667 days ago
by RS Woodworks |
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Well it’s been a little bit since my last blog, but here is what I’ve been able to get done in the shop over the past little bit.
I last left with a freshly glued up top, and a question on what timbers to use for the legs. Well I decided to use the four maple beams I had for the legs. Even though two of them contain the pith, and some rather large cracks, I would rather have that then 3 different types of wood that looked only slightly better, so maple it is.
After the top w...
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678 days ago
by RS Woodworks |
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Well, with the boards for the top cut to rough length and rough thickness, and the general layout for the top decided on, it’s time to start squaring up the lumber and getting ready to glue the top all together. I started out with jointing one face and one edge flat and square on the 6” general jointer. I set up a roller stand to the exact height on both the infeed and outfeed side. It’s time consuming, but squaring all the lumber is probably the single most important step i...
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685 days ago
by RS Woodworks |
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Ah the pith. That very core of the tree, that for some reason, is remarkably unstable in use as lumber. The inclusion of the pith in some of the beams I have obtained all but ruins an otherwise solid thick chunk of wood. It really pithes me off.
All kidding aside. I can probably still make some good use out of these beams, even the ones with the pith in them, with some thought into my cuts.
I was contacted last week by an old woodworking acquaintance, Maxwell. He told me he saw my b...
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694 days ago
by RS Woodworks |
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This workbench project, for me, has been a long time coming. Well, long as in a couple of years anyways. It kinda began when I finally realized that the piece of plywood on two saw horses wasn’t quite cutting it as a woodworking bench. The mdf top on two collapsible metal legs wasn’t much better, and althought its been my main work, assembly, and glue up table for the past two years, the granite top of my table saw is far from an ideal workbench either. So, slowly, I began accumil...
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722 days ago
by jcwalleye |
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With the top done, set the leg assembly in position next to the face vise.
And the end vise slides to make sure everything still fits.
Square everything up and mark the spot where the hex bolts attach the top to the top rail.
I used the top rails as a jig to get the holes straight and drilled from the bottom toward the top to just where the brad point stuck through the top surface. This gave me a pilot for later drilling the counter bore in the top for the ½” bolts that attaches the...
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852 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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The following are gateways to tips/information re: safety for individual pieces of equipment(Any other tools/equipment you’d like to see on the list?)
LumberJocks’ Equipment Safety Gateway”
Allergic Reactions to Wood
Bandsaw
Hand Plane
Lathe
Mitre Saw
Planer
Router
Sander
Scroll Saw
Table Saw
Vise
All LumberJocks’ GATEWAYS
Safety Tips
Projects
Woodworking Tips & Tricks
And a quick glance at LumberJocks.co...
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935 days ago
by TheGravedigger |
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There’s a new post on the Little Good Pieces blog: “T-time”. It’s my way of dealing with vise racking. Check it out!
http://littlegoodpieces.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/t-time/
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988 days ago
by PurpLev |
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Hard to believe, I know. It’s been over a year since I announced the workbench complete, although there was always that missing part, that loose end that had to be tied off in order to officially declare it a complete project.
Not only was it a loose end (literally, the vise screw was hanging loose in it’s slot), but it was a missing integral part of the bench that I kept on wishing I had setup and functional. The Wagon Vise to hold down boards for planing flat and similar work...
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1016 days ago
by AnnaEA |
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Here’s the small vise, all cleaned up. About 12 hours in the Evapo-Rust soak, and another rubdown with WD-40. I might paint it, or might not. I haven’t decided yet.
Since this is a metal jawed vise, it definitely needs some face blocks added. When I install it on my bench-to-be, I’ll cut a recess for the bench side plate, and then add a face block over….. maybe part of a full skirt face on the side of the bench. I’m not real clear on this bit yet...
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1017 days ago
by AnnaEA |
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This is my small vise. It’s about 50 years old, and was hand made by the original owner from scrap metal. His son later sold it to my father in law, who replaced the center screw and re-welded the whole thing. All this work, my FIL tells me, both his repairs and the original fabrication, was done over lunch hours at the steel mill.
I’ve given it a good spray with WD-40, and gone at it with #3 steel wool. I got some of the paint off, and some of the rust, but ...
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