided on whether I’ll use the router for the name or if I’ll engrave it in with the Dremel…
Nothing super interesting just a shop project. I put together a small parts/cross cut sled for my DW745 table saw. I had to cut down some smaller pieces of wood that didn’t sit real well against my miter gauge and have some more that are too short to reach the blade from either slot.
After seeing this style of sled on a couple of YouTube channels and actually using it I really like the single side, fence at the rear sleds. It’s easy to hold on to pieces, lightweight, and you don’t have to worry about pushing it off in order to cut through a piece so I don’t have to worry about an outfeed table.
I plan on rebuilding it in the near future so I can make it adjustable since right now it only works well for narrow items. I’m using the MicroJig zeroplay system for the miter slot and it works really well. The instructions say to put nickels in the slot to set the bar width and a nickel won’t fit in my miter slot, so there was some trial and error.
This is was my first time using the hex shank Milwaukee drill bits in my Makita impact and it worked ok but I had some issues putting a 1/4” hole through the 3 layers of MDF for the fence. I’m not sure if it was because of the impact or just an issue with the bit getting through the glue between the small pieces.
jtkendall wrote:
7 hours ago, jtkendall said:Nothing super interesting just a shop project. I put together a small parts/cross cut sled for my DW745 table saw. I had to cut down some smaller pieces of wood that didn’t sit real well against my miter gauge and have some more that are too short to reach the blade from either slot.
After seeing this style of sled on a couple of YouTube channels and actually using it I really like the single side, fence at the rear sleds. It’s easy to hold on to pieces, lightweight, and you don’t have to worry about pushing it off in order to cut through a piece so I don’t have to worry about an outfeed table.
I plan on rebuilding it in the near future so I can make it adjustable since right now it only works well for narrow items. I’m using the MicroJig zeroplay system for the miter slot and it works really well. The instructions say to put nickels in the slot to set the bar width and a nickel won’t fit in my miter slot, so there was some trial and error.
This is was my first time using the hex shank Milwaukee drill bits in my Makita impact and it worked ok but I had some issues putting a 1/4” hole through the 3 layers of MDF for the fence. I’m not sure if it was because of the impact or just an issue with the bit getting through the glue between the small pieces.
Try backing out the bit every few 1/4s. You probably had finite mdf getting blocked up in the drill bit and hole. I don’t use my impacts to predictll so I cannot comment on the use of an impact but I can on a drill. Typically in mdf using a drill, I drill a little and pull out, drill a little and pull ou, dri….The same goes when using a drill press, forstners are great for channeling sawdust and chips out of the way. Mdf is supper compressed so it’s characteristics are different.
Making a new sign for my daughter, the first one kinda took a turn for the worse when I tried to router the letters. I wanted to do it freehand and do a calligraphic style of lettering, but the router bit had other ideas. Funny how the grain of the wood grabs the bit sometimes, regardless of how hard you hold the router. Dang thing kept skipping off the lines I drew, tried to fix it but it was a no-go. It’s okay though, a little bit of practice and I’ll be able to do a lot better.
This time I opted for an easier approach…clamp a piece of flat bar to the wood and run the router base against it. Waiting for the first step of NeverWet to dry, then the 2nd step goes on and done…
Nice job Kato
Thanks. Of course I would prefer the fancier version, but my daughter likes the final one so I’m happy with that.
Came out great man!
awesome job…..
Went and put the sign up today…
Today while waiting on Fedex I made a little sandpaper shelf:
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This was finished a couple nights ago.
Never gets old turning this into something:
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Cut into strips:
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Glued up and planed:
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Cut to size, routed(including a cup in the bottom), sanded and oiled:
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Done and ready to use:
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What is it?
Was doodling while watching tv, decided to turn the doodle into a reality. Not finished yet, gotta smooth it out and paint it…
Put in some hurricane screws today in a new house build… with a cordless drill. Told to use the corded drill. Used it for 2 screws and said nope to it and pulled out my DCD996 and went to town. They said it couldn’t be done, and on one battery? that is crazy talk.
Jronman wrote:
1 hour ago, Jronman said:Put in some hurricane screws today in a new house build… with a cordless drill. Told to use the corded drill. Used it for 2 screws and said nope to it and pulled out my DCD996 and went to town. They said it couldn’t be done, and on one battery? that is crazy talk.
And that’s why I have the DCD996. It’s a beast.
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Yeah, IDK why Fastenmaster went with a corded drill on this setup.
Cordless would be ideal.
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Cut down some 10×5 Fir into 12mm planks for the ceiling. Sealed the top face with 1/2 pound cut of Shellac and then stained with Varathane Premium Fast dry oil-based stain. Then added 2 top coats of exterior poly.
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This one had denser grain so went with 2 coats of shellac instead of 1.
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BMack37 wrote:
On 1/18/2018 at 3:13 PM, BMack37 said:Today while waiting on Fedex I made a little sandpaper shelf:
Nice job man, I’ll have to use that idea.
RT29 wrote:
5 hours ago, RT29 said:Nice job man, I’ll have to use that idea.
Thanks, it couldn’t have been more easy. I used the miter saw to make the cuts for the shelves and did them two pieces at a time. I cut the shelves 3/16″ short shorter than the top and bottom pieces so that I could put a back on it. It took about 30 minutes or so but you can whip it out faster if you start with finished square wood for the support pieces, I planed some scrap whitewood I was given(originally was used as sign posts for a kid’s birthday party).
You can also scale it up just as easy, I have something similar for blow molded cases but it’s ugly because I got the wood from a literal pile on the way to the dump.
Been kinda lazy shoveling snow this winter. Luckily I have a rotary hammer. About 10cm of compacted snow and 15cm of ice under it at the worst spots.
