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Got to do a little test of the Powermatic Air Filter today. Air quality is garbage outside and I had the door open. Original air quality: 40 minutes with the Powermatic on and door closed:

I assume, since it is Festool, you will need the hands of a child to hold it and the replacement blades would cost more than a pizza oven. Not sure I read the instructions that well, but i basically brush it on and then wipe it off 15 minutes later. Not sure I have bothered with additional coats.

Ended up going with an antique giraffe to race the modern one. No carnage for the baby toys.

Started on some cheesy kids toys for Bingo. Need to add some wheels and come up with another animal for him to race against.

Anyone catch the Shaper Trace coming soon? Looks very interesting for the ping pongers, if it works.

Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix. Quite good if you are into that kind of thing.

Damn. That thing is nice. I spent some time throwing together a scrap cutting board for the neighborhood 4th of July Bingo prizes.

Just finally realizing this is being built in an ammo can.

Built a tray to store all the shit constantly in my way on the new workbench.

Who doesn’t need a box??? What kind of joints did you use?

Pretty much done with Frisco’s Fancy as Fuck Dog Bowl Stand.

Had to go refill the beer fridge. Closeups

Especially since I have 12 other boards just like it. No idea if it is Koa, but does not match my Jatoba so not sure what else it could be. I keep it in the stack of the Wenge and Teak for my retirement plan.

Looks similar in the pics I can find. I have an entire shop full of hard wood, and all of it is too fucking fancy for the dog food bowl stand I wanted to make this weekend. At least I got the legs and stretchers milled from some boring Walnut and Madrone sticks. Going to do custom dog bone through tenons on the legs, if I ever find any sticks to make the top with.

Any guesses on this wood type? Fairly dense, not cedar.

Got it installed. Do not like it. Think I am going to make it a shop cabinet.

Would prefer it in Walnut, but the shitty maple will have to do. Also tried, and fucked up some dog bone (bow ties) for the rainbow poplar shoe display go the closet.

Last stage of the dresser build happening this weekend. Hated Waterlox finish so scrapped that and going with Tried and True again.

Decided all birds eye maple for the drawer fronts was going to bore me so I am going to do some accents with a glue-up of leopard wood incorporated into some or all of the drawers.

It is the Hardwood version. Do not think there is any coloring.

Mine cut fairly smooth but looks similar. Looks completely different with finish. Just a pain in the ass to deal with so gave it all away.

Based upon my calculatorations, this one ended up being 573/800 of an inch off, but luckily it still seems to work. Need to pull some of the levers built it to the slides to get the setback perfect for the yet to be processed birds eye maple drawer front.

So much fun cutting hardwood drawers for Blum undermount slides only to come up short because i did not carry the 39/64 of an inch in my calculations. Appears I need to mill all new fronts and backs to get to my 31 29/32 drawer box for these silly fucking slides.

I bought some Seneca tool for that but have never taken it out of the box to try it. The scrap wood/HD Plywood built in is coming along. Need to decide now if i go full CanaryWood drawer fronts or all maple fronts with canarywood pulls or inlays. Going to put some big bevels on the bottom and little ones on the top of the “scrap” top and then throw drawers in and hope my measurements were actually correct. 🙂

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