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Here is my new-to-me Stanley n°8C type 13, lovingly restored by @jjjjayhawk. Jason has some serious restoration and tuning skills - right out of the (incredibly well packaged) box, it cuts wonderfully. I don't think I could be any happier. Since starting down the handplane slope, I've been wanting a n°8. I couldn't justify the price of the ones I've been seeing online, so when Jason offered up this beauty, I had to say yes. Actually, it was more of a "YES!!!!!!!!" The last photo shows it in comparison to a n°7 and a n°4. Anyways, I love it, and if you have the chance to buy a plane restored by Jason, do it. #stanley8 #stanleynumber8 #stanley8c #stanley8ctype13 #handplane #handtoolthursday #onceitstartsitwontstop #momentum

Raw and rough: the backside of the cloud. Since it was made from 12mm Baltic birch plywood, the 3' x 7' cloud needed some extra reinforcement to keep it flat. I may have gone a little overboard.....

Walnut edge around felt made from recycled plastic.

This is the other project which I am working on - refacing a kitchen for a friend from my previous life as a cubicle dweller. It's a bit challenging because the existing cabinets were installed askew. Going from a weird orange to a lighter beige has already made a huge difference. We'll be adding some extra cabinets, internal storage solutions, lighting, crown mold, and a valance. Looking forward to showing you the before and after pictures. In the meantime, enjoy these lines, knowing that the cabinets behind them are anything but lined up.

Ever spend an entire day on what should have been an easy task? That was my day. All I had to do was glue the edging on the table. Between futzing with miters and rabbets, and having epoxy butt joints split, this took far longer than I anticipated. The good news is that all of the joints are tight. The last couple of months have been challenging. Right out of the gate, life happened and threw off my work schedule. I'm now working long days and weekends in order to catch up, and life keeps on happening. I'm not saying this to elicite sympathy. Rather, I need to make some changes to my schedule, and have some conversations with clients about project delivery dates.

Edging a cloud which will hang over a boardroom table. Love my Dewalt DW716 with the FS Tool SM6300 blade.

With the shorter outfeed table now on the tablesaw, I needed something for supporting longer stock. I had planned on building attachments for my Krenov sawhorses, and here's the first one. I happened to have some oak offcuts which, combined with the ball bearings, were the perfect height. I may make a few more.

First time tilting the bandsaw table. Decided it was the safer way to rough out these table edge blanks. The blanks are all walnut offcuts, most made up of several smaller pieces epoxied together with black-tinted epoxy. This one is a little extreme. The black defines each individual piece.

This is one way to clear out walnut offcuts - epoxy them together to create longer boards. Neat side project.

Been slowly picking away at making a new outfeed table for the tablesaw. This is made from an old Ikea butcher block countertop (the rest was used to make the fences for the tablesaw sled). The support arms are made from honey locust offcuts given to me by my dad. The bridle joint was cut using a tenon jig on the tablesaw. I like having the outfeed attached to the saw, as it eliminates leveling issues if the saw gets moved. I realized that for most of what I do, 16" is enough support. This leaves more open floor space (and less horizontal surface to collect stuff). When I do need more outfeed support, I can use sawhorses.

Another shot of the front entry storage cabinet. Yeah, you're gonna be seeing a lot of this.

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