<< This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 6 – Finishing the benchtop The finish has been applied to the bench-top so now it’s time to attach the hardware. This is a tricky subject to explain clearly. I’m going to do my best but I’m planning on coming back and editing this post a […]
This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 5 – Cutting the benchtop to size The workbench top is almost done. It’s been glued up and cut to size. Now all it needs is the finishing touches to get it ready for the hardware. Adding a shallow rabbet on the ends of each piece. The left
For Christmas 2016, I decided to make some pens for my co-workers. I remember when I first got started turning, and pen-making in particular, I would scour the web looking for different approaches and techniques from various wood-turners. I made a lot of expensive kindling in my attempt to learn to turn. Although I still
This is a continuation of my other table saw enhancements, Attaching a Sliding Crosscut Table Without Cutting Down the Rails and Attaching an Extra Cast-Iron Extension Wing. The additional cast iron wing that I attached to my table saw moved the wooden extension table another 10″ past the end of my rails. This allows me
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This is a continuation of Table Saw Enhancement – Attaching Sliding Crosscut Table Without Cutting Down the Rails. Now that I’d removed my existing router table, I needed to relocate it to the right edge of my table saw. Since I use a miter slot on my router table and I wanted to avoid cutting
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My table saw is fairly decked out and I’ve made some modifications to it in the past but some of them weren’t working that well for me. My saw is a SawStop Industrial Cabinet Saw 3 HP single-phase, 230 VAC machine (ICS31230) with a 52″ fence system and the sliding crosscut table. As an experiment,
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This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 4 – Gluing up the new top. The top is all glued up so now I need to strengthen it by attaching 1/2″ plywood to the underside. I can then cut it down to the final size to prepare it for finishing. There were a few spots of
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This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 3 – Change of plans. Time to glue it all up. My worbbench/outfeed/assembly table has a torsion box top so it makes a good surface for gluing something like this up. I have a 1/8″ thick piece of hardboard that serves as a sacrificial top but I would still prefer
This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 2 – Gluing up the top. After gluing up half of the top, I repeated the process and got the other half glued up as well. Once it was dry I joined them together with glue and biscuits just like I did for the individual boards.
This is a continuation of Workbench Part 1 – Milling down some 2 x 4s. We got another snow day so this gave me an opportunity to work some more on my wife’s workbench. Now that the boards have all been milled down, it’s time to start gluing them together. For this project, I knew I was
