Projects
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Making A Wooden Chamfer Plane
This is another one of those projects I’ve wanted to do for a while. It’s not because this is an essential tool, it wi...
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Making Wooden Blower Fans
My shop air cleaner has been getting a lot of use since I finished it. I make a point of turning it on and leaving it running when...
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Rotary Tool Drill Press
This is a project that I’ve wanted to do for some time: a drill press for my Dremel rotary tool: I made a fairly basic drawi...
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Utility Table Saw
Leer este artículo en español Occasionally I need a table saw in a place where it’s not really convenient to have one, s...
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Edge Banding Trimmer
Edge banding plywood is one of those tasks that ranks fairly low on the woodworking enjoyment scale. It’s tedious, at best a...
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Making A Table Saw Tapering Jig
There are many versions of the tapering jig. I have one that I made several years ago that I’ve used for various projects (s...
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Make Perfect Star Knobs With A Jig
If you make jigs and fixtures for your shop, you will probably need knobs to tighten or make adjustments for various things. And i...
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Making A Planer / Jointer Knife Sharpening Jig
Having a low cost surface planer with two sets of HSS knives, I wanted a way to reliably sharpen the knives. This would save me ti...
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Table Saw Sled
A table saw sled is something that I really haven’t had a need for, since my homemade table saw had a sliding table attached...
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Extension Wing Router Table
With my move to a shop nearly half the size of my old one, I had to try to arrange the tools that are important in the most effici...
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Making A Planer Blade Sharpening Jig
This is my second version of a planer knife sharpener, the first one worked well, but is a bit bulky and had some other problems. ...
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Make A Wide Panel Crosscut Jig
Crosscutting wider panels to trim them down to size or to square them up can be a frustrating experience, unless you have somethin...
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Norm’s Crosscut Sled
Way back in the late 80’s, one of my favourite things to do was to get up on Saturday morning, make coffee and watch the lat...
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A Multi-Wheel Band Saw (Experimental Build)
Occasionally, I’ll get an idea and it will nag at me until I try it out. For better or worse, this build is a perfect exampl...
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Making A Zero Clearance Insert For The Miter Saw
It’s funny how often this happens: I go out to my shop to start one project, and get sidetracked and end up making something...
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Making The Advanced Box Joint Jig From MDF
I occasionally get asked if jigs like this can be made with lower cost, easier to find materials. I recommend using the best plywo...
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Making Hardened Steel Blade Guides
It’s been two years since finishing my band saw, and although I have used it over that time, I believe it really should be u...
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Shop Vacuum Filter Cleaner
For the majority of my shop cleanup, I use my dust collector with a 2-1/2″ hose and wand to vacuum the dust and wood chips o...
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Rebuilding My Dust Collector
When I bought my dust collector, I thought it would be perfect for the kind of work I do in my shop. It was portable and I could j...
