12 days ago
by kevin |
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Hello everyone,
Well, it looks like I’ve got some work to do! I’ve had a customer bring me a table top that was saved from a closing Starbuck’s Coffee Shop. At first, he wanted a coffe table made from it, but then changed his mind and wanted to use it to top a small entertainment center. The unit will sit directly below a wall-mounted flat screen tv, and needs to house some stereo components and dvd’s.
Neat top, huh!? Materials are some beautiful 8/4 blac...
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12 days ago
by Timber_Cruiser |
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Well, I have been asked to get back in to my workshop and dust off my power tools (no pun intended) by my wife and make her a potato/onion bin. This is the first project since the birth of our first child back in early february. It has been a long time since I have been in my shop and it is nice to get back on a project even though it has been more difficult to find the time after work to complete it. Also, I have been strongly considering buying a dust collector (kids don’t do well ...
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12 days ago
by Charles Mullins |
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Well folks, I have been slow on the clock because of other projects that had a higher priority, some of them were “Honey Do’s”, a week spent on a volunteer project for the local area similar to World Changers, and finishing a large cabinet project. So I’ve been fairly busy.
I also decided to put some carving on the upper part of the hood but I can’t decide on a pattern. I guess I’ll have to “give it a go”!
I did carve a rosette for the swa...
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13 days ago
by Bob #2 |
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I must congratulate my electrical guys today . They worked like troopers and even figured out my sketches and made suggestions to make it into a really nice shop.I have T-8 lighting and more outlets than you can shake a stick at.
As I mentioned before I ran my electrics outside the walls so that changes could be made without disturbing the sheeting or insulation.I have about 8, 220 volt outlets and the rest are 110 volts. All were carried in one 3/4” EMT tube.The one lower light here...
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13 days ago
by wadestock |
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A friend gave me a deli table from a closed down grocery store. Stainless steel frame, great maple butcher block top in 4 parts. The only problem with it was that it sat out in the weather for a while and the wood swelled. I’ve had it for over a year now and I’m trying to turn it into a woodworking workbench. I’ve been working on planing one section so it doesn’t hang over the frame. My biggest victory so far is my hand plane. After reading a bunch on refurbishing hand...
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14 days ago
by sIKE |
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Well, I have been slowly working on the this project over the last couple of weekends, but had to side track when my Air Compressor blew a gasket in the pump mechanism and I had to replace it (Turns out Good). With me having to work in the very hot loft to get this fixed I decided to go for broke and get all of my Compressor related sub projects taken care of. I had a slow leak on the unloader line, so I fixed that when I added the Automatic Drain Valve from Harbor Freight, thanks Patrick. I ...
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15 days ago
by Greg Wurst |
3 comments »
Lots of pictures for this final update, so here goes!
I went ahead and finished the side panel frame and partially assembled them. I left one side off so I could slide the finished panels in and glue them together.
For the cherry side panels I finished them with about 9 coats of Formby’s Tung Oil Finish which is essentially just a wiping varnish. In hindsight I was probably wiping them on too thin to begin with, since they dried very quickly between coats. I applied the fir...
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16 days ago
by Blake |
34 comments »
This project is finished. Let me show you what I have been up to the last two days.
MAKING THE DRAWERS
I trued up some stock on the jointer and planer out of Birch for the drawers:
And then made the half-blind dovetails on my Incra router table (first time I’ve done that… so sweet)
Assembled the drawers:
And glued them up:
Then I routed a stopped groove on the drawer sides:
This seemed to work just right for sanding the inside of the gr...
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17 days ago
by Bob #2 |
18 comments »
Today marks the first time I tacked shingles since I was 16 years old. ( apparently, there is a lot I forgot)Thanks to you generous folks who pointed me in the right directions and several tours of Internet I am well on the way to getting the roof done tomorrow.
The big draw back today was the sun. I was so hot on the tar paper that you could not touch it or even sit on it. The heat was definitely in the 140 -160°F range.I got the flashing figured out and the starter course on by around 10:AM...
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18 days ago
by Blake |
19 comments »
So I decided to make a bead around the drawers which would give me the room I needed to clean up both the drawers and openings. Thanks to bfd’s idea I decided to go for the template idea to fix the drawer openings.
DRAWERS
So I milled up some strips for the bead:
Here’s how I made the template to fit the drawer with the bead…
I drew the outline of the bead on a scrap of plywood:
Then I cut some scraps to fit those lines and stapled them to the plyw...
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