| This blog is written by bandit571 | 33 entries so far |
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A bailey #8c: Rehab and clean up
I have an old Bailey #8c, type nine. It was getting rusty, and dirty from neglect. Just do...
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Kitchen Hutch: the build
Afternoon off! Might as well go to the dungeon shop. Looks like Igor even cleaned it up, ...
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Kitchen Hutch, the start
Ok. The “Better Half” decided she wanted a small “Hutch” in the kitchen. ...
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Vermont Lap Desk, almost done:
With the sides all nice and coplanar, time to mill a rabbet for a bottom. Set up a router with a...
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Vermont Lap desk, part three
Ok front dovetails are done, just need to be planed true. Next is the back corners. Don...
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Vermont Lap Desk, part two
Ok, hand is healed up, for now. Got out a handsaw and trimmed things to length. Someone aske...
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Vermont Lap Desk: Starting up
Let’s see, already had a plank that could be a lid for the desk project. And I still had...
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two boards, and some hand tools, part two
I have a pair of rough sawn boards. These were cut offs from a longer plank. Thinking about...
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Two boards, and some tools: working down some rough sawn wood
I have two planks. One is a Black Walnut 4/4 by 6” by 30” long. There other? We...
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Not so cheap walnut Table, Part #4
Ok Got the aprons sorted out. Next time, check the width first. Got out a power tool for ...
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Not so cheap Table: part three
Ok, fought with sizing the mortises to the tenons. Decided to just cut the mortises, and then ...
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Not so cheap Walnut Table, part two
Ok, salvaged some parts from an old junk table that was being tossed into the trash. Got four le...
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Not so cheap table
Lucked into a couple planks the other day Figured I could make a small table out of two planks...
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TV Table: Assembly time
When the table was last worked on, I had two sides in the clamps No, that isn’t a glue s...
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Cheap TV Table: Aprons are here!
I spent part of today, getting a few 1×4s ready to become aprons on the table. They had bee...
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Cheap TV Table: the top
The two planks that made up the top, were a bit cupped, gluing them up into a top didn’t he...
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Another Cheap Table, for a TV this time.
Laid out a few junkie boards. Well one was junkie, anyway. Pretty, ain’t? Needed ...
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Refurbbing Rusties
I had three planes, mainly from two rust hunts. A Dunlap, with red handles That i decided t...
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Cheap Table: The finale
went to the Dungeon Shop today. Grabbed a drill and a drill bit. Each corner block got a...
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Cheap Table: finishing up the base
Ok, front and back leg assemblies are out of the clamps. Need to fit a brace between the front...
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Cheap table, Part two
Started chopping mortises. By hand, no less. Laid out the mortise Yep, they go all the wa...
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Trying to build a cheap table
I have some reclaimed boards, including some rclaimed waterbed frames. Daughter wanted a small &...
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Plane re-hab, from the mailbox to the wood.
Spent some time today, half waiting on the Mail Carrier to drop off a package, the other in re-fu...
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Day at the sharpening table..
Starts down in the Dungeon Shop. I have a belt sander set up in a vise. And a pair of blo...
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They came in the Mail...
Two very different planes. A Shelton Block plane Just a little on the rusty side. Anoth...
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Shake-a-box kit: Handplane.
Noticed that a few parts have been piling up in the shop, a base here, a frog there, a few handl...
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The $5 Challenge Plane
That I took upon myself. Got a box in the mail. Opened it up to…. WOW! Rusty and ...
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A Plane's Tale, crash and rebirth
Ok, here goes. I won a Diamond Edge #6c on the bay. A very RUSTy plane, I might add. Should...
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Re-thinking a Parts Plane
A while back, I bought a “Parts Plane” for another plane rehab project. I was int...
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Just a desk project, part II
Managed to get out to the barn today. Needed to work on a desk’s top. Started out wit...
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handsaws, rehab story #1: Handsaws, a rehab story #2
Since that last saw was started into “re-hab” a few others have joined them: Homem...
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Handsaws, a rehab story
Started out simple enough, I had a couple backsaws, with those ugly, black plastic handles. De...
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Just a desk project
needed a new Computer Desk. Had some old Barn Wood in the shop. Weather has started to wa...
