January workbench

I bought a heater for my woodshop, had to do some electrical for the 220. Really underwhelmed. I’m back to the drawing board myself.
 
we haven't been cold so far this winter, no ice to make the divers migrate. My shop is a three car garage with a very leaky double door, the single door is sealed well. I have a 220 heater too, but it's more or less there to keep things from freezing. If the temp is 20 outside it will be 54 inside. By mid afternoon the heater catches up and will get to 65 or so, pretty tolerable to work in. All summer I get up at 4am to beat the heat in the shop and work inside in the craft room where the air conditioner makes it nice. Now I get up at 4 am and work in the craft room till noon and go to the shop after lunch, I find it impossible to break that early riser habit, so I adjust where I'm working, not when I'm working. i'm going duck hunting in the morning and don't need to set an alarm, I'll already have been up an hour before my son gets here.
 
Outside temps is just below zero. Toyo oil stove and wood stove are keeping the shop at 60. Making progress on this bunch of harlequins and buffleheads. Six more birds to cut out tomorrow. Then on to hollowing and gluing. Long way to go but it's a big project.
As you can see out the window it was snowing nicely. When the snow stops and we clear out it will cool down again.
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Not carving but duck related. Took an old very basic burlap diver body and made a silicone mold . Smoothed the burlap out w drywall mud and painted that once it was smooth. Did quite a few coats of 6oz glass for mother mold(wish I had something thinner at least the first layers). Decided that I would add filler to the bottom of mold (plexiglass) to add a hand hold and save foam.

Also made 14 new mainline anchors after having some slide in hard sand bottom with ice floes.
 

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William Reinicke said:
What are those prototype of?
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Eric Patterson

Thread 'Question For Dave McCann and Any Other Machinist'

I want to duplicate the pictured set-up on my lathe or come up with something similar. Right now I'm lacking the milled-to-pattern cutter but have a vendor who can supply them. I have the cross slide to mount the cutter to. I don't have the tool holding device nor have I done a lot of metal lathe set-up and could use some help in this arena.

Looking at the tool holding device it appears to utilize the cross slide's t-slot that runs left to right and has a bolt to clamp the cutter in place. The "lugs", for lack of a better term, have a bevel that I assume applies downward pressure to jam...
 
William, my son Caleb works in a dental lab and works with a 3D printer everyday. He's going to buy the same printer he uses in the lab to print the keychains he's been selling on our website. He has a whole bunch of stuff he's going to be doing once we get that printer going.

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There is definitely a different color tone on those hens. I need to try some other colors of flocking in the beige/tan/orange end of things. I really wished I had some sort of raw sienna or caramel color of flocking. I haven't shot many hen redheads and the photos I looked at varied widely, I just settled on one with a big white patch on the face. I'm kind of liking your head reference better. I have another drake and a hen not yet flocked. I'm going to experiment with some more colors, but to get that orangish brown in a mid range brown seems to be elusive.

You make me jealous with all those redheads, we have a hunt able number around here most years, this year hasn't been enough to warrant packing decoys a 3 mile round trip. It's a steep mile and a half with lots of ups and downs keep our decoy numbers low, maybe two species and 12 decoys. I'll have more redheads and bluebills next year if the Lord allows me another year. Thousands of bluebills and they decoy well to redheads. I guess I just bought a 3 year geezer (senior) license so I suppose I should try to use it up.
 
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