My other Job

[BIGNASTY]

My other job working for our BIL/SIL. I didn't tell them I hate TILE work but like the woodworking if they LEFT ME ALONE IN THE SHOP!

 

[GHarman]

VERY NICE, BIG!
GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

Well they seem to be happy! thats the important part. And like I tell them any mistakes that are made CANT BE SEEN FROM MY HOUSE!:-laf

I really dont mind helping them out LuLu is just so happy, that is worth my time she is a GREAT SIL This is a small bathroom that has access to the outside so we dont track dirt and water in her house still alot more work to do.

 

[jgillott]

I have a kitchen floor that needs done if you run out of things to do.

Nice work.

 

[BIGNASTY]

VERY NICE, BIG!

GregH

Thanks Gman I dont do it all the time but I kind of missed out on doing our house the young folks from the family that stayed with us in Ca built ours.

I have a kitchen floor that needs done if you run out of things to do.



Nice work.

Haven't you been following along on my post's :-laf I have so much to do and so many people pulling on me from different directions I dont know what to do when :-laf If it weren't for the wife keeping tabs on who's next I wouldn't know, just one day at a time.



BIG

 

[jgillott]

If you are that busy, what's one more house... ..... :-laf

 

[BIGNASTY]

The house is built at least its a weather tight shell! now its just finishing the inside. Have interior walls framed and running the AC wiring, they are going to be hooked up to the power company. I can do all the plug and light switch wiring, ceiling fans and things like that BUT I WILL NOT TOUCH THE BREAKER BOX EVER AGAIN Then on to the plumbing thats not that big a deal either, Dry wall I can hang but to finish it IS SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB I cant seem to get the hang of that.



BIG

 

[Wayne M.]

Big, you got your hands in everything! I guess it's better than being outside! I kinda like tile work under the right conditions, almost therapy lol. I'm not a good mud/ tape guy. I need to put in a vanity like that soon.

 

[GCroyle]

Oh Boy,

BIG alone to his self in a room full of sharp edged power tools and then messin' with electricity, guess we should be glad you can tell the tales. I'm picturing him using an old 1894 as a rip saw, and a . 22 as a drill press too.

Wood, looks good, but Montana Power and Light got your picture on the office hallway as a 10 most wanted to get his screwdrivers and wire cutter melted down for scrap!

Gary

 

[BIGNASTY]

Big, you got your hands in everything! I guess it's better than being outside! I kinda like tile work under the right conditions, almost therapy lol. I'm not a good mud/ tape guy. I need to put in a vanity like that soon.

Wayne it seems like it these days! My wife's brother is usually helping me or doing it all but he is taking classes at the University of MT Missoula to finish up his MBA he's kind of out of touch except for that. Really I would rather be outside I have never nor wanted to be caged up in doors, tile work sucks I dont have knees to kneel down on so its on my a** or standing that getting up and down a million times a day is great therapy for the leg but I dont think this is what the therapist had in mind. Drywall is no big deal to hang but they want a smooth finish not the splatter gun type that hides the imperfections so they will have to wait until wife's brother can do that.

Oh Boy,



BIG alone to his self in a room full of sharp edged power tools and then messin' with electricity, guess we should be glad you can tell the tales. I'm picturing him using an old 1894 as a rip saw, and a . 22 as a drill press too.



Wood, looks good, but Montana Power and Light got your picture on the office hallway as a 10 most wanted to get his screwdrivers and wire cutter melted down for scrap!



Gary

No Gary my woodworking is one place that I need and enjoy the technology of NEW TOOLS. Looking at some old wood work you wonder HOW DID THEY DO THAT I have a hard time reproducing it with today's tools.

The power is because Jim my BIL is a studio musician he uses the Internet to receive and send (rif'ss) pices of music and he makes plays is idea and sends it back and they do this until they have a rough idea of what they want he flies off to LA and they do their thing. He wants to have a home recording studio in the lower half of their house. He needs the power that off grid cant provide easily building that is going to be fun with all the different things that go into the soundproofing im looking forward to that.

 

[GCroyle]

BIG,

Old time tools, I have a mid 50's ? vintage ShopSmith combination woodworking "center" at home, got most of the tools, not all. It;s all steel and cast iron, no plastic.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I did a bunch of Cabinets in Ca, we had 5 homes at one time and all were fixer up er's we bought them cheap rented them out and when the time came sold them and made a pretty good amount of change doing it. But they all seemed to need cabinets and bathroom vanities, had a lot of people ask me to build them cabinets and I had no problems with doing that but (I only worked as a truck driver 4days a week) THEY DONT WANT TO PAY for I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER. The big comment I got was I can get that at Home Cheap-O or Doooe's for less!!! Your right I cant compete with them they buy and sell MASS quantities of things. But they are usually NOT real wood or exactly what you want use cheap hardware and when they fall apart and you come back to me IT COST'S MORE.



When the house building BOOM!! was going on in Ca I would start work at 1. 30 am driving trucks get off at 11. 30 and do finish carpentry around the area until 5 pm putting in doors, baseboard, hanging cabinets and make an extra 150 bucks a day. The problem with that is with finish carpentry you have to hide the CRAP WORK THAT THE FRAMERS DID. I looked at a inside door install and had to put in a prehung door, the site foreman asked is there a problem? Well ya!!! is the door supposed to work when I get it installed? because if you look at the opening that it goes in ITS NO PLACE NEAR SQUARE. Home building in CA because of the help from across the border brothers with a hammer and a pocket full of nails and no talent was SHAMFUL AT BEST. I got them in but had to cover up with allot of DOOR MOULDING. You dont even want to give Paco a nail gun!!! I did that for several years and met a man that I worked with that built stair casings AN ART MY FREIND TRULEY AN ART we worked for years until he got sick and had to quit I gained a bunch of experience from him he was by himself and when he had to quit he gave me his tools they are a true gift along with his knowledge he passed on to me.



When I went to retire I thought that I would have to find work,after driving for the best I didn't want to drive truck anyplace else so I thought about finish carpentry, The wife and her father had always taken care of the money that we made I just told her if I ask for a few bucks I DONT WANT TO HEAR WE DONT HAVE IT!!! They had done their homework and invested wisely and at my retirement party they told me that I could RETIRE and not have to do anything I was really looking forward to building our home here in MT but the family decided that sense we gave our home to the young people of the family to come to Ca live with us and go to SOME KIND OF SCHOOL that they owed us and built our house while we were in France watching a Cycling event for a month. In our Tribe we have almost all the trades of construction and even one to take care of my pal's that live in the barn.



So doing this kind of work is not really new to me just different because IT'S FOR FUN NOW!!!



BIG

 

[JLeake]

Your woodworking on the cabinets looks really nice, as one who makes furniture on the side (when other things do not take over as they often do). I have most of a woodworking shop in the garage, 14" bandsaw, unisaw, rockwell wood lathe, rockwell drill press, a hitcahi planer jointer (the F1000 heavy floor model) and countless hand tools.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Your woodworking on the cabinets looks really nice, as one who makes furniture on the side (when other things do not take over as they often do). I have most of a woodworking shop in the garage, 14" bandsaw, unisaw, rockwell wood lathe, rockwell drill press, a hitcahi planer jointer (the F1000 heavy floor model) and countless hand tools.

Thanks

As with you, seems like I get started on a project and something (aka wife) has a different agenda. On a post above I said when they leave me alone its true I have to think several steps ahead and when someones asking questions it makes me loose my place and mistakes are made, with todays wood price's that get's expenive.



I worked out of my garage in Ca but now I have a dedicated wood shop with a LOCK AND KEY that only I HAVE. I would love to build furniture I like the Mission Style, especially the Amish built things seem to be real craftsmen. Im going to IN this summer for the Horse Progress days im meeting with an Amish man and his family that I have talked to and bought a horse drawn piece of equipment from he also is a woodworker. My tools include a Delta 14'' band saw,Powermatic 10" table saw, Dewalt planer, Grizzley jointer, 2 Porter cable routers My tool that I seem to use most a Makita 10-Inch Dual-Slide Compound Miter Saw with Laser, way to many nail,brad guns from Porter cable and Senco the list goes on and on and a bunch of stuff that the wife dont even know I have (that's a good thing right?):-laf and the reason for the lock and key she seems to get into things that she has no idea about and starts banging on stuff with things other than HAMMERS!!!



BIG

 

[BIGNASTY]

Sorry for the Blurred pic the wife caught me taking the pics and said your showing my messy cabinets!!! and gave me a shove. The stove has been replaced with a wood burning kind and had to redo some of the cabinets

 

[BIGNASTY]

... ... ... ... ... ... ..... Took some of these pictures for my Sister when she was out at Christmas time she wants to have her's done like them Im wondering what they will cost her to have made?

 

[JLeake]

I do not dare show those pictures to my wife, or a big list of honey do's will result, although the about a year to retirement will make that less of an issue now. Nice work

 

[jgillott]

That is really nice work, and I actually do need some work done in my kitchen here. We have one section of cabinets that were not replaced when the house was redone in the '60's that could really use work. The other cabinets are a beautiful hardwood (they are finished in a maple I believe, but I don't know what wood for sure) and these are an old set of white metal cabinets. They are on the list to get done, but not by me anytime soon.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Cabinets are not that big of a deal, If you really think about it/ ITS A BOX with a FANCY LID!! the box is the easy part you can get some clamps and cabinet squares, I use conformat screws to put them together you can buy an inexpensive kit that gives you the tapered drill bit a special driver bit and the screws and put the boxes up. The doors are the aesthetic part that everyone gives the AHHHHHH OOOOOOOOO part they see them and them only. If your actual cabinets are good you can refinish them and BUY doors and drawer fronts and make it look as thou you are a master craftsman for VERY LITTLE MONEY.



The parts that cost the money is the hardware the pantry cabinet drawer slide are Accuride or slide anyway those can hold 150lbs I know they work because when I built them I had the 125lb wife stand on them and they slid as if they were empty. I did this because I KNOW HER if you tell her 100lbs she will put in 200lbs she cant help it, she's a woman ,On an average cabinet job its not hard to spend $800. 00 and up depending on some of the other things you put in, Lazy Susan's, trash and recycling bins,you name it a woman can and will pester the living I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER out of you to put them EVEN IF THEY DONT NEED THEM.



Those cabinets are made of Melamine it is a plastic covered particle board (USA MADE) the Mexican crap is very course particle board and the conformat screws will come out. The USA made is very fine and the screws bite into them and hold until the board breaks not at the screw. The wife and other gal's love the plastic covered things to clean easy. The one picture of the open cupboard with the glasses the shelves are adjustable real easy a piece of peg board with a 1x1 in piece of wood to use as a stop lay it on the side of the cabinet as your building them and use the peg board as a guide for drilling the holes they sell the shelf pegs and hole stops at most hardware stores.



What this is meant to show is YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE IT A THOUGHT.



BIG

 

[jgillott]

I've made a few things over the years, a table, a couple of doors, and some of the moldings and woodwork when we did the major remodel on this current house. But, I've always had someone to sort of talk me through each project to get me started. I have never attempted cabinets, so it would be the same process. Just need to take the time to do it.