What's on your bench right now?


mn pete

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It seems like I've got more projects in the works than time to work on them! Here's my list...for now at least. My wife reminded me about another after I wrote this.

http://secondwindworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/01/on-bench-jan-2011.html

I just signed up the Wood Whisperer Guild Build. This'll be my first time building anything along with a group/class online.

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I fine coat of rubber/plastic soot from my air compressor starting on fire and filling the shop with smoke...

Waiting for restoration company to start clean-up next week. Under that is many half done projects including new door, jamb, vanity cabinet, and matching vanity light. I started that project 2 days before the fire and ripped everything out of the only bathroom in my house. Really my wife loves having no door on the bathroom, I swear...

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Between projects right now. Finished the Christmas gifts and am now cleaning up, sending my Forrest WW2 off to be resharpened, building a miter sled, building a sanding center and reorganizing for efficiency.

I'll be doing a big build (for me) in the spring that will include custom designed loft beds, dressers and desks for my twin grandsons and oldest grandson. Gonna need a LOT of efficiency. ;)

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Between projects right now. Finished the Christmas gifts and am now cleaning up, sending my Forrest WW2 off to be resharpened, building a miter sled, building a sanding center and reorganizing for efficiency.

I'll be doing a big build (for me) in the spring that will include custom designed loft beds, dressers and desks for my twin grandsons and oldest grandson. Gonna need a LOT of efficiency. ;)

As a good counterpoint, if you are less efficient, you spend more time in the shop :)

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Like everyone else too much (though technically right now my workbench is covered in handplanes cause I haven't built a proper cabinet for them yet :P). In the hopper, two more library bookshelves, a tabletop jewelry armoire, turning new handles for a bunch of old socket chisels, a coffee table, sofa table, and a memorial clock.

Almost forgot a handplane cabinet (duh I even mentioned it above!), and a couple of cutting boards. I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed that I still use a cheap plastic cutting board in the kitchen...

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Lots of sawdust being made out there. Excellent!

I just got my first commission for one of the Doug Stowe boxes, so I'm moving another batch of those higher in the queue. I still need to get out to the lumber dealer and pick out the stock for the Guild Build so that it can sit in the shop for a bit.

Any fellow Minnesotans out there have a prefered hardwood dealer? I'm looking to build the Guild cabinet in Soft Maple.

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Department 56 Underground Buildings that do not light up. I am the "electrical lighting specialist" for right now. Only two this year, but I can make the project last for at least a day or two.

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