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Casters on my Rikon bandsaw!

8 days ago by Dick, & Barb Cain | 12 comments »

I’ve been checking out mobile bases for my bandsaw, & decided to just put casters on it. I checkout the base of my bandsaw, & I decided it was built plenty strong enough to handle the casters. That’s all I had to do was cut some 1” x 2” x 3” blocks to fit in corners between the channel cross members. I drilled some 1/2” holes in towards the cabinet, so the large flat fender washers would fit. The reason I used fender washers, was to prev...

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What to do with all those patterns you get with magazines

12 days ago by Allison | 10 comments »

I just posted this on my personal blog( so some of the wording may be strange but the content is the same) but kinda felt it was worth sharing with any of you that may find yourselves wondering what to do with all those paper patterns you get with magazines .I subscribe to Google Alerts, for scrolling or Intarsia patterns; And I get them all the time. Today I saw one that caught my eye because it was called “keeping track of woodworking projects and plans” I have lived through thi...

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Lessons Learned #3: Glue joint strength

12 days ago by sry | 6 comments »

Over the summer, I finally decided to tackle the jungle/mosquito breeding ground behind my back fence that I inherited from the previous owners. About halfway through, one of the nice wood handles (oak I think) on my loppers snapped: So being the good aspiring woodworker that I am, I glue them back together with basic yellow glue. A few weeks later I go back to finish up and the handle snaps again. This time though it snapped in a different place. Same handle, but the previous glue joi...

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Lessons Learned #2: RIP shop vac

15 days ago by sry | 9 comments »

So the story goes like this: I’m in the garage minding my own business routing a groove down the center of some 1×2 poplar when I hear a loud pop and smoke starts billowing out of my shop vac/dust collector. I turn off the router, yank the shop vac cord out of the wall and get outside. It’s then that I remember that I unplugged the garage opener because I needed the outlet, so I had no good way of getting all the smoke out of the garage. So I hold my breath and plunge back...

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teen age woodworking #14: Mortise and Tenons

18 days ago by teenagewoodworker | 18 comments »

Hey Everyone! i know its been awhile but i finally have another episode of the Teenage Woodworker to put up! in this episode i talk about how i do mortise and tenons. so i hope that everyone likes it! So I hope that everyone likes the episode. i will have another one out sometime next week. I’m taking the T-Chisel challenge and making a step stool so i figure that i will document that. i have some cool things to show. especially the finish! so i hope that everyone liked it and...

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Lessons Learned #1: Getting started

20 days ago by sry | 7 comments »

A quick introduction to get things started here. I’m just getting started in woodworking, and thought it would be an interesting idea to post the lessons (mistakes?) I’m learning as I learn them. Things like the importance of “measure twice, cut once”, etc. Whether you guys know it or not, I’ve already accumulated a large amount of knowledge from the discussions, projects, and blogs here at LJ. As I try to turn that knowledge into actual skills and projects t...

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shadow box

25 days ago by red | 2 comments »

I am needing to find a pattern for making a shadow box for my military awards with a US flag on top of it. But I have hade no luck in finding the pattern that I need if anyone has any ideas please let me now.

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Autodesk Inventor #1: Autodesk Inventor - ideas, tricks, and help

26 days ago by JerseyJoe | 6 comments »

To all my fellow Woodworkers that use Autodesk Inventor. I’m posting this forum as a suggestion that we talk amongst ourselves about Inventor. I am just beginning my journey with this drawing program and like everything new I have questions, idea, and I definitely need help occasionally. So I was thinking that if we pool our collective minds I sure it would be a helpful aid to all of us that use this program and get stuck or just need to vent or share our work. So I think thi...

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down and out momentary #1: o' b careful little hans

27 days ago by cobra5 | 7 comments »

Two weeks ago August 17th 2008, after three years new into wood working I graduated to my first injury! No matter how careful you are,using all safety tools, jigs, features that you can master up, an injury can occur. I know now from experience, so does my skil xshop table saw with the new ryobi 60 tooth blade, and my right hand middle finger——whats left of it! Now I’m unable to design, create, show off any wood working, nor finish a repeated customers almost done 6 piece o...

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The great table saw guard debate (or are you sure you'd like to risk going to hospital?)

28 days ago by oldskoolmodder | 11 comments »

So, even experienced and long time(of which I am) woodworkers sometimes question if they are doing the right thing by taking “safety” equipment off of their tools, for a god reason. Almost anyone I know has taken the table saw guard off at some point, or maybe never even put it on, when they got a new saw. I’m certainly NO exception at all. Does it make me smart? Does it make me stupid? Well, that’s something that much like everything else, is something that only the i...

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