A lot has been happening. So much so that I haven’t even had time to write up a new update. New Web Host I successfully made the switch to a new web host and (several small hichups aside) it went smoothly. I’m really happy with the speed increase that I’m seeing on this new web […]
I finally have some decent speed! After 12+ years at ImHosted.com I moved my site to a managed server. ImHosted has usually been pretty good but I’ve been having server overload issues more and more frequently as of late and I finally decided to change web hosts. I’m now with CloudWays.com and so far I
News – August 8th, 2018 – Moved my Blog to a New Server Read More »
One of the perks of working where I do is the metal dumpster. I try to regularly swing by and see what we are throwing out each week and lately I have found a lot of the heavy-duty angle-iron we use for fence rails. They have holes drilled in them and have a powder-coating which
News – July 23rd, 2018 – Stripping off Powder-Coating Read More »
This past weekend I attended the American Association of Woodturners Symposium at the Portland Convention center. The symposium consisted of many vendor booths and a gallery of inspiring woodworking pieces. I bought some wood and some mother-of-pearl flakes and chips for doing inlay work. I’ve included some photos from the gallery below. I didn’t think
News – June 19th, 2018 – American Association of Woodturners Symposium Read More »
I Decided to Upgrade my Table Saw Dust Collection For the past several years I have been using SawStops Dust Collecting Blade Guard along with the Over-Arm Dust Collection Assembly. This has worked well but there are a few things about it that weren’t working well for me. Granted, there is no perfect solution for
News – June 11th, 2018 – SawStop Floating Dust Collecting Guard Read More »
I Decided to Make a Rainstick I’ve wanted to try my hand at making a rainstick for some time. Not that I really enjoy playing with them but it seems like a fun project, especially with the amount of experimentation you can do. Like most of my projects, I start with a prototype. Like a
Finished the Router Table I managed to get my hands on a SawStop router lift and downdraft dust collection box. This finishes up my SawStop Router Table I’m putting together a detailed write-up on the assembly of each of the components as well as some of the tests I ran on it afterward. My initial
News – May 31st, 2018 – Finished Router Table and a Pleasant Surprise Read More »
There have been some major changes in my shop. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to actually build anything but that should change soon. The picture above shows my table saw and outfeed table. I took this photo because I knew that this was the cleanest my shop would be for quite a while. New Cast-Iron
News – May 7th, 2018 – New Router Table and Emptying The Coffee Cans Read More »
It’s been a few months since my last update and a few people have asked if I was still around. Here’s what’s been going on… Death In The Family Sadly, my family was dealt a tragic blow with the death of my mother-in-law on March 1st. She was a truly inspiring person and one of
Outfeed table Almost a year ago I decided to try a new work surface for my outfeed/assembly table. I wrote about this here. After using and abusing it for almost a year, my official opinion is that I don’t really care for it much. I found the texture to be problematic in that it retained
News – January 8th, 2018 – Outfeed surface, Recording, and Cthulhu Read More »
