Thank you 
I had a custom request for a purple and black facehugger mask. These pieces were all laser cut on Thunder. Stitching laser cut holes is SO MUCH QUICKER.
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Putting a handle on a purchased knife blade for a friend. It matches her truck 
Currently at the “remove all material that’s not part of a knife handle” stage. Finishing in the coming days after some supplies arrive.
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My first ever cutting board! Made this last weekend. Walnut, cherry, maple.
Also, I stopped by the woodshop this morning and the air vac machine is down, so no projects today 
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Is this an A95 mask?
Nice! I started a cutting board 18 months ago…
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Let’s end August on a 106 degree day with a horse hair firing in the raku kiln!
Oo it was hot!
Open the blue one to see it captured red specks. I’m loving it! The color is actually a deeper blue than it looks in pic
The blue and white are Terra Sigilata and horse hair
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I’ve seen gun racks in trucks, but I’ve never seen a knife rack in a truck. Maybe it will start a new fad.
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You know enough that you scare me slightly 
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Really nice edge profile on this. 
Keep it well-oiled, don’t chop/cut on it too hard (it’s a long-grain orientation), and never put in the dishwasher and it will last through your kids and grandkids lifetimes :–)
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This month was an adventure in milling some 1/4" round brass bar into 0.099 inch “quarter round” with a recess. It was like I imagine milling a noodle would be.
Milling the quarter round was almost anti-climatic after I made the suitable holding fixtures. I used the Bridgeport to make a general purpose holding fixture to clamp two v-blocks onto the table of my Sherline mill. The raised boss down the center keeps the v-blocks aligned to the plate.
Above it is shown clamped to the Sherline bed directly in the T-slots but the mounting holes are also spaced to fit into the mill tooling plate I made earlier in the year (also on the Bridgeport).
On a hunch, I milled a “steady rest” on my Sherline for the center of the workpiece (specific to the 1/4" bar). The large channel straddles the raised boss on the fixture plate. I used this a lot - sliding it back and forth more like a following rest.
I subsequently added some chip clearing slots on the bottom.
I also made some small table clamps, based on an idea on the Sherline website. They bolt to the tooling plate, and the angled screws are intended to brace small/thin/irregular parts between two or more clamps. I haven’t used them yet.
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I have one in my horse trailer.
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Hey –
Here’s some pictures of the first book Capt made with the leather we got from the sale.
This is a saddle stitch book, one of the simplest he makes. Since we decided that the grey was “elephant”, it’s got a jungle endpaper.
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That wrinkly-textured leather was probably the most interesting single hide I saw in the sale. You probably have enough leather In that hide to make a dozen more.
Thanks for sharing.
Paging @coloneldan
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Very cool. I’ll share with our friends at Gulfstream Air. Thanks for the heads up @HankCowdog
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This weekends build
I call it the Light of Jesus
It’s fricken Glows 
I made this cross out Yellow heart, cypress, and cherry
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I had someone ask me to make them a NM themed cross. using the colors of the Taos New Mexico plate…
I’m calling this cross Taos
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