Tea Room visitors:

Japanese Koi come swimming in the Tea Room:....Sean took my photograph: .... Tea for Two; ..... 

Chess Set / Table

Remember this is 1969 decor at its best 😂...  I made this chess set in 1970... Over the years and a move to America; the set "got lost" ... with 4 grand-kids, time to make a new set.  I'll use Poplar and Walnut

Saturday Morning Cuppa.....

 

American Walnut and Poplar ... Nice contrast

Moving from THE IMPERIAL System to metric

Flipping the Cutting Board over made the transition painless ...now a fresh surface to work with. UPDATE: "Moved back to Imperial Scale ... I'm not a metric scale user!"

1,000 Grams of Shu Pu-Erh..a good day

A Gift... High Mountain Wild Pu-Erh ...

Two new cakes ... Open Sesame: .....

Two Shu Pu-Erh 357 gram cakes...

My 25 year old bike shoes need a Re-sole attach:

Sole Glue dried out ..time for re-attachment .. ONLY ONE Glue is up to this task:....Maximum grip: ISLA Glue:

Just another glue-up...

 

Butterfly Box #2 .. Material in Glue-Up

Three Bessy and Four Jorgensen Clamps .. Holding the Walnut Lamination ...

Butterfly Box escaped the Clamps ...

$100K Clamping system .. Box in the Basement....

Placed the Box in the Deep section of the Clamp Parallels. This for the Long Side glue up... Worked GREAT.. Used longer Clamps; Irwin & Bessey.

NOTE: Place Clamp System to Top of Bench, easier to use Long Clamps. (see pics)

4 Boxes for Jennie & Isla .. Tic Tac Toe .. O X O

 4 Boxes all closed up... Full of FUN to ComeUnique game pieces ..just for the girls.... More typical O X O game pieces in a unique box....

Two Featherboards and a few Clamps

Clamps .. WHY SO MANY ..

When you open your drawers and your bottom falls out... that's "WHY" you need clamps:

Cribbage In A Box ... Complete

Da Box: .. 12" Piano hinge .. Two Clasps..

Open the Box See the people .. well Cribbage Pins, Cards and 3 lane Board

Close up of Custom Pins: (High Precision Tooling Spheres) plus a set of store bought pins

Two Deck Card Safe ..slide out a deck..

Upgrade to Ryobi Bench Drill Press .. SHOULD have done this YEARS ago !!!!

Standard Bench Drill; A few upgrades over the years

Main Pain in the Aspidistra .. Handle interferes with Table !!!

The Infamous 14mm Hex Socket.... 1/4" 20 tpi Set Screw.  

SOLUTION Implemented .. Works GREAT .. now I can extend table with no restrictions and still us table height adjustment.