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Selasa, 29 Maret 2016
New Yankee Workshop Workbench update cutting the plywood benchtop
I set up the 4x8 sheet on my 2 sawhorses with 2x4s running the length for support. I also set up a straight edge to run my cordless saw along. This end will be cut off here and then cut into two matching pieces to make the bottom shelf.
I also set up two scrap pieces of 2x4 to support the wood when I cross cut it.
I checked the far corner and it is pretty square so I clamped a 1x3 down to use to cut the piece for the tray bottom. I gave it a couple of extra inches and will cut it down to size on the table saw. This will make sure that the side cut with the 1x3 ends up being square.
My table saw came with a 28 tooth blade. I bought a 40 tooth blade a couple of weeks back and I am finally getting a chance to try it out.
Here is the tray bottom and shelf top cut to size.
The 2 pieces for the benchtop have been cut to size.
I cut the hardboard to width using the same settings that I used on the plywood.
I didnt want to have to deal with the leftovers of a full sheet of hardboard so I bought 2 smaller pieces that fit in my car. I bought 2 because they were not long enough to cover the length of the benchtop.
All cut to size.
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I cut the hardboard so that the seem would be located where I need to cut the top out for the moving dog block.
Heres the first dry fit.
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Senin, 28 Maret 2016
New Yankee Workshop Workbench update cutting the inserts out of the top
I cut the slot out of the benchtop for the dogs and tailstock. What a giant pain in the rear? Norm does it in the video in like 30 seconds and it took me nearly an hour.
I attached the 2 pieces of plywood together with 1" drywall screws and some of them ended up poking through so I had to cut off all the tips with my dremel before running the piece through the tablesaw.
I marked the two ends of the slot and then cut them on the tablesaw.
I got them close and then finished them with a jigsaw.
I also used the jigsaw to cut the ends.
All cut and ready for the next step.
I marked the corners and then clamped a framing square down to use as a cut guide for my small cordless saw.
I cut it close and then used the jigsaw to finish it.
Sabtu, 26 Maret 2016
Grandpas Workshop in Greenwich
With his seminal work Workbenches: From Design and Theory to Construcion and Use, Christopher Schwarz had me hooked. It is a fantastic tome about workbench theory. Within my limited workbench use Ive come to agree with virtually every point Chris makes about the design & use of workbenches.
With the later release of The Anarchists Tool Chest, I strayed from the choices of the Schwarz. I could never wrap my head around using a chest in a shop as small as mine. Floor space is far too precious to waste on a tool chest when a tool cabinet frees up the floor and keeps the tools closer to hand. As for the philosophy of a limited tool kit espoused by The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, I own 10 routers. Need I say more?
It was in that mindset of respecting Chris’s projects while not thinking they were for me that his publishing house, Lost Art Press, printed the English translation of Grandpa’s Workshop by Maurice Pommier. Initially I was uninterested in Grandpa’s Workshop, thinking it was simply the French children’s version of The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.
I began to warm to the idea of Grandpa’s Workshop when I saw many glowing mentions of it by my friends on twitter and google+. When I met people singing the book’s praises at Woodworking In America, I decided to walk across the aisle of the marketplace and finally buy a copy.I’m glad I did. So are my kids.
I was initially taken by the beautiful illustrations of Grandpa (Pèpère Grosbois) and his tools. It was once I sat down and read the book with my three (3) sons that I really fell in love with it though.
The stories that the tools tell are so captivating, fanciful, pragmatic and instructive that even my 4 year old’s attention was held through the entire 48 page book (read over 3 sittings). The tools tell of history, use and the often tragic lives of the Grosbois family that owned them. By the end of the book you feel you know Pèpère as well as the young narrator does. You’ll also know what all the tools are and what they do.The translation from French by Brian Anderson is wonderful and captures the poetic nature of the text (not having read the original French I assume this to be true, otherwise Anderson added poetry to the English, either choice, its poetic).The illustrations are the perfect compliment in tone to the text. Through images large and small, in full color and in silhouette, the action of the text plays out across the pages for all to see. |
| The Cover, in its wonderfully decorated glory (image from the Lost Art Press site). |
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| A fuzzy photo of Chris holding court in my kids Grandpas workshop with fellow woodworkers at the Northeast Woodworkers Association Showcase 2011. |
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| Wesley in my shop. |
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| My Kids Grandpas Workshop, filled with the Long Island Woodworkers Club during the Northeast Woodworkers Association Showcase 2011. |
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| Pèpère shows the besaiguë to Sylvian (image from the Lost Art Press site). |
Jumat, 25 Maret 2016
Small Box
A week or so ago I decided to try my hand at making something that wasnt Pine. I have a crate full of small pieces of Mahogany, Oak and various other hard woods, none of which are large enough to make furniture.
While most of the pieces are small they are however quite thick, around 19mm (3/4"). I therefore decided to try my hand at re-sawing a piece of Mahogany and White Oak to make a simple Jewellery box.
The only saw I had at the time (my panel saws were achoice being sharpened) was my Irwin pull saw which allowed me to get a semi decent cut on each piece. I did have to plane the cut surfaces quite heavily to remove the saw marks that resulted from constantly turning the piece while sawing and sometimes correcting my inaccuracy. Also, almost immediately after being cut both the Mahogany and the Oak cupped quite badly.
I removed most of this cupping with a plane and ended up with my two long and two short sides of the box all of which were reasonably square and true..
I decided to stay with box joints as they are quite familiar now and I still havent plucked up the courage to delve into Dovetails.
I used my new Lie Nielson shoulder plane to rabbit the two long sides of the box to accept a simple 6mm plywood base.
All the cutting went well and the dry fit looked good. Unfortunately, thats where the project came to a halt as I was then achoice for a week down on the boat in Brighton.
Once I did get back I was keen to finish the box, but to my surprise the pieces had all cupped and bowed again, making the joinery less than perfect. A better man than I couldve probably re-surfaced and trued up the wood but, to be honest by this point Id lost interest. I figured I would go ahead and glue it up and forget the lid that I had planned and just see how it turned out.
The two personal lessons to be learnt here are, firstly, from now on I will make sure I dont wait too long before glueing freshly cut parts, especially once the joinery has been cut.
And secondly ... I need to work on another essential wood working skill called patience. I have noticed that once a project is well underchoice, I start getting excited and racing to see the completed object.
At the moment I mentally need to start and finish things and stay in the zone. I would be completely useless doing a large project spread out over a large period of time unless I could work regularly on it almost daily.
Anychoice, it was another learning experience and the box has now found a home on my girlfriends dressing table so it hasnt been completely wasted.
Rabu, 23 Maret 2016
Penultimate Woodshop Renovation Video 11
Its been a hectic few weeks here. While I cant say its been busier than usual, my holiday schedule has been a lot less predictable.
Thankfully, Ive been able to sneak in a bit of shop time. After finishing my wifes Tin Can Caddies & the Wand Racks, I had a clean(ish) bench and it was time to get back to work on the shop.
I didnt get too much done, but I did get the rigid polyisocyanurate aboard up. Hopefully Ill also get the spray foam done to air seal it before I have to go back to work.
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| The caddies and my messy bench. |
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| The insulation it coming. |
One schedule I did keep during the holidays was our regularly scheduled MWA podcast. For the audio, check out iTunes or the MWA page.
I hope all my fellow woodworkers had an enjoyable and productive holiday season.
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Rabu, 16 Maret 2016
My New Workshop
At last I have a workshop to play in! ...
After finally getting the spare room decorated, I have now moved my tools in and made some wood shavings. Tool storage is pretty basic at the moment but I hope to either build a tool chest or wall cabinet at some point.
As you can see from the photo below, the new bench is a nice size for such a small room and fits my needs fine as a beginning wood worker.
As expected, the bench does try to run achoice from me when planing heavily but its not to bad if I butt it against one of the walls and my tools are sharp. Its also too high for planing, although the perfect height for cutting, etc, so I might shorten the legs a little in time to get more weight down over the plane. Well see its early days...
Aside from a bench hook and generally playing around with scraps of wood, this small bedside table is the first thing I have ever made out of wood in my life! All done using hand tools only and no electricity aside from the room lights!
Its made using Half Lap joints from scrap wood (really soft Pine) thrown achoice by the next door neighbour and an old bed headboard, (which I think is African Mahogany) for the top. It took me 3 days to build it (including stripping heavy varnish from the Mahogany) and I have already learnt so much in those three days.
As a logical learning progression, I thought I would start with simple Half Lap joints and then progress on to Mortise & Tennons, Finger Joints and finally Dovetails.
I have some Mahogony offcuts from my boat, bought some pieces of cheap Pine from the timber yard and stock piled some old wood that was destined to be thrown achoice, so expect some more small projects soon.
Sabtu, 05 Maret 2016
The New Yankee Workshop workbench build has started!
Ive been watching a lot of episodes of The New Yankee Workshop on YouTube lately and one of my favorites is their woodworking workbench. I found a hardcover copy of the 1st season of NYW book on eBay for a good price. Norm said that the project can be made with 6 - 2x4s so I bought 7. I made one mistake in my cuts and had to redo one 17" board that somehow came out 16.75" and still managed to use only 6 - 2x4s. I am also shooting video on this project so I didnt take as many pictures as I normally would have.
This is the goal for my workbench to look like.
The plan called for 6 - 2x4s so I bought 7.
Its Norm!
This is the goal for my workbench to look like.My wife got me this dado set for christmas. I cant find anywhere to buy new plates for my table saw so I
am in the process of making one out of hardboard.
The new plate for the dado set is almost done.
The plan called for 6 - 2x4s so I bought 7.Time to make some cuts.
These are all the pieces cut for the frame of the workbench.
Even with my one screwup this is all I had left for scraps.
These are all the pieces laid out. Rabbits and dados are next!
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Selasa, 01 Maret 2016
Richard Proenneke
Richard Proenneke Using only hand tools to build his life in the Alaskan Wilderness.
All in all they sound like a good buy...BUT ... would I regret buying them down the line?So ... what to do?
Any readers own a Quangsheng plane or have any experience with them? Anyone know anything about them or can offer any advice - it would be greatly appreciated!
On a slightly different note - all progress on the Stools has been delayed due to me making the school boy error of running out of glue - doh! I did intend to order some more glue online, but thought I might include a plane order...
Looking forward to your thoughts on the above...
