Kind'a quiet in here (2025 Update)

It is. I wonder just how much of this decreased activity can be put down to Covid. In my case, its health reasons. Fortunately, I seem to have turned the corner and have just started getting in some shop time. Oh, does that feel goooooooood !!!

LOL. I didn't think my recent goings on was worthy to mention. Been making a leg/base for a 4'X6' work table for my nephew. Made a 12' work bench for him and installed it a week before Thanksgiving.

Carved two corner replacement pieces for a friend's coffee table, gifted to her from another friend. Scroll right for 3 more pics.

Other than that, had an accident in the shop a week ago.

Little to none, there has been the average amount of activity. I was mostly testing my ability to post here... LOL. My AV decided to not let me receive messages and or e-mail through Thunderbird. Fortunately it is a know issue with EsetNOD and there is a work around. First issue with that AV in 10 years.

In my case, its health reasons. Fortunately, I seem to have turned the corner and have just started getting in some shop time. Oh, does that feel goooooooood !!!

Sorry to hear that your under the weather and happy that your are on the mend.

I'm building boxes for Christmas gifts again... A new design that I have come up with.. I am cutting box joints, 1/4" wide and deep in 1/2" material. Sort of a complicated design to figure out but simple to build.

And I am using my Shaper Origin to cut the box joints. MAN I LOVE this thing.

NO template, no guide bushing. Just index the x,y location, tell it how many pins and sockets, add both together, set the depth and glue gap. And away you go!

Pictures to follow!

The very idea of a glass of coke on the table of my table saw makes me cringe.

Your saw top looks like mine. I had kept it pretty for years until a couple of weeks ago a friend worked on his hunting bow sight in my shop. The only open space was the table saw and he apparently sweated like a horse. The next morning I found rust spots for every drop of sweat. Hard to get them out.

I like the carving.

Jeez!!! You must spend more time waxing your, you know what, than cutting, your you know what!!! LOL

Yeah, I know. I fix my drinks on the work bench, next to the frig and near the saw. That first drink was knocked from the bench, only loosing a few jiggers of Crown. I have 2 Unisaws and that saw is for rough cutting mostly. It's an 1981 model, been through a lot of abuse and still looks good and works well. At present the top may look a little battered, but it's in good shape, just stained, some glue residue mostly, hardly any appreciable surface rust. I really do take good care of all my tools.

Thanks. Some of the carving tools could use a bit of sharpening.... this weekend's task? I have a set of old Ward & Payne small chisels I used for this carving.

Sonny

Very good! I don't think I would have the patience for hand carving.

Thank goodness you thought to document that. Insurance needs you know. :~)

Drop by your local auto parts store and pick up a pack of ROLOCs. They're expensive but there's a starter kit that I can't find the SKU for that is reasonable.

Found out about them derusting a set of brakes--they'll take the rust off without removing enough metal to affect the runout.

Ideally you'd use them in a die grinder, but if you've got a small variable speed router that should do fine, just don't go above the rated RPM.

Box joints are easy. What about dovetails?

I thought this was rather interesting.

Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in news:iLKdne2k7I0Uk1TCnZ2dnUU7- snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Still smiling at your Sketchup stick comment. Didn't understand it years ago when you first did it, but now completely understand.

I wish Trimble had kept improving it rather than writing the entire thing to run in a web browser. I mean that's impressive, but Sketchup was far from complete.

Puckdropper

I'm hoping that the "running in the cloud" crap is just a fad. The rationale is that a "terminal" is cheaper than a "computer" but whoever is thinking that is stuck in the '60s. By '80s standards my bloody _phone_ is a supercomputer.

J. Clarke snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I hope so too, but I don't think it's going away. Companies LOVE having you locked in on their platform, hoping your hours of sweat are more valuable to you than the tiny sums (several hundred dollars per year) they ask of you.

They also like having your data on their servers. You can bet they're running "Anonymous Analytics" on it.

I think desktop software peaked around 1999. Fast enough computers to do things very quickly, enough memory so you don't have to waste CPU cycles shifting bits around but not enough you can be wasteful. Robotic overlords providing the illusion of happiness. Data staying on the hard drive where it was meant to be, not in some cloud just waiting for a company to pull the plug on something they find no longer "interesting."

Puckdropper

That is my feeling precisely. I subscribe to Ancestry, but keep all the referenced documents and data on my computer. When I work on the Ancestry site it is worse than working on my first TI99/4a. The ATT.com site is similarly slow. ATT mail is hosted by Yahoo. When I do things in their Webmail, it takes twice as long as it does to do the same operations on my local mail program.

If you remember when the Laptop came out, Desktops were going to disappear. When Smartphone came out the techies were saying the computer would disapear. Well both Desktops and laptops are still with us, and the Techie will find something else that they claim will take over the world.

Each of the device eventually finds it niche.

PS: I mentioned Ancestry as being slow.

When I try to message another Ancestry user, it takes about 25 seconds to access the compose window. and once composed it takes 10 seconds for the message to be accepted. The interface is overall slow and difficult to work with.

I composed and sent the above message in about 30 seconds and it appeared in the Newsgroup about 5 seconds later. So much for Ancestry's well written systems.

And companies are rushing to jump on board. Our management decided a while back that they wanted to emulate Amazon. So they rushed to dumped all their IT onto the Amazon cloud and the part of Amazon culture the adopted was the sweatshop.

Earth to big huge corporations--if you don't have server space to lease out and a very capable in house software development operation you are not emulating Amazon.

LOL. Actually the pics were taken for, sent to my brother with reference to a childhood incident that we still tease one another about. When we make some kind of error, mistake, faux pas, we refer to the guilty party as "You fool!".

Sonny