3 days ago
by Mike Gager |
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First up in this project is to sort through the wood I have available and find pieces that I want to use for each part. As I mentioned in part 1 the wood im using i salvaged from a house remodeling project and its some sort of pine and some douglas fir. here is what im working with
Some of the wood is really dirty with caked on dirt and grime along with some roofing tar (these pieces were in the attic). not sure that i wanted to subject my planer and jointer to that much abuse i decide...
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3 days ago
by MontanaJoe |
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I recently found myself with way too much time on my hands. Purely out of boredom I decided to use some scraps of pine i had laying around to make a wooden ring. At that point i wasn’t even thinking of the ring being functional. I just wanted a piece of wood shaped like a ring. In completing that ring i discovered how much I enjoyed the entire process. I was inspired to make a functional ring. Due to my current status of unemployment I didn’t have much money to be spending on wood...
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4 days ago
by BlankMan |
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Well Sunday I finally got around to start building a new dust collection hood for behind my new miter saw. I had one behind my old miter saw but this new saw is wider and I had to redo the bench for it to fit thus making the old hood too small to cover the area needed. Been without one for about a year because I also picked up the Delta 12” RAS and had to redo the bench for that to fit also. So I wasn’t about to build a hood until both the RAS and miter saw were firmly mounted in ...
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4 days ago
by GaryK |
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This is just to show some of the things that you can do when you design your own shop.
I knew that I wanted storage in the attic so I had the roof trusses designed with an opening in the middle. I basically told them the span (24 feet), and the pitch (the same as the house) and they designed the biggest possible opening in the middle or the truss. It came out to 9 feet wide by 5’10” high. With a shop length of 40 feet that gave me 360 sq/ft for storage.
I also wanted a small...
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4 days ago
by GaryK |
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I think that I have kind of a unique dust collection system so I did a separate video on just it.
What makes it different from most is that I built it under the concrete slab. I was able to do this because I designed and built the shop from the ground up for just being a wood shop. I wanted to do this for a couple of reasons. the first and foremost is not to have a bunch of pipes all over the walls and across the floor.
I put pipes under the concrete going across the floor from left to ...
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4 days ago
by kshipp |
2 comments »
ShowOff Guidelines 2009/2010
Registration: Online at TheWoodworkingShows.com
Find the link on the home page!
Drop-Off Procedure:
When – Friday between 10:00 and 11:30 am
Where – See the sign at the entrance to the show
Upon drop-off, you will be provided with a tag to identify your project. Your entry MUST be labeled with your contact information and the last six digits of your driver’s license number. You will be required to show your driver’s license to retrieve your entry...
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4 days ago
by GaryK |
17 comments »
Well, since everyone seems to be doing a tour of their shop I thought I would give one of my own.
I am going to do it in three parts.
1. The main shop. – 10 minutes2. The dust collection system – 5 minutes3. And real quick tour of the attic and office – 3 minutes
First let me tell you, I am not a videographer so don’t expect to see anything real exciting of fancy.
Enjoy
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4 days ago
by Loogie |
5 comments »
If I had one machinery purchase to do over again it would be to buy an 8” jointer and instead of a 6” model. My desire to use wider boards on this project led to a lot of time with my hand planes. I planed one face of each board flat and then ran them through my planer to get them to the proper thickness. After laying out the panels I put the mating glue joints up in my face vise and planed them with my trusty Stanley #7. I feel that doing this always gives me a really great glue ...
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4 days ago
by paulcoyne |
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Well i have my first xmas craft fair on sunday and the list of things to do is mounting up, looking forward to it but have a bit of work to do first, i suppose being made unemployed will aid my progresion.
made a batch of honey dippers to sell and at the end of the batch was getting quicker and quicker so decided to record it, i am in no way a production turner and only ever recived one lesson in turning so i do a lot of things arse ways but thats just how i taught myself… cheers goo...
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4 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
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Here’s the two reels after I strategically removed about half the wood. It’s still strong, but a whole lot lighter to stuff into the luggage. We’ve addressed the canting keel problem of the camera, and we got our camera/enclosure in the mail today, so I think we’re set. I figured out how to invert .avi video, so we’re going to hang the camera upside down from the middle of the parallel linkage. Tomorrow, we’re going to jump on a boat for an hour and...
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