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...

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...

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,...

I love a lot of things about my new SawStop. One thing I especially love is how well it handles dust collection — not just the saw, but the router table too. The router is enclosed in a box with a 4″ connector, and the hose...

I haven’t done one of these in a couple of years, but things are very different now. The new CNC Router. Here is the home of my CNC router, a Next Wave Automation CNC-Shark II. I haven’t got this really organized yet;...

This is another of those been-meaning-to-get-around-to-it projects. It doesn’t have anything to do with getting a new table saw, but I did use cutoffs from the storage unit to make it. A Jeff Miller-style mortising block This...