What We're Making

[Surewhitey]

That was a great find surewhitey, I have a living room of Stickley furniture, very high quality.

Surprisingly I didn't see their name on the pcs. It definitely looks like their work though. Quality built for sure.

 

[Surewhitey]

Beautiful job, as always, Surewhitey. And practical. Here’s some food for thought. If you could make that chopsaw shelf removable, you could slide the whole saw unit out, flip it over and let the saw dangle upside down, giving you a clear work space up top when you want that.

Yeah, except for dust box I built around it & collection vacuum below it... And it weighs a ton! I have a full 8' butcher block to the right, so I don't want to "need more" than that...

 

[Ronstar]

I have an oak that occasionally drops branches. Makes for a good hiking stick

 

[street]

I have an oak that occasionally drops branches. Makes for a good hiking stick

Really nice!! One thing I have noticed from people that are wood working people is that they can always see something to be made from found wood etc..

I believe it is the creative minds that they have.

 

[Ronstar]

Really nice!! One thing I have noticed from people that are wood working people is that they can always see something to be made from found wood etc..

I believe it is the creative minds that they have.

Thanks - I’ve noticed the same thing. You’re quite creative with raw wood as well!

 

[Toast]

Beautiful work! I just want to let everyone who posts projects on this thread know how much I enjoy their pictures.

 

[Surewhitey]

Really nice!! One thing I have noticed from people that are wood working people is that they can always see something to be made from found wood etc..

I believe it is the creative minds that they have.

Nice stick. I always think walking stick when looking at crepe myrtles...

 

[Surewhitey]

Did a couple of custom closets. One was built around the shoe tower already there.

 

[Surewhitey]

Poor man's dust collection. I made a cart, added a french cleat mount under the outfeed table and "auto" vac switch to the table saw. Been wanting to get efficient for maneuvering around the saw for a while now...6hp mini vac & dustopper separator.

 

[Souschef]

At our new apartment, we have a vertical firepit on the balcony. We wanted a tray or something to put on top of it for drinks, etc.
On eBay, we found a two inch thick slab of black walnut from the Ozarks. [FONT=&quot]After using Gorilla glue to bond the bark, the slice was sanded. The wood is very hard, and took a lot of time to sand it. Starting with coarse 60 grit,[/FONT]
working through 100 and 150 grit, and finishing with 220 grit for a smooth surface.
After sanding, multiple coats of Teak oil were applied.
I have no where the talent of you woodworkers, but I did enjoy this.

 

[aja8888]

At our new apartment, we have a vertical firepit on the balcony. We wanted a tray or something to put on top of it for drinks, etc.
On eBay, we found a two inch thick slab of black walnut from the Ozarks. [FONT=&quot]After using Gorilla glue to bond the bark, the slice was sanded. The wood is very hard, and took a lot of time to sand it. Starting with coarse 60 grit,[/FONT]
working through 100 and 150 grit, and finishing with 220 grit for a smooth surface.
After sanding, multiple coats of Teak oil were applied.
I have no where the talent of you woodworkers, but I did enjoy this.

Beautiful!!

 

[Surewhitey]

Walnut is my favorite. That end grain will break your spirit with the amount of sanding it takes... Very well done.

 

[Ronstar]

At our new apartment, we have a vertical firepit on the balcony. We wanted a tray or something to put on top of it for drinks, etc.
On eBay, we found a two inch thick slab of black walnut from the Ozarks. [FONT=&quot]After using Gorilla glue to bond the bark, the slice was sanded. The wood is very hard, and took a lot of time to sand it. Starting with coarse 60 grit,[/FONT]
working through 100 and 150 grit, and finishing with 220 grit for a smooth surface.
After sanding, multiple coats of Teak oil were applied.
I have no where the talent of you woodworkers, but I did enjoy this.

Awesome job! That walnut pops with the oil on it.

 

[Ronstar]

Whitey- excellent closet as usual, but that dust collection rig is over the top!

 

[Surewhitey]

Whitey- excellent closet as usual, but that dust collection rig is over the top!

Hoping for "over the top" good... It actually works pretty good for the table saw & planer.

 

[Winemaker]

Poor man's dust collection. I made a cart, added a french cleat mount under the outfeed table and "auto" vac switch to the table saw. Been wanting to get efficient for maneuvering around the saw for a while now...6hp mini vac & dustopper separator.

What brand dust collector do you have! I've seen some at Harbor Freight and some at our local Woodcraft store. I can't make up my mind which way to go!

 

[Surewhitey]

What brand dust collector do you have! I've seen some at Harbor Freight and some at our local Woodcraft store. I can't make up my mind which way to go!

I'm squeezed for space so I am using a 6hp, 4 gallon Rigid shop vac/blower (Home Depot only sells online) and a Dustopper, on a 5 gallon bucket, separator that has been an easy setup that can be used for other purposes too. It's very compact (footprint is appx 16" x 32") as my pictures show. With the switch, it'll set you back about $200 total.

If I had room for a big system (and a few thousand bucks), I'd love to hard pipe in a legit system. This just makes sense for me & it has worked for a few years now...

I find that I use it 90% at the table saw & 10% planer... Minimal cleanup at the end of the day & easy to empty the 5 gallon bucket. Shavings are great for composting if not plywood...

 

[Surewhitey]

I put my old one under the chop saw & closed up the space around the saw for pretty decent collection there too... These 3 tools are 99% of my dust makers...

The 2 front panels are magnetic for easy removal for angle cuts. 90% of cuts are 90° for me...

 

[street]

At our new apartment, we have a vertical firepit on the balcony. We wanted a tray or something to put on top of it for drinks, etc.
On eBay, we found a two inch thick slab of black walnut from the Ozarks. [FONT=&quot]After using Gorilla glue to bond the bark, the slice was sanded. The wood is very hard, and took a lot of time to sand it. Starting with coarse 60 grit,[/FONT]
working through 100 and 150 grit, and finishing with 220 grit for a smooth surface.
After sanding, multiple coats of Teak oil were applied.
I have no where the talent of you woodworkers, but I did enjoy this.

Beautiful!!

Surewhitey, Great work as always! I don't have much for space to work on wood project at my home in town. I do all my wood working outdoors summer through winter. My dust collecting machine is the outdoors so not really have any cleanup except to use a leaf blower and away it goes. Lol

Some of you have some beautiful workshops. Outstanding!!!

 

[zinger1457]

If/when I build a separate workshop, now using my garage, I will include a dust collection system. Besides the mess it creates breathing in sawdust is a serious health issue, both my father and his brother were carpenters who died of lung cancer, I'm certain that was a contributing factor.

 

[Ronstar]

I have a portable dust collector that I move around my shop to the tool that I’m using. Also have a ceiling mounted air filtration system that I run constantly.

But sometimes in summer I move the operation outdoors and just let the sawdust fly.

 

[Winemaker]

Thanks, Surewhitey and Ronstar. I currently have a mobile Ridgid shop vac and hoses to my jointer, planer, table saw and chop saw. When DW's high school remodeled, a 240V down draft table was ordered by mistake instead of a 480V model. I acquired the 240V model and put a 120V motor on it. I would love to figure a permanent system with hard pipe and a cyclone, and use the downdraft table(blocking off the table potion when not in use and opening a valve to the hard pipe), but I'll be 75 before I find enough time to to it

 

[Surewhitey]

I have a portable dust collector that I move around my shop to the tool that I’m using. Also have a ceiling mounted air filtration system that I run constantly.

But sometimes in summer I move the operation outdoors and just let the sawdust fly.

When I have that much chips, I throw it in the flower bed & call it "premium" mulch...

 

[sengsational]

But sometimes in summer I move the operation outdoors and just let the sawdust fly.

That's what I always do, but my machines aren't very big, so moving outside is pretty easy.

Yesterday I made a roll-up shade for the gazebo with just stuff I had leftover from other projects. Zero trips to the hardware store (this is rare). Rather than describe it, the first 50 seconds of this video give you the gist.

 

[Ronstar]

^Impressive! Even more impressive is that you had all of the parts on hand!