I've just wrapped up work on a new marking knife. Apparently I threw out my store-bought knife with the shavings (baby with the bathwater?).
Its replacement was shaped with a spokeshave and sandpaper, and was designed to be held like a pen knife as well as in other positions for more forceful marking. The end near the blade is tapered on the underside for a pen-like grip, with a relieved flat ledge on top to rest an index finger or a thumb for more rotational stability.
The blade itself was ma…
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Added by Kenneth on November 17, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Yo whats up everybody this weeks tool of the week is Irwin quick grip clamps. Now the picture above is the newer model and they are much stronger then the older yellow and purple ones. These clamps come in sizes from 12 in to 96 in and you can buy them pretty much anywhere. These clamps are great because y…
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Added by Kosta on November 16, 2009 at 4:15pm —
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I know - I've been threatening it for a long time. It's time to take my carefully arranged collection of tools on one side of the basement and turn it into a proper shop. Lots of stuff planned.
I've also been doing positive affirmation, confidence boosting, "just say no" exercises in preparation - preparation, that is, for the inevitable barrage of family project requests that seem to engulf my spring and summer. I swear, they think they are doing me a favor by giving me loads of silly things t…
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Added by muddlermike on November 15, 2009 at 8:14am —
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Hi Everyone ... One of my readers, Jeff Branch, made a comment on my dorset custom furniture blog asking 'On average, how many projects do you have going at a time?' Well, that started me thinking about the week that had just passed. In this 'new' economy, we have fewer large projects and many more smaller ones, but still we have quite a bit going on. Jeff's comment made me think about what had actually happened in the shop this past week, and, by the time I was finished writing, it was a pretty…
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Added by dan mosheim on November 15, 2009 at 7:08am —
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Yo whats up everybody this week I have been mostly been working on a book case for my dads office. I didnt have school this week because of the swine flu then veterans day then this hurricane so I got most of the work done on the book case. Yesterday the power went out for 4 hours in the morning then it went out again from 5:00 pm to 5:00 pm today and that was a real pain in the ass because we had 3 leaks and the roof was super slippery so that just made a bigger deal out of something that was j…
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Added by Kosta on November 13, 2009 at 4:31pm —
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Hey folks. This is just a blurb about an ongoing project. I'm making a 4-compartment salt cellar for my mother for Christmas this year. It has been an adventure, as it's my first "box." Lots of firsts for me here. The design is such that the single lid can be lifted out from any angle and the salt can be accessed by anyone around a table.
It is being made with hand tools, from scrap. I used a plow plane to make the top and bottom grooves, and my shooting board for squaring, with my miter jig be…
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Added by Kenneth on November 11, 2009 at 9:39pm —
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I just wrapped up a five-part series on building the PWW Bible Box from the October issue. I made some of my own modifications to the project, but the key elements to the original design are still there including a cool herringbone inlay (which I moved from the front to the top of my box). Rather than uploading all five videos to the community, I figured it would be quicker and easier to just link to them from blip.tv. This was definitely a fun project, and a good way to hone your hand tool tech…
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Added by Rob Bois on November 10, 2009 at 8:53am —
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In this episode of the tool life aud…
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Added by Kosta on November 9, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Yo whats up everybody this weeks tool of the week is the jet 10 in jointer/planner combo machine. Now I usually don't like combo machines just because once you get the settings perfect on the jointer then they get messed up when you switch to the planner. This unit is a little bit different. Thi…
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Added by Kosta on November 9, 2009 at 10:00am —
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The router is one of the most versatile tools in the shop. Dovetails, mortises, tenons, decorative profiles, rabbets… the list goes on and on.
While they are extremely useful hand held, mounting them into a table dramatically expands their usefulness. I discovered this when I first bought a little bench top Skil router table for my tiny fixed-base Craftsman router. Suddenly, I was cutting joints and profiles I never knew were possible.
Things have really changed since those early router experi…
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Added by Tom Iovino on November 9, 2009 at 9:00am —
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Hi folk,
Following my first blog entry, I start today with a posting on my current project. I'm doing 3 Octagonal Tea Boxes (well the plan was sold as a jewelry box but hey, my wife love her tea probably as much as some other women love their jewels ;-).
Ok since the project is already started, this posting will be a little bit long. Promise I'll try to do shorter message in the future. Let's start with a picture of what the box is suppose to look like.
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Added by Christian Barrette on November 7, 2009 at 9:08pm —
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Added by Kosta on November 7, 2009 at 1:26pm —
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Yo whats up everybody this last week I have been trying out some new router bits and yesterday I started working on another book case for my dads new office. Out of all the shops this is the first one that has a real office in it next to the shop. So the book case im building is 28 in tall 20 in wide and 7 in deep. The sides are short enough that I can use dados to hold the shelves but I dont have a dado stack at my house so I used a standard tablesaw blade to make the dados. It took about 20 mi…
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Added by Kosta on November 7, 2009 at 6:13am —
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A Challenging Situation
Cutting small pieces of trim or moulding accurately on the compound miter saw can be challenging and a bit dangerous. The compound miter saw (known as the chopsaw in the trades and hereafter) has a large opening in the table for the blade and, most often, the plastic insert in the table drops down slightly from the level of the surrounding table. This is characteristic on my Hitachi, DeWalt, and Makita chopsaws. (I am a contractor so I sport 3 chopsaws.)…
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Added by Todd A. Clippinger on November 5, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Yo whats up everybody this weeks tool of the week is the festool domino joiner. Now this tool solved a pretty big problem with biscuits because biscuits are not very strong and they can break pretty easy. Dominoes are stronger and for a joint that might need 5 biscuits you could put 3 dominoes and it would b…
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Added by Kosta on November 4, 2009 at 4:28pm —
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Added by Kosta on November 2, 2009 at 3:49pm —
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Yo whats up everybody if you want to follow me on twitter my name is kostabklyn.
So this week I cleaned up the entire shop. Total cleaning time was about 4 hours but I had some help. I am going to post pictures of the napkin holders that I built. I also got a router table a carving set and some layout tools from my grandfather that he wasnt using. I will post pictures of those to.
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Added by Kosta on November 2, 2009 at 2:28pm —
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There are certain statements that are beyond refute. The sun rises in the east. The only two things that are unavoidable are death and taxes. Bread always lands butter-side down.
And, as most woodworkers will agree, you can never have too many clamps.
Here’s the arsenal that I work with on my shop-built rolling clamp rack. I have what I consider (especially given that I’ve seen other woodworker’s collections!) a pretty modest, yet fully functional setup.
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Added by Tom Iovino on November 2, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Well, I'm done woodworking for a few weeks. About a month ago I blew out my ACL playing basketball (not young anymore!) and had the replacement surgery on Thursday. I can get around a little, but not very stable/well. I will probably be out of woodworking commission for a couple of weeks. Prior to the surgery I had been making some pens so hopefully in the next week or so I can get back to that. I have a bar stool that I can sit at while turning them so that will help, but no big projects for a…
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Added by Derik VanVleet on November 2, 2009 at 10:12am —
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Hi people,
Here's my first entry in my blog. I thought it would be a good idea to write down the list of project I want to do (in the right order). I never been very good at keeping a blog "alive" but if there is one that I am fully motivated to work on is a woodworking blog. Hopefully I'll have the discipline to keep you guys inform on my progress on every project I'm working on. To be honest, at this point this list is probably more to myself, as a reminder, but who knows one day my blog mayb…
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Added by Christian Barrette on November 1, 2009 at 7:52am —
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Marking knife
Tool of the week
the time has come... finally
A Five Man Shop
PWW Bible Box Build
Setting a Proper Table
Octagonal Tea Box - catching up
Cutting Small Pieces on the Compound Miter Saw
On the disabled list
