What did you accomplish in your shop this summer?
- I completed at least one project
- I completed at least five projects
- I spent my summer at the pool
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I spent most of my summer moving to a new house and building my shop. With a little luck I will finish it before the snow flies!
Edited 9/14/2007 3:23 pm ET by Talma
Winter in the shop pays for summer on the golf course!
One advantage for Southern California is that any season is good for golf! Of course, that doesn't leave much time for woodworking.
Bob
Nightime, is for ...........well woodworking. I am from South Carolina golf here is limited to 10 months a year. I purposly make my wife agrivated so she will run me to the shop. Also use this trick sale one of your projects and give her the money. She will let you play at both hobbies.
I spent the my two weeks holiday doing a complete renovation on the main bathroom. Started with nothing but the studs and subfloor and replaced all, building the vanity from scratch, and doing all the tiling, etc.
It was worth the effort to replace the 25 yr old fixtures/tiles that were in the house when we bought it a few years back.
To be sure, I could have been doing more enjoyable activities, however it looks great and cost less than Cdn $4K. Such is the price of peace of mind.
Erik
Well for my b-day present, my wife gave me what turned out to be a 3 month one on one class with a luthier where I built my 1st classical guitar. It turned out to be awsome in looks and performance! The luthier says I have th gift of being able to make really good instruments and even is evcouraging me to come and share his shop to make guitars with him! Sure as hell beats carrying sheet goods around.
I spend most of the summer veggie gardening, yard maintenance and photorgaphy. I save the woodworking for those long rainy PNW winters.
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In the shop, I finished the heating system (piping arranged and hooked up for in the floor heating) and had the walls and ceiling foam insulated. Outside I got the driveway paved, smoothed fifty tons of top soil over the yard and planted to grass. Got rid of some thirty tons of rock and subsoil - Oh, what a job. Almost done with the yard work so I have spent some time hanging drywall. I think I have forgotten how to tape - at least it isn't working very well. Let me tell you that twelve foot sheets of 5/8 inch drywall is heavy for a man going on 75 years old
Let me tell you that twelve foot sheets of 5/8 inch drywall is heavy for a man going on 75 years old..Damn.. From all the work in the yard liftin' a 'little' sheet of drywall up about 8 feet over your head should have been a 'piece o' cake'! LOL..Enjoyed your post...
Let me tell you that I don't lift any twelve foot sheets over my head. I cheat wherever I can and don't even feel bad for doing it. I've been standing them on end - that's not so bad. I have thought of getting one of those machines for lifting the sheets for the ceiling and then seeing if I could sell it when I got done.
You can sometimes get drywall lifts from equipment rental places.
-Steve
Yes, I have thought of renting one. I understand that they are a hundred dollars a day. With my speed of doing things, I'd probably pay for one and still not own it. I also have two room, one of which I may not do for a year or so.
I gave up attaching drywall LONG ago.. Last time I did it I almos died trying to lift and prop it up till' I could get a few screws in there!! .. LOL...Last time I had to do it I hired some 'day' laborers and they did a great job! SO good in fact I paid them extra.OK so the FBI may come to my house.. I'll tell them I looked at their papers and all seemed in order to me? Sort of funnin' but it is HARD WORK! I spent my whole life doing HARD WORK. I figure it is time I give up on SOME things I USE to be able to do!
Edited 9/25/2007 8:31 pm by WillGeorge
Forgot to mention that woodworking is just my hobby. My real job is head of FBI and you're under arrest. Ha! As to your profile - How old is old?
Edited 9/29/2007 10:06 pm ET by tinkerer2
I spent my spare time this summer camping with my wife, fishing and playing in my boat. I do my project in the winter months. Outdoor playtime is short in upstate New York!
I made a living in my shop this summer...............well, theoretically
Paul
Upstate? What part? If you are on the eastern side(Adirondack Mts) you might want to make a visit to Blue Mt Lake and visit the museum. They have some really nice Adirondack Guideboats. Don't stay to long ... you'll catch a bug that will not go away.
Don't stay to long ... you'll catch a bug that will not go away.Long ago I went there and 'caught' the bug.. But I had to go home to the wife and children!
I've been there several times starting about 20 yrs ago. If you get a chance, go to great camp Sagamore.
I took a complete tangent from woodworking and got a kiln and started messing around with fused glass. I'm having a lot of fun with it! I hope to circle back and incorporate glass with woodwork (think glass cabinet doors and lanterns).
I did get a woodworking project done. I made a media stand to contain the DVD player/Tivo/receiver/etc. and hold up a flat screen TV. Pretty basic but it was the first project I made out of furniture grade plywood edged with solid wood (both Maple).
incorporate glass with woodwork..My first thought was GREAT 'then' I thought about wood expanding and contracting. I do not think glass likes that! How would you proceeded?EDIT: My first thought would be inlays..Gee EDIT 2: My first thought would be inlays.. What my fingers typed was NOT what I was thinking! What I wanted to say was How would do inlays so the glass survives?Edited 9/22/2007 12:19 pm by WillGeorge
Edited 9/22/2007 12:31 pm by WillGeorge
Wel, I'm rolling all that over in my mind right now! Wood expansion is something I am considering. For inlay, if the table top or whatever is MDF with veneer and the glass is inlayed into that it should be dimensionally stable enough. But I'm sure I have a lot to learn! As for lanterns or panes in doors I'll allow some extra room and/or let the glass pane "float".
... also glass is stronger than you might think. Check out these beauties!
Glass Stairs
I realize that but I did not figure you had a factory to produce it!If I had my life to do over and I could pick things to do in life I would not do anything different EXCEPT wish I had the talent to be a glass blower!Now to me, THAT is COOL!
WillG I live about 30mls from Waterford where the make the famous WATERFORD GLASS. Every year we take a tour of the factory,it's fantastic to watch the people at work.If you ever get over this way you will be taken there,it's like a place of pilgrimage for tourests.Regds Boysie Slan Leat.I'm never always right but i'm always never wrong. Boysie
Well, ....you see, .....I'm "adding" a finish room to the workshop...
When I finished the inside of the workshop in 2001, I set an 8'x15' room aside for my wife... As time has passed, I could easily use that room for a dust free finish room, but she needs a place, too....
So, since the framing started in the first day of May, I'm building her a 16'x32' room in a two story shed....with interior stairs and insulation. Between the extreme amount of rainfall we received in the Spring and early Summer, and the hot summer temps, I've completed this much, so far....and what it will look like when finally done....
What a way to get a finishroom, Huh? LOL
Bill
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