Jon3's Blog Archive

• Blog Moved - 10-28-2010 08:06 PM | 0 comments

  Trying to keep LJ, Woodnet, etc up to date with Blog posts has been too much work, so while I wil...

• Compass Rose Inlay #2: Inlay the Compass Rose - 12-15-2009 09:25 PM | 13 comments

  I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to take this part slowly. There are no shortc...

• Serving Trays #1: Prep Work - 12-09-2009 07:46 PM | 4 comments

  I wanted to make a pair of serving trays for my wife, although knowing her, she’ll want to ...

• Compass Rose Inlay #1: Creating a Compass Rose Inlay - 12-08-2009 11:55 PM | 16 comments

  I decided to dress up one of the serving trays I’m making with a compass rose inlay. I use...

• Try Square #1: Trying out a Try square - 11-18-2009 11:01 PM | 8 comments

  I decided to make my own try square, in the spirit of the hand tool extravaganza I’ve been ...

• Building Hand Tool Skills: A Dovetail a Day. Make that a week. - 07-20-2009 08:33 PM | 11 comments

  While I would like to believe that I could dedicate enough time each day to run to the shop and c...

• Bowsaw #2: Completed! - 07-16-2009 08:44 PM | 1 comment

  Not much left to do. I picked up some proper braided 65lb test fishing line. Plenty strong enou...

• Bowsaw #1: Nice Kit! - 07-15-2009 07:03 PM | 5 comments

  The ever popular Joel over at Tools for Working Wood (also Grammery Tool), whom I also got my exc...

• Inlay Tools #5: Thicknessing Gauge - 07-13-2009 04:30 PM | 3 comments

  Once again, I went for some more of that curly spalted maple offcut. I spent some time seeing if ...

• Inlay Tools #4: Slicing Gauge - 07-13-2009 04:22 PM | 2 comments

  With my straight line cutter complete, I moved on to the slicing gauge. This tool, along with a s...

• Inlay Tools #3: Inlay Tools #3: Straight Line Cutter - 07-10-2009 02:55 PM | 5 comments

  The next tool up is the straight line cutter. This looked at lot more straightforward than the r...

• Inlay Tools #2: Radius Cutter complete - 07-08-2009 03:52 PM | 7 comments

  Cut off and mounted, the brass point actually looks kind of nice. I’ll just be a little le...

• Inlay Tools #1: Introduction and Radius Cutter - 07-07-2009 09:59 PM | 1 comment

  I was very intruiged by Steve Latta’s DVD for Lie-Nielsen “Fundamentals of Inlay: Str...

• Please, post your worst. - 06-29-2009 06:57 PM | 17 comments

  I see a trend among the newer members of LJ and also of various woodworking forums to not contrib...

• Sanding Blocks - 06-29-2009 03:54 PM | 10 comments

  I’ve had a kind of crappy blue plastic borg sanding block for some time, and I’ve bee...

• Tool Tuneup #2: Rikon Bandsaw Tuneup - 06-21-2009 11:23 PM | 10 comments

  One thing I noticed while building my Roubo was that there appeared to be some uncorrected blade ...

• Tool Tuneup #1: Dewalt Planer Knife Change - 06-18-2009 11:03 PM | 2 comments

  I’m in between projects at the moment. This is a rare time for me. Usually I have more th...

• Drill Press Table #4: Fencing it in! - 06-10-2009 03:55 PM | 6 comments

  I decided I wanted a permanent solid fence for the table, with adjustable stop blocks. I decided...

• Drill Press Table #3: Going T-Track Crazy - 06-10-2009 03:53 PM | 3 comments

  First, I grabbed my block plane and smoothing plane, and cleaned up my recent banding addition. ...

• Drill Press Table #2: Over Engineered ZCI - 06-10-2009 03:49 PM | 5 comments

  I must warn you, this post gives you a good view into my skewed mind sometimes when it comes to t...

• Drill Press Table #1: Drill Press Table Build Begins - 06-09-2009 07:03 PM | 1 comment

  One weakness I discovered during my Roubo build was the ability to set up nice clean repeat drill...

• Roubo #16: Roubo Completed! - 05-05-2009 09:39 PM | 2 comments

  So that I don’t have to update woodnet, lumberjocks, and other sites, I started a standalon...

• Photos are returning slowly... - 04-23-2009 06:37 PM | 0 comments

  I’ve migrated what turns out to be 9Gig or so worth of photos over to my new hosting provid...

• Migrating my Photos - 04-21-2009 10:16 PM | 0 comments

  I’m in the midst of migrating my hosting, and so in the next day or so, some of my inline o...

• Roubo #15: Hey, want to see a BENCH? - 04-21-2009 02:49 AM | 7 comments

  After much effort, and many tantalizaing blog posts, I finally got the bench assembled. I laid o...

• Roubo #14: Moving Day! - 04-21-2009 02:42 AM | 1 comment

  So [Friday] was moving day, and I had to re-arrange a bunch of things in the shop to make room fo...

• Roubo #13: How I got this far... - 04-14-2009 09:17 PM | 3 comments

  Here’s how I managed to get this far, without a major setback (and I think I can fix the do...

• Roubo #12: Drawboring the Top - 04-14-2009 04:11 AM | 10 comments

  I’m nervous about trying to keep my hand drill perpendicular, so I made a little jig to dri...

• Roubo #11: Drawboring Day! - 04-12-2009 02:15 AM | 1 comment

  This is the true test of the legs. To make sure they’re really going be as sturdy as I nee...

• Roubo #10: Fitting and preparing to drawbore! - 04-11-2009 01:57 AM | 2 comments

  Really starts to look like a bench tonight. I did the dry fit on the long stretchers Th...

• Roubo #9: Mortise City - 04-09-2009 02:14 AM | 5 comments

  Managed to squeeze out some time after work the last few nights to get the mortises for the short...

• Roubo #8: End Caps, Vise fitting - 04-05-2009 10:29 PM | 1 comment

  Been a while since the photos hit. I didn’t take photos of everything, once I really got m...

• Roubo #7: Woof Woof! - 03-29-2009 03:50 PM | 2 comments

  I didn’t think to get a good set of photos of my dog hole jig, and the cutting process. I s...

• Roubo #6: Getting near the end of the glue-up phase of the top. - 03-25-2009 03:09 AM | 3 comments

  I finished prepping the boards for the last of the 6” chunks You can see the glued u...

• Roubo #5: Testing my Glueup capabilities, and a fun vise handle discovery. - 03-17-2009 02:19 AM | 0 comments

  I began breaking down my boards into bunches based on their rough width, thickness, and general f...

• Roubo #4: 3 bags of chips later... - 03-15-2009 11:29 PM | 4 comments

  I started yesterday grabbing all of the appropriate width and length stock out of my stash. I us...

• Roubo #3: A Slight Diversion - 03-13-2009 04:40 AM | 3 comments

  I had a fun time jointing up the legs of my Roubo on my older 6” Delta jointer. But my exp...

• Roubo #2: Dressing up those big legs - 03-11-2009 03:46 AM | 0 comments

  Not much progress. LOML ok’d a grand on a jointer, so I sold my 6” delta and ordered ...

• Roubo #1: Wherein our protagonist drinks the crazy juice, and decides to use 4/4 lumber. - 03-08-2009 04:19 AM | 4 comments

  So brief background is that about a 18 months ago, I bought a load of lumber off ebay. While the...

• Jewelry Box #6: Finishing is truly the final frontier. - 02-23-2009 12:16 AM | 9 comments

  I’m always wary of finishing. I really don’t like it, as I often feel it is such a v...

• Jewelry Box #5: The mistake train is leaving the station. All aboard! - 02-23-2009 12:09 AM | 1 comment

  Rather than fiddle with the hinges, my Lie-Nielsen 4.5 came out, and I just shaved to suit. This...

• Jewelry Box #4: Hardware, the next hurdle. - 02-23-2009 12:03 AM | 1 comment

  Looking good so far. Now its time to mangle the pretty box up with hardware. I used a jig and...

• Jewelry Box #3: Gappy like your gran pappy's teeth after 80 years of sweets. - 02-22-2009 11:44 PM | 3 comments

  Of course, some of the dovetails looked straight out of a book. Some did not. Most ...

• Jewelry Box #2: Pins first. A Klausian Journey. - 02-22-2009 11:36 PM | 2 comments

  Let there be layout marks! Here come the pins. I am a Klausian dovetailer. Yup, those w...

• Jewelry Box #1: In The Beginning, There was Mahogany! - 02-22-2009 11:25 PM | 1 comment

  In the beginning, there was a big 8/4 mahogany board. And it was good. I cut a chunk offa...

• Phew, shop reorg done. - 06-25-2008 03:21 AM | 2 comments

  Well, it has been a long few months, but I’ve finally managed to clear some more space out ...

• Tablesaw Improvements #5: Mini Outfeed Table - 06-23-2008 05:43 PM | 4 comments

  Just when you (and I) thought I was done with my tablesaw improvements… I noticed during...

• Tablesaw Improvements #4: Jess-Em Mast-R-Slide - 06-22-2008 02:29 AM | 3 comments

  My quite predictable runup probably made it clear, but one of the reasons behind all these modifi...

• Tablesaw Improvements #3: Power switch, get out of the way! - 06-22-2008 02:20 AM | 0 comments

  Now that big power switch hangs out way on the left. Got to neaten that up a bit. Oh, and...

• Tablesaw Improvements #2: Re-Attaching the Rails - 06-22-2008 02:11 AM | 0 comments

  With the rails cut, it was time to re-attach and re-align the rails. Although imperfect, they ...

• Tablesaw Improvements #1: Adding a bit more rip fence railing length to my tablesaw. - 06-20-2008 05:12 AM | 2 comments

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• Just an update.... - 02-21-2008 05:46 PM | 11 comments

  I’ve been a bit silent lately due to some big changes in my life. First, the lovely lady i...

• Cross Cut Sled #4: Dressin' it all up. - 12-09-2007 02:40 AM | 4 comments

  I’m no MMarzluf, but I know I can pretty this up a bit… I drop a scrap cherry bloc...

• Cross Cut Sled #3: The 5 Cut Square Dance - 12-09-2007 02:31 AM | 10 comments

  Now here is something else I didn’t do last time. Properly squaring up the sled. I star...

• Cross Cut Sled #2: Fences! - 12-09-2007 02:22 AM | 4 comments

  Although I didn’t snapshot it, I glued up the (2) 4” sections of ply, then ripped the...

• Cross Cut Sled #1: New, and far more accurate crosscut sled - 12-09-2007 02:18 AM | 5 comments

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• Apothecary Cabinet/Tea Chest #2: The Middle Parts - 11-12-2007 10:21 PM | 0 comments

  Well, now that I have a functional carcass, I moved on to the middle part, Dado City. I lined ...

• Apothecary Cabinet/Tea Chest #1: In the Beginning, There was Cherry - 11-11-2007 12:23 AM | 4 comments

  I drink a lot of tea. And I don’t like the bagged stuff, I like fresh tea, carefully brewe...

• Workbench Project #5: Short but sweet entry - 10-25-2007 11:10 PM | 7 comments

  Finally got the final pass done on the bench. You can see the zig-zag lines all over from the ro...

• Workbench Project #4: Jointed top complete! - 10-25-2007 09:40 PM | 1 comment

  I took another (room full of dust) pass with the jointing sled setup. You can see the low parts ...

• Workbench Project #3: Tage Frid time! - 10-22-2007 08:52 PM | 7 comments

  I don’t have access to a 24” planer or drum sander, so I figured I was on my own. Mu...

• Time goes by! Lets prepare to level that sucker - 10-22-2007 08:44 PM | 1 comment

  As I have a small shop, my workbench must be my Workbench, Assembly Table, Mini Lathe Stand, Vacu...

• Workbench Project #2: Making a base. Alternatively, learning to hate home depot. - 10-22-2007 08:38 PM | 2 comments

  So, way back (9 months) in my woodworking infancy, I knew little of the wonderous joys of rough l...

• Workbench Project #1: The workbench project begins! - 10-22-2007 08:27 PM | 4 comments

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• Router Table #8: Finito! - 10-21-2007 01:20 AM | 5 comments

  Not much to say. Time to put the old PC698 up forsale! Many mistakes, much fun. Most imp...

• Router Table #7: Photo-Minimal Update, Fence Completed! - 10-19-2007 05:21 PM | 1 comment

  Although I completed the fence last night, my girlfriend unknowningly borrowed the camera, so I o...

• Router Table #6: Fence Time! - 10-18-2007 05:31 PM | 2 comments

  Now that I have a working router table, I started in on fence making. Not much time available la...

• Router Table #5: The next day, the next DOH! - 10-17-2007 04:57 PM | 8 comments

  I prepped my hand-held PC892 for the rabbet that will support the lift. Put the right bear...

• Router Table #4: The Top and the Toys! - 10-17-2007 04:50 PM | 1 comment

  I pulled the top out of the vacuum press, and had a nice wonderfully tight fit. In the mea...

• Router Table #3: Skipping Ahead.. Making the Top and Face Frame - 10-17-2007 04:44 PM | 1 comment

  Unfortunately, I forgot to bring the camera to the shop and document the big drawers, installing ...

• Router Table #2: Dado Time! - 10-17-2007 04:31 PM | 5 comments

  I grabbed a Dewalt Dado set off Amazon for a song a while back, thanks to the wonderful deal houn...

• Router Table #1: New Yankee Style Router Table - 10-17-2007 04:30 PM | 2 comments

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