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Corner Clamp Rack
So, now that I’m getting my energy back it was time to address a longstanding problem: my clamp rack. I built it when I moved to this house 23 years ago. (I should’ve taken a picture, sorry.) It was about 3 feet long, attached to the top of the pegboard by a French cleat, and had 2 bars running across made from cheap 2×2. Over the years the middle of that expanse had developed a pronounced bow from the weight of clamps, and all my clamps did not fit on it anymore. It had been time to make a new one for a while, and my time...
read moreRouter Table Tune-Up
Recently I was working with a friend on a couple of cutting boards. When it came time to rout a profile onto the ends with a template, I naturally went to the router table. Not the one I built in 2014 (wow, has it really been that long?), though — the tiny one that also serves as my table saw’s left side extension. I didn’t even really think about it, but I reached into the drawers in the newer table to get the bits I needed and automatically put them in the small table. Afterwards, I asked myself why I wasn’t using...
read moreOutfeed Storage Unit
My latest shop project is designed to fix a long-standing problem: I built two of those carts almost 20 years ago, with the intention that they would help me keep things organized and handy. They really haven’t worked out well. The middle shelf is adjustable, but because of the depth it’s a pain in the butt to get things in and out so about half the middle shelf and almost all of the lower goes unused while the top is overstuffed with loose hand tools and accessories. They are also annoying to roll around because I used two...
read moreShop Update 2016
It’s November, and that means another blog anniversary is in the offing. Time for an update on the shop. The main work area is the most changed from last year. Near left, you can see the WorkSharp 3000 sharpening system I’m now using to keep my chisels and plane blades in good shape. The hand tools are mostly out of sight but not out of mind. The new compact work bench is visible on the left, and just beyond it the Flipsie (the family nickname for my flip-top tool stand, derived from the toy dog in Fairly OddParents). You can...
read moreCompact Work Bench build
The compact work bench was conceived and designed as a simple, functional project to fill a need. As such, it’s made of very inexpensive materials, MDF and dimensional lumber, and designed to go together quickly with a minimum of fussy joinery. I also borrowed heavily from the tips and advice in The Workbrench Design Book by Christopher Schwarz, though I suspect Schwarz would be unimpressed with my choice of materials and by some of the design aspects. I started by taking my sheet of MDF and cutting it down into four pieces. Two...
read moreCompact Work Bench, design
The oldest thing in my shop, aside from me, is this table: My father and I built this in the early 1990s, when I was just getting into woodworking and still had very little idea how things were done. It’s made of dimensional lumber and particle board with a replaceable top skin of 1/4-inch plywood. The front vise is something I added myself years later, though it’s seen more use in the last few months than in the entire time since I installed it. As I find myself reaching for hand tools more often, particularly the planes,...
read moreFlip-Top Tool Stand
This project is part of the solution to a relatively new shop problem. I have a back work table in my shop that measures 48″ x 30″, but is effectively about half that size because part of it is now the permanent home of my Porter-Cable stationary belt/disc sander. There is a huge storage space below that table, about half of which is taken up by my old Sears oscillating spindle sander. This makes the belt/disc sander very convenient, but getting out the spindle sander to use it is a pain — I have to haul it out from under...
read morePlane and simple
(Okay, I groaned at that one a little myself!) I decided it was time to start replacing the crappy random furniture pieces in Julie’s and my bedroom. The first piece to go is the shoddy Ikea dresser we’ve been sharing since she moved in. We wanted something nice, with more capacity. So I bought a supply of cherry and walnut and went to work. Naturally, since I had just recently built a nice base and outfeed support for my ancient luggable planer, I had a planer problem: That track has a texture like an old vinyl record...
read morePortable Planer Supports
Before I built my HDPE assembly table top, I used my knock-down work table base without a table top for my Penn State portable planer. The planer sat on a plywood subbase with cleats that captured the insides of the two rails on the table base. That held the planer firmly in place, and between the close fit and the planer’s weight I didn’t even need to clamp the planer down to use it. The biggest drawback to this planer, as with pretty much every portable planer (and especially the first generation of them, of which the Penn...
read moreShop Update 2015
The blog is now two years old, as WordPress kindly reminded me last week. Time to update the shop photos. Things aren’t that different from last year in the main working area. The new router table is working out nicely and the storage above is just what I needed for finishes and related supplies. The biggest change in the middle photo is the replacement of the old plywood tabletop from my knock-down table with the aluminum and HDPE tabletop. Still, there are plenty of side effects associated with http://deeprootsmag.org/page/10/...
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