Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote a new blog entry. Same old story: too much work happening, not enough hours in the day.
My day job had me going 7 days a week towards the end of August, and critical work on my house consumed the rest of my time. As a result, I got very little website work done – not much new in content and no blog entries – and I even fell behind on video projects.
Work has slowed once again and that leaves me with more free time, but I still have a ton of work to do with this house before winter sets in.

Regarding the work on the house, I have been making videos of the progress and posting those on my other YouTube channel, and will be covering a lot of the work on this website, as well. I figure the best way to do that will be to start another blog section, devoted to the house renovations. That’s probably the best format, since it will be an ongoing (and never ending…) project. I’m going to try to balance between regular website projects and house blog additions, depending on the time I have.

So, more free time equals more projects, and I have one coming this Saturday: easy to make, stackable trays:

These are really handy for keeping all sorts of small things in, like screws or nails. I made these to put the various screws, electrical parts and plumbing fittings in for my house renovation. Also really good for the workshop to put fasteners of every kind and other small items. Bring the tray where you are doing the work, and when you are done, it can be stowed away neatly and dust free.
There will be a website project article with a plan showing all of the dimensions. As well as two videos, the first covers building the trays complete, and in the second video I show a neat way of reinforcing the butt joined corners.

Immediately after building my router lift, I started getting suggestions that it could be motorized. Indeed, I had this thought myself, on the original version (the one in my router table), but went with a larger hand wheel driving the smaller one at a faster speed. To be honest, I thought that putting a motor on it would probably be more of a nuisance than a useful improvement – I could see it coming up too far, then tapping the button a few times to bring it down, and going down too far, and so on.
Recently,
I received an email from Den Combs with a link to a video he made of the router table he built, with my lift inside. As you can see in this video, he did a great job on the table, and the lift seems to be very responsive to the controls:

Unfortunately, he didn’t take any photos of the build. The table looks very professional and has some really nice features.

Speaking of video, my channel on YouTube will have 30,000 subscribers by the end of this week. I have to say that I never dreamed I would get that many subscribers when I posted my first woodworking video. I would like to sincerely thank those of you that have subscribed, the support is greatly appreciated.