Woodworking

Vega table saw fence.Do i need the rear rail for the fence?I am building a table saw cabinet for my 100 craftsman table saw.I have a router table at the right end of the saw that is 32 inches wide. The router table interferes with the rear rail.I’m thinking of add 4 ball plungers under the fence to help it slide easy on the table. And not use the rear rail.

I’ve been looking to grow my hand plane collection for almost a year. A Stanley #6 kinda satisfied my tastes, I don’t make a lot of large projects, and nice Stanley #7’s and #8’s usually command premium prices. This #6 showed up on eBay, and I bid until I won. A whole $39.75 Man, this thing is HUGE! Well at least for me. It weighs just under 8 pounds. (from Patrick’s Blood & Gore website), and the sole and sides were evenly covered in rust. Not so bad, almost 3 hours later I had draw filed, sanded, and lapped the rust away. I tuned the important places as I cleaned and reassembled the plane. The blade was pretty dull, which is why it didn’t looked used very much. This is the heaviest plane that I have used. My Stanley #5 weighs 4 3/4lbs. It is very much a different experience, you can feel that it’s heavier, but it doesn’t require as much continuous effort through the power stroke. I plan on re-doing the knob and tote later, after I’ve played with this big boy awhile! I tend to use my planes a lot, I prefer hand tools whenever possible. Maybe I’ll let my gym membership lapse, there’s a new work-out coming. Thanks for looking! later,

So long story short I had been hounding my wife to let me buy a bandsaw for about two months and one night I was checking out some boxes on LJs and she had seen a few and fell in love with them and told me if I could make her one I could buy my bandsaw. LOL who knew all it would take is for her to get something out of the deal. Anyway I am a man of my word and I got my new bandsaw and this was the first thing I made with it and it sits proudly on her night stand. One day I will get around to making her a really nice one but for now this will due.

I have two little lawn tractors and I need a little spot for one of them so I built this little addition in my shop. After I built it I disassembled it and reassembled in the back yard and attached it to my shed. The roof had to have a pitch and the steering wheel had to clear the door. I had just enough height to from the window to the ground to make this all work. The steering wheel just clears the top of the door by a fraction of an inch. I had to keep all my framing dimensions to a minimum to have enough clearance and still have a roof pitch. The little tractor rolls up the shallow ramp’s easily so when I need to use this little guy It’s easy to move in and out. I think it turned out ok! Thanks for looking!

I needed more floor space so I decided it was time to go vertical with some stuff and this is what I came up with. The shelves are hanging using the french cleat system which has turned out to be very nice. I tend to re-arange my shop like I change my underwear so this gives me the ability to move stuff around to how I like it for the week.

I had a mallet that was made from left over cutting board scrap and needless to say I broke it after about a year of faithful service. I made this one out of rock maple and turned it on my lathe. I figured it would be a good practice project to better my turning skills. I did learn a important lesson and that is to coop out the handle to except the mallet head. No big deal but every time I use it I see the gap between the handle and the head and it bugs me so I may have to make another soon.

wedding gift for my cousin

My wife saw this on pinterest and said she wanted one for mothers day so I made it for her. For the woodworker in me I thought it would be a great time to try a new product. I used dye to color the wood and since using it on this I have gotten rid of all my stains and switched over to dye. It is a fantastic product and I am super impressed with how nice and even the finish comes out. I applied it with my HVLP gun.

Nothing to fancy just a walnut pen. I was told that you should practice alot before trying a real project on the lathe and I am the just go for it kind of guy so here it is.

On Father’s Day I got the gift of some uninterrupted shop time in the morning and early afternoon. Felt good. That evening my 3 year old son Milo asked me what I was doing, and I said I was making things. He said, “Daddy, can you make me something?” Why not? So I told him that I would. He, of course, thought I could make something in just a couple minutes. I decided to make him a “toy” wooden plane, with a wood blade, a la Marcus's awesome project. This was my first wooden plane, and I basically mostly winged it on the design apart from looking up the angles for the cuts (45 and 62, for those scoring at home). I used hickory for the center piece, with claro walnut sides, and a brass rod for the cross-pin. The wooden blade is birch, and the wedge is padauk. I finished it with a walnut Danish oil/shellac mix for the body (which really made the hickory look great), and BLO/mineral spirits/shellac mix for the blade and wedge. Final dimensions are 7” long, 2 /14” wide, and a 1 3/8” blade width. When Milo is older, I’ll replace the wooden blade with a real one (probably a custom one, as that’s not really a standard blade size). Milo loved it, and spent this afternoon outside “planing” some scrap wood I gave him. But he better watch out, ‘cuz Desi was watching, and working on his technique too, when big brother was off playing with some trucks.