The Woodshop and area around it will be closed all day Saturday and Sunday October 22nd and 23rd. The shop will also be undergoing a rearrangement of the tools inside and outside the woodshop. The woodshop committee and volunteers will installing an additional dust collector as well as the new 20" planer and ducting
Any and all volunteers are more than welcome to join! We will also be cleaning glue of all the clamps as well as teaching machine maintenance to anyone interested helping out in the future or for their own general knowledge.
Please do not plan to work on any projects that will require tools from the shop. All tools will be disconnected from power and ventilation. EVERYTHING WILL BE OFFLINE. If you would like to help, please join us from 9:30am - TBD.
We will have four main groups:
A - Installing new dust collector and ducting
B - Maintenance and calibrating each machine including the new planer
C - Cleaning all the clamps
D - Organizing all the hand tools in the work area
No wood working skills are required to help, just a positive attitude and dust mask
Safety glasses and dust masks will be provided, so just come lend a hand, get to know other members, and help us make the woodshop even more awesome!
Woohoo!!! I’ll stop by to help if I can, I’ve got a couple hundred feet of fence to replace this weekend, but will come by when I get done with that.
Want me to bring my big ole chainsaw and cut up those stumps in the shop outside?
I am planning on helping Marshall clean the clamps on Sunday morning.
Let me know and I can bring my spare set of chaps.
I also have a spare Kevlar glove. I will probably put the metal clamps in a solution to soak and go back to them after I have cut the wood. I am thinking an hour’s worth.
Mat Busby might be there too to help me. I will bring Angela, she is worth two men any day when it comes to work. She doesn’t bitch, just works. LOL.
I’ll be up there to help clean clamps , move things, or anything else needed. What’s the plan for the wood in the back? I’m trying to build up some lathe skills and need practice wood. Can we cut that stuff down to bowl blanks? I can store whatever my tiny can can hold in my garage until anyone wants it. Thanks all for making the space better, cleaner, less dustier.
@ryan we will have a few guys with chainsaws there to help cut down large logs down to manageable sizes. We should get things going around 9:30am on Saturday. I look forward to seeing you there and appreciate the support for the woodshop!
The plan is to cut all of it into usable wood.
Whether bowl blanks or something else. I will be cutting it into smaller pieces and members can make it into a more usable form. I will try and do bowl blank sizes. Thanks for volunteering. I think we will need the most help with the clamps. They don’t make tandem chainsaws. LOL.
Yeah…main push on clamp cleaning will be Sunday a.m. We are going to wrap/soak the clamps in glue softening solution and let them sit for a spell while we attack rest of logs/green wood pile, and maybe clean out the scrap wood bins (otherwise known as I-am-to-fvcking-lazy-to-take-my-crap-wood-all-the-way-out-to-the-dumpster bins).
But there will be plenty to do on Saturday as well, I am sure.
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