With the tenons completed, the mortices were next. Same process as before, drill press and forstner bits. Once all that was completed, I dry fit the pieces together to make sure all was good. Since the sides are enclosed, I…
Work continued on the desk today, mortise and tenon work was on the agenda. Unfortunately I only got some of the tenon work done. Using a back-saw, I cut the tenons to length and then a…
Recently came across this card in my filling cabinet. Originally it was in the plastic with the magazine and CD on the newsstand… probably at Barnes and Noble (can’t remember). It’s slightly larger than 81/2 x 11. …
The simple desk works great, but the one drawback to the open design is there is no place to hide cables. I came up with a simple solution using 2″ PVC pipe. Take a length of pipe and cut 1.5″…
Take two… as I previously mentioned, the rails I milled twisted like a curly fries. Time to try another method, so for each rail, I laminated three pieces of 3/4″ pine and let them dry all week. Today, I surface…
My son received a set of Logitech 5.1 surround sound speakers for his birthday. They sound great, but for the full effect the rear speakers must be used. I wanted to avoid running wires through the walls and placing the…
Recently, I had ran into a problem with my old Craftsman table saw. I decided to replace it instead of repairing it and talked about the recent purchase of the PCB270TS here. Having used it for a couple weekends and…
I’ve always made my own zero clearance inserts, and on the old Craftsman table I used previously, it was a pain to make them correctly. With my new Porter-Cable saw, it looked to be even more painful. This time around,…
I milled the rails (for lack of a better word) from a 2×10. Sitting on the bench for a week and they twisted. Lesson learned there. So I bought some pine, ripped it into 2 1/8″ wide strips and glued…
To test the mitering capabilities of the new table saw, I decided to make a quick box from some scrap 1/2″ birch plywood. All the cuts were made at the table saw with the blade tilted at 45°. The bottom…
Back in the 80’s or early 90’s I purchased information on how to built a SuperWoofer from Cheney Innovations. I have no recollection how much this cost, or even where I got it from (but I suspect in was in…
A couple weeks ago I purchased the Porter Cable table saw. One of the features is the dust port sized for a shop vac, and it works really well with my Ridged vacuum. Time for a cyclone separator, since all…