Laptop Table

 Well... it has been a minute since my last post. I have been crazy busy the past few months and life has kept me pretty booked. I did this project a couple of months ago, initially it was going to be a gift for my sister-in-law, but.... I didn't love the way the top looked so I kept it.  It is a fairly simple design that allows you to slide the bottom under a couch or chair in order to use a laptop with out sitting it on your lap. It also makes a nice end table, the top is reclaimed wood and the base is square steel tubing.  I'm not going to do a big write up on this, because honestly there isn't a whole lot to talk about, but I promise there are more post to come. As always thanks for stopping by, and never stop creating! 

Quick & Easy Bird Feeder

Hey Guys, I thought I would share a very inexpensive project that I use to make bird feeders. The thing about these feeder are they are pretty heavy duty, and I wanna say it cost like 3 or 4 dollars to make one. 

Materials: 

• 2 plates, bowl and plate, coffee cup and saucer.... whatever you you wanna use is fair game. I get mine at dollar Tree or a thrift shop, lets keep it cheap! 
• 1/4 inch piece of all thread rod... get a few feet so you'll have extra for multiple feeders.
• 4 nuts and 4 washers to fit the all thread rod
• You can use a piece of copper tubing to hide the rod, its really your choice.
• Lastly I would recommend some silicon or some type of water sealant to put on the washers, once you tighten everything down. Just to keep water from leaking into the bird seed.
• All you will need as far as specialty tools are a drill, a small hacksaw, and glass and tile drill bits to drill through the glass or porcelain. (use some water on the base of the dishware while drilling, it keeps the bit from over heating.

I am not going to go into a compleat explination of every step, becaue I feel like it's pretty self explanatory from the pictures. Although if anyone out there does need a step by step, leave a comment and I will edit the post to add the steps.

So yeah that's really it, this is super easy  project and it only take about 15 minutes to make a nice looking feeder to hang outside a window or off a deck.

Thanks for reading and as always never stop creating.

  

Again Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed the post!

Feedback

          Hey guys, I wanted to ask anyone out there whose reading my blog if you could take a minute and give me some feedback. This could be about anything you want, if you like a project I've done, wanna see a specific project, or know a better way to do something, hell if I need to be corrected because I don't know what I'm talking about, please leave a comment.

The reason I'm asking this, is because I really don't know who is reading this and I wanna know, or at least an idea of who my audience is. Are you a Pintrest junkie like me, or a weekend DIY warrior, or do you just like the pictures. Anyway all any positive or negative feedback will do is boost my confidence with the blog and  keep me blogging more regularly. And yes, I wanna hear the negative stuff too, growth is not always achieved by kind words.

The thing with blogging and anyone who knows me can verify this, is I hate writing! It is actually really difficult but also rewarding for me to sit and write these post. So yeah I just wanna make sure I'm heading in the right direction.

Thanks everyone, and as always never stop creating! 
        
       Also, I know the the title of my blog is Sawdust and Hops. I haven't posted anything about home brewing beer yet, and I'm sorry for that. Its coming tho, I am in the process right now of gathering materials to build a gravity tower for an all grain system. My hope is once my all grain system is operational I will be brewing more often. Extract brewing can be pretty expensive, and switching to all grain will reduce the cost considerably. 

Remy & Hawk

        I snapped these pictures of my boys the other night, and had to post them. I love these guys, they always make my day better. They do make projects pretty difficult sometimes by either laying under or on top of my tools, or by stealing what they mistake as wood scraps as chew toys. They are a couple of class acts, and I don't know what I would do with our them. 

New Handles for a Drawknife and Chisel.

        A few weeks ago I picked up an old drawknife and chisel blade at an antique shop. they were both in pretty bad shape but the price was right so I couldn't resist. The drawkinfe is a tool I have been keeping my eye out for months, so unless it was completely rusted in half, I was gonna buy it. They were both heavy rusted and after cleaning them both with a wire wheel, they showed promise. The chisel cleaned up nice with no pitting in the steel, the same thing couldn't be said about the drawknife. It was heavily pitted, but for my needs it will serve no issue. For my first attempt at replacing handles in already existing tools, I think I did a pretty good job.  

I wish I would have snapped some pictures of them before I cleaned them up, i'm really bad about keeping my blog in mind when I start a project. Especially when its a small project like this... I'll work on it. I didn't take any pictures of the process I used with the chisel, I really wish I would have because I don't own a wood lathe, and I shaped it by hand. This is something I'm really going to work on. 

I hope you enjoy the post and pictures, and as always Never Stop Creating!