Projects

Making A Homemade Band Saw

In March, 2010, I started this project. Prior to this, I had been following Matthias Wandel’s band saw build (the first one)...
Making A Beam Compass

Leer este artículo en espańol Occasionally I need to draw circles or arcs of a specific size, usually smaller ones. In the past ...
Rebuilding An Old Table Saw

I guess the term for it is serendipity, where you find something that turns out to be very useful when you weren’t really lo...
2″ x 72″ Belt Grinder

This is a project that has been on my to-do list for a while. My first thoughts were to make it completely from steel and up until...
Building A Drill Press Cabinet

This drill press cabinet was a long time coming. I started and finished this project months ago, back in January of this year, in ...
Making A Wooden Utility Knife

This is one of those projects that you would do just because you love making things out of wood and for the challenge. You probabl...
Making A Mini Table Saw Sled

I had a bunch of short (1″ long) pieces of spruce to cut for making more of the wooden soffit vents, and I thought it would...
Making A Rolling Spindle Sander Cart With Drawers

This project came about after I “decommissioned” my older sanding station. I did that for a number of reasons, includi...
Making A Simple Rolling Planer Stand

My new miter saw station has two open bays on the ends that were made to house tools on roll out carts. This is the first of the t...
Making A Chisel Sharpening Jig

While using my chisel and plane iron sharpening jig recently, I realized that it was less convenient to use for quickly tuning up ...
The Belt Sander Platform

Having bought a Ridgid oscillating belt / spindle sander and building my sanding station to house it, I thought my sanding woes w...
Making A Quick And Dirty Band Saw Mill

This project is a bit different from most I’ve done, in that I didn’t take pictures of each step in the build. Instead...
How to Make an Outdoor Workbench

Back at my old house, behind my old shop, I had a table that was more or less a dedicated outdoor workbench. It started its life a...
The Shim Cutting Jig

When you get to the finishing stages of a home renovation project, you’ll need shims for various tasks. For setting door fra...
Slatwall Tool Board

Soon after finishing my workbench chest of drawers project, I realized that the drawer storage system of organization is better su...
Plywood Step Stool

It’s handy to have a step stool in the shop (or around the house) to reach places higher up, change light bulbs, etc. It sav...
Making a Steel Work Table

I do a fair amount of metal work and have wanted to build a dedicated table for this activity for some time now. Working with meta...
Stackable Storage Boxes

In an attempt to make my workshop more efficient to work in and to keep clean, I’m doing a lot of organizational projects. O...
Making An Air Cleaner For The Shop

Normally, there’s not much of an air quality problem in my shop, since often the amount of dust that’s created is mini...