Today was a surprise. I mean, I knew it was Father’s Day. It was reminded me two days ago. I didn’t realize it before that. So, I did somewhat figure there would be something going on today. But I got more gifts than I imagined, and I really enjoyed what was given me. Missus gave me a cast iron garlic roaster, a tea pot from Harney and Sons, and a phone case for my belt, which is just perfect as I have had trouble with it and where to carry it before. My daughters got me a book of things to do together, and some interesting photosensitive paper. It was really cool. Then I was set free.
I spent the day in my woodshop. There were no chores to do or catch up on. I was just free to work. So, I organized some things and got a jump ahead on some cleaning. I have the batteries put up on a wall and a saw till holding all the saws now. I also sorted out a place for all the screwdrivers and a few other tools, such as the scorp and froe and adz. All that cleaned up much of the top of one of my workbenches.
I worked on the small table I am building and found that I would rather use my bandsaw than try to manually saw the legs from inch and a half stock. I had to clean a wax pan out to use it to boil the polyurethane belts on the wheels of the saw. That was no short, quick task. But once I got the belts on the wheels and the blade mounted, the saw worked perfectly, and I think I will definitely use it to speed up the work I want to do with the hand tools. I was able to get those table legs sawed to shape right away.
Today was a wonderful day that kept me busy doing things I wanted to do, and I was able to make some serious progress towards getting the shop running to build furniture for the house, and hopefully profitable projects to sell to the public. I still have a huge mess on the machinist bench where I intend to put the stained-glass station. Hopefully it will all get done soon!