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I was reading earlier were one our fellow Lumberjocks asked if they would make something to give in a silent auction. I have done this many times. So now I will ask if anyone is in need of a donation, please get ahoad of me and I am able I will send out something to be auctioned off. for the help of someone else. Let me know.
Jim Earl
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A roundup of high-style Champagne flutes, perfect for New Year’s toasting.
Above: Hand-blown Champagne Glasses designed by Ilse Crawford and Michael Anastassiades; £129 a pair at Sigmar in London.
Above: Revolution Collection Champagne Glasses by Felicia Ferrone, hand-blown of borosilicate glass; $79 for a pair at Kneen & Co.
Above: The Deborah Ehrlich Simple Champagne Flute is $112 for a set of two at Elements in Chicago.
Above: Designed in the 1950s by decorative artist and glass designer Goran Hongell, the Iittala Aarne Champagne Glasses are $60 for a set of two from Amazon.
Above: Hand-blown soda glass Simplicity Flute; $3.50 each at CB2.
Need a Champagne bucket? Have a look at 10 Easy Pieces: Champagne Buckets. And for more of our favorite glasses, browse our Tabletop posts.
N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on December 31, 2010 as part of our European Mix issue.
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Turns out my measurement of the saw base was off by an 1/8”, so I’m going to need to tweak the wings to clear.
The new stand is 3.5” lower than my old collapsable job site stand. At 31.5” to the deck, I think I’m going to like the new height better, as I can see the blade area better.
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I am a pistachio grower in the
Central Valley of California. I have 45-60 year old pistachio trees that have massive trunks on them. We are going to start yanking a large portion of them and was interested in selling it. If anyone is interested please contact me at chasewylie11@gmail.com or call me at 209 617 5047
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Well unfortunately I don’t have good news, or any updates on my projects yet. My beautiful wife went into the ER Saturday after three days of nausea and vomiting and was them flown out of our local hospital to the one in Reno, Nevada. Thankfully I was able to fly with her! We are still here, trying to sort things out. It is all related to her previous history. Her liver is now malfunctioning and they are having a hard time putting a finger on it. As of this morning, another surgery was likely. I will keep you all posted as you as you are all so much like family!
The hilo was taken so we flew fixed wing! I flew up front with the pilot.
(I have no idea why it’s turning this photo! It’s frustrating!)
Any, Thanks for reading,
More to follow…
Nate
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For Christmas I was given a new Rikon mini lathe with a 1/2 hp motor.
here it is after a few hours of use
some test pieces I was making after buying a new bowl gouge from woodcraft
The other update is I purchased some new cool blocks and a timber wolf blade for my bandsaw which now can cut timber in half with ease so I can now mill some of the smaller locust logs into lumber and turning blanks
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Vorpal Sword here
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I bought my current home back in 1999, and I longed to spend a relaxing afternoon “out back”, staring at the city lights and pondering the meaning of life while drinking a frosty beverage. The best place to do that? Why, on a backyard deck! There was a rather large Sugar Maple tree in the yard, but it was in very poor health, and needed removal. Following it’s cut down, and cleanup, along came my dog, and my now ex-wife wanted the cheapest possible fence. Green vinyl and snow fence stakes. Not the best, but it works.
Fast forward to 2004. My church had bought a former farm property to build on, and the house on said property had a quite large deck, with lots of reusable 2 by 12s, 14′ long, or longer. I knew how to give myself that backyard deck, and for cheap! A deal was struck, and those deck planks came home with me. They had a lot of “character”, to say the least. At the same time, the Wausau area was experiencing a growth spurt, and the local Menards store was moving further West to make way for a new highway interchange. I scored 16 of those concrete castle “piers” for $5.00 during their moving sale. I also bought the treated 2 by 6′s I would need at that same time. With plans in my mind for a 10′ by 12′ deck, my other half had figured she’d throw me a curve, and tell me she’d want it enclosed later, so that called for some screening to be put down to keep the bugs out.
I played telephone tag with the city over getting a permit for most of the summer, until finally, the receptionist (who I got to know on a “by the ringtone” basis!) told me I didn’t really need a permit to do the building, as my deck was going to be smaller than 144 sq. ft., wasn’t going to be attached to the house or garage, and wasn’t going to be higher than 16” off the ground at any point. I loved that call!
I started off by building the basic box frame, with a pair of 12′ 2 by 6′s running East/West, and a pair of 10′s going North/South. I measured in 8” on center from both ends, and ran the next set of ten footers in. They each, in turn got 3 of those concrete castles placed under them, and the soil leveled around them. From there, the deck moved right on along. Every other 2 by 6 got 2 of those piers, and the alternates got 3, with spacing between being 16” on center. When I was about 1/3 of the way done, my Father-in-Law stopped over, and told me that he thought it would move, or be unstable with nothing more solid under it. It has been almost ten years, and he still says he’s amazed that it has only settled 1/4” off of dead level! I should note, I still get along decent with my former in laws, and even with my ex…
I even enlisted the help of my dog, Teddy, for part of the build. He served as the inspector!
I have long since done trimmed the ends, and applied several coats of outdoor stain to it. It’s really become a pleasant hideaway for me. It seems like I can refresh my sanity in only a half hour or less. Until, that is, I start thinking of building wood furniture for it!
Thanks for looking!
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My wife and I have been getting into photography after buying the new Canon 70D. My wife would like to start taking more portraits (after being asked by several coworkers to take pics of their kids, etc). Since we don’t have a studio, and our apartment’s lighting is subpar for great picture quality, I decided to look into buying some Soft Boxes.
Here is an example of a soft box (from google pictures)….
I know you can buy some online for pretty cheap (but I’m sure they’re just that…cheap). I did some research online and decided to try to build one myself. Mostly for the fun of it.
So the journey begins….
I started by making the lighting component first. There are endless ways to do this, however I just used what I had on hand….
The box is 5” x 5” and will have 4 lights coming out at 10 degree angles from each other (towards the corners of the box)
I used a small drill bit to help set up my guides, so my Forstner Bit would be lined up accurately….
I then installed the sockets, finished the box, and wired the sockets to the extension cord…..
This is all pretty rough so far. I still have to sand it all down, and paint it black. I really just threw it together pretty quickly. I don’t want to waste the time making the wooden box really nice just in case I can’t get the rest of it to work for me. If the rest of it turns out nice, I’ll probably remake the box a little nicer. The steps will be pretty similar.
The next step will be making the actual soft box skin (the hard part). Stay tuned!!…
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WELL if it hadn’t been for my burnings a lot of my family would not of gotten any Christmas from me. It made me feel good to give them and they all Loved what they got. Some of them asked if I was for sure I wanted to give certain ones to them. well it would of made a little money, but what the hey, I can always burn another one of that type. I missed two of them, but that will be made real easy corrected. so This Christmas came off was a real good holiday. I always wanted it to be the more I can give the better, OK sometimes I wish for a little more of receiving but it pans out to my good.
For the last three weeks I haven’t been able to get out to my shop. If it gets below 30 than I can’t get lout there. and I have COME DOWN WITH THIS BUG THAT IT GOING AROUND TWICE, SO WHEN IT WARMS UP A LITTLE I’ll BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND GET BACK TO WORK.
sorry about the capitol letters my fingers are bigger than the keys and I tend to hit the cap button to often.
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Before moving on, I needed to get everything together in such a way that it wont fall apart on me as I test and fit everything. So I went to the hardware store to buy nuts and bolts. But the bolts were too expensive as I am working on a limited budget. So I bought threaded rod instead..
And the used my brace and drilled all the holes, and then cut the rod to fit and bolted it all together.
Here is the main column with the spacer and the front leg,
Then the face plate holding on the arm, and the clamp arm.
Drilled the hole for the chain in the seat, and made the foot clamp and guide block,
Then I drilled the hole for the wheels and glued in the axles,
Drawing the faces for the clamp.
I also drilled some holes in the support arm and screwed in some inset nuts for the vertical and horizontal adjustors. Bringing it all together to this point..
I am at the point where I need to start making the saw frame and the saw frame hardware. Now.. this is where I am at a distinct disadvantage. I have never seen a completed one of these in person, let alone use one. Even though I have the internet and email and lots of other resources, having some sort of personal experience with one would be the best resource of all.
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