299 days ago
by Gary |
2 comments »
Here’s a picture of my cyclone dust separator shop vac:
I used three different sizes of chlorine buckets from the pool supply store (we bought them full…), an ancient Craftsman shopvac, some scrap pvc tubing, a couple bought pvc fittings, a couple types of epoxy glue, an HF furniture moving dolly for the casters, a section of a pool vac hose which we’ve never used, and some plywood scraps.
I studied all the cyclone designs I could find, many here on LJ, many on you...
Read this entry »
388 days ago
by GodofBiscuits |
3 comments »
Necessity is the mother of invention. I have this saying above the doorway into my shop because just about every day I am having to create something new to be able to complete what work I have set out for that day. Yesterday it was a portable router table to replace the piece of $#!* Skil router table I bought from HD some time back. The router table has always been a pain in my arse and was never truly good for routing anything well. When I milled all the pieces for my Greene and Greene styl...
Read this entry »
478 days ago
by pmcustom |
2 comments »
I recently decided to tackle my router table problem. I wanted to incorporate it into my mobile tablesaw workstation, which was an earlier project. I searched for DIY plans and could not find anything that seemed suitable, so I designed my own. The fence (not pictured, because it hasn’t been built yet) mounts to a box that slides within a bigger box. Wedges or ramps then adjust with a knob in order to push the inner box out. This will be the micro-adjustment. The whole assembly sl...
Read this entry »
541 days ago
by dspahn |
10 comments »
I’m pretty frugal. I had it drilled into me by my parents, who are also extremely frugal. Most of the time I’m grateful for it. Every now and then I’m just the tiniest bit ashamed. I’m not sure yet which category tonight’s escapade falls into. Maybe you can be the judge. ;)
I wanted to get some calipers to measure diameters of whatever I’m turning. I looked on craigslist, and the only thing they had was a Starrett 36 for $575! (Click here for proof...
Read this entry »
631 days ago
by FreddyS |
3 comments »
Hi everyone, I was too busy the last couple of weeks to post an update, but here it is, small one though:
Added a little handle to the hand wheel to ease the tailstock spindle adjustments.
1.- A live center my friend with a metal lathe made for me, works great but I lost 1” between points so right now it is 17”, I guess I wont miss it anyway.
2.- The only thing I had at hand to use as a lathe tool was a 1/2” chisel, I know, I know… I’ll get prope...
Read this entry »
670 days ago
by Josh Goulart |
3 comments »
see the whole story, with the music i wrote while building these projects! @ http://refinedhomerelics.blogspot.com
Read this entry »
679 days ago
by gurnie |
1 comment »
So some progress has been made. first i rounded off the cylinder with a bandsaw to remove a lot of those pointed edges.
Then came root cutting. Several pieces of 2” thick X 2” wide were cut in the shape of roots (approx., 7”, 9”, 8”, 11”). I free handed the shape of the root. I left 1” on the end uncut for the sliding dove tail i will use to connect the roots to the stump
Concentrating hard so i don’t cut my fingers off
So o...
Read this entry »
688 days ago
by darkhollow |
0 comments »
A few years back I was filmed for an episode of the series “Woodsculpting” on the “Do-It-Yourself (DIY) network. I didn’t hear anything about it and figured it had not aired. earlier this year I noticed that the episode had been aired, and was to air again soon. unfortunately, I cannot get the DIY network on my cable, so I have never seen it. In fact, they don’t use my name or show a picture of my on the website, and the description on the DIY website of how I made spoons di...
Read this entry »
691 days ago
by FreddyS |
6 comments »
Hi everyone, after some thinking and a lot of recent lathe work posts in a local forum, I decided to go for a mini lathe like the one in shop notes 73:
So far I got some of the parts needed to build the lathe, here are some photos:
All put together as a test:
I had some free time so I went ahead and did the drive and cup centers, the friend who showed me the magazine also has a metal lathe so he helped with the center points:
This was the easy part, now I need ...
Read this entry »
753 days ago
by Huckleberry |
16 comments »
Sharpening Chisels episode introduces two ways to sharpen chisels. ; With the help of Steve from Wood Working for Mere Mortals we explore these methods
Read this entry »
« prev
1 2 3 4
next »
38 entries
