1st Project for 2024?

[bandit571]

Still have "Leftovers"..

   
This being most of them....there is also a few longer slats..

   
Thinking about gluing up a few  panels   and see what the Single Brain Cell Sketch Up can come up with...

   
Got the first panel glued up...maybe do one a day, until after the 1st of the new year?

Hutch on the computer desk needs...something...we'll see...might even buy a clock kit?   Haven't done a clock since the 1980s...Hmmmm?

$100 Lowes Gift Card for Christmas....spent a bit of it, today..

   
Combo Square's blade is 16" long, and is in both Imperial and Metric markings...

Couple of NEW saw files, and a new belt for the 4" x 36" belt sander...


Stay tuned..

[hbmcc]

A project for 2024? Are you sure you can wait that long? 

Have a good New Year!

[Grandpa Dave]

Come on Bandit give me a rest. I just got caught up on your last two projects. I don't read as fast as I used too. ;=)
Blessings to you the remainder of '23 and going into '24.

BTW, a clock would be cool. I didn't know you in the 80's. IIRC, I still had a dial on my phone then.

[Woodenfish]

Building a clock would confuse a lot of young people today. It certainly would be a conversation starter. Haha!

[bandit571]

Shopping trip, today...and...and adjustment to Panel #5...

Clock will need a door in back, to access the battery when need be....Hinges have been bought, and a latch to keep the door SHUT. 

   

   
(Focus on this camera sucks, sorry)


Base of the Clock  gets fancy feet to stand on...and some other fancy bits..for a few corners...


handles were bought, in case I need one for that door...

A fancy Brass Finial was bought..

   
And finally found a Clock Mechanism I liked..

   
 Need to dig out a 3" drill bit.  

The adjustment to Panel #5....was to add a strip in the center of the panel..as this panel will hold that clock in the case...

Stay tuned...#5 panel is IN the clamps....

[bandit571]

Hopefully some better photos, THIS time...still trying to find this one..

   
At least the one with it still IN the package with 3 others...that screw IS a Phillips headed one..just like the ones for the hinges..

   
Instead of trying to drag that clock back out to change the battery..I will just put a door in the back of the case.

Panel #6:

   
Needed a couple extra strips to get to the 7" width.....this will be the panel holding the clock.  Trying to decide how much of the 12" length I need to loose..either 3" or 5", leaving the best looking of the grain details.

A better look (I hope) of the Finial for the top of the case..

   
Top of the case will be a raised panel look-a-like...

As for that 3" hole I need to drill for the Clock?

   
These should do the trick..test drive..after I had to crank that Samson chuck all the way open...

   
Expansive bit is a Clark...set to a 1-1/2" Radius.    That was a high spot on the bench's top, fueled by a knot,,,

   
Knot is there at 2 o'clock....checked the diameter, dead-on 3"....just what the instructions called for..

   
Then leveled out that high spot and the knot with a plane. 

Feet for the case?

   
And..maybe some fancy corner details?

   
We'll see....right now, just getting things prepped....before the joinery can start up..

[Grandpa Dave]

What time is it? Time for a January 2024 Bandit Project. ;={}
Will it be done by January 1st? Time will tell.
Tune in next time for another episode.

[Handplanesandmore]

You should've spent money on a camera!


Jokes aside, you still need another combo square after all these years of woodworking? Why?

Simon

[bandit571]

Sometimes...a LONGER blade will come in very handy....as in WIDE panels...

   


A lot of that fuzzy photo results from the camera being hand held, instead of on the tripod...and the right hand always having "The Essential Tremours"  old age tends to bring...and..since I run a WOOD shop and NOT a Photo Studio...it is what it is...

   
Using the Tripod for this one, BTW

[Handplanesandmore]

Sometimes...a LONGER blade will come in very handy....as in WIDE panels...

It makes sense if it's not the 12" version.

Simon