That lab in the background looks much too clean!
That, sir, is one of my walls of JENGA; which I am actually in process of dismantling "brick" by "brick". On the other side of that wall is the laundry and a 1982 Yamaha Maxim on a motorcycle lift. Before that sees the light of day, I shall have to mine through ~5 meters of said JENGA, then fight my way past a 2.4 Ecotec engine, the Wubb Club Big Box o' Fun™, gardening tools and recycle /trash bins.
I think I have that much stuck to my forearms...
I have a set of cocobolo guitar backs and sides. Cocobolo is very hard and very resinous wood. The wood arrives sawn and needs reducing to final thickness. Normally you'd just take a plane to it and be done. The cocobolo wouldn't play, my plane blunted in about five swipes and after quite a bit of plane fettling I had to take the ignominious route of just sanding it to thickness, about 1/16" off each face of each piece. The resulting sawdust was very fine and very sticky, even with a vacuum line directly on the sander I still ended up covered head to foot and I'm still finding cocobolo dust in the crevices of any tools I had out that day.
The battle was so exhausting that the wood went into the 'ongoing projects' pile and it really is about time that I dug it out and finished that guitar.
That pic was from my "recycled tropical hardwood for recycled patio chairs cut on a recycled table saw" project this spring. I got all the slats cut for two chairs, then the hot & humid weather hit.
I have a couple lengths of the darker wood I need to make foot rungs and armrests out of, and all the slats need to be routed with a 3/8" roundover, but I haven't built the "recycled wood and recycled routers" router table. I'll have another few weeks here soon when I COULD finish them; not sure if I'll have time with the current hoeing-out.
Alternately, I may just clamp a 4x4 to the deck and try routing them on my drill press... it is geared way high for metal, so might be just fast enough.
mnem
I believe I hear a bed calling my name...