| This blog is written by lew | 24 entries so far |
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I Love My Dewalt 735 Planer But......
A couple of years ago, I purchased a Dewalt 735 planer to replace my tired and worn Bridgewood Lu...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #10: In Operation And A Bit Of Reflecting
Had a bunch of requests (OK, only two) to see the sander in operation. Here is a very short video...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #9: Dust Collection And Finishing Up
Better add some sort of dust collection to this thing before I do anymore testing!This is what th...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #8: Some Refinements
Most of the photos used for this blog were taken “along the way.” As with everything made in my s...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #7: The Sandpaper
It was finally time to add the sand paper to the drum. Having decided on a Velcro (hook and loop)...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #6: Mounting The Table
The final major part of the assembly is the table. The piece of ¾” Melamine is from the scrap box...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #5: Mounting The Drum And Motor
Time to mount the drum and motor to the frame. The choice of 2×6 sides was made to hopefully...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #4: Building The Frame
Now that the drum runs true and the table lift works, it was time to start building the frame. My...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #3: The Table Adjustment Mechanism
After researching many sander designs and knowing my tendency to over engineer everything, there ...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #2: Testing The Drum
After building the drum, a test was in order. After all, if this part didn’t run true there was n...
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My Home Made Thickness Sander #1: The Drum
When making my rolling pins, I use the thickness planer to bring the thin strips down to 1/8” thi...
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Posting this here for all LJ's to respond!
Just received this email which I am posting in its’ entirety: A message from the CEO of ...
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Home Made Tool to Help Eliminate Frustrations
Until recently the dust collection system, in my basement shop, consisted of a broom, dust pan an...
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A Weapon For Emma!
And what a weapon it is!!Extremely well made, heavy- 12.5 ounces (without the handle), sharp, and...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #7: Yet Another Update
Thought I would add a couple of additional “discoveries” on making these rolling pins...
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Home Made Dust Collection
Some time ago, I was working in the shop completely oblivious to what Mimi was doing. After a few...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #6: Additional Update
I got called up to active duty- substituting full time in an Information Systems Technology class...
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Rockler Bench Cookies Video
Here is my entry into the “What Else Can You Do With Rockler Cookies” contest. It is ...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #5: Update
The other day, I posted another rolling pin. There have been several requests about how to make t...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #4: Glue Up and Trimming The Blank- The Final Steps
Before starting this section, I forgot to add to pix into the previous post. This is the space...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #3: Making the Saw Cuts For the Strips
Once the blank has the layout lines drawn, it is time to cut the slots for the ellipses. The f...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #2: Laying Out the Blank
This second part will concentrate on the layout of the rolling pin blank in preparation for cutti...
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Kitchen Treasures #1 Making the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin #1: The Jigs
I have had so many positive comments and feedback on the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin. Thank you for a...
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What Is It #7
Since Odie isn’t posting any more of his stuff, thought I might post another one- Ye...
