This is just a quick jigsaw puzzle for a buddy with an upcoming execution of sentence looming over him. He says he has found the right one and ready for a family. I’m sure they will do great. Made of Oak with golden oak stain and BLO topcoat.
BTKS

I have to thank Alonso for getting me in gear to make inserts for my table saw. It is a Steel City model ?. Seems to be the same insert as the Rigid and all the SC line. I have an older craftsman too and I’ve found this insert is easier to make. Basically, it’s a rectangle with rounded corners. I used some scrap QSWO and carefully planed it to just a little thinner than the original with the leveling feet at their final position. I traced two blanks out of the scrap and ripped to the exact original width, cut to length and rounded the corners on the band-saw. The first one, and only at this time, dropped right into place. Had to sand one corner down then level. I used four small brass screws left over from a piano hinge for levelers. Gauged the depth of the rear hold downs then added some slightly larger brass screws, pic 3.
The hardest part was making room for the riving knife. The blade does not drop low enough to clamp the blank down into the slot so I had to VERY carefully catch the blank in the front with a push stick, start the blade, shut it off and let the momentum cut into the blank until it was safely seated in the saw-top cutout. I then clamped the blank with the rip fence and completed the cut. NOW, I realized I still needed more room to bring the riving knife through when I put it back on. I don’t want to cut through the back and lose the rigidity so I flipped it end for end and brought the blade up to full height again. This cut just enough to bring the riving knife through but too tight for safe operation. I pulled it out and used a piece of belt sander belt and a thin file to open the slot. Works great now, won’t have this problem for the dado cutouts.
Pic 5 is the leveling feet. The screws were predrilled and a small countersink added prior to attempting to screw in the soft brass screws.
Final cost was $0. Everything was scrap or left over screws. I skipped the pattern bit out of fear of hitting the steel insert.
Hope this helps someone save some money and have a usefull accessory. I welcome comments and criticism.
BTKS

This was a fun little project. My wife decided the family needed a pony. Well, the pony we came up with is trained to drive as well as ride. So, we wound up with harness and cart too. The original cart didn’t have enough arms and back to hold grandma and two grandchild passengers. I was drafted to replace the back and arms with something suitable. This is what I came up with. I used oak and hickory I logged about 10 years ago and used an old buckboard seat as inspiration. The original seat had 20 degree splay to the back and arms. I decided on 10 degrees and I’m really glad I did. This sits real nice and takes just a little weight off the shafts when you lean back. The shafts are the long bars that run up either side of the pony. Finished with two coats of boiled linseed oil and one coat of Johnson’s floor wax. Just wanted something to keep the occasional rain off. The sides form tennons into the handles with stopped dados, the sides are rabbeted into the back and joined with several screws. I really don’t want grandma and the girls to get a sudden surprise when falling off the back. I plan on adding a shot of the pony hitched up soon. Hope you all enjoy looking and I welcome criticism and comments. Usually the fastest way to get better. BTKS

Have been away from the lathe for a few years now. I have face plate and spindle turned in the past but never bowls. Was at our family reunion and my uncle had this spalted sycamore and the opportunity to try. The sycamore is finiky and wants to tear out on the end grain. Had a major mess up removing the bottom mounting foot. Just about had kindling!!! A good reminder about safety and the challengs that make woodworking so much fun and at times frustrating. It was fun and I plan on doing more when the time is available. Maybe this winter???? Thanks for looking.
BTKS

Not fine woodworking but it’s one of the projects that have kept me out of the shop. Simple convience step onto the front porch. Treated lumber, four stringers and some support cleats on a bag mixed concrete pad.
BTKS

This is not what one would call a fine woodworking project. It is a dual purpose chicken coop / garden shed. We have recently acquired several chicks and they need a new home. This should accomodate them and give the girls a place to work with them. It is 8 X 12 feet and 8 feet at the eve. I’ll add the window outserts when the shed is place and leveled, didn’t want to break them in transit. It was a fun project. I had left over tin parts and roof insulation from another project so the roof extras were on the cheap. Even wired it for lights and plugs if we want to brood later hatches.

I would have posted this to Homerefurbers but the questions received to lead to this post came from here. Hope no one minds looking at old shed. Thanks for looking.
BTKS

This is my four year old daughter’s first wood working project. We were in the shop, making a mock-up of some bird house kits my aunt wanted made for a family reunion. She described a bird house she wanted to build in pretty clear detail. I told her it was time for dinner and draw me a picture after dinner and we would think about it. She took me to task. The picture is hanging under the finished house. She had the idea for the feeder (the little shelf and the perch on the side). Those were in the original drawing so they had to be on the house.

We went past her bedtime but hey it was saturday night. She would not admit to getting sleepy. She directed all the details. How much the roof overhangs to what board the feeder was made from to where the perch was hooked on. She drove her first nails and put in her first screws. We had quite a time. I was informed at one point that I was not letting her do very much. She’s only four, can’t imagine how much rope she’s gonna want at sixteen.

This had to be the most fun I’ve had in the shop in a long time. Hope we can keep passing on the craft. God bless and goodnight.
BTKS.

Made this case from oak lumber I fell from a friend’s pasture for another friend to display his badge collection. The idea was to make the case showoff the contents. The frames were a little tricky but a fun project. The back panels lift out for hidden hangers.