Wood Butcher retired but coming back !

[Jeffonebuck]

Sold the Cabinet shop in 2004 and went in with a friend in the commercial Glazing market. 9 years later and many road miles later with a worn out body I got out and took a job with the engineering shop at our local hospital.  After a year I could feel I needed a hobby and bought a hot rod (2004 Mercury Marauder)  after much wrenching and pouring money in to that I now go into the Garage weekly and stare at it and take the California duster to it.  Well I'm tired of washing waxing and fussing over it so it will have to go this coming summer.  Roll forward to today---------We are remodeling at my Church and I volunteered to build some cabinets.  So I'm setting up shop and I need something to cut sheetstock and come across the TS55 REQ videos on YouTube.  "The saw will be here tomorrow " I also will be building new kitchen cabinets for myself as I downsized and bought a 60s ranch home close to work.  I started out years ago with a homemade tablesaw made from a piece of 1/4" steel and a Miller Falls drop foot skillsaw bolted underneath using a 4' piece of 2" aluminum angle clamped to the top.  That first kitchen in 1983 was made from birch rough stock that was not straight line ripped.  Man' these products from Festool are Top Shelf.  After the kitchen cabinets at home I will either get back into woodworking as a hobby or resell this purchase.  Time will tell !

 

[dltflt]

[welcome] to Fog.  I'm sure there will be more dark blue and green in your life after using the saw.

 

[wow]

Good for you!

When you can, be sure to post pictures of your shop and projects. We LOVE pictures!

 

[Jeffonebuck]

Good for you!

When you can, be sure to post pictures of your shop and projects. We LOVE pictures!

Will do ! The church project has started already and will have c grade UV birch boxes with B grade UV maple banded slab doors with 12" stainless bar pulls. Going for a commercial 32mm look with 1/4 margins.  I took this on to save money to be used elsewhere, So far I will be in @ around $3500 in material. We only cook 1 meal a year and that is for Mothers Day and the men do the cooking.

 

[Paul G]

Silver Birch '04 MM owner here, curious what wrenching you did to yours. Welcome back to the wood, but wrenching is good too    [thumbs up]

 

[Jeffonebuck]

Silver Birch '04 MM owner here, curious what wrenching you did to yours. Welcome back to the wood, but wrenching is good too    [thumbs up]

"Burnout" 04 DTR with 230k miles on body, interior is a 9 !! Paint about a 8.5, a few clear coat spots and some highway grit rash to front facia.  New slotted rotors, tires, headlights, Mo's tune, rear cooling head mod, new EATC,  and fresh motor.  I drove it maybe 100 miles this year total.  Do you belong to MM.net ? 

 

[Paul G]

DTRs are rare birds much like the blue ones. I can understand your babying it. Mine gets driven quite a bit and get's the zaino 2-3 times a year. Still mostly stock, just some maintenance like the joyous blend door actuator, that was not fun with my big mitts. Yes I've been lurking MMnet since I got the beast new, some nice rides folks have built there and lots of info, some better than others. MMs are a joy to drive though, not the fastest by far but handles great for a boat.

 

[Rob Z]

.    I started out years ago with a homemade tablesaw made from a piece of 1/4" steel and a Miller Falls drop foot skillsaw bolted underneath using a 4' piece of 2" aluminum angle clamped to the top.

Millers Falls, there is a name I never hear anymore.  I have a bunch of MF hand tools that belonged to my Grandfather.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Jeffonebuck]

.    I started out years ago with a homemade tablesaw made from a piece of 1/4" steel and a Miller Falls drop foot skillsaw bolted underneath using a 4' piece of 2" aluminum angle clamped to the top.

Millers Falls, there is a name I never hear anymore.  I have a bunch of MF hand tools that belonged to my Grandfather.

Welcome to the forum!  My father in law gave me the Miller and a very old Skill which was his first powersaw.  He got into carpentry years ago by adding "Bathrooms" to houses when there was no plumbing in the house.  He said that he would be away weeks at a time and the customer would put him up and feed him as part of payment.  He was very frugal and would drive out to the power plant dump site and scavenge wood, bricks,blocks, etc. he added a large shop to his property of about 1500 sq ft,  Not one board in the building was solid but scabbed together from random pieces.  The block foundation and roof were reclaimed materials.  He would save all the scrap nails and throw them into buckets and then in the winter he would straighten those old nails while sitting outside by a fire.  Now he might of been frugal but, when it came to eating out he would dig that wallet out in a heartbeat !!