Recent content by Bessy

Spent the weekend working on creating a hood for the drum sander. I still have to attach the brush to the outfeed side, and figure out some sort of cover to close up the gaps at the end of the drum some. I may ultimately just end up gluing in some triangular blocking to close up the ends a bit...

Not in but out front of the Resistentialism Garage, I did an oil change on the SportWagen tonight. Pulling my 14' Crestliner aluminum home on Sunday we got a low oil notice on the dash. I pulled over and sure as **** we were low on oil. Went I turned the car back on, the warning went away so I...

Found myself in a bit of a pickle yesterday afternoon. I'll spare you the details, as they are far from exciting, and a new friend was able to help me out in a pinch by lending me a small floor jack to get me out of my bind. Today I made sure it doesn't happen again. I really didn't anticipate...

Any updates on your project at all? Perhaps some photos of what you're working with might be helpful for any of us to see an easy or less obvious location for a joint? I'm also curious because, while I'm still in the box building phase for our kitchen, I know I've got some 13-1/2 linear feet of...

I have been good in the past about keeping a coat of wax on them but I never thought about clear coat. How does it lay down, do you find it affects the smoothness of the glide as wood moves across the surfaces?

Reminded why I hate spring this evening as I went out to the shop to find all my large machines with a nasty coating of condensation and flash rust! Ran out to grab a dehumidifier and wiped everything down best I could. The dehumidifier I bought is showing 71% right now. Tomorrow I'll be going...

If you saw the shear amount that I ended up with at this auction and what I paid, you might be able to wrap your head around it. The pieces I culled yesterday were long, but I think after I trimmed the crappy edges down I doubt I would have had 2' of depth total remaining. Likewise I have been...

Recently acquired a shaper that I had a line on for a good long while, tooling is definitely more expensive than router bits, but the quality of a heavy 3hp machine compared to my previous router-in-table situation is just far superior, as is the ability to use heavier duty cutters. I'm already...

Not today, but yesterday, I culled another several boards (which I hate doing because of their size) of the jointed maple panels that I bought at auction. The boards I culled were about 10-12' long and 6-8" wide, but they had odd edge profiles that seemed like they were offcuts from other...

What the heck do you put in the giant cavernous bottom right drawer?!

"Later" like the very next post, right?! You can't leave us hanging like that, it's against thread rules! 😉

I've officially run out of steam, and my tools aren't even put away yet. Since I sat down to write this the first time, I was able to muster up the energy to at least get them back into the garage, albeit not away away. 10ish 11-1/2 hour day put in today to build the...

Contacted tech support for the Rikon bandsaw issue I was having last week. I send a message to the tech support people and tell them all that I've done to troubleshoot it, and they say "send us a video of the motor running without a load on it, so we can hear the sounds it's making". Cool, easy...

This weekend, while sick unfortunately with a nasty cold, I did get out into the shop to continue working on the kitchen reno, batching out drawer box parts (11 drawers (55 parts) for the kitchen, and eight drawers (40 parts) for the pantry, not including drawer faces and face frames). My rough...

New temporary tenant in the garage taking up space. Dishwasher arrived, but naturally I'm nowhere near ready to do the install yet so I'm the garage it goes until the weekend. Gotta get myself in gear to get some drawers finished (started) so I can do the removal of the existing drawers...