| This blog is written by Dave Polaschek | 26 entries so far |
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Handy tools #10: Bowl horse
I moved earlier this year, and it’s going to be next year before I have a shop, so I decided to b...
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Handy tools #9: The truck kit
After a few times going to the resort, or driving down the road and seeing a piece of tree that m...
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Handy tools #8: Knife making tools
I’ve been making stacked birch bark knife handles lately, and found a couple tools that made the ...
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Wood stabilizing #7: Memorial Day spalted birch and maple
Over Memorial Day weekend, I stabilized some more wood. I had some eucalyptus from Arizona that a...
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Wood stabilizing #6: Spalted elm and dyes
I did some more experimenting this weekend. First up was some spalted elm for the surprise swa...
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Wood stabilizing #5: Dyeing experiments
Having somewhat successfully stabilized a couple batches of wood, I figured it was time to add dy...
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Wood stabilizing #4: Second batch
I stabilized another batch of wood this weekend. It included: butternut, salt cedar, cherry, citr...
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Wood stabilizing #3: Unwrapped and unplugged
One of the things I was trying to find out about wood stabilizing when I embarked on this adventu...
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Wood stabilizing #2: Out of the resin and into the oven
This morning the wood came out of the resin. I used blue gloves, and wrapped the pieces in alumin...
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Wood stabilizing #1: Equipment and first batch
I’ve got some spalted elm left over from building my low bench plus some soft maple and other woo...
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Handy tools #7: Post drill
I got a post drill a while back. Traded Mos a spare laser engraver and some pictures of dead pres...
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Twin screw vise #8: Cork jaw liner
This morning I finally got the cork shelf liner installed in the vise, so I guess it’s officially...
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Handy tools #6: Octagonal Guillotine
While building my box for the swap, I wanted to put some banding around the top of the box. This ...
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Techniques #1: Cutting 135 degree dovetails
I couldn’t find anyone describing how to cut dovetails for non-square corners, so I decided to wr...
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Handy tools #5: 45 degree jig
I used this shop-made jig while cutting dovetails for 135 degree corners (for making an octag...
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Handy tools #4: Scratch stock
Not quite a project, but definitely a handy tool. While making the box for the 2018 box swap,...
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Handy tools #3: Mirror for cutting dovetails
As I attempt to get better at dovetails, one of the things that frustrated me was that I was cont...
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Handy tools #2: Little froe and doweling plate
I put a handle on a big froe last year, but I’ve been wanting to make my own dowels lately, and t...
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Handy tools #1: Miter Jack
A few months ago, I bought a miter jack, thinking that I would need to be making some 45 degree m...
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Twin screw vise #7: Getting it working
I’m a little light on pictures in this post, as I got excited that I was almost done, and d...
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Twin screw vise #6: Both jaws on
Since last time, I finished drilling the 3/8” holes to mount the rear vise jaw to the bench...
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Twin screw vise #5: Boring the holes
In the previous post, I left off just before drilling the two main holes for the vise screws. Yes...
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Twin screw vise #4: Everything but the holes
I’ve been working on getting everything prepped for installing my vise, and I think I’...
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Twin screw vise #3: Mounting details
I’ve been thinking about the problem of how I’m going to mount the vise to the bench....
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Twin screw vise #2: Rear chop and thinking
Having the front chop done-ish, it was time to move onto the rear chop. It was less tapered than ...
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Twin screw vise #1: The front chop
This winter I want to start cutting dovetails, doing a dovetail a day for a month to build my ski...
