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It's been a very busy week. Â I won't get too into it, but here's a quick overview of the projects I've been working on in the shop.
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First off, my apprentices are fixing all kinds of things around the house. Â Here you see them fixing the door to the basement.

No surprise here. Â I'm working on a flag for an old friend from college. Â This is now finished and just awaiting assembly.

The same friend also ordered a helmet stand for his father that is already done. Â This is the one that I put the walnut racing stripe in. Â There's yet another helmet display stand on deck for my college roommate.

My boys' school's (the above apprentices) big annual fundraiser is coming up and each class puts together a big gift package to be auctioned off.  The kindergarten class' theme is family game night.  I built a giant "Falling Tower" game with a crate.  The kids are going to decorate the blocks and I'm going to make a little cart to put this thing on.  It's HEAVY!

I found some time today to work on a shop project (a project for the actual shop, that is). Â My awesome miter saw seemed a little bit off, so I spent some time with shims and and straight edges getting it all aligned today. Â The extended fence that I've had on there for the past eight or nine months was made of a jointed and planed 2x4. Â It was kinda straight, but 2x4s tend to move a lot with changes in humidity. Â Today I also replaced the fence with a maple one. Â This is another piece from the "crazy twisted or marred" stack at the lumber yard. Â The defect of this piece was that it was taken from the side of the tree and there was a large chunk of bark along one edge. Â It was actually the perfect size and shape for this and I think the "live edge" at the end works well.

I'm trying to get the shop more organized and getting that whole miter station counter more squared away makes me happy.
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That's it for now. Â Thanks for reading!
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