Good looking horn, Eric. Looks like that Jeff Gier fellow has made a few horns before. Never heard of him, but I haven't heard of a lot of people.
As far as what I have been up to this week, Ms. Smoke and I decided that it was time to move my horn shop out of the garage and into one of our sheds out back. It's taken me two days but everything is out except for some stuff on a workbench, the drill press and the band saw. They are both bench top items, so I don't foresee much problem with that. Yesterday, the big item to move was the Shopsmith and the equipment box that lives underneath it. No doubt if I would have unloaded the box it would have been easier, but when have I ever been accused of doing anything the easy way? But I got it there.
When I first built the stand for the wood lathe, I only had two straight ahead wheel sets and two swivel wheel sets. That worked OK as I never had to move the lathe very far. Putting it into the shed required moving it a ways, so I laid the lathe down and changed out the rear wheel set. Then I tried to lift the darned thing. It appears that in the last 10 years, my strength has decreased measurably. After three tries yesterday I finally got it up on its wheels today. After that, it wasn't too difficult moving it.
And they say that being 80 is the golden age. Heck, it's the mineral age - gold in your teeth, silver in your hair and lead in your a$$.
John
