What Are You Building Today

[naamanf]

Would go over like a lead zeppelin. 

[swt61]

Calculating how many albums Led Zeppelin sold.

[Kerry]

To Nate’s comment...

Wow, I’m now thinking of a smaller version I could inflate to do smaller jobs. 

I’ve seen the popup ones they use for spray tanning, but there a bit too small. 

Edited March 6, 2021 by Kerry

[VPI]

Finally opened up the fancy little honing thing from Lie-Nielsen. Seems to be slightly better quality than the $20 Rockler one. 
 

[naamanf]

Should have ordered the Veritas. 

[naamanf]

Made a IWO badge for a friend's wife's retirement. Maple machines SO much better than walnut. Going to be doing some NFO wings this weekend in Cherry. Still have another 50 Army ones to do. 🤦‍♂️

[naamanf]

New wing in the works. Naval Flight Officer. 
 

[swt61]

How's the Cherry milling?

[naamanf]

3 minutes ago, swt61 said:

How's the Cherry milling?

Really well, almost as good as maple. Walnut sucks, I should have my unsteamed walnut next week. Curious if that makes any difference on how it machines.

[swt61]

Doubtful. Walnut just has stringier, brittle grain.

 

[VPI]

Visited an open house down the street. Should I try to buy all of this?

 

Edited March 14, 2021 by VPI

[naamanf]

Planing on learning to machine metal? 

[VPI]

Dude made some pretty cool giant trains as a hobby I guess. The drill press could come in handy. Also has ton of vintage microscopes from the old parent company of Leica. 

[luvdunhill]

5 minutes ago, VPI said:

Dude made some pretty cool giant trains as a hobby I guess. The drill press could come in handy. Also has ton of vintage microscopes from the old parent company of Leica. 

Maybe just buy the house as well - will solve your space problems. 

[VPI]

I told the realtor I would take the 3 car garage with the shop above but did not need the house.  They did not think the owner would go for that. 

[n_maher]

Purchase the stuff, unless he wants a mint for it.  

[kevin gilmore]

the lathe is very decent, and capable of cutting screw threads if you ever need that. even though its early 1960's vintage. the other stuff is not capable of anything of high accuracy. at least not without digital readouts.

And its heavier than it looks. just the lathe top is probably about 700 lbs

Edited March 14, 2021 by kevin gilmore

[swt61]

My own top is quickly moving toward a similar weight.

[swt61]

18 hours ago, naamanf said:

Really well, almost as good as maple. Walnut sucks, I should have my unsteamed walnut next week. Curious if that makes any difference on how it machines.

If you find a wealthy enough customer, Ebony mills like a dream.

[kevin gilmore]

the harder the wood the easier it is to machine it. african blackwood has less issues than ebony.

[morphsci]

I’d go for Australian Buloke myself.

[naamanf]

unloaded some wood. 

[VPI]

^^^ Purdy

[swt61]

Set kitchen cabinets with Milo. Maybe he took pics.

[n_maher]

Looking forward to pics from both of you.  

That's quite the stack, Naaman, and those top two slabs on the left are pretty fricken epic.