A view out the Garage.

It was stunning to look at as I was closing up for the evening last week.  So I ran and got the camera and practiced my manual camera settings.  Eitherway, I took two, and this one worked out best.

I need fewer homes in my sunset pictures. :-)

Gifted

I'm ecstatic.  Ecstatic is another word for jubilant.

I was offered to receive some samples of raw veneer woods for woodworking.  I politely and enthusiastically accepted.  What I received was beyond compare.  At least for free. :)

Unfortunately the following list is alphabetical, and the photos above are NOT... so it's up to you to match up which wood is which... 

Anyway, here's the list;

Argentino Gray, Bronze Oak, Bronze Redwood Burl, East Indian Rosewood, Flat Cut East Indian Rosewood, Flat Cut Ebony, Flat Cut Euro Maple Flat, Cut Indian Laurel, Flat Cut Sapele, Quartered Afromosia, Quartered Austrailian Maple, Quartered Black Ebony, Quartered Bronze Eucalyptus, Quartered Ceylon Rosewood, Quartered Figured Anigre, Quartered Figured Black Eucalyptus, Quartered Figured Sapele, Quartered IPE, Quartered Reconsitituted Ebony, Quartered Reconsituted Zebrano, Quartered Reconstituted Teak, Quartered Sapele, Quartered Smoke Sapele, Quartered Wenge, Reconsitituted Bog Ebony, Sapele Pommele, Zericote

I received pretty much a minumum of 4 pieces of each species upto 16 piece of some species.  Almost all are 16"x16" as well, and some are larger, only the #2 veneers above are 10" x 16".

This excites me to start the two hope chest for the girls.  I think I will be using plank cedar wood on the interior (the interlocking kind), then veneer the outside with something fancy from the above.

I am very fortunate sometimes to stumble on the things I come across, and I do not take that for granted.  I really do have some project plans for these veneers, and all the other ones I have collected over the last year.

Finished

Another house hold project complete.

Cost: $0.oo (it was all scrap lumber.  It was made from a piece of my old work bench top.  I'm green.  I recycle.)

I finished the pull out work surfaces for the work bench.  It didn't come out QUITE as well as I had hoped, but, with out having to dismantle the work bench, I'm pretty happy over all.

Everything went as planned, except, I had hoped to have more work surface exposed.  Right now it's about 12".  I was hoping for 14-16, but it is what it is.  It's very stout, and I'm sure I could sit on it and feel safe.  And that's more the key to this.  I want it strong enough to not be dangerous.

I hope this sparks some interest for someone else.

You can kind of see the guts here.  There are some screws in the back that allow me to adjust the depth of the slide out work surface when it's put away.  There are also screws on the bottom that allow me to adjust how far out it comes.

Everything is installed and flush.  The handles shouldn't get in the way of using clamps or anything.

Madison is having a nice time riding up and down the "black alley"

Everything deployed for use.  Unfortunantly, the corners are right at Madisons eye height, so I will do my best to only use these when I need them, and I'll probably add some safety orange tape to the ends/corners.  There's probably good reason for me to add it for my safety as well.  Safety is #1 in my garage. 

Everything in fake use.  Having a place to put my plastic bins for access was the main motivator for doing this modification, as it was rough on my back if I was accessing them from the floor.  Now, no issue.  Being 6'8" is not all it's cracked up to be. :(

Work Bench Mod

I'm hoping to get this sorted out by the end of the weekend.  It's almost done, so it shouldnt be too hard to do.

Using scrap 2x4 and 2x10, I wanted to add two slide out work tables.  They arent really for working, just storing and general temporary use.

MESSY garage.  Moving the Toolbox out of the way was difficult.

I had to remove a part of my work bench so I could cut in the slot for the work surface.