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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2024 08:32pm
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... what do you like to do?
I have a few different pursuits that don't directly relate to Cabin building, maintenance, or renovating.
One that I spend a fair amount of time on is woodwork. Creating things that to some degree are decorative, but can also be functional. I shall illustrate with three projects I did this past week. My family took very good care of my home while I was away. These things are going to be gifted as a token of thanks.
I will post images and a short description in following posts.
If you have favorite pastimes, not directly related to cabin building, maintenance or remodeling you could join in if you wish.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2024 08:39pm
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Wood box made from pine and walnut and stained. The corners use finger joints, sometimes called a box joint. The box is about 6" x 3-1/4 x 2-1/2". The hinges stop opening at 90 degrees as shown.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2024 08:45pm
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Another wood box. This one is about 7 x 4-1/4 x 2-7/8". Box jointed corners again. This is a wood from Africa called Ebiara. It is NOT stained at all. Just finished with spray lacquer. The lacquer has darkened the color a little, but has not changed the actual color. The 90-degree stop hinges I want are on their way from Canada.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2024 08:56pm - Edited by: ICC
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A third box, but this time a bandsaw box. A piece of 1-1/2" thick US hard maple was sandwiched and glued with two pieces of 3/4" leopardwood from Central or South America. The width is 3-1/2" across the front. The height is 2-1/4" and the depth 2-3/4".
A bandsaw is used to cut slices off the glue-laminated block in a sequence. Components are then glued back together while the center piece that was the box drawer cavity is left out. 1/8" bandsaw blade x 0.018" thick and 14 TPI.
I can describe the process if anyone wants, or google can find pictures and videos if a "bandsaw box" search is performed.
Clear spray lacquer for the finish, no stains. I used Titebond glue for some of the glue joints and cyanoacrylate for others.
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paulz
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2024 10:11am
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Those a beautiful ICC!
I never got into woodwork much, aside from building the cabin. Coincidentally though, my cabin night stand platform is this cutting board I made in high school wood shop (mandatory classes back then). Nice to have the 50 year old memory sitting there.
These days I don’t do much beyond keeping the grounds livable, cooking and cleaning. One thing I do in the dark evening hours is jigsaw puzzles. Not very admirable but at least it keeps my mind working. Probably done 50, and afterward I glue them to poster board and hang on the wall at the city house.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2024 01:18pm
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ICC, have you ever seen the back pages of Fine Woodworking magazine? The pics of that second box would get published. Very nice work. Ever seen the Japanese joinery where they use no nails?
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travellerw
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2024 01:50pm
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Those are lovely. I tried woodworking and I'm just not meticulous enough. Sure, I can slap a box together to hold crap in the garage. But anything that needs to look good is not in my wheelhouse.
My latest non-cabin project is restoration of a 1966 Thunderbird (never restored a car before, its been interesting).
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ICC
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2024 05:00pm
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Thank you for the kudos. I may add some other photos
Quoting: paulz cutting board I made in high school wood shop (mandatory classes back then)
...wow! Nice to still have that. I liked shops or Industrial Arts as I think the official name was. I had auto, wood, metal, and electronics. My wife did jigsaw puzzles a lot. There are a couple of framed 1500+ piece ones on the wall here and there.
Quoting: DaveBell ...have you ever seen the back pages of Fine Woodworking magazine
Oh yeah. Many very nice projects appear in FW. I used to subscribe to the paper version. I have seen many examples of fine Japanese woodwork. Nice stuff. I do have and use Japanese saws and chisels. I really like the thin pull saw blades and their laminated steel chisels hold the sharp edge longer than US and EU chisels.
Quoting: travellerw ...restoration of a 1966 Thunderbird...
I hope it has a decent body? Remaing or buying replacement panels can eat up a lot of work and funds. I have some oldies and consider myself sooo very lucky to have access to vehicles that have never seen salt, maybe never even seen snow. Though the sun can kill some plastics very badly.
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paulz
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2024 10:16pm
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Quoting: travellerw My latest non-cabin project is restoration of a 1966 Thunderbird
My commuter in the ‘90s. Only thing unusual i remember is the steering column swung in for easy seating. 1964 model.
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WILL1E
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2024 09:56pm
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As a child of 1980, i have had a slight addiction to Lego's my entire life. So today at 44 i'm what they call an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego). And now as a single man and being winter in WI, i find myself buying Lego on a weekly basis!
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travellerw
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2024 10:15pm
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Quoting: ICC I hope it has a decent body? Remaing or buying replacement panels can eat up a lot of work and funds. I have some oldies and consider myself sooo very lucky to have access to vehicles that have never seen salt, maybe never even seen snow. Though the sun can kill some plastics very badly.
For being a Canadian car its in remarkably great shape. However, I have had to order 2 replacement panels as they were complex shapes and too hard to fabricate. The other panels (floorboard on drivers side, and some spots in the trunk) I have been fabricating by hand. Really compared to the stuff around here that is nothing.
The engine was shot, so started on that. Since I had that out, I figured I would do the whole front-end and steering. Then it was brake lines, then fuel lines, then fuel tank.. Sigh its like picking a thread on a sweater, everything just unravels.
Quoting: paulz My commuter in the ‘90s. Only thing unusual i remember is the steering column swung in for easy seating. 1964 model. 236.jpeg 236.jpeg
That is pretty much my car. Even the color is the same. Maybe this will jog your memory... EVERYTHING except the wipers run off vacuum. The wipers run off the power steering pump (for real).
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paulz
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2024 10:35am - Edited by: paulz
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Quoting: ICC ..wow! Nice to still have that. I liked shops or Industrial Arts as I think the official name was. I had auto, wood, metal, and electronics
Yes, Industrial Arts, had all those too. Metal shop had welding (imagine a bunch of kids wielding gas torches!), lathes, grinders… stuff that has lasted me a lifetime.
Another relic still hanging out at the cabin.. My first wood attempt, this table, from junior high, 7th grade. Just a slice of wood sanded to angles on two sides. Made the legs too. I should refinish it but it has a warp, maybe a water soak under weight.
How these things have lasted this long and made it through all the moves in my life is odd, but here they are..
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2024 11:42am
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I owned n operated a woodworking shop for over 10 years. Did 1 kitchen that was on the food channel 3 times that I know of. Executive desks, kitchen tables n such. Love the woodworking stuff. I also restore old vehicles. My daily driver is a 79 El Camino. Currently working on a 69 Ranchero. And 83 GMC Jimmy. 76 F-250 highboy. And a bunch of snogos n wheelers.
I've been busy building our retirement home this last couple of years. Lots of work for a 1 man crew but I really enjoy the work. I also enjoy the outdoors a lot, hunting trapping n fishing. Helping beautiful wife with a large garden and raising meat rabbits. Family wants to expand into chickens for eggs and friers.
Living in rural AK is beautiful and I enjoy being outdoors. Hope to get more cabin time in soon. Gotta finish the sand point well and install TnG pine boards on the lid in the upstairs. New outhouse and wheeler shed.
I really enjoy helping our grandson learn everything I do. He's 7 now so he's ready.
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ICC
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2024 08:42pm - Edited by: ICC
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We have had an intergenerational project going on for the past year. Much of the time was spent planning and we are well into the physical work. The generations include myself, my son, my son-in-law plus his 16-year-old. Ages are 78, 43, 55, 16 plus a 62-year-old Volvo PV544. The PV544 is an AZ car I bought about a dozen years ago. I wanted to swap in a GM 60-degree 3.4 liter V6, but ran into several issues that stalled me for years.
The 544 was stripped down to a shell. The interior was rough though the metal was very solid. My son-in-law has welded up a major front suspension upgrade. It sits lower and should ride a lot better than the usual method of simply using shorter springs. There are other advantages derived from the front suspension changes.
The engine is the same GM 60-degree 3.4 liter V6 that I bought years ago. It has now been rebuilt with a supercharger, to help regain the power lost to our altitude. My son has machined parts needed for the supercharger installation. A T-5, 5-speed manual transmission is used and the rear axle is now a 9" Ford with limited slip.
Custom headers, the plates are commercially available as this engine is often swapped into MG's and other small cars and boats.
My grandson is the chief electrical systems technician. At some point, after it runs and we are happy, new paint and new upholstery will be done.
Exhaust pipes will be trimmed shorter when the rear end treatment (nerf bars?) is done. We have all the glass, the seat frames, door panels. It will need a new dash, new instrumentation.
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paulz
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2024 10:35am
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Very nice ICC. Will make quite the sleeper. Those are neat Volvos.
I've mentioned my Chevy Blazer, still current backup unit at the cabin. About 5 years ago I rebuilt a 350 and swapped out the original 305, complete with under hood blower.
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ICC
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2024 12:34pm
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another recently completed item combines woodwork and some simple electronics. This is about 10" high. It uses an LED meant for a flashlight along with the driver (circuit board), a USB-C charger board and a lipo cell. There is also an aluminum heat sink inside the chimney tube. The main wood is called wenge, the trim strip is a stained piece of canarywood.
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ICC
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2024 12:37pm
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more images...
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ICC
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2024 08:52pm - Edited by: ICC
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My son and I remodeled the bedroom (and adjoining bathroom) I use at his home when I visit. It has been slow going with new paint, new solid wood doors, new laminate flooring and heart attack. Yesterday and today we assembled and installed a Murphy bed wall. Some drawers, and cabinet doors have yet to be installed. Queen size mattress. It is all anchored to the wall studs, fits snugly into the allotted space. Looks pretty good and the bed fold down apparatus works smoothly. (Old moving blanket on the floor as a floor saver work surface.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2024 01:14am
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Looks like you are the epitome of 'its hard to keep a good man down' 
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paulz
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2024 01:11pm
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Looking good. Is that a slider on the ceiling or just still under construction?
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ICC
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2024 07:12pm - Edited by: ICC
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Quoting: paulz that a slider on the ceiling or just still under construction?
It is an older house with extensive updating. It is on a bit of a slope with a canyon/cliff about 15 feet behind. This bedroom and a large closet (the door is seen on the left) and a full bathroom (the camera is inside the bathroom a little) were fitted into a space that used to be crawl space. We excavated a little deeper but not deep enough to get a full 8 foot ceiling. Windows to the backyard and canyon dropoff is to the right in the picture. The ceiling has a drop section to enclose some pipes. We didn't dig out any deeper for more headroom as we didn't want the change in floor level. It's kind of complicated but it allowed sneaking in another room with bath and a good closet space without enlarging the footprint on the home, which was a no-go with zoning. So now there are five staggered floor levels.
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ICC
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2024 09:23pm - Edited by: ICC
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This could be related to cabins, depending upon where it is laced.... This lantern or table lamp is patterned after Japanese Shoji Screens
It was made to be a gift to my son. It is styled along the same lines as the sliding doors on the wall of bookshelf units I made for him.
The wood is pine. The shoji screen material is plastic laminated paper. A lipo battery or a USB port powers it. Battery and electronics are in the base. An LED is mounted inside the underside of the top plate, wires run through one corner post. Kept me busy for a while.
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 01:18pm - Edited by: Tim_Ohio
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All of you have some very nice activities outside of cabins. I've rarely had any energy left after all of what keeps me busy to enjoy a relaxing side hobby...I can't even find time to clean my car, chuckling. My career as a scientific glassblower has me making research glassware on a daily basis, using my hands and mind.
At 90 minutes or so of total commute each day through the week, there is little time left from cooking and caring for the residence. Weekends are for the cabin, but there is quite a bit of mowing to be done to keep from having too much trouble with ticks. Our 100 year old house is always in need of a repair and that's ongoing. Throw in making time to run or cycle to stay fit and there is only time to sleep. I like sleep...that could be counted as a hobby, but I'm sure a picture of it wouldn't turn you on. Maybe a picture of some complex glassware would do it....here you go.
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 01:22pm
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Here are some more:
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paulz
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 01:30pm - Edited by: paulz
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This old fire truck lives at my cabin. One of the inner rear dualies went flat, tube stem is gone.. It’s a split rim, if you’re familiar. In college I worked at a tire shop, we did those back then with an ax to break the bead, no inflation cage!
So with this one, first tire shop I took the wheel to wouldn’t touch it (told me about a guy that got decapitated by one), referral shop has it now. I probably have the stuff here to do it myself, but getting it jacked up and the wheel off was enough for me now.
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 01:39pm
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Quoting: paulz we did those back then with an ax to break the bead, no inflation cage!
That's a hard job. I've removed and mounted a few tires and it's not so easy. I was thrilled, though when I figured out a few of the tricks and found success.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 03:11pm
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@Tim_Ohio
That glass blowing looks like an interesting job. Are many or most of the pieces you make, special custom pieces, one-offs or small quantity items?
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 03:23pm
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We used to change a lot of the ranch tires ourselves. That was a lot of work, and hard, but it meant that Dad didn't need to spend money. He's rather do everything himself than hire it out if he could do it.
I have the equipment in the machine shop for changing tires on modern rims with next to no effort, other than lifting the rim & tire, but haven't used it in quite a while. I have not had a flat for years. Probably will sell it.
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 03:31pm
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Quoting: ICC Are many or most of the pieces you make, special custom pieces, one-offs or small quantity items?
Yes, that's all that I do. The demands of scientific research are beyond standard catalog glassware. It keeps the job interesting. We keep specialty research science going in this country. Contrary to what everyone thinks, not everything is made in China.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2024 03:42pm - Edited by: ICC
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 That is what I thought.
My son is a CNC machinist. He runs a prototype shop where everything is new and different, or in single-digit quantity. He gets the idea presented to him and has to plan the best order to do the machining and program the job. Some things may be done manually too. He loves the job.
As for me I have much more ti,e available to do hobby things since retiring. I do have some volunteer "jobs" but they only take a few hours, maybe a half day and are enjoyable, otherwise I would not be doing them.
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