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After buying the Harbor Freight 2hp dust collector right after Christmas, I knew I was going to be making some changes to it. First, I dumped the upper bag and added a Wynn 35a filter. Second, I really wanted to put a pre-separator on the unit to keep from having to change the lower bags as...

This is a piece of Alaskan birch burl. The burl was cut green here in the Alaskan MatSu. It was a very large piece of wood and even after five years of drying in the burl pile, it was still very wet inside when I cut it into several large turning blanks. This piece was turned wet to rough...

My shop is 1300 sq feet with a finished out office and bathroom taking up about 350 sq feet of that space. I've got a ceiling that is 17' at the peak and so i have a loft area over the finished office/bathroom that i use for storage. To make better use of the space i needed a way to get things...

Here is rollaway cabinet that I made a few months back. I needed to make a better use of the space that I have in my shop. The design is very simple and I use thru dovetail and slip tenon and mortise jonts. The jointry is strong enough, so the cabinet can be moved around repeatedly without any...

This is one of my keepsake box I made over the holidays as Christmas presents. It's basically the same design as the one made by the Wood Whisperer. I was able to crank out 3 of these as I was new to cutting the dovetail slots, so that slowed me down, along with some unexpected, and severe...

This is the latest Project that me and my wife are working on. It is a standard shaker style hall table with a small twist. Instead of tapering the legs and stopping below the skirt we continued the taper all the way to the top of the leg. We then angled the tenon shoulders to match. This...