Thread: What are you working on?

Jerry you are spoiled by fast mail. Every package I get take a while. For example, it is nearly the same distance from Orangeville Ontario to me as it is from Orangeville to Houston Texas. It takes more than a week longer for a package to get to me from Orangeville. A package from Romania, it’s the same as all the others. Oddly enough the package I get in blinding speed are my packages from Japan.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

I will be finishing up this one in the next day or two: Ocean Silver Steel in Inlace Acrylester "The Abyss" (my wife picked it out from among their pages and pages of patterns). Black acrylic wedge and silver hardware:
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I got the blanks months ago after Roy posted a link to woodturningz.com. I sure hope he never posts a link to an expensive Rolex watch or something, as I seem to go down every rabbit hole he points out.

https://www.woodturningz.com/2020_New_Years_Sale_Info

Good try, Roy-But after checking out the link (of course!), I realize that I probably have enough scale materials to do a few dozen razors, and am ready in any case to go back to woods for awhile after doing several different synthetics recently. What I need at this point is much more utilitarian stuff like buffing wheels, band-saw blades-boring stuff like that.

I am missing saw-dust and Tru-Oil. I better stay off of Cook Woods and some of my other favorite "wood porn" websites!

I just bought 8 new buffing wheels. Some horn for scale material would be nice to have in my stock drawer. Come-on Aaron, What are creditcards for. HA

Gawd it may be nice to get new tools. I have a mishmash of old crap.
My buffing wheels get better as they get smaller.
Seeing how I have a bench grinder for a polisher which turns twice as fast as I wish it would!

Space is always my big challenge. I outgrew my space a very long time ago. Fingers crossed for a shop addition next summer.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I just bought 8 new buffing wheels. Some horn for scale material would be nice to have in my stock drawer. Come-on Aaron, What are creditcards for. HA

Jerry-I just got some nice black horn blanks from Austin/AJkenne from his ebay store-a quick look today shows he still has some. As for credit cards, too dangerous. In any event, the lastest regimen I have put myself on is selling some razors and other gear to fill up my PayPal account so I can buy shop and razor supplies from there. The wife definitely approves, and it's working, sort of...

And Tom-Just keep hitting those buffing wheels with a wheel rake-freshens em right up (but you might want to stop when you get down to the arbor lol!).

I’m with you AA Ron, every dollar spent on interest is a dollar thrown into the wind. I too am trying to sell razors and stuff to keep moving forward.

I should try selling, but its so hard to sell what ive been collecting. I will give a look at the horn blanks Aaron.
And Tom, my buffer runs at grinder speed too. Your not alone. The wife told me that after she dies she gives me permission to build a shop behind the garage. But until then no more tools. I got them hanging on the walls and have to move cars out to use them.
Someday!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Space is always my big challenge. I outgrew my space a very long time ago. Fingers crossed for a shop addition next summer.

We are all goldfish and expand to occupy whatever space we have