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A new life for a 1/4HP motor in the tiny shop #1: first steps
Hi everyone, so I got this motor from a friend like 15 years ago, it was adapted to work as an airbrush compressor but it was not used any more. Now I decided to recycle it and use it to power some diy...
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Rogue Fine Living #3: Bed of Power
In this world of 4gs, Ipads, and Jpegs, we have more power than ever before. Never has it been so easy for an artist to share their work regardless of distance. I can contact a customer hundereds or...
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Fathers day 2011
I wanted to share a bit of my father’s day weekend here. It involved time and play with both kids outside and in the garage shop. My wife and I even had some quiet time together…..all in all a super...
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Router table for my Unisaw #1: Laminating MDF panels
Hey all, Yesterday I started on a router table for my Unisaw. I looked at all of the me-made tables out there and all I can say is “expensive”. I thought I could make a table that was at leas as good...
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Hand saw restore blog #3: New bolts and some shine.
Hand saw restoreNew bolts and some shine. One step closer, and time to play with the fish! This old G. Buck Tottenham London was actually in a really nice condition when we talk handle, and the shape...
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A stroke of luck
I recently got very lucky; I’m really excited about this and thought I’d share the story. To provide a little background, I used to have a nice garage workshop in our house in San Diego. The...
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Hand Saws #1: 15" Bow Saw
I recieved this saw in the mail today. It is 25” wide overal and about 14” of exposed blade. I belive it is classified at a 15” saw. There is about 7” of cutting area above the blade. I’m hoping to get...
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Band Saw Help
I am about to demo a clients house to build a new one. So, he and his wife are moving out while the new construction is going on. Anyway, he has a Grizzly band saw 3/4 horse that looks like it is new....
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Confusion, interuptions, and enlightenment
Yesterday was quiet a day. I had a doctors appointment, and since I don’t get into town very often anymore, I needed to pick up an air stapler. We left the doctors, and went to the big box store. I got...
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from RED , thru WHITE , to BLUE
thanks to RED , http://lumberjocks.com/lilredweldingrodfor the tutorials on wheelchair access to lowering shop toolsfor providing this information and your ongoing support in this endeavor you are the...
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Finally got a lathe and bandsaw
After getting over my “must have every tool craze” (and I was lucky in that I could return all the stuff I didn’t need), 2 days ago I got a little RIKON lathe from Woodcraft that seems really nice...
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new tools for my b.day ,
today my wife went to rockler and got me a wood scraper and a moisture meter for my birthday, i thought what a really nice wife but WTF tonight she tells me she wants the 50’‘flat screen to move up...
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My Journey As A Scroll Saw Pattern Designer #381: Taking My Time and Enjoying...
I love to build things and play. From the time I was small, some of my favorite things were building sets and play sets. When I was young and we lived with my grand parents, they had this farm set that...
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Finnish a workbench #1: Sketches and ideas
When making tools or other project for the workshop I unfortunately often starts out on one level of lets say quality and then during the journey I seems to increase it. Just as with my tool cabinet...
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Japanese style lamp
I finally came up with a project for the chunk of Mammoth Kauri sent to me from Bob (TopamaxSurvivor)
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Want to see a small workshop? #1: Tiny Workshop
Want to see small workshop? Then look at Youtube – woodjamsie.It is a tiny workshop/shed, and I do all my work there, because ‘she who must be obeyed’ won’t let me work in the house! With all that wood...
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Apple's new iCloud and my LJ photo/movie links go bust.
Sigh…. I use Apple’s mobile.me to sync all my files and upload my webpages. It works so slickly with iWeb, the web making program from Apple. Easy, easy, easy. Another thing is that is nice is iDisk....
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BookCase #8: Part 6 Final Video
The last installment of my cherry bookcase. In this video I demonstrate: 1. Flushing edge banding to the surface of a shelf using two different methods. One method from Marty. 2. Notching shelves at...
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My Maloof Rocker #1: Prepping the Front Legs to
I recently took a Maloof Rocker class with Randy Child and Charles Neil. They were both kind enough to let me video the learning sections of the class. In this video, Randy discusses the requirements...
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Restoring a 1957 a Dewalt Radial Arm Saw #5: Adjusting table for flat on, The...
In the pictures below I’m ,using the Master plate, with part of TS Aligner Jr attached, to check multiple points,around the table, and adjusting it to be uniformly flat. Here I’m adjusting saw ,to...
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