This blog is written by Cory | 52 entries so far |
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Evolution of a Shop #47: Getting back at it....Quick Festool organization
In my world there are two seasons: Golf and woodworking. Since it’s dark at 5:00 and too ...
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Evolution of a Shop #46: Festool CT26 and Dust Deputy
I’ve been drinking the green kool aid for a while now and I recently added a dust deputy to...
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Evolution of a Shop #45: Outfeed and assembly table done
I finished up the work on my outfeed and assembly table last night. I really just needed to buil...
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Evolution of a Shop #44: Drill press cart part 2
I was able to finish up the drill press cart last night. Built another drawer, added drawer fron...
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Evolution of a Shop #43: Drill press cart part 1
I wanted to build a new cart that took better advantage of the space underneath my benchtop drill...
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Evolution of a Shop #42: Outfeed Table Progress
I was able to get a few more things completed on my outfeed table: I cut out the handle area o...
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Evolution of a Shop #41: New Outfeed table and shop cart
Even though I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been busy. I’ve had a lot of bui...
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Evolution of a Shop #40: Plywood Cutting Table
I’ve been making a lot of built in cabinetry for our new house over the last few months, wh...
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Evolution of a Shop #39: Square and ruler storage
I’ve been trying to organize my shop and condense some of the contents of drawers and cabin...
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Evolution of a Shop #38: Starting Over, Kind Of
We moved back in October of last year into a house with a larger garage which meant I got a littl...
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Evolution of a Shop #37: The End Of An Era
My wife and I recently decided to move so that our kids could go to a better school district. Ou...
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Evolution of a Shop #36: A few shop upgrades
While I’m between major projects, I had a chance over the weekend to make a few upgrades to...
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Evolution of a Shop #35: Quick drill press table fence upgrade
I have a Woodpeckers drill press table and fence. Overall it’s a great set up. My only co...
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Evolution of a Shop #34: A flip, a turn, a stack, and a twist
I wrapped up a productive few shop sessions recently. The flip: the ever-present flip top cart...
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Evolution of a Shop #33: Bandsaw dust collection
My Shop Fox bandsaw has a dust port at the bottom of the lower wheel. It does a decent job of ge...
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Evolution of a Shop #32: Outfeed Table
This started out as another workbench, but got modified into an outfeed table. The base is a var...
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Evolution of a Shop #31: Bench update
I’ve finished up my bench for now. I flattened the top, which took a lot more effort than ...
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Evolution of a Shop #30: New workbench
I’ve been jonesing for a new bench for what seems like forever. One project after another ...
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Evolution of a Shop #29: New bandsaw and drum sander modification
Thanks to a terrific suggestion from Jeff (JL7), I ordered and installed a new lid for my drum sa...
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Evolution of a Shop #28: New Cross Cut Sled
There have been a few cross cut sleds posted recently and it motivated me to replace mine. The o...
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Evolution of a Shop #27: New drum sander
I’ve wanted a drum sander forever, but I just couldn’t justify a grand on a tool I wo...
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Evolution of a Shop #26: My finest work ever. Period.
I’ve been busy in the shop lately. I’ve built several tables and some other misc thin...
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Evolution of a Shop #25: Tool cabinet update
I recently built a small tool cabinet for my shop. You can see more pics of it here: When...
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Evolution of a Shop #24: A couple of shop helpers
I thought I’d post these two little shop helpers I recently made up. The first is somethin...
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Evolution of a Shop #23: Clamp cart update
I really didn’t need any new clamps (yeah right) but a guy was liquidating his cabinet shop...
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Evolution of a Shop #22: A yard sale? C'mon, man!
After finishing the dresser/changing table for my niece, I was excited to get started on a few mo...
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Evolution of a Shop #21: Large Cross Cut Sled and Huge Lumber Rack
For a while now I’ve been wanting to build a cross cut sled with more capacity that my curr...
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Table from 200 year old re-claimed timber #3: Finishing up the table
I spent quite a bit of time flattening and smoothing the table top last weekend. I used mostly m...
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Evolution of a Shop #20: Shooting Board
I’ve got an upcoming project where I’ll need a shooting board, and I’ve always ...
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Table from 200 year old re-claimed timber #2: Flattening The big top (not the circus kind)
Muscling around this lumber hasn’t been easy. I need to have a perfectly flat top and bott...
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Table from 200 year old re-claimed timber #1: The rough work
My Dad asked me to make a table for his office where he could work on some computers. His office...
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Evolution of a Shop #19: 672 Pairs of Shoes=No woodworking
My 7 year old daughter decided about a month ago to have a shoe drive to try and collect shoes fo...
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Evolution of a Shop #18: Rolling Clamp Cart
I have recently spent quite a bit of time doing some glue ups for various projects. After walkin...
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Evolution of a Shop #17: Christmas In January!
I have had some money I got for Christmas burning a hole in pocket…...and last weekend I we...
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Evolution of a Shop #16: Compressor cabinet complete, and a homemade mallet
I’m calling my compressor cabinet complete. That’s a lot of C’s. It’s i...
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Evolution of a Shop #15: Air compressor gets a new home
I had some left over plywood from building a play kitchen for my kiddos and I was tired of lookin...
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Evolution of a Shop #14: 2 years on Lumberjocks
I was just noticing that I’ve been an official LJ for 2 years now. Man. I’ve learne...
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Evolution of a Shop #13: Tool board over workbench
I’ve never really been a big fan of pegboard, but it’s incredibly functional and chea...
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Evolution of a Shop #12: Table Saw Accessory Cart
I wanted to take advantage of the space under my table saw’s right side to create a place t...
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Evolution of a Shop #11: Outfeed table and bench vise
I haven’t really been able to do much in the shop since my 4th of July table build with my ...
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4 of July Table Build Extravaganza #1: Finishing the tables Part 1
I began finishing two of the four tables we built over the weekend. My brother in law’s pr...
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Evolution of a Shop #10: New fence for R4511
I haven’t been terribly unhappy with the stock fence that came with my Ridgid R4511 table s...
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The Start of a barn wood shadow box table
Over the 4th of July long weekend we had our family over to our house to spend the weekend playin...
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Evolution of a Shop #9: Mobile Carts...A Godsend in a small shop
I still park a car in my shop, errr garage, so I have to be able to move things around. Mobile c...
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Evolution of a Shop #8: HFDC Upgrade
I have been wanting to get a trash can separator for my Harbor Freight dust collector since I bou...
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Evolution of a Shop #7: Some progress in the shop, though never enough.
I haven’t had a lot of shop time in the last week or three, but I have been able to make so...
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Evolution of a Shop #6: Phase 1 complete....I think.
I pretty well finished with phase 1 of my workshop renovation. I’ve added a bench for the ...
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Evolution of a Shop #5: Good news, bad news. Short night, long day.
It’s almost 1:00am and I’m sitting down to tell a bunch of people I’ve never me...
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Evolution of a Shop #4: Miter saw/drill press bench almost complete
I made some progress last night….I finished installing the cabinets that are the base for m...
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Evolution of a Shop #3: Lumber rack, storage, new bench. The plan evolves, too.
After going to the woodworking show in Indy and brainstorming with my wife, I decided against a l...
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Evolution of a Shop #2: The Plan...
With a project just about wrapped up, I’ve come up with a plan to organize and renovate my ...
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Evolution of a Shop #1: One year on LJ, what a difference a year makes
With my one year anniversary on Lumberjocks coming up in a few days, I thought I’d start my...