Thread: What are you working on?

This is what the buffing tent looks like when the polyethylene sheets are rolled down:










Joe

Breaking bad !

Garding my parent's house for two weeks, I took holiday's homework.



Some MOP I'll try to play with :

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

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Not quite done the finish. Pure Carnauba is a PITA!! But I'm liking how it looks.

I'll post some better pics tomorrow when the suns out. my pics suck without the sun.

That's a pretty one! I like that one a lot.....

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

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Not quite done the finish. Pure Carnauba is a PITA!! But I'm liking how it looks.

I'll post some better pics tomorrow when the suns out. my pics suck without the sun.

Now that is what a shaving brush should look like. Beautiful burl.

Originally Posted by carrolljc

I'm building a workshop for restoring razors. The main machines are a buffer, a belt sander, a drill press, and a scroll saw. The workshop is being embedded inside a laundry room that doubles as a storage area and also has bookshelves along the walls.

The buffer is on a stand on the worktable:

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When it's in use, the buffer will be pulled forward and clamped to the work table:

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The other three machines are behind the work table, on shelves that used to hold books. I moved the books and raised and lowered shelves as needed to get the machines at a good height for working:

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Today, the scroll saw got placed. To make room for it, I had to cut out a chunk of the drywall to use the six inches of space between that wall and the wall of the adjoining room:

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Only two big chores still to go. Space is very limited, but the ceiling is high, about nine feet, and it is unfinished. Floor joists from the room above are exposed. So I'm going to suspend two platforms from the floor joists, one platform for a dust collector, and the other for a 20-inch square fan with a dust filter attached to the back. The platform for the fan will also provide a plank on which to clamp work lights directly over the work table.

The platform for the fan and lights will go inside the buffing area. Four polyethylene sheets form a plastic room in which to contain the buffing dust. The polyethylene sheets are on rollers so that they can be rolled up out of the way when they are not being used. When they are rolled down, the sides of each sheet attach to the adjoining sheets with vertical strips of Velcro:

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The dust collector will go outside the buffing area and will have a hose inserted through the polyethylene and connected to a box behind the buffer. If all goes according to plan, most of the remaining dust will be caught by the filter attached to the back of the fan.

I started on this building project three months ago, building the work table and the shelves standing to the right of the work table. Kept getting in deeper, spending more time and money than I had originally anticipated. I can see light at the end of the tunnel now. It will be nice actually to use all this equipment. I've restored a couple of razors with hand-sanding, just to ease off the frustration of waiting until I could get all the equipment in place.

Joe

If you could get rid of the useless washer and dryer, you'd be set!

Step one :



Edit :

@Thaeris: the wa it seems to me, if the burglars come you won't even hear them from all the dremel etc work

Busted... ^^

Hopefully, hearing my dremel's work, burglars wouldn't dare to disturb me breaking in.

Should I ask politely by putting a note on the door / window ?

Originally Posted by Hart

If you could get rid of the useless washer and dryer, you'd be set!

Yeah, too bad about the washer and dryer. I console myself with the high ceilings. Also, there is a bathroom attached. That's convenient.

Joe

Hooray, someone actually planned for buffer dust! It does get messy fast! Congratulations!

~Richard