This blog is written by Airframer | 146 entries so far |
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Hand Tool Journey #46: Stanley 244 Miter Box Resto-. My gawd did I ever F up!
I was reading back through this blog last night (I was bored ok?) And remembered that I was in th...
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Around The Shop.. #5: Organizing the new shop.. Hanging Tools up Finally!
It’s been a busy couple of days here in the shop. I am trying to get all my tools in a spo...
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Around The Shop.. #4: Space is Clean! Time to get organized!
Well today was a pretty productive day in the “new” shop space. I was able to get th...
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Around The Shop.. #3: 5 yrs later. Let's catch up a bit...
Well it’s been a busy and chaotic few years since I last posted about my new shop. Would l...
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Around The Shop.. #2: 1200sqft Barn Shop Setup ..part 1
Well.. It has been a while since my last blog post and wanted to catch everyone up on what’...
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Tool Cabinet Build #23: Making Trim for the Drawers...
I took some time today to experiment with making some trim for the drawers. All in all I’d...
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Tool Cabinet Build #22: Drawers Part 2.. Mostly done.
This weekend was fairly productive. Saturday morning I set out to get the rest of the drawers do...
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Tool Cabinet Build #21: Starting on the drawers..
Today was a day of first for me. I have never made a drawer and I have never cut half blind dove...
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Tool Cabinet Build #20: Doors Complete and Hung!
I really had thought I had updated this blog since the last one… sorry about that. Since...
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Tool Cabinet Build #19: Starting On The Box Doors.. Plus Bonus Dovetail Tool Mod
This week has been all about getting the door frames dovetailed together for the box style front ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #18: Saw Till and Tambours Finally Finished!
We had some nice weather today so the shop door was opened and sanding and finishing of the secon...
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Tool Cabinet Build #17: Saw Till and Tambours #3...
A lot has happened since the last update just nothing that looks like much of anything has been d...
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Tool Cabinet Build #16: Saw Till and Tambours Part Deux..
I made more progress on the saw till Yesterday. At this point I can call t...
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Tool Cabinet Build #15: Saw Till and Tambours Oh My!
I had to put on the breaks this morning just before I started working on the doors some more. I ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #14: Cabinet Doors #1
Welp, today I got started on the doors for the cabinet. First though while the wife and I were a...
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Tool Cabinet Build #13: Getting Back At It...
Aside from this being the second longest build on LJ’s next to Stef’s workbench build...
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Childs Play #6: Small Tool Chest #2.. Done Just Need to Finish..
I am not exactly sure how I pulled this off in 8 days but I have finished up the build portion of...
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Childs Play #5: Small Tool Chest.. Case and Bottom Skirt..
With the tools for Christmas I wanted to give him something to hold them all in. That means some...
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Childs Play #4: Toy Handplane Build #4.... Finishing Up The Handplane
I just wanted to wrap up this build blog with a few pics from the last few steps before completio...
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Childs Play #3: Toy Handplane Build #3.... Frogs and Totes Oh My!
I have taken some long over due time off of work this week and am taking advantage of it as much ...
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Childs Play #2: Toy Handplane Build #2... Drill Press Turning and Stuff..
I had hoped to be further along on this by now but progress is still progress I suppose. I am ta...
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Childs Play #1: Toy Handplane Build #1... Getting Started..
After finishing up the boys workbench I figured a workbench is no good if you don’t have an...
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Hand Tool Journey #45: Just A Quick Distraction.. Kids Handsaw Build #1
As I am smack in the middle of a workbench build for my 16 month old and we are currently waitin...
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Kids Workbench Build #10: Leg Vise Nearly Done...
This was a fairly productive weekend. We were able to get mostly finished with the leg vise. On...
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Kids Workbench Build #9: Wagons(vise) Ho!
Hiya, Last week was all about the leg vise and this week I focused my efforts on the wagon vis...
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Kids Workbench Build #8: Getting Started On The Vises...
Well, now that we have legs and about 99% of the vise parts have arrived I felt the need to get s...
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Kids Workbench Build #7: Legs Done.. On To The End Caps..
Today we finished up the back 2 splayed legs. Now we have a tiny bench like appliance in the sho...
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Kids Workbench Build #6: It Has Legs!! Well... Two Of Them..
Yet another weekend and yet another couple days of shop time with the boy working on his bench. ...
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Kids Workbench Build #5: Glue Ups and Legs!
The latest news in this saga are some final glueups on the top and getting the legs glued up as w...
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Kids Workbench Build #4: Work on the top continues...
When you have the attention span of a 1 year old things move a bit slow.. good thing the boy keep...
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Kids Workbench Build #3: Things are starting to come together now.
My new apprentice is visiting his grandma this morning so I took advantage of the time to get the...
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Kids Workbench Build #2: Glue ups are more adventurous with a youngin' involved..
Just a quick update today. The boy and I got outside for a quick (that was the plan anyway) glu...
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Kids Workbench Build #1: The silliest of stuff is always worth doing right?
Over the past month or so my 15 month old son has been following me into the shop to “Help&...
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Hand Tool Journey #44: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #10.. Calling it Done!
So… the box is finished as far as the restoration is concerned. The saw still needs sharpe...
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Hand Tool Journey #43: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #9... Saw Handle So Far..
I am not quite as far along as I had hoped I would be by now (I really wanted this wrapped up las...
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Hand Tool Journey #42: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #8...Getting a handle on things..
Moving forward with the saw restoration.. The original tote on this saw is usable but ugly and...
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Hand Tool Journey #41: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #7... Cleaned Up The Saw Plate.. Is This Worth Saving?
I am going to present this question to the group. Saw restoration and sharpening is not an area ...
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Hand Tool Journey #40: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #6... Assembly! Long Winded and A Ton of Pics..
(Inhales deeply) OK, lets get this going. Warning up front to anyone NOT curious about how on...
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Hand Tool Journey #39: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #5... Final Touches Before Assembly..
I might have had time today to completely assemble this but I wouldn’t have had time to tak...
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Hand Tool Journey #38: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #4... Made Some Sawdust Today..
I finally got off my arse and bagged up and labeled all the parts to clear off the bench top. Ne...
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Hand Tool Journey #37: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #3... Tape Bending and Paint
We found out this week that Grandma is not going to be in town next week so we arranged for her t...
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Hand Tool Journey #36: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #2... Partapalooza!
Well it took a week to get to it but I finally have everything clean and ready for masking and pa...
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Hand Tool Journey #35: Stanley SW #358 Miter Box Restoration #1.. Here we go again..
This is a project that has been waiting long enough. I actually started tearing down this one mo...
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Hand Tool Journey #34: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #7.. Done Finally..
I finally finished my SW #246 Mitre Box. I still need to sharpen the saw up but everything is cl...
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Hand Tool Journey #33: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #6.. Well Frack..
So…. yesterday we stopped short of filling the stray hole and redrilling. Today I went abo...
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Hand Tool Journey #32: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #6..Metal Fabbin it Up in Here..
So yesterday we left off with a clean and reassembled mitre box with a few missing accompaniments...
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Hand Tool Journey #31: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #5.. All Cleaned Up Just Waiting On Missing Parts..
I spent the day yesterday putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. I brought everything inside...
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Hand Tool Journey #30: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #4.. Watching Paint Dry and Other Things..
I have been lucky the last couple days with a few hours of shop time and good weather (a combo th...
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Hand Tool Journey #29: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #3.. Deck is good to go..
Progress today was slow but eventful. I mainly only have time in the morning during the boys mor...
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Hand Tool Journey #28: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #2.. Tear Down..
Late last night while waiting for Game of Thrones to come on (don’t judge me!) I spend a c...
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Hand Tool Journey #27: Stanley SW #246 Miter Box Restoration #1.. What have we got here?
Just received a Sweetheart era #246 Miter Box. It is in decent working order but really needs a ...
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Hand Tool Journey #26: Hand Tool Journey #25: Repairing my Stanley #19 Block Plane No.2..
This morning I checked and the epoxy was cured so I went about cutting off the rod.. Then ...
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Hand Tool Journey #25: Repairing my Stanley #19 Block Plane No.1..
This week I started restoring my what I thought was a Stanley #18 block plane that turned out to ...
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Hand Tool Journey #24: Carvers Vise #3
OK. Been a bit since I did some work on this but today I FINALLY found some shop time to get mor...
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TheIdiotGaloot.com #1: Your Basic Tool Kit..What is in it and Where to get them..
I have kicked off our first series in getting down to the basics. This post covers what exactly ...
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TheIdiotGaloot.Com ... Yet another woodworking blog launched..
Nothing special here but I finally decided to graduate into an independent woodworking blog. I h...
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Hand Tool Journey #23: Carvers Vise #2
Late last night I ended with some small boards getting glued into larger boards. Well this mor...
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Hand Tool Journey #22: Carvers Vise #1
This is something I have been planning on building for a few months now. I have been putting it ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #12: Aww Crap... Gonna need help hiding this mistake...
Well, this morning I had an “Aww Piss” moment over my morning coffee. I was sittin...
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Tool Cabinet Build #11: Tonguing and Grooving The Night Away...
So I finally finished cleaning up and installing the missing parts for my #45 and couldn’t ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #10: Tambour and Rabbets... Oh My..
The glue is dry on the canvas backs for the tambour doors. Pulled them out of the jig yesterday ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #9: Tambour Part 3..
I was able to squeak in a few hours of shop time today so I finally got back to work on the tool ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #8: Starting To Take Shape Now..
It has taken longer than I had hoped to get an update here but I wanted to wait till I had some t...
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Tool Cabinet Build #7: Refocusing, Reorganizing and Sliding Dovetails..
I realized yesterday morning that I was getting way ahead of myself trying to make the saw till w...
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Tool Cabinet Build #6: Tambour Part 2..
Today started out really productive but life intervened and production tapered off in the after n...
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Tool Cabinet Build #5: Tool Layout and Tambour Doors 1..
Had an unexpected early day at work today (which was nice after nearly 2 weeks of 15+ hour days) ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #4: 3 down 1 gluing plus a Bonus Handtool Tip of The Day...
Over the last couple of days before and after work I have had an assembly line of sorts going on ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #3: Makin' Sawdust Finally...
I spent the weekend cleaning up the mess left from my workbench build and this evening I got star...
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Tool Cabinet Build #2: Design Solidified Finally...
This morning before work I finally got a plan together for this cabinet. It hits all the design ...
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Around The Shop.. #1: Sharpening Station Build #1
A while back I purchased some whetstones from LV. Up till now I have been doing the scary sharp ...
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Tool Cabinet Build #1: The Beginning Stages.. Plans and Poplar..
Well, now that my workbench is finished I can finally start on some badly needed tool storage and...
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Workbench Build #44: Dog Holes and The Sliding Deadman
Last night after flattening the bench I couldn’t wait any longer to get some holes drilled ...
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Workbench Build #43: Finishing the Base and Flattening the top....
I FINALLY found enough free time between work shifts to get the back 2 legs and side stretchers a...
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Workbench Build #42: Attaching the Base #1..
I got started attaching the base to the top last night. Only got about halfway through it becaus...
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Workbench Build #41: Leg Vise #2.. Another Item Off The List...
Once the chop was shaped it was time to get started attaching the hardware to it and making some ...
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Workbench Build #40: Leg Vise #1.. Started the Chop...
Today was almost a wash. Had errands to run this morning and the boy had a Dr appointment this a...
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Workbench Build #39: Stretchers and Shelf
Now that I have a list I suppose I have no excuse not to at least attempt to finish this thing. ...
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Workbench Build #38: Final Assembly of the Top...
I couldn’t wait till tomorrow to put the top together. This did not go without it’s ...
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Workbench Build #37: Finishing up the Toolwell... All downhill from here.. I think..
We last ended with the second dovetail and the end caps mortised for the tool well ends. After a...
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Workbench Build #36: Back at it.. Fitting the Tool Well...
Well, now that I am done distracting myself with mallets, saw benches and cleaning it is time to ...
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Hand Tool Journey #21: New Mallet No. 3.. Advise Needed..
I had a bunch of errands to run today which have kept me out of the shop. I just now had a chanc...
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Hand Tool Journey #20: New Mallet No. 2
Spent the night in with the family last night. Which was fine because I wanted to let the glue s...
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Hand Tool Journey #19: New Mallet No. 1
A few months ago I made a simple mallet out of an oak cut off and a 1” dowel. It has done ...
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Workbench Build #35: Endcap Part Deux....
Now that the wagon vise is sorted out and functioning quite well I might add (am having too much ...
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Workbench Build #34: Wagon Vise is Alive!
Well, after the setback I spent most of this morning and a few hours after work finishing this up...
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Workbench Build #33: Going Backwards Again.. But for a Good Cause..
Last night a fellow LJ asked a question that had me pondering all night at work. He asked why on...
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Workbench Build #32: Wagon Vise Cont'd...Again...
Well, I didn’t get as far as I had hoped yesterday but progress was made… I final...
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Workbench Build #31: Wagon Vise Cont'd......
So, we left off with this pile of steel waiting to be turned into a wagon vise… I st...
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Workbench Build #30: Wagon Vise Build is a Go Finally..
This has been a relatively slow week build wise. I had a series of 15 hour nights at work which ...
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Workbench Build #29: Finishing one endcap and cutting my first dovetails..
Yesterday started with the bench side of the Toolwell. I glued up the back wall the night before...
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Workbench Build #28: End Caps and Tool Well Started.. Two Steps Forward and Whatnot..
Well, yesterday was almost a wash. The day started strong. I got everything setup to rip the ben...
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Workbench Build #27: Top Trimming and Prepping for the Deadman..
First things first I trimmed the tenons that I left long flush with the top. My HF flush cut saw ...
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Workbench Build #26: Standing on it's own 4 legs...
Time for some catch up and an update. Most of you who follow the workbench thread on the forum h...
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Workbench Build #25: Forward Progress finally... Top Glue Up done and Legs started..
So, it has been a few months since I have done any work on the bench. I think I needed a mental...
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Hand Tool Journey #18: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 6.. Project Complete!
Just wanted to post a completed update to this chapter of the blog. Thanks for following along!
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Changing Table Build.. #5: Done! Kinda...
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd I think it’s done. It still needs a coat of wax but other than th...
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Changing Table Build.. #4: Nearly There...Plus My First hand cut Mortise and Tenon joints
Trucking right along here. The bulk of tonight’s work was trimming the table top and carvi...
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Changing Table Build.. #3: Coming along now..
I made a lot of progress yesterday. I was able to finish up both side panels and today after wor...
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Changing Table Build.. #2: Now time for something completely different..
OK, so the original plan has hit some bumps and our DR has moved our due date up to this Sunday s...
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Hand Tool Journey #17: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 5.. Bring Out Your Rasps!
Happy Mothers Day! Just a quick update this morning. I had planned on keeping this update til...
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Hand Tool Journey #16: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 4.. Almost There..
Well I have a fully functioning Layout Compass now :D. All that is left is to do the shaping of ...
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Hand Tool Journey #15: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 3
I’m pretty excited right now. I just finished attaching the legs to the hinge and so far n...
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Hand Tool Journey #14: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 2
Just a quick update.. I see a lot of views but no feedback.. I’m beginning to think this i...
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Hand Tool Journey #13: Shop Made Dovetail Layout Compass.. Part 1
OK, so after my successful handle replacement I have the confidence to try something I have wante...
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Hand Tool Journey #12: Crown Handle Replacement Surgery Done!
Just finished it up and thought I would share a few more in progress pics that didn’t make ...
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Hand Tool Journey #11: Crown Handle Replacement Surgery..
As mentioned in my Workbench Blog I was planning to replace the gents style handle on my 8”...
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Workbench Build #24: Getting Ready To Cut Some Dovetails..
Ok, so I got a little distracted with getting my hand plane assortment ready for work. I still ...
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Changing Table Build.. #1: Getting Started
About a week ago my wife and mother were out thrift store shopping when they came across an old r...
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Hand Tool Journey #10: Stanley SW #3C Rehab.. Done!
FINALLY! I recieved my replacement SW frog on Friday and went to work getting it cleaned up and ...
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Workbench Build #23: Where we are at since last update...
OK, so I haven’t had much progress going on since my last update other than finishing up th...
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Hand Tool Journey #9: Stanley SW #3C Rehab.. The During Continued..
I am down to waiting on paint to dry with this restoration. Here is a quick breakdown of todays ...
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Hand Tool Journey #8: Stanley SW #3C Rehab.. The During
Since my last blog post on my #3C rehab I got everything broken down and soaking. I haven’...
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Hand Tool Journey #7: Stanley SW #3C Rehab.. The Before
I picked up a Stanley no 3C on eBay last week for a whopping $10. It looked rough in the pics an...
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Workbench Build #22: Rough Plan For The Base.. Opinions Needed..
Well, I bit the bullet and finally installed Sketchup. I am very far from proficient at it but I...
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Workbench Build #21: Leveling.. Well.. Evening The Top..
More progress on the top today. I finally found a full day off of work to spend a good amount of...
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Workbench Build #20: Laminating The Top 2..
Sorry about the blog spam today but….. It. Has. Started! FINALLY! I set up my saw hor...
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Workbench Build #19: Clean up and Reset.. Laminating the top Part 1
Not much “Progress” over the last couple days unless you consider a good cleaning of ...
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Workbench Build #18: Finishing up The Moxon!
I banished myself to the shop today in an effort to finally finish up the Moxon vise build for th...
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Workbench Build #17: More Moxon... Finally doing some glue ups..
I finally got off my arse and started to finish up this Moxon vise. I really can’t wait to...
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Hand Tool Journey #6: Handplane Madness.. And a New Saw
It has been a while since I updated my tool blog and it is high time I did. There have been a fe...
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Workbench Build #16: New Crank Handles...
After finishing up one of the hand cranks for the Moxon vise I realized that the poor excuse of a...
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Workbench Build #15: Moxon 3.. Almost done.. I think..
So, have you ever wondered how to plane a large piece of wood for a work bench without a workben...
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Workbench Build #14: Moxon 2... Adventures in wooden Handwheels
The last update was pretty brief and short of details so I hope to make up for it with this one. ...
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Workbench Build #13: Moxon In Work... The vise to help build the bench.
Just a quick update before I leave for work. I was trying to clean up one of the legs last night...
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Workbench Build #12: First real issue.. Suggestions needed
I finally got fed up with tripping over things and wading through a sea of saw dust last night. ...
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Workbench Build #11: Wagon Vise Hardware..Mostly Done..
Spent the day piecing together and cutting iron for the wagon vise hardware and skid. As I had m...
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Workbench Build #10: Finished cutting the top and started planning out the wagon vise..
FINALLY! Finished rough dimensioning of the wood for the top. In the process have become good f...
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Workbench Build #9: Finally Making Saw Dust!
After a bit of hemming and hawing over how to rip this wood to size and exactly what size to rip ...
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Hand Tool Journey #5: Building My Beginning Set.. How am I doing so far?
When I last left you guys I had mentioned that I had “few” tools incoming from fleab...
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Workbench Build #8: Leg Vise Hardware Finished..
I spent the morning at the drill press working my way up 1/16” at a time from 1/4” up...
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Workbench Build #7: Picked up the last pieces of the puzzle today..
I visited my local orange store today and picked up the materials for the base. I am using 4...
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Workbench Build #6: What have I got myself into! Oak Delivered Today..
It was an exciting day here at the Airframer household… While I was at work my wife wadd...
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Hand Tool Journey #4: I have officially fallen down the rabbit hole.. and the Misses has followed me!
It’s handtoolapalooza! Day before yesterday my wife finally read through some of my blog...
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Workbench Build #5: I've Got Wood!
I was on the phone with that lumber yard just down the street this morning just asking if they co...
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Workbench Build #4: More work on the vise plus a failed trip to the local mill...
This morning I went over to my bosses house so we could weld up the bolt bracket for the leg vise...
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Hand Tool Journey #3: One down.. and the next set of victims
I am not much of a fan of football so today’s game I could give fewer you know whats about....
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Hand Tool Journey #2: Planes, Pains and Automobiles..
As I mentioned in the first post of this series. I already own 1 hand plane. It is a Buck Bros ...
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Workbench Build #3: It begins....Kinda
Ok, so after tossing around some overly complex ideas and trying to reinvent the wheel I have fi...
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Hand Tool Journey #1: Making the Hand Tool Commitment
So as I plan out my first “Real” workbench I have read dozens of articles, forum thre...
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Workbench Build #2: Styrofoam Modeling....
Work has kept me pretty busy this week and I haven’t had time to do a proper sketch of the ...
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Workbench Build #1: Design Requirements
After doing some reading here and spending some time in my shop I have come to the realization th...
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Drill Press Hold Downs #4: Light at the end of the tunnel and new challanges
I was finally able to get the clamps finished up and ready for use. All that is left now is to i...
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Drill Press Hold Downs #3: The Scroll Saw Learning Curve...
I got up early today so I could tackle getting these guys cut out and onto the sanding drum for f...
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Drill Press Hold Downs #2: Forstner Firsts..
Picking up where I left off on the last post. I now have a solid block of laminated hard woods a...
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Drill Press Hold Downs #1: The beginning..aka Adventures with glue..
This is kinda a funny story. I had finished up my simple little drill press table and needed a s...
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Drill Press Accessories Organizer
Well I posted the finished project already but thought I would expand on the build with a blog po...