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Shop Tour, 2024
A lot has changed in the shop, at least as far as layout goes. I haven’t bought any new tools of note; I didn’t need any, and I spent half the year just getting my left arm working at something approaching full strength again. The big change is basically rotating the middle of the shop 90 degrees. This did a couple of things for me, one of which was a happy accident: By turning the middle, I gained some infeed space for the table saw and made my life a lot easier taking the trash cans in and out.By rearranging the other tools, I...
read moreWorking my way back
The sling is gone, and I’ve got most of my range of motion back. I can’t lift or move much with my left arm yet, but I have managed (with some help from my sons) to get the shop ready. Google created this panorama of my rearranged shop. This rearrangement was something I thought about in the couple of weeks before my surgery. It’s driven by what Adam Savage refers to as “order of retrievability” — that is, the tools you use most should be the easiest to get to, and as the need/frequency of use goes down the...
read moreShop Update 2023
Not a lot has changed since 2021, relatively speaking. Many of the pain points I had then, I still have. But I have acquired a few new things that are proving useful and improving my work. Back wall now The back wall is almost completely the same. You can see the Grizzly spindle sander this time, while the Porter-Cable is flipped down. Bob at I Like To Make Stuff did an interesting variation on the flip cart with one stationary tool and two that swap places; I might try that if I end up getting another sanding tool (a drum sander, maybe). But...
read moreQuick Shop Fix
I did a quick fix on my assembly/work/outfeed table, because it badly needed it. Most of the table worked fine, but the top … the top had problems. It’s only 3 years old, but it has developed a really nasty sag in the middle, the vise is out of square (always has been), and on the right end there is a very long void in the plywood that has caused a lot of chipping. And on top of that, it’s dirty and holds onto glue spills and other nastiness. So it has to go. I’ve learned a few things since making it, so I applied some...
read moreAt long last …
I’ve wanted a jointer for a long time. Never bought one. The main reason for that was floor space. A floor model jointer needs a lot of space on either side to actually use, and typically it goes against a wall or behind another tool. In my garage shop, I just didn’t have anywhere to put a floor model, even a 6-inch one which I knew wouldn’t be large enough anyway. A benchtop was also not a good choice. All the reviews of benchtop jointers (and I’ve read them all) for years said some variation of, “don’t...
read moreCool! (and Warm!)
We recently had a home energy audit, prompted by a winter in which the downstairs (main floor) would be 10-15 degrees colder than the upstairs. The main takeaways from that were (A) my furnace, which was original to the house in 1997, needed to be replaced; and (B) we really should not leave the communicating door open to the garage/shop, because it made the house 20% leakier. So I installed a self-closing hinge in the door, we made arrangements for a new HVAC system, and then Julie and I put some thought into heating and cooling the shop...
read moreHammer time
Sorry, I couldn’t resist! So, recently I mentioned needing to find projects to use up my leftover wood pile. This is the first one: This is the cover page from Rex Krueger’s plans, which my mallet is based on. Rex goes into great detail in his video about why this mallet is different and special. I liked it enough to buy his plans, but I’m not a hand tool guy generally, so I made my variation of it with a combination of the CNC and a modest amount hand sanding and shaping. I started in vCarve, which is not my favorite place...
read moreShop update 2021
It’s a little late this year, I know. My excuse is that I was busy in November/December and the shop was never clean enough to do this. (Not that it’s pristine now, as far as that goes.) So, here is the good, the bad, and the ugly. Back wall of the shop We’ll start here, on the back wall. It’s largely the same as last year, save for the addition of the Domino and a radiant heater in place of the two heated fan units I’ve had for a while. This heater is rated for outdoor spaces, and I generally keep it down at the...
read moreMini-projects
I did several mini-projects for the shop with my recent vacation. None of them are really elaborate enough to do a post on their own, so we’ll just aggregate them here. #1: Air Hose & Compressor Storage My air hose has been on a reel, which was bolted down to some MDF to make it somewhat stable, for years now. And next to it, on the “wrong” side because the air hose had to twist a lot, the compressor had pretty much free reign under the oldest storage unit. It’s been bothering me for some time, so I finally took...
read morePlaner Stand
I had three problems in the shop that were bugging me enough to fix. All the stars aligned and I found one project to help with all three problems. The plan for my new planar stand, less wheels and drawers. It’s not much of a plan, but at this point it was all I needed. Since I didn’t have floor space to spare, I planned to replace the steel DeWalt planer stand with this mobile stand. The four drawers would provide a much-needed storage boost to a shop still hurting for places for tools to live, and by making it a little bit...
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