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A question about hinges

Quebecnewf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:41:50 GMT

i am building a door for my new workshop. The door is 5’ wide by standard height. Door will be made out of wood. I know I can buy large strap hinges but in this region I will have to use brass or SS.

I was wondering if anyone out there has done a door like this and used wooden hinges. I checked around a bit on the net but so far have only found details on fairly small hinges.

I was wondering if someone in this large group could give some guidance on this search or have done this type of thing themselves

Quebecnewf

Method to shiplap siding for a new workshop??

Quebecnewf — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:40:20 GMT

I would like to shiplap the roof boards for my new workshop roof. This is approx 1200 sq ft of one inch softwood lumber. My reason for doing this is the fact that after I board in the roof I know there will be quite a bit of shrinkage and as the cracks open up I will be able to see up through them and the blue styrofoam insulation will be visible from the shop floor in these seams. I want to avoid this if possible and the only way I can think of is to ship lap the boards.

My question is what would be the best way to do this. I have three options with the tools I have.

Option 1: is a dado head on my table saw. I have a cheap dado set and I would not be worried about the roughness of the cut. Has anyone done this and if so waht are your thoughts?

Option 2 : Stack approx 4 skil saw blades on the table saw and use them in place of the dado head. I have not tried this out but some of these 7 1/4” cheap blades really zip through the wood. Thoughts??

Option 3: Use a hand or table mounted router. This would work but I don’t know if the router could stand all this heavy usage. Thoughts???

Quebecnewf

My New Workshop Project

Quebecnewf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:09:44 GMT

I am in the first stage of building my new workshop. This involves removing an old shed before I can start the new one.
I will document this project from start to finish on this blog. It may take two years. I hope to seal the new building in by the fall and then work on the inside over the winter.
Here goes

This is the west side of the building I have to remove the steel siding yet

This is the south side view. I have removed the steel siding. The posts you see sticking up through the snow are the foundation for the new shed

This is the north side view
Same view but now the roof is removed
More pic to come
Quebecnewf

CUTTIN UP SLABS

Quebecnewf — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:57:00 GMT

Well got back in to the mill this morning. Cold here today -10C. Sawed up a few slabs and packed them in the shed so they won’t snow up.

View from the boat looking ashore we have had a bit of snow.

View from the shore my buddy came in in his boat to tow home a few slabs for firewood. His is the green boat mine the blue

I pack the slabs on a rack and then saw them up and put them in the shed. Spruce and fir. Not the best wood to burn but can’t see throwing them away. Use the whole log i always say.

Getting time to haul the boat ashore for the winter . End of another season. Time to grease up the snowmobile and get in the woods to cut logs

Quebecnewf

In to the sawmill today

Quebecnewf — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:57:59 GMT

Went in to the sawmill today . First day for quite sometime too many other things to do. Sawed a few long logs 17’ to finish my rafters for the workshop. . These are 3×6x17’ . These logs are too long to go in through the log door so we pull them in through on end of the shed saw them and then pull them out through the other end.

We then filled the summer sleigh with slabs for fire wood and i will tow them out tomorrow .
good day

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Quebecnewf

Things to do to get wood for woodworking

Quebecnewf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:56:16 GMT

I live on an island. To get wood I first

go in woods to cut logs

put up winter camp

cut logs

haul logs

stack logs

saw logs

put lumber in kiln for summer