Last week, I was out of town on PTO between the holidays. Same latitude where I am now, supposed to be high 30s (F) during the day.
Well, it rained all week and most days were 55-60. In fact, we had an easy fall so far.
Today, I woke up (heard the wind howling last night - it's already been closer to normal temps this week) and this morning it was mid teens (ºF) and three inches of snow and a strong wind. My shop is a garage with an older wooden door - I like the door precisely because it actually allows a little airflow. It's 38 degrees F in the shop and still only 22F outside.
Worst idea of the day was full vitamix size smoothie of basically ice, milk, yogurt, protein powder and an apple (and xanthan gum to make it taste like it was more than that). Working by hand, the wood has a different feel after a couple of days like this, but it'll probably go lower (usually a week's worth of days where the overnight low is around 0F and occassionally, we'll get a -10F- on those days, I have to pay attention to older beech planes as even the older planes will crack.
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...but if you make something in the winter, you don't have to worry much about the wood shrinking, so it's a good time to assemble a guitar.
Well, it rained all week and most days were 55-60. In fact, we had an easy fall so far.
Today, I woke up (heard the wind howling last night - it's already been closer to normal temps this week) and this morning it was mid teens (ºF) and three inches of snow and a strong wind. My shop is a garage with an older wooden door - I like the door precisely because it actually allows a little airflow. It's 38 degrees F in the shop and still only 22F outside.
Worst idea of the day was full vitamix size smoothie of basically ice, milk, yogurt, protein powder and an apple (and xanthan gum to make it taste like it was more than that). Working by hand, the wood has a different feel after a couple of days like this, but it'll probably go lower (usually a week's worth of days where the overnight low is around 0F and occassionally, we'll get a -10F- on those days, I have to pay attention to older beech planes as even the older planes will crack.
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...but if you make something in the winter, you don't have to worry much about the wood shrinking, so it's a good time to assemble a guitar.