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Samples of crafts my wife and I also do

Toolz — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:05:56 GMT

I thought I’d share some of the other things my wife and I make in addition to woodworking. My wife does Intarsia and pyrography (wood burning) and I also do leather work and small carvings

Laura’s Bass

Laura’s Pelican

Laura’s Wolf

Celtic Belt Purse with detachable shoulder strap

Celtic Belt Case

Seahorse Handbag

Little Priest Friendship Cane Segment (front)

Little Priest side view

Progress of setting up the Shop #3: Dust Collection System to date

Toolz — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:21:35 GMT

After locating some 4” “green” sewer and drain line; I started to connect the dust collector. By using a series of “y’s”, elbows, and blast gates I was able to make a main branch that will run to the jointer, planer and large sander; a branch to a floor sweep, and a branch to the existing 2” duct line. I still have the second 4” connector on the main DC free for expansion if needed. So far I have just “friction fitted” these connections and they seem to work fine. I had to use two short pieces of flex hose when making the stack connections because I couldn’t find any 22 1/2 degree elbows that fit my drain pipe.

NOTE: I used ball type swivels on the drops from the main branch to allow the drops to be repositioned so that flex hoses from these drops could be connected to more than one machine.

DC, CYCLONE, RISER STACK AND 1st DROP OFF OF MAIN BRANCH

CYCLONE & FLOOR SWEEP

RISER STACK FROM CYCLONE

ANOTHER VIEW OF STACK UP FROM CYCLONE

LINE CONNECTING 4”LINE TO EXISTING 2” LINE

ANOTHER VIEW OF BRANCH CONNECTING 4”TO EXISTING 2” LINE

FIRST DROP OFF OF MAIN LINE

END DROP WITH CLEAN-OUT PLUG

Progress of setting up the Shop #2: More photos of tools and shop

Toolz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:54:22 GMT

As you can see to date I have added some lumber storage (Triton metal racks) and shop built cut-off and sheet goods racks on casters as well as a rack to hold 2×4’s or molding off the floor. We have also added more tools to the collection. I really need to get all this stuff organized. I’m still looking for thin walled 4” PVC to create a main line and drops for the new DC. The small system I started out with works pretty good for the band saw table saw and not so well with the miter saw. It definitely is not enough for the jointer, 22/44 sander of the thickness planer. I plan to connect one branch of the new DC to the jointer, planer, and sander. The other branch will connect to the TS band saw and Miter saw using a reducer to drop from 4” to the existing 2 1/2 ducting I already have in place. I have two shop vacs a new stainless steel Rigid model that I am going to dedicate to the router table and another old one for general shop cleanup. I also plan to add a floor sweep station near the galvanized can with the cyclone top that is going to be used as a pre-separator. I hope you all enjoy the photos and I most definitely welcome comments and or suggestions on how I could improve my setup.

I mounted an old piece of kitchen cabinet to the wall under the window and use small file cabinets to make a desk

Rigid TS and small 1HP DC system connected to Rigid DC tubing…it works but is not powerful enough

Another view of Rigid TS

Rigid band saw still connected to the small DC system

JET 2/44 Sander

Another view of the JET sander

My wife likes to do Intarsia so we have an area for her sanders, scrolll saw and a small old drill press

Drill press…we want to get a larger one down the road

Kreg Router table…still need to drill out the mounting plate for the new small Triton router but have to get longer mounting screws first

Large Triton plunge router I got to augment my old Skill plunge router that is now dedicated to sign work

Smaller Triton routh with above the table crank to be dedicated to the Kreg router table

New Delta 6” rabbeting jointer

DeWalt 13” planer. I mounted it to a piece of 3/4 plywood and glued up MDF infeed and outfeed supports to the plywood then added cleats to match the vice jaws of an old Walmart workbench that I have had for years. I can easily remove the planer if I need to use the banch for other crafts

Rigid Miter Saw mounted on a Ryobi stand. I mounted it to a small piece of old kitchen counter top and then to the Ryobi stand because it would not attach directly

Knock-down rack to hold 2×4’s. Once I complete the basement bar that I am building I will knock this down and store it for later use

Cut off cart and left end of sheet goods cart both of which are mounted on casters

Lumber carts and stacked lumber in the background against the wall

Progress of setting up the Shop #1: Some photos of the worshop in progress

Toolz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:34:00 GMT

We moved in in May ‘07 and I started working to set up a workshop:

workshop view from the back door towards front of shop 6/07

Back right corner 6/07

Back left corner 6/07

Corner bench 6/07

Many thanks for the warm welcome

Toolz — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:10:31 GMT

Hi all and thanks for the warm welcome. I’m 62y/o, retired from the US Navy and just getting back into woodworking. We recently moved to southwest OH from Beaufort, SC to get my wife closer to her family in Canada. We are in the process of setting up our second garage as a hobby wood shop. Presently we have a Rigid TS, bandsaw and chop saw. Also a new Delta 6” jointer, Dewalt 13” planer, and a Jet 22/44 sander and a Jet 1100 DC system. Plus numerous small power and hand tools. In the past I have done a lot of woodcarving and custom leatherworking. I am in the process of deciding on final tool placement so I can install a main line and drops for the DC. I have a few photos of progress to date that I will try to post later.