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A Little about me Being sort of a retired nerd, I spent my career doing mostly finance related I/T, I have always gravitated towards technical stuf...

This is current. 3/8/25, 1900 something hours.[looky 1.JPG] [looky 2.JPG] [looky 3.JPG] [looky 4.JPG] [looky 5.JPG][looky 6.JPG] [looky 22.JPG] I s...

Although 3/8 wall thickness received a lot of support on the prior blog, and Splintergroup graciously outlined how I could get the top set (hope to...

Well I already missed a week and this will be the second week missed.  Last Monday night my Dad lost his battle to lung cancer and passed. I have b...

I started milling up some walnut for the next urn.  This one will be for my husband, and he picked out the board from what I had stocked up (used t...

From my research, each 1 pound equates to 1 cubic inch.  I have decided to construct the urns I'm building to accommodate the typical plastic tempo...

Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the day before Weathervane 7, and give myself a dope slap. Edit 3/13/25  That would be the 2nd Weathervane 7 blo...

Well here goes another 52 weeks in the shop challenge for myself to get in the shop or even shops more often. I did one of these over on that other...

I should have added this pic to the last chapter, but I couldn't find it. My phone is a mess lately. [getting close 56.JPG] The wing and tail are n...

I haven’t done a very good job with this blog so here’s an update on my urn-building journey. For several months I did not work on the urn as I was...

I'm getting some traction now. Time to get the body in 1 piece. First thing was to clear away everything that was packed around and touching the w...

I played with a few options for the base. Eventually a 3/4" bronze bushing got installed. Dead center. The same marks I put on when the rings got a...