Projects

Making A “Real” Bar Clamp

Or, as real as they get but still use wood. I originally planned to make this clamp completely from steel (except the handle), but...
Making A Handsaw Vise

Since I have a few handsaws to fix up and resharpen, I figured it would be a worthwhile endeavor to make a simple vise for holding...
Shop Made Hand Screws

I’ve always wanted some hand screw clamps but never had any, for the simple reason that I wanted to make them and not buy th...
How to Make a Another Wooden Bar Clamp

This article was revised and expanded January 25, 2014 Leer este articulo en espanol This design takes the lessons learned from mi...
Making A Steel Bench Vise

Before getting started on the steel table build, I had a look for a bench vise. My experience with the lower cost vises was not po...
Making a Drawing Bow

Easy to make and very handy to have on hand, it lets you draw curves and arcs of almost any radius. It’s made with a strip o...
Re-Designed Push Stick

I use and have used for years one type of push stick, and it has served me very well. What I like about it is that it gives me com...
Making A Depth Stop Key Holder For The Drill Press

I made the original version of this depth stop back in 2012 and it has performed perfectly over the five years since. But, since I...
Easy Miter Clamping Dogs

There are lots of different ways to clamp miters and several clamps that are specifically designed to do that. This is an easy to ...
Welding A Broken Band Saw Blade

A little more than a year ago, I accidentally cut into my band saw blade with my angle grinder. I had been working on a jig that u...
Making Sharpening “Stones” The Cheap Way

Sharpening stones are expensive and if you only use them to sharpen your chisels and plane blades, it may make more sense to make ...
Zero Clearance Table Saw Insert

Why buy what you can make? Especially true if what you need is nearly impossible to find, like a new insert for a vintage table sa...
Attaching Wood To Concrete The Cheap Way

Cheap, but reliable. And fast. It’s also easy to do, easy as driving a nail. This is an old trick that I learned from my tim...
Upsize A Pulley

Pulleys are expensive these days. Especially large pulleys, so it’s handy when you can make one to the size that you need. I...
Wooden Bench Dogs

Like many others, my workbench has a row of square holes down one side that evenly spaced, and work with the wagon vise to clamp b...
Making An Up/Down Light

After I completed the new ceiling in the shop, I found that the area around the miter saw station was a bit dimmer than I’d ...
Perfect Circle Jig

To make a new wheel for my 2 x 72 belt grinder project I figured I would put together a circle jig that is used on the disk sander...
Homemade Protractor

Having broken or scratched to the point of unreadability my share of plastic protractors, I thought I would make my own. After a q...
Making a Smaller Zero Clearance Miter Saw Fence

Almost immediately after I made the bigger zero clearance fence for my miter saw station, I started getting comments asking how it...