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#61 ·
I like working with my hands, making things. My parents made and fixed things, rarely hired any work out.

I've done pottery and have made several pots that are functional in my home.
I've made baskets and pine cone wreaths.
Woodworking--started with rough cut butternut wood and make a coffee table and two matching end tables. Using oak, I made two tall kitchen pantry cabinets.
I used to sew most of my own clothing.
 
#62 ·
I've made furniture and things like kitchen cabinets in the past. I used to make cutting boards, mostly from the older hardwood pallets. Unfortunately I lost most of my big tools in a bad divorce. I sold many of them prior to it including a lot of properly stored kiln dried woods like oak, maple, some more exotic ones and such. All I have now is a drill press, a table saw, and a Sliding Compound Miter Saw. Of course I managed to move most of my hand tools away from the shop but still lost some items.

Then once I got back on my feet, I got into building rifles. Don't mistake that is gun smithing as it isn't; the AR-15 platform rifles are largely just a matter of building them. I have learned a bit on modifing various types of firearms but don't consider myself an expert by any means doing that either. But I did build a few custom ones for some folks.

 
#66 ·
I FORGOT..
When I was into competition shooting and also working for Second Chance part time I had a couple of friends who would take the week off and go up also for the week long shoot. It was masses of ammo cans spread all over the trailer floor. Hard to find what you needed and also hard on the knees.
I built three racks to fit over the wheels wells and across the front of the trailer out of Angle iron and each rack would hold about 30-40 or so .50 cans
A LOT of cutting and welding time.
A LOT of weight.
30 years later I am still using the racks for ammo cans filed with nails and screws and tool storage.
Never had a weld break and I thought that was pretty good. (y)
 
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