A Hobbiest thinking and working with wood by hand and with machines.
Since well before Christmas, I’ve been working on a background project. Making my work areas more efficient. In the couple of little projects that I’ve done since this Summer, I’ve realized that a few things needed to be moved to a better location. Here is the results:
Main Workbench:
Rather than building a bench from scratch, I [...]
After selling my table saw (see For Sale – which is sold), I needed to have a router table. Yes, I know that I am going to a more hand tool model but I think that routers are too useful for too many tasks to eliminate completely from a shop. For instance, I can’t envision [...]
I know, I know. Finally he shows his entire shop. Of course when you entire shop is less than 10′ x 16′ there isn’t much to show off.
First, here is my main work bench. Someday, I may build my own from scratch but I wanted to get to work so I bought a bench kit [...]
Tomorrow, I’m attending the Katz Roadshow at the local Dunn Lumber. The 1 day class covers finish carpentry and my main interest in it is that there are supposedly tips and tricks using Festool Tools (probably the circular saw and rail system).
While, as I’ve indicated in previous posts, I’m including more and more hand tool [...]
OK, this was the last day. With all the work to do, I didn’t truly expect to get finished. I didn’t get to the following:
Put a coat of finish on the outside (this would have been the last step and would have been done an hour before leaving).
Put the hinges on the top (almost got [...]
OK, I’m a strong guy.
I can wrench down any router bit so it is nearly impossible to get it out after it’s been used. So, how come I can do that but no matter how tight I make the hold downs for any fences on the router, they eventually slip and screw up my project? [...]
