A lot of progress today. With the drawer cabinets fully assembled and glue dried, it’s time to install the drawer slides. At first I was manually measuring each center line. I quickly realized how long that would take, and that…
Desk Drawers – Part 3
Assembled the sides using pocket hole screws and stretchers. The stretcher wood is reclaimed from crates and has a lot of dirt and writing on it. Most of it will sand off, but it’s all on the inside and won’t…
Desk Drawers – Part 2
Cut the MDF inserts for the panels. Glued in place, no fasteners used. And clamps. Lots of clamps. That’s about it for today, way too hot in the garage…
Desk Drawers – Part 1
Next project is a set of drawers that will match the two desks that I created previously. The design will be pine and MDF, with 3/4 extension drawers and lockable casters. A drawing will be available. Today, I started with the side…
Walker-Turner Drill Press Cart
I recently received a Walker-Turner drill press. My previous 8” drill press could easily be lifted and placed where I needed it. Not with this one. It weights quite a lot, so I needed a way to move it around…
A Rediscovered Tool: Bench Clamp
Quite some time ago I was at a home show at Pheasant Run Resort and there wan an infomercial style booth set up where a guy was selling a bench clamp. I got caught up in the sales pitch and…
Reclaimed or Recylced Wood
Where I work there are daily shipments of bar stock, aluminum, stainless and other types of steel. These come in ten foot lengths and usually in a pine crate. The crate is just four pieces nailed together to form a…
Walker-Turner Drill Press Restoration – Part 2
Well, the drill press is mostly completed. The only thing I need to do is fabricate a cover to hide the belt and power cords. Not exactly a match to the original color, but now it looks like a tractor!…
Walker-Turner Drill Press Restoration – Part 1
When I was a kid, my mom used to shop at garage sales (or rummage sales as they call them in southern Indiana). She found an old drill press that my grandfather suggested would be good for my dad. She…
Recycled Wood Panel Project
Spent some time milling all of the scrap lumber from the loft bed deconstruction project. Went from this: To this: Next step will be to edge glue them together to make panels. Will restrict…
Desk Project – Completed
Cut the MDF top and wrapped it with pine. Attached the top to the desk frame. Used some MDF blocks to register the desk top and it give me more material to run…
Simple Desk
Ripped the wood that was recycled from the loft bed tear down. Using it to build a simple desk, exactly like one I built a couple years ago. Basic 2×4 construction (actually 2 7/8″ x 1 7/16″) with a MDF top. No stain or…