Todays Project - What did you do today?

[texx]

with great difficulty and a quite a few attempts . if i was ever to try and do another one i would use a pen kit that is a bigger diameter brass barrel . same with the corn cob ones i have made you have to make 10 to get one good one .

johno

[f350ca]

Ok if no one is going to post metal projects you going to have to look at wood.

Building two Mahogany machinists chests. No front door, I never close them and no top compartment, in my case they just collect junk.

[Vinny]

Lookin good so far and I agree about the top!

[haroldmulder]

Nice looking chest. Mahogany lumber possibly? Lots of jointer chips on the floor there hopefully not a smoker

Harold

[Mayhem]

Only two Greg? Why aren't you making one for yourself.

Good idea on the doors. Less wight means it will be cheaper to send to me

[f350ca]

Well travelled mahogany Harold. I bought it back here in the 80's and hauled it all over the prairies when I lived out there. Used some and was saving the rest for a special project. Decided it sat long enough and this was going to be the project to get it out of my shop. Was a little painful ripping 20 inch wide boards to make a 10 inch deep cabinet.
Shavings and sawdust mustn't be as flammable as people think, haven't burnt a shop down yet.
Yah two, thought you only wanted one Darren.

[Mayhem]

Fine - I'll settle for one

[Roadracer_Al]

I may or may not have mentioned that I work at our athletic club -- the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco, since 1873 -- repairing our fleet of antique wooden boats.

We jealously protect some of the lumber in these boats -- our 6-seat sweep-rigged racing barge has a "foot board" which is nearly 40 feet long, 18" wide and absolutely clear Alaska Cedar. You just can't get wood like that anymore.

Greg, I certainly understand the butt-clenching moment ripping that kind of lumber knowing you'll never have a piece like that again.

[f350ca]

These were book matched boards 17 feet long to start with. Had to cut them into 4 foot lengths to haul them back to Alberta in the wife's Bronco.

[awemawson]

Gosh Al, I didn't know you were SO old - working there since 1873 - that's some time in work .... :)