Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
Wes has been begging for his own workshop for “forever.” Since he is getting older, he doesn’t like sharing shop space with his mom as much as he used to. We finally moved the grain silo to a new location and started getting him set up. Mary helping pull apart the platform The grain silo… Continue reading Moving Wes to His Own Shop
I’ve been working on a Moravian Workbench for almost two years now and this week I finally have a working tail vice on the bench with accompanying dog holes!!! Tail Vice This is really exciting because the whole concept behind the Moravian workbench is to have a portable bench that you can take to the… Continue reading Moravian Workbench Tail Vice
Storing plywood is always a problem, you end up with stacks of it leaning on all of the walls, and little pieces get stashed behind bigger ones, and you forget what you have hidden.
As part of the Display Case work station, I'm building in a Moxen vice for dovetailing and other light clamping operations. I thought I was making this out of oak to match the rest of the work station, but as soon as I started cleaning up the board with a scrub plane I realized this… Continue reading Mortising in the Nuts on My Moxen Vice
I probably used a router table for the first time when I was about 14. It was a sheet metal stand from Craftsman my grandpa had mounted his router to. It didn't have a fence, we just clamped a piece of 1x2 to it and hoped everything stayed in place while we worked. He was… Continue reading Incra Router Lift
I used to have a small craftsman table saw something akin to this one. I like that it had extensions to make the table bigger, an ok fence and I think I paid about $250 for it new from Sears. Basically I bought at the high end of the low end saws and it served me… Continue reading Table Saw Station with Biesemeyer Fence
Shop made folding saw horses.
One of the biggest challenges when your wood working is getting your workpiece to hold still while you use a tool to shape it. I'll have to say, those old timers weren't dummies, they knew how to hold a piece of wood in place while you worked it. At first I was going to use t-tracks… Continue reading Small Workbench
Girl with a Hand Plane 