|
|
12-14-2017, 10:08 PM
|
#581
|
Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,925
|
What We're Making
In June, I toured amazing Peru including Lima, Cuzco, and the Amazon. Wonderful food, people, and culture. My main souvenir purchase was baby alpaca yarn and I finished my first ever knitted sweater today! It’s perfect for our warm Texas winters!
__________________
"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather
----------------------------------
ER'd Oct. 2010 at 53. Life is good.
|
|
|
|
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!
|
12-14-2017, 10:36 PM
|
#582
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,474
|
Wow, that's gorgeous, MBAustin! You did a great job.
__________________
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
|
|
|
12-15-2017, 06:00 AM
|
#583
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 812
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MBAustin
In June, I toured amazing Peru including Lima, Cuzco, and the Amazon. Wonderful food, people, and culture. My main souvenir purchase was baby alpaca yarn and I finished my first ever knitted sweater today! It’s perfect for our warm Texas winters!
|
Cria yarn is incredibly soft! The sweater turned out great.
|
|
|
12-15-2017, 07:46 AM
|
#584
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,422
|
Beautiful work to all of you!
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 11:41 AM
|
#585
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 194
|
quilt.jpg
I took a quilting class last winter. Took me until the end of August to finish it. Now I know why quilts are so expensive.
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 11:52 AM
|
#586
|
Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,302
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PawPrint53
I took a quilting class last winter. Took me until the end of August to finish it. Now I know why quilts are so expensive.
|
I bet that's a lot of work, I wouldn't want to even try to guess how much time it took to make that!
__________________
When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 12:28 PM
|
#587
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Lakewood
Posts: 919
|
First watch mod!
image.jpg
I wanted a brass watch but couldn’t find any I liked in my size and price range, so I bought a timex and stripped the chrome plating with acid and a dremel. I’m most proud of removing the juvenile “expedition” logo and faux screws from the bezel. But I ended up removing so much material, I had to regroove the crown and get a wider watch strap. Still, $200 cheaper and a better fit than anything I could’ve bought.
__________________
Why be normal when you can be yourself?
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 12:45 PM
|
#588
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
|
Wow fine detailing work! Congratulations.
__________________
For the fun of it...Keith
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 02:54 PM
|
#589
|
gone traveling
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 255
|
How will you keep the brass from tarnishing? Or is that part of the look you're going for?
|
|
|
12-16-2017, 03:07 PM
|
#590
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Lakewood
Posts: 919
|
Yes, I’m a firm believer that a natural and honest patina is the best feature of a brass watch.
__________________
Why be normal when you can be yourself?
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 12:41 AM
|
#591
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 125
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PawPrint53
Attachment 27405
I took a quilting class last winter. Took me until the end of August to finish it. Now I know why quilts are so expensive.
|
Beautiful quilt. I took up quilting after retiring too. I'm enjoying it.
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 06:08 AM
|
#592
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,543
|
Whipped up a couple of mega cheese boards. did a turquoise inlay on the handle that I wish popped a bit more so that it can be seen better.
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 06:23 AM
|
#593
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
|
^ Very nice!
__________________
"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 10:24 AM
|
#594
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: yonder
Posts: 2,851
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronstar
Whipped up a couple of mega cheese boards. did a turquoise inlay on the handle that I wish popped a bit more so that it can be seen better.
|
Very nice. Did you also build the counters that the cheeseboards are on?
__________________
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 10:40 AM
|
#595
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,543
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
^ Very nice!
|
Thanks!
Thanks!
No I didn't build the top on my bar (it's granite) and I didn't build the bar cabinet. I only made the front trim piece.
|
|
|
12-17-2017, 12:11 PM
|
#596
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: yonder
Posts: 2,851
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronstar
No I didn't build the top on my bar (it's granite) and I didn't build the bar cabinet. I only made the front trim piece.
|
Slacker!
__________________
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
|
|
|
12-18-2017, 08:03 PM
|
#597
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Duluth
Posts: 139
|
Nice work. What type of wood did you use for the cheese boards?
__________________
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to fulfill them.” -- John Stewart Mill
|
|
|
12-18-2017, 08:27 PM
|
#598
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,543
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by msieweke
Nice work. What type of wood did you use for the cheese boards?
|
Thanks - African mahogany
|
|
|
12-21-2017, 05:41 AM
|
#599
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,543
|
MIL called - said she needed a cutting board for a Christmas gift. I went to the workshop and rounded up some scraps from baseboard trim, drafting table, a cabinet and a gun stock. And got her a cutting board with 4 days to spare.
|
|
|
12-21-2017, 08:50 AM
|
#600
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 661
|
I never realized how easy end grain cutting boards are to make. Basically if you have a planer and a table saw you're good to go. They're really cool looking too.
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Threads
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Quick Links
|
|
|