Pine Wood Derby

    So today I did something completely different for me . We have a group of kids at our church called the Awana's maybe you've heard of them I think they are a national group.. Well they are going to have what is called Awana Grand Prix in a couple of weeks. It was called pine wood derby when I was in Cub scouts We won't say how long ago that was . So we had the kids draw they're design on the peice of wood and then  a couple of  guys and Me cut them all out on some scroll saws. And then they each took and painted them . Only took a couple of hours and everybody seemed really happy. Sorry I didn't take any pictures..............Rick

Privacy Screens

           20 years ago I built three sets of these privacy screens for my niece's wedding. All I had at the time for tools was a skill saw , a jig saw and a palm sander. I have no idea if the other two sets still exist or not .We have had this  set in storage all wrapped up in plastic I had even forgotten that I had them. Funny thing though this particular set has far out lasted my niece's wedded bliss. I think I'll wrap them back up and dig them out in 20 more years just to see if they still look good.............Rick

        Well the birthday has come and gone . the play house (what there is of it ) was a big hit it sure is a good thing 5 year olds have good imaginations . I'm pretty sure she thought she was looking at a palace. I will continue to work on it making it look like a little house instead on a storage shed.But right now our weather has turned back to rain so I'm going to move my work inside untill it stops. Nothing beats being a little on the lazy side once in a while.............Rick

Play House pt.3

Well here it is in all its glory,      Not really but I did get the plywood on the out side I still need to do the roof but I wait for an earlier start . I only got a little over 6 hrs. in what I have built so far. I going to put lapp siding half way up on the front and window side and T-1-11 above it and on the back. Then I can start on the door and the inside. Somebody needs to reply and tell me how ugly and unsafe this thing is..............Rick

Play house Pt 2

Here are the pics I said I'd post didn't get a whole lot done today spent most of the day doing honey do's. I'm sure you all know about those. Did get the 4th wall framed in now all I have to do is put plywood up and the out side will be closed in . Sure looks small when you start putting walls and things up .

Play house

          I spent the day designing and building a play house for my Grand Daughter Who will be turning 5 years old next week. I didn't have the money to go buy all nice new stuff to build it with but I did have an old pile of 2x4's laying out behind my shop so I thought I would take out the nails and use them. Guess what none of them are any good. I expected the ones on top to maybe be bad but the ones toward the bottom were just nasty . I'll give you one guess what I'm taking to the dump on my next trip......... I did however have some light gauge punched angle metal the kind of metal they use for hanging garage door openers . So I built the frame out of that It's kinda flimsie but when you get it all put together and put siding on it It's perfect for building walls. I did not take any pics of my first day of construction all I got done was three walls and the floor I'll post pics as soon as the sun comes out. The hard part is going to be the interior of the house I'm a little worried about that..........................RICK

wireing

Just a side note .Got evey thing hooked up and working in the wireing dept . Thats a 5 year old problem off my mind. I can now actually run my table saw and dust extractor at the same time without kicking a breaker. Its wonderful to live in the 21 century............Rick