woodshop

I scored a second batch of wood, this time walnut.  A tree had come down about a mile form the shop.  I was busy cutting it up to day with the chainsaw.  I started turning one piece last night and the wood looks like it is going to be beautiful.

One of the smaller bowl blanks that I had made seemed dry enough to do a final turning on.  It turned out rally well.  The batch of cherry that I picked up for free last summer is turning out to have been quit a find.  

I have been working on a jewelry box for bonnie. I have wanted to do a box joint on something, so here we go.  It is coming along good so far.

I have been using an 80 tooth cross cutting blade on the table saw for everything. It gives a nice cut but on some things. Such as ripping a piece of stock, it burns the cut a little. I got a ripping blade this past weekend and what a difference. I ripped down a few pieces for a picture frame and it felt like I was cutting butter with a hot knife.

I bought a bunch of cherry from Urban Hardwoods. I like the idea of what he is doing as a business model.  The cherry was ruff sawn and I finally got around to planing a piece of it to day.  It is very nice.

I have made a clamp rack. you can roll your mouse around on the image and move the outer rack

here is the current view of the shop. you can roll your mouse around on the image and make it move