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I honestly have used Sapele in so many builds with so many finishes (Arm-r-seal, Odie’s, Total Boat Halcyon, Tried and True) and I have never had issues with getting a glass finish. The Halcyon is much harder to get this with as it loves to pool in crevices, but all manageable. May be the helical heads on the planer/jointer or just luck, but my only issue with Sapele is router work on the edges and getting chip out. I do sand with 0000 steel wool between coats to smooth things out and do a bit of a flood coat on the first coat for the grain you reference.

I always consider you the most conservative amongst us Steve. Also, I have stickers. Where are the Milo & Otis Woodworking and Magic Ping Pong Table stickers? Also #2. I am already sick of the shills drooling over the stupid, tiny Festool battery powered “table saw”.

Building a small Cherry cabinet for hand tools. Which do I choose for drawer fronts????? Curly Walnut for an accent or Curly Cherry for a lesser accent? IMG_4085.mov IMG_4085.mov

Put the first coat on the Spa Towel Rack and while I was waiting for it to dry I power carved another bowl to go on top of it to hold her bath bombs.

First dry fit did not have any disasters so now break it down and sand everything and I believe I am going to put a coat of finish on before glue up to try to limit annoying glue scraping.

I am going to just pretend the grain change js a design feature. Starting a slat towel cabinet for the downstairs bath in Sapele to match the Sapele bathtub tray in there. I also found the source of the unknown wood I had that we discussed a few weeks ago. It is Narra and the weird wood in my stop gap is Amazonique. I knew it was something about the amazon.

Decided to try some power carving with the new Kutzall discs in the angle grinder. Definitely a bit janky due to not keeping track of the depth of cut and making it to the second layer of slab for some weird grain changes.

Happy Birthday Todd.

But, how do you do sticker swaps with the other woodworkers if you bought no stickers?

Yeah, my buddy has one of those but it largely just prints single color cutouts which does not really work for the new logo. Looking at Sticker Mule for stickers and finding out the minimum number of custom shirts I can buy from my neighbor from his business.

Any of you do stickers/magnets/etc. for the wood shops? Was looking at least getting some stickers to throw in packaging and I have a friend with a shirt printing business. Seems like it is fairly reasonable cost from a place like stickermule.

I love the design as well, but it is not mine, it’s Thor’s. https://thorterkulve.com/Shop-Stool

Probably not.

It did not explode, so now a ton of sanding and some finish to make it match the bench.

Sold the rolly stools from Vyper, as they were too large to roll around my mini shop and I am now building a new stool for my bench. Made to match the workbench with Ash legs, maple joints and Jatoba seat tripod bench with locking keys holding all the joints together. About to the point where I get to sit on it and see if it explodes (50/50 in my shop). Anyone else build a shop stool? I really could not find much interesting for the design as I guess they are not popular in the woodworking shop.

I have so many useless Milwaukee and Dewalt bags and chargers laying around. They make it hard to pass up these kits, but all they add to my shop is clutter. I think I have 7 Milwaukee chargers, three Dewalt and the VW Beetle sized double charger from Makita taking up room around here. I tend to buy Milwaukee when they are an option as I have so many batteries for them. Makita 40v is interesting but seems way overkill for anyone but pros.

Trying to burn through work bench scraps still so I built my first, rather boring end grain cutting board.

Final panels.

This is what happens when you drop the Festool sanders and move to Mirka. 🙂

Whew. Thought maybe the particle board and busted ass plasticy veneer might win out.

Which one do you prefer?

Before and after shot before sanding and finish.

Dropping the flaky yellow automation like a stone and changing to this. Looks fucking awesome.

Have to build side panels for an 80s synthesizer with crappy particle board side that a friend is restoring Was going to go with curly maple but found some curly walnut in the wood pile that I think will be awesome on stage.

Just saw the Powermatic is on the big sale going on so $549 for this filter is a killer deal https://www.woodcraft.com/products/pm1250-micro-dust-afs Going to order another for myself.