We have the "Lighted Jeeps Parade" (though we will be parked) at the sculture garden this evening. I just put some "Christmas Gnome" lights on the truck wreath, and picked up two more light nets for the cab (the one I already have is for the hood), and extension cords for one of the inflatable polar bears and the new Christmas Llama (Fa-la-la-la-llama). I'll put the bear in the truck bed and the llama on the ground near the front. I'll put the cabin lights on the roof, then pull them down the sides once we are there - too old for climbing in and out of the window. Once the frost burns off the truck, it's off to the carwash and get the bird$#!t removed. Then we can put the wreath and lights on.
The seam ripper turned out (pun not entirely intended) OK. Not the profile I originally pictured but I'm happy with it, overall. I used a dark piece of Bolivian Rosewood and finished it with rubbed Tung oil. It's a hard drying oil and can leave a glossy, almost wet look, but since I rubbed it into the wood, it's a matte finish. There is a brass tube inside that hoilds the fittings, but when I milled the ends of the wood blank, I messed up part of the tube, so now there's a rough spot. That has broken two of the four "o"-rings on the ripper piece, and I don't habe needle files to smooth the tube out. I'll hit the tool store after the carwash.
I have gotten some more shipments from the wood store: some tree ornament kits, the ink pen-pencil-roller ball pen set for MLW, and the boards for the paper two towel holders, for MLSIL and us. Of course, I needed a couple of Forstner drill bits to get nice flat holes for the towel holder dowels. These are maple and will have a "racing stripe" accent of cherry and walnut; the dowels are birch. I'll finish with tung oil.
Also, for this weekend is the fireplace mantle. I have curly olivewood for the main board and Swiss pear wood for the trim. The pear will be dovetailed and pocket screwed to the olivewood, then the whole assembly scewed to the fireplace through the trim. I haven't decided how to plug the mount screw holes: wood plugs cut from the pear, contrasting (dark) wood plugs, or maybe some plugs cut from aluminum (MLW says "no brass") bar stock. I can brush the aluminum and give it a "satin nickel" appearance that would match cabined hardware in other rooms.
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