Recent content by pigwot

On the Woodturners forum there is a thread entitled, “What’s On Your Lathe”. Today this was my post:

Gila? I know they can have pink, yellow, or orange patterns - not sure they get that big but hey… East coast doesn’t harbor such fauna

Burls, or burrs across the pond are sought after for the unique disoriented grain pattern many which create focal “eyes”. I have a few at the moment. Usually about 50% are nothing great once opened or have too many openings running through them. Some get used despite the loss of integrity for...

Fever broke last night - still coughing up a ton but hopeful this is a turning point. Watching reels and videos… Hanger for the axe you keep in your shed.

The past three days have been pretty lousy with a respiratory virus. Woke this morning feeling it lifting a bit! I really dislike not getting things done 😠 Week two for Karen who developed a secondary bacterial infection deep in her lungs. Bilateral rhonchi, and despite zithromycin and albuterol...

When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he pushes the Earth down. Chuck Norris can divide by zero. Chuck Norris once had a heart attack. His heart lost. Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone. Chuck Norris makes onions cry. There was once a street named after Chuck Norris, but the name was...

I used Anaconda brand liquid-tight flexible conduit pre-srs, years ago to make up Dan House style cambium savers. One was four feet long for mrs over redwood branches which were still about 2 1/2 ft día at ninety feet up the tree. Early days it was frogging up with Jumar ascenders borrowed from...

Posting at 3:22am Cory?!? Not sleeping these days?

Country Joe McDonald

Two actually. I’m frugal so didn’t spend for the strong neodymium magnets, but rather bought two tool holding magnets at Lowe’s and touted two dados leaving 1/16” of wood, and used a little CA glue to hold them n place.

Not too bad - seems to hold an edge as well as most of my other knives.

Old OXO knives with rubber handles getting sticky so I cut the handles off and made Amboyna burl replacements

Franklin M155 stud finder - does quite well with wood or steel studs, and good for tracing electrical, too The fellow up on the pick with me is a friend who was a machinist at the local Chrysler plant for 30 years. Trickiest part of the job was finding odd jobs for the less ably endowed to keep...

Hung an 85” TV in the classroom of the local woodworking store yesterday. The sixteen 1/4” toggle bolts through commercial steel studs held a 36” x 52” piece of 3/4 plywood. The tv mount was held by four lag bolts into studs, and six smaller lags into the plywood. A total overbuild as the tv...

Burnham, It was a radio repeater node a friend had set high in a tree. They are Meshtastic, LongRange (LoRa), rechargeable and/or solar-powered, 915MHz radios which create a mesh network, passing messages from one to the next. It is an off-grid communication system which would be a way to...