1976 days ago
by Patrick Jaromin |
21 comments »
(This is the first post here, but a continuation of a series started at my personal blog at tenonandspline.com/blog)
I’m not what you would call a “neat freak.” However, I do try to keep things generally organized and find it near impossible to work in a cluttered shop. Not only do I find it technically difficult to work in an unorganized mess – I find it hopelessly depressing as well. Consequently, when the shop is cluttered I will typically avoid doing any woodwor...
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893 days ago
by Dan |
8 comments »
I’ve recently started woodworking over the past 6 months and I’ve been getting my shop together. I needed a table that I could use as an assembly, outfeed, and work table. I got the idea for this project from the newest Shop Notes Vol. 20 Issue 115. The idea is a small footprint work table that can expand to hold a full sheet of plywood for cutting. The table also has a sacrificial top so that I can abuse the thing without worrying about it. This bench is also completely made of 2...
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872 days ago
by Hoakie |
5 comments »
Ok, is a shop really ever done?!? At least it is a major improvement over the last arrangement
You may recall that I solicited suggestions for a proposed shop rearrangement a couple of weeks ago. The primary reasons for changing things up is that I felt a) the arrangement was very inefficient to work in and b) I’m getting ready to build either the 21st Century or Holtzapffel workbench and really wanted to have good access to all sides of the bench
Since I’m going to update...
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288 days ago
by twobyfour16 |
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So, the top needed skirts, obviously, so time to laminate again. This time, I used 3 pieces of 1×8 black walnut. This gave me a skirt that is 2 1/4” thick, and 6 3/4” wide – after cleaning up the edges. I glued up enough blanks for the front skirt, two end skirts, and chops for both vises. I did not get very many pictures of this process, as I had plenty of lamination pics earlier….I will say that these skirts were BEEFY! And heavy.
So, now I had to figure...
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1503 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
36 comments »
This is a continuation of #5 in this series.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have the slat wall paneling completed.
Now how am I going to arrange my tools? I bought the material at Lowes.
It’s 5/16” X 3 1/2” X 8’
14 Sq ft. in a package. Other big box stores handle similar products.
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This is the last wall, I ripped my boards in half to 1 5/8”. I like it better this way. There...
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164 days ago
by Pheirendt |
4 comments »
What started out as a simple clamp rack project grew into an entire assembly center.
I started out wanting a mobile rack for all of my clamps to make assembly easier and avoid the running back and forth for clamps and/or having the work table covered in clamps so there is no room to work. The next thing I knew the project grew into the idea of having everything needed for assembly on a mobile cart – clamps, glue, biscuit joiners and biscuits, dowels jigs and dowels, pocket jig pocke...
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1149 days ago
by dustynewt |
6 comments »
I have numerous projects going on. In short, all my horizontal surfaces have gone missing and it is standing room only.
Here are some over-alls from the front door.
This is the main cause of the melee’. We have decided to toy with silver soldering and jewelry. So, this area of our shrinking shop is being converted to a jeweler’s bench with acetylene torch, flex shaft tool, and all those other cool tools that jewelers use.I will have to find a new home for all that hardwa...
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1095 days ago
by PocketHole69 |
7 comments »
This was originally a comment on this forum thread. I’m posting it again here so more people might see it and avoid serious fire and safety issues in their shop.
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I’m a firefighter and the head of the emergency response team for a company that specializes in industrial fire protection. Before switching to the industrial side I worked several years as a municipal firefighter.
First of all, the original posters assumption that the risk o...
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1162 days ago
by Brian Havens |
12 comments »
At the beginning of the month, on a whim, I added my shop tour video to the shop gallery on Fine Woodworking. I had no idea that it would get featured in the newsletter. I am honored, and perhaps a little overwhelmed.
Here is a link to the video:Shop Tour
And here is a link to the newsletter:Fine Woodworking Newsletter
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1570 days ago
by Scott Wigginton |
9 comments »
Priming OSB
It took two thick coats of drywall primer on my OSB just to get it ready for paint, but it is a drastic improvement over my last attempt of going straight to the latex.
Breaking Child Labor Laws
I’m quick to put my offspring hard to work, I just hope it still works when they’re old enough to mow the lawn
If only I had the clipboard and hardhad I’d qualify for a DOT lead supervisor.
Snow Day
Today we had a bit of snow/slush/ice and after not ...
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