My son wanted a closer look at the new pegboard. 
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Senin, 04 April 2016
Kamis, 24 Maret 2016
Build a Case for your Books with your Friends
Its Wood Whisperer Guild Build time again. Because Marc is currently dealing with a limited shop as his new one is built, the current build is a one or two sheet plywood bookcase. Its a useful project that makes great use of one of my favorite materials: man made sheet goods. Unlike my projects that often leave the sheet goods exposed, Marc will show you how to hide it and make a damn fine bookcase.
Previously Ive talked about The Wood Whisperer Guild and why I feel its a must for any online woodworker. Now, you can watch me go on about the Guild, and why its such a great experience to build a project with fellow guild members. As you watch, Im the one who looks like a zombie.
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| The One & Two Sheet Bookcase |
Sabtu, 19 Maret 2016
Project video posted! Build 2 small crates out of a single 2x4
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Rabu, 24 Februari 2016
Build Your Pants Off At Fine Woodworking Live 2013
With the announcement of the FWW Live Build-Off, Fine Woodworking Live 2013 just got a lot more interesting.
When FWWLive 2013 was first announced, the change in format and speaker list showed it would be even better than last year (and last year was great). When +Asa Christiana appeared on our Modern Woodworkers Association podcast to discuss FWWLive 2013, he let the cat out of the bag and mentioned that as an evening activity during the conference there would be a build-off. The details were sketchy, but the idea of conference attendees using limited tools, time and materials to build a project and then judging them against each other sounded like the kind of competition I could get behind.
Last week the formal FWW Live Buildoff announcement was made:
Weve filled in the final blank in the packed schedule with a Friday-night build-off open to all conference attendees. Whether you want to join a team or just hang out and watch the action unfold, you are sure to have a great time as show-goers partner up to design and build a piece of furniture using only 2x4s and screws.
Teams (made up of any attendee who wants to participate) will have about an hour and a half to design and build a piece of furniture. The type of furniture being build will not be announced until the day of the Build-Off (I bet they don’t know yet).
Bosch has stepped up to supply these brave woodworkers with jigsaws, cordless drills, and bits. FWW will supply the wood, screws, and sawhorses to work on. Along with bragging rights for the next calendar year, the top three teams will take home some of those very tools and supplies, plus theyll be featured on FineWoodworking.com.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be getting to FWW Live 2013 until Saturday morning, but here and now I’m publicly calling out +Christopher Adkins and all other MWA members who’ll be in attendance. I expect us to have a team, to build a kick ass piece, and talk more smack than all the other teams combined.
If you’re going to FWW Live 2013, be sure to build a piece of furniture while you’re there.
Selasa, 16 Februari 2016
Dads Benchtop Bench Part V
With the bench built, all that was left was to screw in the two veneer press screws which held on the front vise jaw.
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| The completed benchtop bench. |
While they fit fine, I unfortunately found that once I tightened them, the handles came off the screw shaft. It seemed that since they were meant to exert pressure between the vise nut and the end of the screw shaft, Shop Fox hadnt bothered to attach the handles with anything more than friction.
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| Nope. That handle wasnt meant to exert clamping pressure. |
While the discovery of this issue after I thought I was done did give me pause, I thought about it for a night and by morning I’d come up with a solution.
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| The pins and drill bits. I only needed 2. I bought 4 just in case. |
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| Locked and ready to drill. |
I headed down to the hardware store and picked up some metal pins. After drilling through the handle and screw shaft with my drill press, the pins were easy to knock in with a hammer.
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| Locked and ready for action. |
Once the handles were pinned on, the vise worked great.
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| Clamping like a champ. |
I’m very happy with the choice the benchtop bench came out, and my Dad appreciated it as a father’s day gift.
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Senin, 15 Februari 2016
Project How to build a 5 board bench
My sister recently bought a used table on Craigslist but it only came with 3 chairs so she asked me to make her one. Her only request was that it be 17" tall and flat black to match the other chairs. I did some looking around on the web and found the traditional 5 board bench design. I also found Charles Neils video on YouTube and figured that I could build a variation on that design. It also gave me an excuse to try out the new bandsaw. You can download a free sketchup file of this project in the downloads section of this site and you can also watch a video of me building it here: http://youtu.be/1_hz2n7v9ss
up when I cut the shelf straight so I decided not to use it.
semi-light touch.
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I started by cutting the legs to rough length using my little cordless saw. I dont feel safe cutting
pieces that long on my contractor table saw.I then cut them to length and width on the tablesaw.
Here are all the pieces cut to size. There is 1 extra 1x6 in this picture because I was originally
going to put a support shelf under the seat but the legs are slightly bowed and it didnt matchup when I cut the shelf straight so I decided not to use it.
I used 1 of the side aprons to mark the notches on the legs.
This notch will be cut out and the side apron will rest in it.
I then marked in 3" on the other end of the board for the width of the bottom leg.
I marked the center of the board at 5" to drill a hole later.
I then glued the aprons to the top pieces.
I drilled out a 1 1/4" hole at that 5" mark. It is recommended that you drill a hole rather than just cut a "V" there so that the board doesnt split later on.
I then drew a line from each side of the hole down to the 3" mark that I made earlier.
An d cut the shape out on the bandsaw. You could just as easily made these cuts with a jigsaw.
The legs are slightly bowed so I marked them to have the rounded side facing out.
I used the scrap pieces from the legs to make some blocks to glue in later.
I used my little sanding wheel on the drill press to smooth the inside of the legs. I found this one at
Lowes for under $10.I then rounded over all the sides not getting glued to something else.
I sanded everything before assembly. I also only sanded it to 120 because I am going to paint it.
I clamped it up to see what it was going to look like.
I used a scrap piece of 2x4 as a spacer for the ends.
I glued the legs to the top/apron pieces and then made sure that they were square before clamping them up.
Here are those block that I cut out earlier.
I took it out back and spray painted it flat black.
I sanded the whole thing with 220 to smooth it out and also gave it some distressing to make it
look a little older. Im not a big fan of over distressed projects so I tried to keep a semi-light touch.
This was my first time using satin poly. Ive only used gloss up to this point.
I ended up putting 4 coats on the top and aprons and 3 coats on everything else including the underneath. I also put some felt feet on it but forgot to take pictures.
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Jumat, 12 Februari 2016
Lowes Build and Grow class
I took my 6 year old to Lowes a couple of weeks ago to buy him his own toolbox. While we were checking out the lady behind the counter asked if we had signed him up for the Build and Grow class. This was the first that I had heard about it so I got some information from her and looked it up when we got home. It is a free program that they have every couple of weeks during the summer. I signed him up on the website with no problems. We went to the class 2 weeks later and he got a Lowes Build and Grow workshop apron, a pair of goggles, and the wood dragon kit. They also supplied small hammers that you had to give back. We were there for about 30 minutes and my son got to make the dragon and he received a iron-on patch and a certificate when he was done. We brought his toolbox so he got to use his own hammer while building the kit and he thought that was great! We have another one coming up this weekend and I am going to sign him up for any future ones I can find. If you have any kids between the ages of 5 and 10 I highly reccomend looking into it.
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