Mine is still a pile of wood drying out, but I think I've got the costs about nailed down. It will be a 6.5 ft long x 20" wide slab-top roubo, with Hovarter leg and wagon vises. Bench will be...
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Mine is still a pile of wood drying out, but I think I've got the costs about nailed down. It will be a 6.5 ft long x 20" wide slab-top roubo, with Hovarter leg and wagon vises. Bench will be...
I've got this stack of southern yellow pine my local supplier sawed up for me. Being in Florida, this is a local material for me. I'll be building a new bench with it in about 3 months. The slabs...
That video was great! I learned the answer to my question in the first few minutes. Then, the dogs, the phone, and even my girlfriend remained silent as I watched through an hour of glorious...
This is all good for compound angles, like a splayed box or something, but I'm talking about "simple" angled dovetails, for lack of a better term. Make the box for a simple cabinet, then push on one...
To join two boards together at any angle other than 90 degrees, still co-planar along the edges, is it as simple as angling the shoulder of the tails, marking the pins, and angling the floor of the...
I've lived here for 8 years and somehow never knew about this place. My office is 0.8 miles from here. I will be going to visit over lunch one day this week.
I'd say it depends mostly on your hand size. Giant mitts may have trouble with a 3, and tiny hands might be overwhelmed by a 4 for smoothing. I have average size hands, and I have a few of each of...
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Here she is: all function, no form. I built this as my bench-on-which-to-build-a-proper-bench. My proper bench has never been made as this one works quite well. Wife isn't...
Looks like a plane tote attached to an arm and made into a compass-type marking tool. It has to be craftsman-made for some unique job.
Of course, also, I guess all of this just means I ought to get a band-saw blade and spend some time making a frame saw. :D
See, that's kind of what I was thinking. Maybe it is user-error. I've got no problem admitting that.
Since the board was only about 2' long, I clamped it at a angle leaning away from me in my...
I have both the Irwin and Jennings bits. I consistently reach for my Irwins. I just drilled a 1" hole in 4/4 QSWO yesterday with an Irwin and 12" throw brace and it didn't leave me wanting anything...
I got a chance to use my freshly sharpened 5.5 pt thumbhole D-8 to rip something over 3/4" wide over the weekend. I was re-sawing a 5" board of 4/4 cherry to get out stock to make a few boxes.
I...
Check Popular Woodworking magazine December 2004. That's the cabinet I'm planning to build after I finish the Christmas presents.
The square dog holes aren't really inconsistent with holdfast usage in my opinion. The holdfasts are usually used in 3/4" holes spaced strategically around the bench, further from the edge. Since...
My shop is the sunroom of my rental house, which has ceramic tile flooring on a concrete slab. Rental means changing the floor is out. I keep wanting to put something down there, but have yet to...
This may be up your alley: http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct.php?911. I ordered it and have watched it several times trying to decide how I will do it with hand tools only. The wife loves it and...
I got soft, hard, and black stones from Hall's Pro-Edge. I got the wide bench stone models at 12" length and I've had good success with them so far.
David, what do you mean to "scuff" one? ...
Your bench looks like mine, MDF with a hardwood front, except mine has a SYP 2x on the front.
I bought a dusty #7 at the flea market a few weeks back for $15 that is in line for a rehab. Grungy...
Great to know the thickness of the top is not the problem. Looks like I can saw and rout out and replace a strip of the MDF on top and bottom with some beech, maple, or SYP and they ought to work...
My benchtop is 6 layers of 3/4" MDF (3 sheets halved and glued) for a total of 4.5" of thickness. Heavy as crap and ugly as sin, but extremely functional. A great bench on which to build a better...
College football season is here (Georgia Tech!), and with football comes tailgates, and with tailgates, cornhole. I have a set of cornhole boards I made from 1x pine and 1/2" plywood a few years...
I tend to think the benchtop should dent before whatever piece of furniture you're building on top of it does. So maybe a really hard top would be a bad thing.
Then again, I am currently lusting...
I own the Bad Axe 10" dovetail and 14" sash (filed crosscut). I got the dovetail in Mark's mesquite handle offering, which is an awesome option. With mesquite handle and blued-steel hardware, it's...
I like it. Now I'm even more conflicted on what boat will fit best. I may end up doing a plywood boat first just because it's fast and it will get me on the water, and then doing a nice lapstrake...