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| jamoni:
I'm alive! So, I DID get the shet roofed and trimmed out and whatnot, and I did do some work in it. Mostly motorcycle stuff, trying to shoehorn a BIG dirtbike motor into a LITTLE streetbike frame. Unfortunately I can't locate my pics of the completed project, but they are somewhere. So.... I was renting the house where the shed sat, and after a few short months of workshop bliss, I decided to up and get engaged to a gal who owns her own house. So.... I had to tear the shed right back down. :( It's sitting in my new side yard. Unfortunately the yard is tiny, and there's no room to put up the shed... HOWEVER there is a garage, with a concrete pad, that's almost as big. So my shop has been partially moved out there, until we can sort out who owns the ton of crap filling it up, and get rid of it. Then it'll be mine all mine! I have been keeping busy, though: I'm gearing up to do some knifemaking. I have the tools to do custom knives now, but I want to be able to crank out decent quantities of simple blades as automatically and quickly as possible. So I'm building and modifying a handful of machines to make that possible. The next step on the grinding machine is to make better slides and fixtures, to add a screw feed to both slides, and to motorize them. I'm going to put up a system of switches that will reverse the main slide motor at each end of it's travel, and feed the grinder motor down a variable amount each time the slide returns to it's start position. Also, a stop switch once it's cut to full depth. This will let me start it up, and it will automatically shuttle the work back and forth while gradually deepening the grind, until it's done. Then I can put down my cafe mocha and marvel at my awesomeness. |
| dsquire:
Jamoni I was beginning to think that you had skipped the country. A Woman! Now I understand. :lol: :lol: We would be intereted in seeing some pictures of your knives when you have some. :D Cheers :beer: Don |
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