Week-end Post, What Are You Doing

Built two new shelves in the shop today and fabricated myself a clamp plate for my flypress... a freeking 5/8" metal rated drill bit with a 1/2" shank costs 25$ gah! Hopefully I'll never need a 2nd one now. Cutting a 2" hole without a hole saw, through half inch plate isn't easy or fun, but a whole bunch of 1/4" holes and a cold chisel, and judicious use of my treadle hammer now that iv's got a flat base plate, and I've got a proper clamping plate for bottom tooling for the fly press. I then cut some heavy stock to make a fence and some other stuff for the bottom.

Tomorrow I've got the day off, so I'm going to go on a cleaning binge and try to get my shop clean (try being the key word) I've got piles of metal dust and shavings and slivers from drilling and grinding metal all weekend, and I'd rather not fall and cut myself on them.
 
February 22, 2008

Today I've been outside most of the time working on getting the snow and ice out of the way. And we have more coming in tonight. Saturday I will be working out in the shop grinding a new knife. Sunday will be my day off. How about all of you? What's your week-end starting to look like. ------------:yawn:
 
February 22-24, 2008

Gotta help clean up the house for my future sister in law's baby shower. Retreating to the sanctity of my man cave and finish polishing up some blades. Maybe finishing the lockback I started on.

I'm not allowed to forge with the ladies present due to the smell and smoke if I run the oil forge too rich. I do that one time and the house fills with smoke and I'm a bad person :(

My fiance did ask if I wanted to come to the shower and I told her that that violated the armistice declared in olden times between man and woman.
 
I just pickup 4.5# of London Broil steaks this morning. I ground one up for hamburger and added my special seasonings, so it will be nice and marinated for tomorrow. Nathan will be by tomorrow to try to fit slabs on his first knife and I hope to grind out my Chef's Knife on my rotary platen.:thumbup::cool::D
 
Saturday, I'll be working on my cycle. Linda was talking about Laconia Bike Week yesterday, I told her I've got to get the Shovel Head running before we go anywhere ;)

Sunday, Kook, Marleen, Linda and I are going to the Boston Hard Rock Cafe to celebrate Marleen's Birthday, which is today :D
 
:)The little lady is out of town this weekend, so I can start early and work late.
First -Cut up some handle wood for a fellow forumite.
Second - Work on mete's spoon.
Then I plan on firing up the forge and hammering out a daisho (set of swords).
I plan to make a kata-kiriha-zukuri O-wakazashi ( with kiriha-zukuri ura and hira-zukuri omote) ,and a plain hira-zukuri shoto-wakazashi. O-wak would be 24" ha with 13" tsuka, and Shoto-wak would be 12" ha and 7" tsuka.
I still have the two matching tsuba that I bought at Bill Moran's estate sale.I think they deserve blades.
Maybe I'll go all the way and do the saya and tsuka in Bill's curly maple with silver wire inlay.

That should take a little more than this weekend, but I plan on getting the blades forged.

I just re-read the post and thought I should translate it into English:

The set of swords will be a long short-sword and a short short-sword. 37" (24" blade and 13" handle) and 19" (12" blade and 7" handle) respectively. The long one will have two different side shapes. The inside,or right hand side (when in the hand) will have a shinogi (ridge or grind line) and the outside ,or left hand side will be a smooth appleseed grind (convex grind). The short one will be a basic convex grind blade. The guards will be ones that belonged to Bill Moran.
Stacy

Spell checking this was a waste of time:):eek:
 
Thanks for the translation Stacy =) I like Japanese blades and know a lot of the terminology, but your post lost even me!

This weekend I'm going to hope that my tool receiver mount for my fly press arrives, but even if it doesn't I'm going to spend time in the shop working on learning to lay electric weld beads with my lincoln buzz box. Going to also build a few shelves and try to clean up the shop more than i did last weekend. Just getting my fly press into the shop last weekend was enough of a chore that i just pushed stuff out of the way to squeeze it in there.
 
3-1-08

Working out in the shop this week-end and putting down some grass seed on the ground. Last summer was dry here and the lawn looks sick. We had some snow and rain here this winter this will help out the lawn. Sunday working in the shop and going out with the wife. How about all of you? What's your week-end looking like. :thumbup:
 
March 1-2, 2008

Fitting up guards and handles for 3 knives, hopefully making sheaths for them :( Maybe forging the weird ring guard, full tang, self defense knife for my buddy. Helping my mom move :(
 
This morning - I'm waiting on my pregnant wife to wake up then we'll probably head out to a local park and hit the 7.5 mile trail around the pond with the dog. Depends on how cold the weather is later.

Then baby furniture shopping...
 
March 1st
Working on a 1084 billet, working on a tamahagane billet, doing school work:rolleyes:, maybe watching a movie, cleaning the garage?, searching for a log splitter, making a new hot cut chisel, and maybe ordering a new heat exchanger for the garage.
March 2nd
Working at the farm, washing laundry, and sleeping.
 
Worked on a new cabinet/table for my sharpening machine (one of my inventions). Made some modifications to improve it a bit. Added the ability to put a micro-hollow grind on the blade edge. Ordered some special leg mounting brackets to make it portable (removable legs).Photos and specs to come in a couple of weeks, if all goes well.

Grilled two beef tenderloin fillets along with a foil packet of asparagus,leeks, and tomatoes. Judy and I are full and happy. Might light the fire and pour a glass of scotch.
Stacy
 
Sunday, 2 March.

Got the guards fitted and waiting for the jb weld to dry. Taking my fiance to our favorite watering hole for $1 brand X beer night :) Talking with my brother and business partners about current situation with opening our bar/restraunt and where we're at on acquiring a failing bar.
 
3-7-08

Been outside working the drive. We got 5' of snow today and more coming in tonight and on Satuday. Working out in the shop on satuday and sunday as well. How about all of you. What's your week-end looking like? :thumbup:
 
3-7-08
House is full of teenaged girls, fiance's daughter's 15th B'day.... I'm in Hell. Shop isn't safe from them, send help... will try to hang on until support arrives.

Finishing up future mother-in-law's knife (neck knife, they do Rendevous) working on the ring guard fighter and a stabby dirk thingy I forged the other day.
 
Judy's son and his fiancée are in town. We are going to eat at Freemason Abbey ( an upscale restaurant in an old abbey) and then on to front row seats for Sir James Galway at Chrysler Hall.I'll wear my new light blue Prince Charlie ( Its first night out).
Stacy
 
Gah, you have multiple PC jackets? I don't even have one yet, I have to hire one for formal occasions, though Iv'e got a tweed jacket that is serviceable when i can fit into it, it's a bit on the small size now since i got it way back when i was in high school.

We're supposed to be getting around 4 inches of rain this weekend so I'll be spending time making sure my basement doesn't flood. The tooling that I ordered for my flypress isnt arriving until Monday now, so i wont get to play with it over the weekend. I'm going to try to grind out from some cable damascus I made a sgian dubh I'm making for a friend this weekend, and get it heat treated. If i can accomplish that, I'll call it a successful weekend in the shop.
 
Justin - What size do you wear. I come across jackets and gear from time to time (Even Scotsmen don't live forever), to be given away to a new wearer.
Stacy
 
going by the measurements that https://www.woollenmill.co.uk/pages/jacket-measuring.html asks for, wearing a shirt and all.

42" chest 38-40" waist (on the larger side right now, size 36 pants, but I'm in the process of losing a few lbs)

26" arm length and 24" back length. These are all ballpark figures because it's hard to measure oneself accurately. I'm fairly average sized, 6"1, currently 185, but usually 175lbs. I need to lose the pounds packed on by winter inactivity >_<
 
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