That’s awesome, Nate! What drag bit did you use, been so differing picking one up instead of outsourcing to a trophy shop. 

Carbide 3D released two in-house products under the name McEtcher (teehee) so I picked up the combo pack, conveniently one day before they announced it as part of their black Friday sale - insert *sigh* emoji.  It takes some tinkering, and I'll be interested to see how it does on standard brass.  I've got a sheet that arrived yesterday that I need to engrave for someone. Too many fricken people retiring this year.

Those are awesome Nate!  What a nice gesture and crazy cool to be using historic materials.

I'm constantly amazed at the quantity and quality of talented people in this group. 

Spent most of the day going through scraps trying to find something flat enough to make into a cutting board. Ended up with a Wenge/Teak plan but not sure if I need something brighter in there for pop. 
 

Also gave up on the cast iron looking paint technique and put together the cabinet under the saw. Need to buff out the wax but as about as close to cast iron as I could figure out.
 

The leveling feet ended up being boring so when I have access to a welder in Texas I am going to weld some bolts onto some blade wrenches and throw those on there. 

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by VPI

1 hour ago, VPI said:

to make into a cutting board. Ended up with a Wenge/Teak plan but not sure if I need something brighter in there for pop.

Neither would be my choice to touch food. YMMV.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4305116/

Secret Santa gift for a whiskey group. 

1 hour ago, dsavitsk said:

Neither would be my choice to touch food. YMMV.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4305116/

It is not a direct extrapolation from inhalation toxicity to contact and ingestion toxicity. Plus Bob Villa would disagree: https://www.bobvila.com/articles/best-wood-for-cutting-board/

21 minutes ago, morphsci said:

It is not a direct extrapolation from inhalation toxicity to contact and ingestion toxicity.

Indeed, though several paragraphs above where he recommends using it, Bob suggests avoiding wood with toxic stuff in it which teak decidedly has. It is probably fine, and I doubt that wood cutting board poisoning is really a thing. But if I had a pile of walnut laying about, I'd use that instead (which goes for pretty well every project short of building a canoe).

Wenge I just hate working with.

Yolo. 

1 hour ago, morphsci said:

It is not a direct extrapolation from inhalation toxicity to contact and ingestion toxicity. Plus Bob Villa would disagree: https://www.bobvila.com/articles/best-wood-for-cutting-board/

You had me until Bob Vila. Bob Vila couldn't build a log with a set of Lincoln Logs.

5 minutes ago, swt61 said:

You had me until Bob Vila. Bob Vila couldn't build a log with a set of Lincoln Logs.

I’m pretty sure Bob was canonized as the Saint of Woodworkers. 

I have to admit, while I have had lincoln logs in the past, I have no fucking idea how to make the blocks back into a log. 

The problem with the teak toxicity is most relevant to inhalation of dust rather than ingestion  from contact with food as the toxicants are not extremely water soluble as their chemical structure would indicate:

3 minutes ago, morphsci said:

The problem with the teak toxicity is most relevant to inhalation of dust rather than ingestion  from contact with food as the toxicants are not extremely water soluble as their chemical structure would indicate:

Obviously. 

Organic chemistry FTMFW!

The study seems to just say to me that if you grind something up your whole career and inhale it you may, or may not get cancer. I think you can take out Teak and add anyfuckingthing else and have the same study. 

My cousin Roy was a set designer and head carpenter for Pinewood Studios. His two most famous ones were the original Superman movie (the ice palace was one of his), and A Fish Called Wanda.

Alas most sets were (and perhaps still are) made from MDF. A lifetime breathing in MDF dust did him no good at all, and while working on a Bond movie maybe 20 years ago in the Philippines, had a recurrence of a breathing crisis and sadly died.

Before breathing safety for lifetime professional woodworkers was a thing.

Ended up throwing the scrap together for glue up last night and then ran it through the planer this morning. Going to be a 30lb cheese tray I think. 
 

Edited December 15, 20214 yr by VPI

13 minutes ago, VPI said:

Ended up throwing the scrap together for glue up last night and then ran it through the planer this morning. Going to be a 30lb cheese tray I think. 
 

Looks good. Deadly, but good. 

The last of retirement projects, at least for this week, are complete. 

Those came out great, Nate. Well done. 

I assume with all these retirements you must be in charge of everything by now Nate.
 

I would like to chat with you about surplus nuclear subs that might be available for a plan I am working out. 

Put the Walrus Wax on the board and threw it in the kitchen as Kasia decided to keep this one. 
 

7 minutes ago, VPI said:

I assume with all these retirements you must be in charge of everything by now Nate.
 

I would like to chat with you about surplus nuclear subs that might be available for a plan I am working out. 

Put the Walrus Wax on the board and threw it in the kitchen as Kasia decided to keep this one. 
 

Looks great, sadly it will kill you within a fortnight. 

Edited December 16, 20214 yr by naamanf

3 hours ago, VPI said:

I assume with all these retirements you must be in charge of everything by now Nate.
 

I would like to chat with you about surplus nuclear subs that might be available for a plan I am working out. 

Put the Walrus Wax on the board and threw it in the kitchen as Kasia decided to keep this one.

1. Not hardly in charge, but we’ll see what the next few months bring for change around here.  I have full faith and trust in HR’s ability to completely fuck it up.

2. I think we’re giving the surplus to Australia so you might have to fight a dingo or a kangaroo for one.  Does head control work on non-native species?

3. The cutting board came out beautiful, which makes sense given it’s deadly nature.  I would love to have a shop big enough to house a planer and jointer but that’s not in the cards.  So I’ll have to keep ping ponging for a while and having fun with that.