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Used a few tools today
Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:27pm

The missus wanted a video cabinet to fit between the window frame and walk in wardrobe.
So today I bought some wood and set out using my various toys, oops TOOLS.

Started with my Triton Wark bench circular saw to cut up the timber to size.
They used the Brad nailer to assemble the frame.
Face boards had to be cut to size on my drop saw.
Then the smaller Brad nailer was required to frame up the face.
Out came the disc sander to smooth off the faces before I attacked it with the router to give it some radius corers and edges.
Then a bit of prettying up .
The mouse sander came out to smooth everything ready to paint.

On goes the air compressor again, and the HVLP spray gun to start spraying it up for its first coat.
Tomorrow, the mouse sander will be employed again and then the second and final coat of stain and gloss.

By Friday it will be in place.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 119801 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Used a few tools today Reply #1 - Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:36pm You're a hero. Did you consider cutting down a larger video cabinet to fit? That might have been faster.
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Re: Used a few tools today
Reply #2 - Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:54pm

Valkie wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:27pm:

The missus wanted a video cabinet to fit between the window frame and walk in wardrobe.
So today I bought some wood and set out using my various toys, oops TOOLS.

Started with my Triton Wark bench circular saw to cut up the timber to size.
They used the Brad nailer to assemble the frame.
Face boards had to be cut to size on my drop saw.
Then the smaller Brad nailer was required to frame up the face.
Out came the disc sander to smooth off the faces before I attacked it with the router to give it some radius corers and edges.
Then a bit of prettying up .
The mouse sander came out to smooth everything ready to paint.

On goes the air compressor again, and the HVLP spray gun to start spraying it up for its first coat.
Tomorrow, the mouse sander will be employed again and then the second and final coat of stain and gloss.

By Friday it will be in place.

What a beautiful day.

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Re: Used a few tools today
Reply #3 - Apr 16^th, 2026 at 5:29pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:54pm:

Valkie wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:27pm:

The missus wanted a video cabinet to fit between the window frame and walk in wardrobe.
So today I bought some wood and set out using my various toys, oops TOOLS.

Started with my Triton Wark bench circular saw to cut up the timber to size.
They used the Brad nailer to assemble the frame.
Face boards had to be cut to size on my drop saw.
Then the smaller Brad nailer was required to frame up the face.
Out came the disc sander to smooth off the faces before I attacked it with the router to give it some radius corers and edges.
Then a bit of prettying up .
The mouse sander came out to smooth everything ready to paint.

On goes the air compressor again, and the HVLP spray gun to start spraying it up for its first coat.
Tomorrow, the mouse sander will be employed again and then the second and final coat of stain and gloss.

By Friday it will be in place.

What a beautiful day.

Yep,
So relaxing, so serene, so thoroughly enjoying.
Got its final coat after lunch and it will be ready to mount tomorrow.

Little woman happy.
Me happy and relaxed
And it all cost just under $150.00 , bloody stain and paint made up $45.00 of that.

Planning for the next project already

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A DREAM OF A WORLD THAT HAS NEVER KNOWN ISLAM
A DREAM OF A WORLD FREE FROM THE HORRORS OF ISLAM.

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O HOW I WISH IT WERE TRU

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Re: Used a few tools today
Reply #4 - May 12^th, 2026 at 7:08pm

Valkie wrote on Apr 16^th, 2026 at 5:29pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:54pm:

Valkie wrote on Apr 15^th, 2026 at 8:27pm:

The missus wanted a video cabinet to fit between the window frame and walk in wardrobe.
So today I bought some wood and set out using my various toys, oops TOOLS.

Started with my Triton Wark bench circular saw to cut up the timber to size.
They used the Brad nailer to assemble the frame.
Face boards had to be cut to size on my drop saw.
Then the smaller Brad nailer was required to frame up the face.
Out came the disc sander to smooth off the faces before I attacked it with the router to give it some radius corers and edges.
Then a bit of prettying up .
The mouse sander came out to smooth everything ready to paint.

On goes the air compressor again, and the HVLP spray gun to start spraying it up for its first coat.
Tomorrow, the mouse sander will be employed again and then the second and final coat of stain and gloss.

By Friday it will be in place.

What a beautiful day.

Yep,
So relaxing, so serene, so thoroughly enjoying.
Got its final coat after lunch and it will be ready to mount tomorrow.

Little woman happy.
Me happy and relaxed
And it all cost just under $150.00 , bloody stain and paint made up $45.00 of that.

Planning for the next project already

' ........So relaxing, so serene, so thoroughly enjoying. ......'

yes.

I had a similar feeling tuning up a new hand plane.
It shaved off curls of wood after that.

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Leroy Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4967 Gender:	Re: Used a few tools today Reply #5 - May 12^th, 2026 at 8:25pm Sounds like a good project, what type of wood did you use?
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Re: Used a few tools today
Reply #6 - May 12^th, 2026 at 10:54pm

' ........... ' ........So relaxing, so serene, so thoroughly enjoying. ......'

yes.

I had a similar feeling tuning up a new hand plane.
It shaved off curls of wood after that. ...... '

Leroy wrote on May 12^th, 2026 at 8:25pm:

Sounds like a good project, what type of wood did you use?

pine.
I was surprised a brand new hand plane would need tuning up.
It make a cheapish new plane work very well. Think it was $60 or so, from america
took 2 or so hours to get it all flat, square, level and then get the blade flat, square and sharpish.
remove all milling marks.

did the same to my $12 very small plane after that

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Re: Used a few tools today
Reply #7 - May 12^th, 2026 at 11:41pm

I used my Edge Pro sharpening tool to sharpen 4 knives and a pair of scissors yesterday.
I only used a 220 grit stone -
I could have continued with a 400 stone, a 600 stone and a 1000 stone
but I just wanted a quick easy job.
One knife shown was serrated so only one side was sharpened but that's how you do those ones.
It worked really well.

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Reply #8 - May 13^th, 2026 at 12:01am

Bobby. wrote on May 12^th, 2026 at 11:41pm:

I used my Edge Pro sharpening tool to sharpen 4 knives and a pair of scissors yesterday.
I only used a 220 grit stone -
I could have continued with a 400 stone, a 600 stone and a 1000 stone
but I just wanted a quick easy job.
One knife shown was serrated so only one side was sharpened but that's how you do those ones.
It worked really well.

well done

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Reply #9 - May 13^th, 2026 at 12:11am

Sprintcyclist wrote on May 13^th, 2026 at 12:01am:

Bobby. wrote on May 12^th, 2026 at 11:41pm:

I used my Edge Pro sharpening tool to sharpen 4 knives and a pair of scissors yesterday.
I only used a 220 grit stone -
I could have continued with a 400 stone, a 600 stone and a 1000 stone
but I just wanted a quick easy job.
One knife shown was serrated so only one side was sharpened but that's how you do those ones.
It worked really well.

well done

Thanks -
it seems that just about everything gets thrown away these days from:
knives to scissors to cars.

I like fixing things up.
With the Edge Pro I can get better than factory results if I take my time.

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