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.

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.

 

Cribbage Board-in a -Box (part 2)

Box Base in Glue-Up .. Long Sides set matching mitered end,other will be straight overlap joint. 1-2-3 Block set as stop, weight to keep board flat

Mitered End, 1-2-3 block end stop for Base aligned to 45 degree corner joint. 

Cutting 45 degree on Short side RailTop down view of cutting set-up:Dial Indicator on Mag Base: set to accurately position fence