22 days ago
by Derek Lyons |
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Yesterday my lovely Lady Wife was headed down to Tacoma to help our friend Peggy set up a Point of Sale system at her needleworking/embroidery shop. This presented a nice opportunity as Peggy’s husband Joel is also a woodworker – so I invited him up to my workshop to help finish my garage workbench. (LJ project page at the link.)
Joel and I got a nice early start, sorted out the pieces I’d precut, and built a jig for assembling the legs.
Then we took a break to head ...
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23 days ago
by Eric |
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We’re finally in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. It’s a great little city, with very easy access to incredible snorkeling and diving, and within a couple hours of the mountains. There’s also a great Italian place in town that I’m itching to go back to.
For the immediate future, we’ll be staying at the home of some colleagues, who are in the States until June. So there’s no real rush to go out and find ...
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35 days ago
by Derek Lyons |
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Well, some progress has been made but less than I’d hoped.
Here’s what we started with Saturday morning, the ‘amazing’ collection of shelving and workbench built by the son of the our houses previous owner:
It’s not really clear in this picture but neither the shelves or the bench are level in any direction, and the shelves are actually bowed. (And were like that when we moved in.) They came down very easily – which was frightening considering ho...
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42 days ago
by Eric |
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We’re moving in about 10 days to a different part of the country. Tomorrow the movers come to haul off some of our belongings. We’re mailing what we can, as it’s much cheaper, but some things (like a TV) are best moved by professionals. Our stuff is traveling by boat and should arrive about a week or so after we get there.
Today I had to dismantle my workshop and pack everything up. It was fun in a way, as this was my first real workshop and I had some good times here. I&...
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43 days ago
by exold |
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I started out with a fairly hefty workbench from the house’s previous owner, but it’s in a place not appropriate for a woodshop, and it’s not easy to move to where I do want my shop (the garage). Given that the space that it’s in is my main art studio, and it’s useful for that, I decided to leave it there and come up with a different bench for my woodwork.The space I had available…well, let’s call it available in theory, as at the time I decided to se...
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47 days ago
by Derek Lyons |
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I haven’t posted a workshop tour yet not because I am new to LJ, but because I don’t really have much of a shop at present… We have a detached two car garage with an ‘amazing’ (and mostly useless) collection of jerry built ‘shelving’ and ‘workbenches’ courtesy of the previous owner of the house. Over the next week and a half that will change radically with the old crap being ripped out and getting started on the new…
So lets tak...
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70 days ago
by PhilipR |
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I’ve had several new additions to my woodworking arsenal this month, two of which have increased the amount of time I’ve been spending in the shop ten fold. First, for my birthday, I received a gift certificate to the newly opened WoodCraft here in Lexington, KY. With that gift certificate I purchased a SuperNova2 Chuck for my lathe.
I’ve been wanting one since I took my first bowl turning class earlier this year; my only regret is that it took so long for me to mak...
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86 days ago
by jstewart |
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As I previously mentioned, I’ve made good progress on a garage workbench. I still need to put the facings (or whatever you call them) on the drawers. The facings are already cut out, but I’m waiting to decide on drawer pulls before I put them on. I’ve considered making some drawer pulls from rope to give the whole thing a different look than standard cabinet drawers. The back edge of the benchtop has some scrap MDF pieces laying on it to keep anything from rolling back b...
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92 days ago
by jstewart |
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I’ve almost finished the garage cabinets. My parents were in town last weekend to witness my daughter’s baptism. So, we took the opportunity to spend some time together in the garage.
We were able to build the remaining three drawers in just a couple of hours. I decided to use pocket hole joinery for these drawers for two reasons. One: I just got a new Kreg Master System, so I wanted to give it a try. Two: I knew pocket hole joinery would be faster than setting up the dado...
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101 days ago
by sIKE |
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I managed to finish milling the drawer fronts/sides/backs this past Sunday and started the assembly process. Due to the lack of clamps and only being able to get two setups at a time (and of course my day job), I finally finished up today. Here are all ten of them in all of thier glory.With darkness closing in this evening and the the wife not so happy I pressed on through and mounted the first two drawers.
They need a bit of fine tuning but they are in. I can see the end of the tunnel...
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