| Blog series by scottb | updated 611 days ago | 5 parts | 2893 reads | 52 comments total |
Part 1: New Year, "new" shop
So, I brought my new lathe home – my belated birthday present!... but being a week before Christmas it was foolish of me to think I’d get any “quality time” with it, let alone down any time in the shop. (Disaster is putting it mildly). Fortunately, I have this week off, so I built a bench for it (and by built, I mean chop down and repurpose the last remaining bits of my original workbench) and set about making a space for it. BUT, (yes, that’s a big but), to d...
Part 2: making good on resolutions
One of the things that was delaying my (failed) 2x4 project was a promise to myself that I would get the shop clean and in working order (or at least organized) before I started any new projects. Since I work out of two toolboxes I tend to at least know where most of my tools are (up in the car), for the house/shop tools are usually much harder to find. The problem, apart from the entire basement looking much like this table: Lots of random things without a home, but even more so &#...
Part 3: strip tease
Almost 5 years back, my wife and I figured out how we’d like to remodel our bedroom. (we had chosen the smaller bedroom, closest to the bathroom, via an adjoining room. Leaving the larger bedroom for the office, company, and eventually, children. Our parents all said we should take the larger room, but with my wife’s handicap (and not wearing her lower leg braces at night) – a shorter “commute” is better. Besides, if you shut the door to the adjoining room, It...
Part 4: A first - a "Daddy Day" in the shop!
My little one (5) was excited to work on a project or two with me for her room. I was hoping to keep her entertained enough to draw or something, while I spent some time, hopefully, finishing the stripping job on her closet door. (I spent a few hours on that yesterday, got more done in the first 1/2 hour than the following 2.5, but that’s another blog.) When the room was ours (and I’ll have to search far and wide for a real before picture), the entrance way was a little tun...
Part 5: jigs jigs jigs
This morning I finally got around to making a sled for my tablesaw. Thanks Niki! great plans. easier to follow than the 2 or 3 others I’d been eyeing, but never got around to making. I expected this to take all morning – and despite spending a LOT of time trying to get a perfect fit with the runners everything went together quite well. I even added a box (half of a hexagonal column wrap) on the back as an added safety measure. Never mind the arrow I drew on, that was a remi...
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