Boredom Relief

[tubber]

We got a new custom kitchen in the spring, so now we are trying to bring the rest of the 23 year old house up to date.
So we are doing new paint on doors, ceilings, walls, and door/window trim, new baseboards and some new flooring and fixtures and door handles.

I couldn't find my studfinder, so I went to Rona to find a studfinder finder, but I couldn't find one so I bought a new studfinder, so now I can find the studs for shooting the baseboards.

 

[winephart]

Well its fly tying time for me. Salmon in my local rivers is over and It will be a couple more weeks before starting to look for Steel Head.

 

[tubber]

Out with the tofu beige and in with light grey walls. Fresh coat on the ceilings. New paint on all trim. New baseboards. Brass knobs and hinges are gone. Interior doors aren't white anymore. Downstairs is getting close, upstairs can wait until after Christmas. Unfinished basement can wait another 23 years.
Place drop cloths, remove old baseboards, clean, fill, sand, wipe, mask a bit, cut and roll, sand, 2nd coat, cut and install baseboards, touch up, move to the next room, repeat.

 

[walleyes]

We got a new mattress earlier this fall, first King size for us, after 33 years of marriage. We didn’t like any of the choices for a frame so for the time being I through a frame together and promised momma I would make her a bed frame. Over the last week I finally got to it.
Worked with spruce on this one just plane old standard spruce lumber. There are some imperfections in the grain of the wood as it’s just standard grade wood but that’s ok it’s what a project like this is about, we wanted a bit of the rugged look. Used 2 x 12 laminated for the corner posts and laminated 1 x 6 for the head board and used 1 x 6 for the railings and foot board. The colour of the stain wouldn't have been my first pick but it’s the one the wife wanted to match her bedroom.

Will have a pic or two once it’s cured well and we have it in place.

 

[Newf]

Looks great. If I had a garage like that I would kick the blocks from under the bed frame, slap on the mattress and that would be my new home.

 

[walleyes]

Looks great. If I had a garage like that I would kick the blocks from under the bed frame, slap on the mattress and that would be my new home.

Lol well I just about do live in there when I’m home and not out fishing or hunting. But I do enjoy having it that’s for sure, couldn’t imagine my life without that place right now.

 

[Bows Up]

Duck hunting and building a flat stack rock wall for our outdoor shower. Prawning before Christmas, for sure.

Living in the sticks makes dealing with Covid much easier, no question.

 

[walleyes]

Got the bed frame in for momma today, suits the house well. Snapped a pic before it’s covered in what ever all that stuff is called women cover a bed in, I can’t keep track of all the names.

 

[sly_karma]

Got the bed frame in for momma today, suits the house well. Snapped a pic before it’s covered in what ever all that stuff is called women cover a bed in, I can’t keep track of all the names.

The pillows will breed and multiply when your back is turned.

 

[tubber]

We had a couple decent days for gathering sap this week before the freeze comes. I have 9 litres of sap from 3 maples in the freezer and turned 14 litres from the one box elder/manitoba maple into one jar of syrup today.
It was a test drive for a beginner. Tastes great, very sweet, but more like an Okanagan apple syrup than maple.

 

[walleyes]

For my latest project I took it up a notch. Went into the bush and harvested the wood. Had a decent sized spruce that blew down last summer so hating to see things go to waste I have started to use it up. Had to cut a ways into it to get away from the rot and into good wood.

Peeled the bark and start to clean up the slabs. Beings as I just free handed the planks with my saw they had to be flattened and made into straight board. Built a jig on my work bench and got at it with the router. Lots of cuts to get them square and flat but 1/2“ width at a time and pretty much a full day of work had what I wanted all squared off.

After that cut some notches and fit together, then disassemble and sand and sand. First with the belt sander then vibrating sander down to 200 grit to bring out the grain.
Will use it for a couple months to make sure it’s good and cured and dried then will epoxy the cracks and lacquer it. Or may just use an oil we will see.

Fits the new 65” just right as is why I started this project in the first place our older 50” LG crapped out and we purchased a new TV and it did not fit on our old stand.
My first live edge project.

 

[Dorman Point]

For my latest project I took it up a notch. Went into the bush and harvested the wood. Had a decent sized spruce that blew down last summer so hating to see things go to waste I have started to use it up. Had to cut a ways into it to get away from the rot and into good wood.

Peeled the bark and start to clean up the slabs. Beings as I just free handed the planks with my saw they had to be flattened and made into straight board. Built a jig on my work bench and got at it with the router. Lots of cuts to get them square and flat but 1/2“ width at a time and pretty much a full day of work had what I wanted all squared off.

After that cut some notches and fit together, then disassemble and sand and sand. First with the belt sander then vibrating sander down to 200 grit to bring out the grain.
Will use it for a couple months to make sure it’s good and cured and dried then will epoxy the cracks and lacquer it. Or may just use an oil we will see.

Fits the new 65” just right as is why I started this project in the first place our older 50” LG crapped out and we purchased a new TV and it did not fit on our old stand.
My first live edge project.

I love this stuff. Well done.

 

[Dogbreath]

You always bring a gun to harvest trees?

Curious mind want to know.

 

[sly_karma]

I followed an idea and made a wifi timing setup with data transmitted via cloud. First time tinkering with a Raspberry Pi computer. Showed up my woeful lack of ability with Linux and Python, project would not have advanced without vital programming from a colleague in California. I'll take it to the ski hill this weekend and see how it behaves in the cold.

 

[walleyes]

You always bring a gun to harvest trees?

Curious mind want to know.

Lol was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick up on that. I took the pic after the fact, about 4 days after I harvested the tree. I was out looking for some rabbits for supper, haven’t had fresh fried rabbit in ages and there are a few starting to show up, but no such luck. Too many Linx and Martin on my land and in the area they keep them thinned pretty good.

 

[sly_karma]

A buddy and I have done a couple of September firewood missions for decades now, fill his F550 flat deck with fir or larch and then use the hydraulic dump to unload. He always brings a rifle. Amazing how curious deer are sometimes. The chainsaw and splitting racket should scare them off but instead they sometimes come in for a look.

 

[Gordon]

Working on boat upholstery, urns, bikes... and a few other things

 

[Gordon]

1 season 6 episodes good acting Netflix
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I will check that out!!

 

[CIVANO]

Netflix DVD only. Very well done BBC detective series shot in Scotland

 

[wildmanyeah]

Limed the lawn yesterday, will see if it helps with my moss lawn lol