I found a video on Youtube that describes using a series of cups (bottoms cut off) to make a DIY cyclone dust collector for a shop vac. Well today I tried it and it works rather well. It catches greater than 95% of the sawdust before it enters your shopvac. The goal here is to prevent sawdust from clogging your shop vac filter. Check out the pictures below.

In the picture below you can see the sawdust flying around in a circle.

I made this planer knife sharpening jig a while back, but recently modified it to make it cooler! :^)
I added a wheel and a better bevel angle adjuster.

Let me know what you think. It’s good for general sharpening, but if your blade has large nicks, I’d suggest using a different method.

Cheers
Brian

I planned on inlaying a ‘P’ in the center footboard slat, but I was unhappy with the way it turned out and left it out.

In progress picture:

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From the back:

From the front:

From an angle:

Thanks for looking,
Brian

I always thought it was a pain to get a table saw sled fence secured once it is aligned to 90 degrees. So I came up with a method that allows you to tighten down the fence from above without having to drive screws into the fence from below.

My fence is attached to the right side with a screw. On the left side I have two bolts w/ wing nuts. The bolts are in slightly elongated holes in the fence so that the fence can move forward and back in small amounts. Once I have it aligned, I tighten down the two wing nuts. So far it has been working just fine.

Close up: (bolts are recessed into the sled bottom material (hardboard))

Now I can re-check for fence alignment and adjust easily if needed. So far it works nicely. Let me know what you think.

See my other entry on TS-sled fence alignment.

I still need to work on the lids.

Thanks for checking on my progress.

See other entry here:
http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/GarageWoodworks/blog/6071

Let me know what you think.

No panels in picture.

First, place a dial indicator w/ a magnetic base on your table saw fence or table saw surface. I like to use the table saw fence because I can lock the dial indicator on the TS-fence and move it into the square.

Temporarily secure the sled fence to the sled. Next, place a good quality square against your sled fence and zero the indicator at the top of the square.

Now slide the sled forward and take an indicator reading at the bottom of the square.

If your second measurement doesn’t read zero, your sled fence is not square. Adjust the sled fence and re-measure.

You can also rip pieces of plywood and measure with a caliper the two ends of the strip you rip off (or use the 5-cut method). These methods are less accurate, wastes plywood and most importantly take longer.

You can also buy a TS-Aligner Jr. (see my review) and do the same thing (only this time you will need to secure the Aligner to your TS because it doesn’t have a magnetic base.)