Rowan Experiment.

Mountain Ash aka Rowan is everywhere here in Red Lodge. Its basically a root suckering weed around here. So when a friend cut a bunch out of his yard and offered it to me i thought why not? Worst case scenario ill have some firewood come next winter. 

So i set it up on the band saw and gave it a go.

Lets just say that if this stuff dries without checking to badly i'm going to have some fun with this wood.

I have some re-sawed and stickerd and some drying in log form.

The randomness of life right now.

There has been a lot going on here in red lodge although not all of it has been related to the wood shop. First off the skiing has continued, it is getting extremely spring-ish and slushy. The time change has made the evening skiing more like skiing in the daytime, views like the one below are harder and harder to find.

Right before the big melt down started i was able to get into the palisades and do some skiing and climbing. I will definitely do that again, this might be a summer trip.

I made a wheel chalk for a airplane, sent it off for testing. I'll get a pic on the blog for you all once the chalk gets to its destination.

Heather visited the shop one day and was fascinated by my Red Ryder with a pistol grip. So we took a photo that's so very Wyoming it hurts.

As the melt down continued we had a fog day on the mountain. I love skiing in fog, unfortunately the conditions were firm to hard.

Finally Heather and i are working on an Anorak. I'll have more on that as i finish it up.

Well that's it for now...
Cheers.

Oh My, skiing is good.

We have a little bit of a warming spell going on here in our little corner of Montana. This means that its time to let the legs relax after a month of amazing skiing. Here are some picks.

When its good... Its soooooooo good.

Concrete Sink Grate

I started doing some work for McGregor Designs. One of the fun little projects is a sapele grate for a bathroom sink.

You can see the joinery with the pieces sitting on the pattern. I cut the joints so that when clamped into the jig for glue the parts are forced out into the jig.

Before glue i had to cut all the slots for the louvers, a table saw sled simplified that process.

Here is the jig for glue.

After the frame was glued up  i put in the louvers.

With a little sanding, some spit and polish, and the concrete part it looks really good.

Its amazing how long that little thing really took to build.
Till next time,
Cheers