Homemade carbide tipped turning tool.
Easy wood tools has a really great idea, use these carbide cutter heads on your turning tools, stays sharp longer, and when it does dull out just rotate the cutter head. When the full cutter head is...
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Working on some Wooden Bracelets
My girlfriend saw the bracelets from scrappy and asked if I would make her one. I figured it’d be a good way to burn through some scraps so why not. The bracelets are a great way to use up cut off’s...
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Table Saw update, and some other things
One thing I enjoy about woodworking is the “walk away” nature of it. If you are stumped on a project, or just don’t feel like dealing with a certain task you can walk away and come back to it later....
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Improving Dust Collection on the Sawstop Contractor Saw
Everything is moving along pretty well, I’m trying to improve the dust collection on my saw and I’ve done a few things I thought I would share. I lined the bottom with some adhesive backed foam weather...
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Small Cabinet, Turned Bowl and a Veneered box oh my
Been having a lot of fun in my garage past two weeks I, I finished my out feed table for my saw and started working on all sorts of fun things, 2 thursdays ago we had a woodworkers guild meeting. A...
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Failed Miter Jig
I’ve been having trouble with the 45 degree miters for my walnut veneered box, and I thought I had this very clever idea for a box miter jig on the table saw. It works the same principle as a picture...
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Kreg Router Table enhancements, and some other stuff
I’m really happy with the Kreg router table I’ve had for a long time, the part I disliked was lack of storage space that all the cool homemade router tables have and I saw some enhancements made by...
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Router Table Enhancements and HVLP with Latex Paint
I wanted to try my hand at spraying latex paint with my harbor freight hvlp machine Last time I tried spraying milk paint and I thinned it too much got a lot of runs. But that is user error, I wanted...
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Spindle Sander stand, and some electrical deals
Since I’ve fallen in love with my table saw base that puts the table saw at a much more comfortable level, I’ve been looking at my other tools to see how I can improve them to make their work surface...
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Tool Gloat and Wood Gloat all crammed together.
About three months ago, I broke up with my girlfriend for reasons that wouldn’t be appropriate for me to go into here, but being anal retentive as I can be sometimes I actually had a budget item called...
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Dust Separator Workout, and other stuff
Coming up with a title for my blog entries can be difficult because I can’t really list all the things I’m working on just because of the way I am at any given moment I’m working on like 8 different...
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Mere Mortal Bench, Lumber Rack and other stuff!
As usually I’m always working on a lot of things at once and a lot has happened since my last blog post so I figured I’d jump in even though nothing new is finished. I made some good progress on my...
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Mere Mortal Bench pt 2, almost disaster.
So I got the sides together, and rough sanded was very happy with how that turned out so I was ready to add the long stretchers to connect the 2 sides. I had a lot of trouble with this part I tried a...
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Mere Mortal Bench pt 3, and some dust collection
This is my shop space, as of friday night. I sort of let it get out of hand. Normally I clean up between projects but since I’ve adopted this “Lets work on 10 things at once” mentality that I’ve grown...
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Sanding Sponges, a Small Table, Clamping Squares and whatever else :)
I meant to do a blog updated a week or so ago, but I’ve had a friend stay with me all last week since Tech-Ed was in Orlando, I offered to let him stay in my guest bedroom instead of an expensive (or...
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Lumberrack progress
I made some great progress with my lumber rack this weekend, I didn’t get much woodworking in last weekend but I made up for it this weekend and I’m paying for it, my back is way sore right now. But...
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Shop Maintenance and Mayhem
I’ve been taking it easy lately due to my back, the pain medication makes me feel like I’m drunk and I’m pretty sure that is not a good thing when trying to use anything in the wood shop. My Dad helped...
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Locker Docker and some Bandsaw Tuneup
A week ago I saw the Locker Docker video from Steve Ramsey over at woodworking for mere mortals and thought that my 15 year old sister might like it. So I sent her a picture and asked if she wanted me...
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More Locker Docker and a Drill Press Table
Last weekend I got the locker docker test assembled, and I used double stick tape to hold on the magnets to see how well it would hold to a magnetic surface. It did pretty good and I took it down, took...
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Cheese Slicer boards and some Locker Docker Finish
A friend of mind had requested that I make her a cheese slicer, and I found the string and arm kits online http://www.cheeseslicing.com/site/681068/product/PPR-101AB they’re basically replacement parts...
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