| This blog is written by dustbunny | 36 entries so far |
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Patron and the Spirit of the Holidays
A mystery package arrived at the post office !I was wracking my brain because I could not remembe...
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Electrolysis Tank- Clean Your Machine
I have two 1930’s Walker Turner 24” scroll saws I am refurbishing to use in my shop.A...
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Wood Working Shows - Springfield Massachusetts
The @28th Annual Wood Working Show in Springfield has come to a close.This years show was spectac...
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Torque WorkCentre #5: Birds Beak Shelving
About two weeks ago Hopdevil posted a question to the forum about shelving he had seen in the Mar...
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Torque WorkCentre #4: Officially Up and Running
She is all aligned X, Y, and Z.It wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be to align.I w...
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Grizzly Tent Sale 9/25 Muncy PA
I am back from the Grizzly tent sale.It was another spectacular event. I found what I went there ...
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Torque WorkCentre #3: Torque-a-roo
Carved up my kanga for the Torque work cabinet. Needs a bit of hand sanding yet.I bought t...
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Dovetail Drawers
In the process of building my Torque cabinet, I decided to try some dovetail drawers for the firs...
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Torque WorkCentre #2: In it's new home
The Torque Workcentre is FINALLY in it’s new home.I will admit it has been some time since ...
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Ye Old Compressor
While in the midst of organizing the shop, I moved my compressor and realized how old it is. Howe...
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Lathe Drawers
A while back there was a discussion about storage under the Central Machinery lathe.I posted pics...
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Tight Weave the Down and Dirty
Several people asked me to blog the process of the tight weave board.The original tight weave boa...
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I Converted !!
From one of my earlier blogs, you may know that I have a Grizzly 24” dual drum sander, an a...
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An LJ Visit
I had the opportunity to visit with Ellen (Ellen35) and Lorna (moonls) at Ellen’s place tod...
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Torque WorkCentre #1: It's been a long journey....
From Queensland Austalia, over 9000 miles in about 7 weeks on an ocean freighter, the Torque Work...
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"Don't Stress" glue ups... an update
I used the clamping glue up board- For the wave cutting board I could only use it in one d...
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"Don't Stress" glue ups
I got so tired of fighting with glueing up cutting boards.Is everything lining up ? Is there slip...
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Grizzly Tent Sale in Muncy PA
Well folks, once again I have gotten away with thievery,and my conscience is clean.My husband and...
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Wax is like rocket fuel
I had a cutting board that was one of my first- It already had a mineral oil and wax finis...
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Box Build
I am currently working on a box for a friend to give to her husband for his birthday. I have ...
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Pen Making/Whatever Bench
I finally got the nerve up to cut The Sunset piece and turn it into drawer fronts. I sort of got ...
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Craigslist Score
Wahoo !!All the watching and waiting has finally paid off.This is what I found on Craigslist sear...
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Reclaimed Chestnut
I picked up these boards today from a friend. She bought them from a company that salvages the wo...
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One Day Too Late
I finally made myself a zero clearance insert for my table saw. This happened today only because ...
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Work Shop Sign
My workshop is in the garage and during the cold weather I keep the doors down most of the time.I...
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Figured/Curly Purpleheart
I couldn’t tell what the grain of this the 8/4×7” x 50” piece looked like ...
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The Wavy Larry- my jig
I’ve had several LJ’s request pics of the jig I made for the wavy Larry board. I̵...
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Springfield MA WoodWorking Show
I went to the show today and wasn’t disappointed. It was a small show this year probably be...
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Finally Spindle Pictures
I posted a blog about some chair spindles I turned for a friend. These were to replace the broken...
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All in One Jig Part 1 #1: Diamonds and Triangles
After posting the quilted lazy susan project, http://lumberjocks.com/projects/21623, many of yo...
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Grizzly Tent Sale
The day finally arrived, and there is a brand new band saw sitting in my workshop!! I’m su...
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Woodwork in NYC
Yesterday my daughter and I spent the day wandering (and shopping hehe) in New York City. The bes...
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StrongHand Clamps
I was looking for a clamp that could hold a glue up of two 45 deg strips of wood to make a block....
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Garden Bench will miss the deadline
Well I think it’s safe to say at this point, with four days left to enter, there is no way ...
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It pays to chat about the weather
So I’ve seen many posts about wood gloats, now I finally have one of my own. I struck up...
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Chair Spindles
A friend of mine is refinishing an antique chair. There were four spindles on the back of the cha...
