| This blog is written by Toolz | 18 entries so far |
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I scored at H. Gerstner and Sons Annual warehouse sale #1: Bought a Gerstner Pro Series 3 pc series set of chests
I almost missed the annual warehouse sale that includes factory seconds and scratch and dent ite...
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Lung Cancer and Air filtration #2: Good News, Bad news, Good News, Bad News, ZGood News, and finally Home
Hi gang, I hope I can keep this short and share my news. Had lung surgery Dec 21st, got all the c...
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Lung Cancer and Air filtration #1: Request for shop made air filtation system suggestions
I was diagnosed with stage one lung cancer last Tuesday and will be having the top lobe of my lri...
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Boot and Glove Chest
My wife (Laura) wanted a chest for our main entry area to store winter boots and gloves and scarv...
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Vortex Dust Collector Modification using a 14" wok #3 Conclusions/Observations'& Opinions
This morning I jointed an sanded a 16”x36” x4/4 piece of the “mystery wood̶...
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Vortex Dust Collector Modification using a 14" wok #2
I gave the DC a real workout this morning. I have a couple of 5/4 16”x12’ pieces of m...
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Progress of setting up the Shop #5: More pictures of the shop as of this morning
After changing the blades in my Dewalt 735 and making a modification to my DC with canister filte...
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Shop made Vortex Dust Collector Modification using a 14" wok
If you are like me you hate to clean out the canister on your DC. I saw this article online http:...
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Making boxes with dovetailed splines without a Kehoe jig #3: Completed Boxes
I finally completed the boxes. I lined the inside bottom of the boxes with tobacco colored pigski...
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Making boxes with dovetailed splines without a Kehoe jig #2: Box progress today
Today I cut the splines fairly flush with a flush cut saw after taping all around them with blue ...
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Making boxes with dovetailed splines without a Kehoe jig #1: Dovetail spline jig and splines
The first thing I did was to make a simple jig for cutting the dovetail in the mitered box sides ...
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Progress of setting up the Shop #4: Finally joined the Dust Deputy Posse
I have been planning to get a Dust Deputy for some time. But being a lazy booger I didn’t w...
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Workbench Gloat
Found a great Craigslist deal on a ShopSmith workbench for $250.00. I needed a quality bench and...
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Samples of crafts my wife and I also do
I thought I’d share some of the other things my wife and I make in addition to woodworking....
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Progress of setting up the Shop #3: Dust Collection System to date
After locating some 4” “green” sewer and drain line; I started to connect the d...
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Progress of setting up the Shop #2: More photos of tools and shop
As you can see to date I have added some lumber storage (Triton metal racks) and shop built cut-o...
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Progress of setting up the Shop #1: Some photos of the worshop in progress
We moved in in May ‘07 and I started working to set up a workshop: workshop view from th...
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Many thanks for the warm welcome
Hi all and thanks for the warm welcome. I’m 62y/o, retired from the US Navy and just getti...
