What are you working on?

It looks great from this side of the monitor. :cool:

I have to admit though, when I first saw the pics, the first thought that popped into my head was "Why didn't he go with a reclaimed wood floor?". Are you and your brothers still doing the reclaimed wood stuff?

Good luck on the job hunt too.
 
I've laid laminate flooring and am fully familiar with what you've just shown. And i have to say that you do nice work. If you ever need, you have talent for another career, great job. Good finish work makes the finished product look its' best. It's kind of akin to the final polishing of a nice paint job. Laminate flooring isn't all that difficult to lay, but as you so obviously saw with the stair newel, your finishing touch of trim gives it the look of quality. Well done sir, you have the traits of an artist. :clap:
 
Thanks!

I really wanted to do the laminate install myself, but I didn't want to do the vinyl sheet.
For some reason, my wife didn't think the laminate floor was in my realm of possibilities - but finish work with solid oak is...

Since they were doing the vinyl, I gave in on the laminate install.
Yeah, they were done in an afternoon. It would have taken me longer, and I would have run into some problems due to lack of appropriate tools (table saw mostly), but the end result would have been much better and with less trim.

As it turned out, I have amazed my wife with the finish work that I've done.

Now, she wants the basement stairs done. :doubt:
 
It looks great from this side of the monitor. :cool:

I have to admit though, when I first saw the pics, the first thought that popped into my head was "Why didn't he go with a reclaimed wood floor?". Are you and your brothers still doing the reclaimed wood stuff?

Good luck on the job hunt too.

Thanks!

No to the wood business.
That revolved around the fact that the one brother lived on a farm with a 130 year old barn that was falling down.
He moved.
So did our oldest brother.

I still have the website though. *shrugs*
 
The other thing that I've been working on is fixing the garage door opener.

The gear was stripped of all its teeth. I replaced that, but the kit came with a collar instead of a C-clip to hold everything in place. The old C-clip got mangled when removed.
The set screws in that collar stuck out enough the beat the RPM sensor to hell and rip it off the circuit board.
I soldered it back in but it's not holding up as a complete assembly.

So, I'm waiting for that part to be delivered.

Meanwhile, all the parts are taking up bench space in the garage and it's one more thing that slows my progress on the Charger.
I really need a temporary storage container on the driveway so that I can push everything out of the garage and just have the Charger, parts and my tools.
 
Just grind down the set screw and c-clips are an easy find at TSC.
Good looking job on the flooring. Sucks about the job, a bit of a reminder of Northern Telecom days.
 
Just grind down the set screw and c-clips are an easy find at TSC.
Good looking job on the flooring. Sucks about the job, a bit of a reminder of Northern Telecom days.
Yep, I plan to stick with the collar and just grind the set screws down until they clear.


Yeah, a lot of deja vu for us Nortel folks.
 
I've been back on the Oakland the last few days. Basically I'm test fitting the wood for the back half of the car. I have a few more structure pieces to make but I need to get things laid out to know how to make them. The pieces I need now are pieces that were gone when I got the car so I have no samples to use for patterns.

The first thing I did was final fit the drivers door hinges. I used my couture gauge to find the depth with the door where I wanted it when it was mocked up on the cowl. I love this tool! I keep finding ways to use it. If you don't have one, I suggest getting one.
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The rest is just temporary assembly to test fit the pieces as I go.

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Nice work DCF!! I love the way hardwood looks when its done right. Your finish work is awesome!
 
Today I built a rack and mounted it to one of my saw horses to hold up the rear frame work. Then I started fitting the wood to the quarters.

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When you realize that these cars were built in the same fashion as you're doing, but with more than one "craftsman", it's almost amazing that they managed to build as many as they did. :hmmm:
 
Nothing, haven't worked on anything of substance for 2 months. :(

That said, we're digging out all the parts we aren't going to put on my son's Duster, my Valiant or Durango and piling them into the Valiant I sold to my brother and preparing to go Chryslers at Carlisle next week. The Valiant is getting dropped off in the People's Republic of Maryland on our way by.

Should be a good time for my boys and I, older one is almost 17 and the younger just turned 15, he's not into cars so much, but I'm hoping this trip piques his interest at least slightly.
 
DCF.. nice work on the floors, looks good! Sorry about your actual job, but congrats on passing the application process to do the work in your basement.[smilie=f:

Stretch, Oakland looks great. I've replaced wooden members in MGs, but nothing on the scale you're undertaking.

As for me, I've gotten permission to tear down the 911 motor with broken head studs, so that will likely become a thread. I've got another 911 in the garage for some minor work, a '69 XKE that will need work after sitting for twenty plus years, an '83 Volvo that needs everything, my truck which is overdue for springs, my Jeep which just got springs, and now needs shocks for the new suspension travel, my Valiant still has the terrible brake pedal, my Dart still smokes oil like it's going out of style, my '81 Volvo is still in the body shop getting painted, my buddy's Challenger is still in the damned garage awaiting a top end rebuild, my '73 Volvo still needs a new head, my Fury still needs a front suspension, and the rest of the car replaced (if I'm honest), my porch still needs rebuilt, and my tree fell in my neighbor's yard Monday night, which led me to find a big ass pile of sawdust at the base of the one next to it. All this, and I'm working sixty plus hours a week at my real job. Not to mention the new woman in my life taking up every other moment of the day (Worth It!) I'm kinda busy, but not really accomplishing a damned thing. Oh, and there's Carlisle coming up. My life needs a pause button as of late.
 
pics of the xke or it didnt happen!

fighting the heat, doing more hand fab bumpers on the vic and doing body work on the gtv, did some mini minor tree trimming over the shop n shelf
 
pics of the xke or it didnt happen!

Fair enough.

It's a series II, 2+2.. admittedly not as pretty as the dropheads, or the series I hardtop. Still, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers. IMG_3969.JPG
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In addition to the 911 with the broken head studs, this is the other one that was dropped off for some minor service work.
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I texted the owner this picture earlier today and asked him what else he needed done besides the oil change
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oof..those xk's are sexy..even the series 2, my only complaint of any of them is the hard tops look like they need 3inch chops and all of them need the wheels changed or shoved out 4 inches closer to the edge of the body
 

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