Thread: What is everyone working on?

Just putting the finishing touches to a few things im taking to Adelaide in July.

G'Day Lin,

Down here in South australia it beginnin to get colder, so my guess is scroll sawyers are working at their machines rather going outdoors at night. Let's hope so.

I've just finished this and the cat lovers have started giving me orders for them.

Kind Regards,

Buzza

Through the day my time is divided between

Running a Scout Camp, often takes 20 hours a week.

Restoring an old Victorian house including restumping it.
I juggle both of these according to the weather.

If its not too cold I am printing & varnishing pictures and framing them
(I'm way behind because I misplaced a number of printed ones so I'm doing more - I hope no customers get upset)

I must remember never to put anything in a safe place again,
thats the perfect way to never see it again

Currently I'm spending evenings updating my websites & ebay shop etc.
or editing ebooks etc.

I'm trying to find the time to make a special piece so I can take photos of it, do measured plans and get them on the market. Probably wont happen for a few months.

Then in my spare time I come here to the madhouse.

I'm confined to sick bay for anything up to twelve months so nothing happening here ... too damned cold anyway!

Tikki

Originally Posted by Tikki

I'm confined to sick bay for anything up to twelve months so nothing happening here ... too damned cold anyway!

Tikki

What do you mean?? What happened?? 12 months is heaps!:eek:

What am I working on - the world actually. I should have it finished this weekend and post it just after I have also done 9 Australia's too. Pics soon.

Have to get my act together and post the pics of the wedding photo album i did a little while back - came up nice.

I've just scored a heap of 200 X 20 tassie oak planks so I'm having a great time mentally going thru all the things I need to make.

Busy cutting out all the wing ribs for my next plane - an 84" wing span, sports aerobatic job, to be powered by a 26cc chainsaw engine.

Now that the new Delta is sorted it's doing a great job

Aside from scrolling up a storm a good friend of ours .. we call her the human tornado ( with a huge heart) is doing her best to get us out into the front yard. Says it needs to look more inviting for potential customers ( when and if they ever show up).... so being a true friend she's pushing and shoving us into action. Have to admit tho... at the end of the day she's done 3/4 of the work.
I have to come up with something really nice for her... since she's a woodworker too I haven't come up with a good idea yet, but then... lots of time left.. still have the middle and left side of the yard to do.... then the backyard and I have a feeling she's even having her eyes set to the inside of the house. She's one brave woman!

Broke first blade in ages today..... pushing way too hard through stack of two 1/2" wide cedar.... then broke the top part of the holder that holds the tool for changing blades on the Delta.... anyone any ideas on how to fix that or any other way for me to keep the tool handy without forgetting to take it along when I take the saw? Sunday I did just that.. took the saw.. and half our later Ken had to go home to get that tool! any ideas will be greatly appreciated

Juvy

Originally Posted by TEEJAY

What do you mean?? What happened?? 12 months is heaps!:eek:

Got bitten by a junkyard dog ... no, not really but. I've enrolled in bridge building classes ... on my way Steve

Cheers
Tikki

Juvy, Not sure what the tool itself looks like but if it's made from metal...would a magnet work to hold it to the saw?
Lin

Reading what everyone is up to.....I guess I'm really not very busy. And here I thought I was.
Would love to see pics of the Wedding Album....
and making a plane...WOW.
Brett....we want some pics of your pieces before you run them off in July.
Love the cats Buzza. I take it they sell very well for you?
Bob, Got any pics of the house your restoring?
For me the weather is heating up..(we just opened our pool day before yesterday)..I forget that it's turning cold in the land down under. Even in the winter months I still scroll.....Just have to put on three layers of clothes and get the heater running for a bit to take the chill off in the shop.
Lin

Just finished a night light out of Darwin Stringy and MDF. It is my first serious attempt at a project using my scroll saw.

G'Day Lin and All.

My cats are popular, and a salesman I'm not. I've discovered the female gender seem to go for these ones, and ask me to make them one of my keyracks, and who am I to "knock them back".

Today I devised a dual pipe vacumn set up for my saw. An old household vac for $5.00 (garage sale), two 19mm irrigation pipe elbows, and some 19mm pipe, along with a plastic tablet bottle for a branch, and an ally takeaway dish. It works real good, and takes away top and bottom sawdust.

The MDF thing had me worried, and I'll still use the apropriate mask for fine dusts.

A day off tomorrow, for a mid week Bar-B-Cue.

Buzza.

Absolutely nothing.

The scrollsaw can't be converted w/out a major rebuild of the frame, so it's sitting at an engineer mates' place until he finds some spare time. [sigh] Work has tapered badly, one of the joys of cold weather and my choice of employment.

Too cold to work in the shed... sorry... to be more accurate, it's too cold to linger in the shed. I've made a few rough-shod cabinets but they were rushed as I ran around to keep warm. I'm not going to start anything that needs TLC until I resurrect my sawdust burner. (More waiting on my engineer mate.)

Worst of all, SWMBO won't let me bring the lathe indoors. Wonder why?