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263872 Charles Driggs <charliedriggs@i...> 2017‑11‑12 Re: what's on your bench
> 
> Well, I too have a list of projects.  ….

Same story here.  After several false restarts, I’m actively working on a
project I had started way back in January 2007 at the request of LOML — and
which I had been forced to suspend by an unexpected need for in-spine surgery a
month later.  That project has seen two attempts to restart it in the past.
Changes over that period required some redesign of the plans done over the past
two weeks, and I’ve been making shavings again.  I'm finally committed to
getting it done of my own accord.  Now, a Queen Anne style lingerie chest is
something folks living 250 years ago never even heard of much less considered as
needed furniture, but today is a different story.  Progress is interrupted with
other things that pop up needing repairs on a weekly basis.
 
Over the last week, my shop activities also had me …

a) doing a quick dismantling of a windsor-style white oak eating area chair we
discovered on Thursday had suffered glue failure in four of the ten leg
structure joints; those were repaired with 260 gram strength hide glue and the
chair was back in service Friday;
b) doing a successful search for the long parked box of parts and blanks needed
to resume (after two years of other projects) turning, finishing and assembling
a pair of pepper mill kits per requests by our children as Christmas gifts;
these were parked after discovering that the kit maker had screwed up the
supposedly concentric bores in the wood blanks while laboring on them before
Christmas 2015, and that may still require remaking the blanks using the kit
pieces as guidance;
c) going through roughly 150 back issues of Fine Woodworking donated by Bill
Ghio for handout at the next SAPFM chapter meeting, after I identify and scan
any articles I want to have available; that has generated a nice backache
standing over the printer/scanner, provided confirmation that the older issues
were the more informative ones, and showed that FWW does seem to repeat the same
topics every 5-6 years — although their approach to each repeat  seems to
differ.
d) figuring out whether the rubber primary seal on a brand new yet leaking
Contigo travel mug could be replaced with a similar size standard O-ring (to be
resolved on Monday when the 99 cent ordered size arrives).

There is little woodworking involvement in the last one, but the magazine review
has pleasantly immersed me in furniture making and related topics and the
imaging will take at least this week to complete.  Except for the lingerie
chest, none of the other projects above match any of the other items on the list
of projects I want to build or perform at some point that was created when I
retired.  I just slowly work towards completing that list, interrupted often by
home maintenance, spouse maintenance, and other needs.

Charlie Driggs

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