Model A Ford garage

[xtremek]

A guy by himself with a baby has a similar affect. Women will seemingly appear out of thin air. Had my daughter in a carrier/car seat and put her down to bundle her before we went out into the winter air. By the time I got her hat out and on her head, there were 4 women standing around me, watching me.

 

[Bob Heine]

Married men should NOT, no matter how sincere, open their mouths unless their wife is close by.

Bobby, it depends a bit on how long you hope to stay married.

 

[stillp]

Bobby, it depends a bit on how long you hope to stay married alive

Fixed it for you Bob.
Pete

 

[bolensboneyard]

I am almost finished with the nightgown. The weather has been warm, so I am finally getting to build some storage for canned goods. Just a little project while my neighbor finishes up with the track hoe cleaning up wisteria vines on the property line and I can get the fence line finished. Then, time for some fun stuff, like mounting my new/old Columbia wood workers vise which slides and locks. A good friend moved back north to be with his family for health reasons. He "downsized." I bought a lot of his stuff, and he gave me a bunch, including this great vise. I would rather he stayed.......... I helped him with his garage sale to make it easier on him, but it was tough on me; burying treasure we had found, used, and enjoyed together. Happiness is a garage full of projects which have to be completed, before you can turn out the light for the last time. An oil stain on the floor from that vintage transmission which never ran enough to keep it tight, surrounded by what seemed like endless square yards of bare concrete dusted clean enough for a sock hop, not so much. Puts a whole new spin on "Rock around the clock."

 

[drivesitfar]

you're probably exactly correct that the younger guys won't find their DREAM GIRLS standing (or sitting) on or next to a hot car, but didn't never expected this thread to give out that kind of advice. you've got a keeper that is for certain and I know I do and maybe the best secret to share is just be willing to say YES more than not when they ask you something. also being a handy guy never hurt either.

happy new year!!

 

[bolensboneyard]

Happy New Year to you also drives and all.

 

[Lou's Garage]

Happy New Year!

 

[xtremek]

Merry New Year.

 

[racer-john]

Happy New Year, b..b..y..

 

[bolensboneyard]

Gown designed and sewn on the 1937 machine restored in the previous pictures. The laced band going through the eyelet at the top of the gown, above the bow, is made from the same pinstripe flannel. Below the eyelet at the bottom is a single pin tuck to accent the hem. The material pinstripes were woven left to right on the bolt which left it too short for vertical striping. I was told that under no circumstances should I sew them WIDE. I had already planned to lengthen it. Picture must be blown up to see any detail. Sorry but it was the only way to fit it all in.

 

[bolensboneyard]

I have figured out a way to mount the Columbia quick release vise that would make more things possible and blend in with the rest of the little brick wood working shop AKA wood wright's shop. Problems were space of course and the door which had to be able to close. Also, this vise is very heavy and had to open to 12 inches plus leave me plenty of room to cut dovetails at the Nielsen vise. I wanted the bench/vise suspended without legs with an inch and a half cherry and rock maple top to match the big bench in color and quality. Plus, it had to be strong enough to support work. Bench ended up thirteen inches deep with a 34-inch length. Plenty of light from the stained glass over it and will hold a six- or nine-foot board. It was also built at the same height as the dovetail vise for glue up. A nice height for finish work.

 

[y'sguy]

A great solution with the all-important attention to detail in your work.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Thanks guy. Some pics of the finished product. End reinforcement is red oak with pecan bench top supports. Angle supports as well as the oak on the vise side are fastened with galvanized 1/4 lag screws.

 

[xtremek]

The bench looks too pretty to use. Very nice.

 

[Matias]

Nice work on the gown and the vice! It's nice how diverse skills are being shown here.

I do agree that sewing is a good skill to have. Speaking of singers, it's funny for me to see electrical ones which I haven't sen before. My parents have one which is used by a large metal plate underneath the cabinet, rocked back and forth with your feet, which had a pully that came to the disc at the end of the sewing machine seen also in the pics in this thread. It's with this machine my grandma taught me a little how to sew. The most difficult part at the beginning was learning how thread the string within the machine, and how to roll it on the the little pucks. I think I still know how to use the machine, but nowadays we've got a modern machine. It's with that I made the interior for our wedding car.

Anyway, even a little late I wish you have an excellent year 2022!

 

[bolensboneyard]

Thanks X. It was hard to use the bench top the first time on the big bench after so many years turning wrenches. But then, I considered what I had to look at in the mirror every morning and started looking at the gouges and scratches like battle scars which have shown me my weaknesses.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Nice work on the gown and the vice! It's nice how diverse skills are being shown here.

I do agree that sewing is a good skill to have. Speaking of singers, it's funny for me to see electrical ones which I haven't sen before. My parents have one which is used by a large metal plate underneath the cabinet, rocked back and forth with your feet, which had a pully that came to the disc at the end of the sewing machine seen also in the pics in this thread. It's with this machine my grandma taught me a little how to sew. The most difficult part at the beginning was learning how thread the string within the machine, and how to roll it on the the little pucks. I think I still know how to use the machine, but nowadays we've got a modern machine. It's with that I made the interior for our wedding car.

Anyway, even a little late I wish you have an excellent year 2022!

Thanks Matias. Thank God for grandparents. My grandma taught me to tell time, tie my shoes and many other things. But most of all she taught me to develop the talents hidden within. She sewed, braided handmade rugs and played the piano all while caring for three boys separated only by a year or less. When we were five or six, and she was well on her way to sixty, she took us on a five mile walk through the woods to see a friend on her farm. When we got back, she made a fire ring and we all cooked hot dogs over an open fire. We also had an old Singer treadle sewing machine. My last memories of it were of wanting to save it after it was replaced by a new electric one. I got no support in my bid to turn it into a scroll saw. I guess dad thought about what his friends would say about the whole affair.
Wishing you well also. Keep in touch. Bobby

 

[bolensboneyard]

Sewing box I made for the wife. Made from poplar wood. Pull on the cover is Pecan. She wanted something that would be a tray with the cover off and deep enough to carry a pattern on top of the accessories. Painting is hand painted.

 

[xtremek]

Very nicely done.

 

[RickP]

You turn out some fine looking work! Was that a birthday present for your wife?

I like how that poplar looks inside the box, and the outside stained real nice too. What type of stain did you use, and did you mill the logs yourself? I'm waiting for some poplar logs to dry, and then I'm going to see if I can figure out how to resaw them relatively straight. I think the way you set up your mill is perfect for your woodworking hobby/passion.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Thanks Rick. I bought the poplar at Lowes. She needed a light wood that was already 1/4 inch, and I was not willing to plane something more exotic, and more valuable, down from one inch. The box is five inches deep (her measurements) and the time it takes to cut on a ten-inch table saw, then plane, is something I have to spend. The outside is stained with gunstock stain, Minwax I believe. I did mill the Pecan (thick piece on the cover,) but not the poplar. Some of the best old growth logs get cut up for firewood or burned because they were in someone's back yard. A few have nails in them but mostly in the first six feet. I usually leave that for burning. It can be worth dressing up a saw blade if the wood is nice enough. Even oak large enough to have any figure is rare in the wild today.
If you are going to use your logs for draws and they are small enough a bandsaw with a rip fence may work out. Once you get one side flat a table saw, and an old rip saw could surprise you; unless you are my age and have days for your arms and shoulders to recover.
It was for our 26th anniversary which is in April.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Thanks X. Trying to post some of the more interesting projects. Building a door for the shed right now. Mostly trying to work around the weather.

 

[RickP]

Excellent! I figured the 26 had some special meaning for Ginny (and you) -- congrats to you both!

If you are going to use your logs for draws and they are small enough a bandsaw with a rip fence may work out. Once you get one side flat a table saw, and an old rip saw could surprise you; unless you are my age and have days for your arms and shoulders to recover.
It was for our 26th anniversary which is in April.

Thanks -- I will try that stain. When the poplar logs are finally dry, I'm going to put a rip fence on the bandsaw. My concern is that bandsaw is a little undersized for resawing, so I'm going to have to find a combination of blade speed and feed that works. I'm glad the poplar is pretty soft, because the saw would probably choke on hard maple...

 

[Bob Heine]

Happy Birthday Bobby. I hope you and Ginny had a quiet little celebration. Now that your age is divisible by 18 again, are you going to claim a fresh start?

 

[xtremek]

A day late and a dollar short. Happy birthday, Sir.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Oh ****! I missed my birthday. This is the first time I have been back here too. Soooo No one is late. Thanks guys. I did have a quiet day with my girl. She wanted to throw a party but one of my best friends was moving away on my day and the other had just lost a few weeks to Covid so I couldn't see taking time away from him and his either. I have been pulling wires in the shed. Fixing it up for a pantry/appliance repair shop upgrade to the spider and pump house it has been up until now. I will try to get some pictures. It's a slow process more like one ambitious spurt of energy at a time. Mostly, I have been practicing with my wooden molding and rabbit planes teaching myself how to use them. Now that my age is divisible Bob I have to keep hitting the reset button in order to be able to repeat what I learned to do yesterday. Hope to be able to wake up Rip (Van Winkle) before I feel comfortable enough to post some of my work with them? Or maybe I'm using that as an excuse to need just one more plane, so I don't embarrass myself in front of the guys? Best way to appeal to a girl is to be one. Oh, the shame of it all. I have nothing new to work with. And I'm so tired of wearing brown boots. Some new Red Ball Jets would go a long way toward getting the shed done! Hey! Watch the broom! Andy never meant that to be a weapon.......Stop it............I never said use that thing for a ride. No, no I said pride.....with pride. Up, Up and away............ That remark was meant to crack YOU up honey. You used to like it when I made you laugh? Let me down. Let me down.

 

[xtremek]

Sounds like a decent way to spend your b'day. Oh, and ahh, don't quit your day job to become a comedian. Your jokes are almost as bad as mine.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Been pulling wire and rewiring the shed in order to insulate as my well pump resides there. After finishing what started as just some built in shelves I have decided to turn it into yet another shop/storage area. The plan is to organize and set up shop for fixing appliances such as toasters, mixers, sewing machines etc instead of the kitchen table. It will also keep my electrical tools such as test equipment closer to the house where I seem to be using it more. We don't buy plastic for these items as it tends to break down under pressure; too emotional I guess? Other than that, studying the intricacies of wooden plane repair and use.

 

[xtremek]

What did I tell you about quitting your day job? Got pics of said pump house?

 

[bolensboneyard]

Haven't taken any yet but I will in the next few days provided I can remember to do so. Friends keep coming over. I get sidetracked. Never mind. I cross the street. I get sidetracked.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Lot of work but relatively boring, which is why the pictures took so long, is the shed overhaul. I did this in order to have a use for this building. Revived the old well not used for twenty plus years to save on using city water for the plants. Lots of cosmetics on an old building never meant to be square I guess. I did not build it but had to find a way to make it comfortable enough to work in fixing the things that I would normally fix on the dining room table. Basically an old pump house.

 

[RickP]

Not boring at all. That looks like quite a bit of work - even insulating a shed like that is a challenge! And your craftsmanship really shows in the new interior woodwork (which is straight off your sawmill, of course?). That should be a very nice place to work on future repairs.

 

[930dreamer]

We were at the Amarillo Make a wish car show last weekend and a former co worker had his Model T. Car has been in his family since new, he had his great grandfather drivers license, it was a rectangular stamped metal dated 1874(DOB)?

 

[racer-john]

Beautiful grain on that wood, nicely done.

 

[drivesitfar]

Racer: I think that beautiful grain you see is actually plywood (T-111) but I agree.

BB: do now that your kitchen is updated mama sent you outside to do repairs? Sounds like a good idea to make the shed into repair shop and storage though. I bet your weather is about perfect now cause starting to get more sunshine and less drizzle here.

 

[xtremek]

I like it. Anytime you get bored, feel free to drop by. I'll even supply you food.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Not boring at all. That looks like quite a bit of work - even insulating a shed like that is a challenge! And your craftsmanship really shows in the new interior woodwork (which is straight off your sawmill, of course?). That should be a very nice place to work on future repairs.

Thanks Rick. I decided to add a window so I went to a salvage shop and picked one up for 25 bucks. Built the casing and installed it. Pictures when it is finished. Woodwork is T 111

 

[bolensboneyard]

We were at the Amarillo Make a wish car show last weekend and a former co worker had his Model T. Car has been in his family since new, he had his great grandfather drivers license, it was a rectangular stamped metal dated 1874(DOB)?

I don't know that the model T goes back that far. Could be the license number?

 

[bolensboneyard]

Beautiful grain on that wood, nicely done.

Must be made in Canada.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Racer: I think that beautiful grain you see is actually plywood (T-111) but I agree.

BB: do now that your kitchen is updated mama sent you outside to do repairs? Sounds like a good idea to make the shed into repair shop and storage though. I bet your weather is about perfect now cause starting to get more sunshine and less drizzle here.

It is T111 and only 3/8. All the flowers are in bloom and blueberries are in the works. Nice weather for a trip to the East coast come on down.