Woodworking

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

What kind of wood did he use for your cabinets?

My Dad built his in two different houses out of Mahogany and Mahogany plywood. They looked as good or better than what you could buy.

Do you have any of the woodworking interest like your Dad?

Oak. They look amazing.

I do, but haven't messed around with any of it since I was in school and living at home. His shop then took up their 2 car garage.

Now they live out in the country and he has his shop in an outbuilding. Everything is immaculate in there.

I still have the cutting board and walnut bowl I made in high school.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Yeah, just a matter of deciding which is easier for my space. I don't have a great workspace set up in my garage yet.

With the dowel jog, it gives you a few tools to make the doweling process more precise than simply measuring a line across the boards? Or at least that's my take on it.

My dad is a believer in old-fashioned solutions, but he also has the benefit of a 4,000 sq foot shop. So he's never had to take these steps, lol.


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Yes, I draw a line across the boards to center the jig pointer. It works great on the cedar since it is relatively soft, but there is absolutely no margin for error on the white oak I am working with since it is so hard.

On a five board panel (4 inch boards) you end up drilling 24 holes for the dowels if you use sets of 3 like I have been doing.

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Oak. They look amazing.

I do, but haven't messed around with any of it since I was in school and living at home. His shop then took up their 2 car garage.

Now they live out in the country and he has his shop in an outbuilding. Everything is immaculate in there.

I still have the cutting board and walnut bowl I made in high school.

Wow, that IS some beautiful work of your Dads.

I am envious that he keeps his shop immaculate as mine is always a mess with sawdust everywhere. I open the big door an blow it out a lot, but it still gets everywhere.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Wow, that IS some beautiful work of your Dads.

I am envious that he keeps his shop immaculate as mine is always a mess with sawdust everywhere. I open the big door an blow it out a lot, but it still gets everywhere.

He has a full vacuum system in there so there is minimal sawdust to deal with.

When we were kids living at home, he had a similar system. It was called the "me and my brother clean the garage" system. I especially hated cleaning that damn thing after he'd been running the thickness planer. That thing spit out sawdust EVERYWHERE.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

I am envious that he keeps his shop immaculate as mine is always a mess with sawdust everywhere. I open the big door an blow it out a lot, but it still gets everywhere.

Ever look into the ol' Harbor Freight 2 stage conversion?

You'll be about $500 into it when all is said and done, but with the 2 horse HF collector, a dust deputy cyclone (the full sized one), a Winn Environmental Cartridge filter and some sewer pipe, you'll have all the parts you need to engineer a rig that will run with the $1,500 JET models. We tested the static pressure and draw through several ports and it was comparable.

Get a couple of hanging air filters with the HEPA filters for about $300 total if you're willing to go with a WEN instead of a JET (mine are fine) and for $800-$900 and a weekend worth of labor, you'll notice a massive difference.

You'll still need to do some sweeping here and there and may need to redesign the shop layout to prioritize draw over workflow, but it's light years better.

[Dunit35]

My father is top notch when it comes to woodworking. He usually builds out of oak. He's built me a coffee table, TV stand, changing table, crib, DVD stand. You name it and he's probably built it. His woodworking skills are incredible.

The TV stand weighs a ton. It's solid oak with nice glass for the cabinet faces. The crib could be used for several generations of our family.

[Dartgod]

Here are a couple of projects that my dad has done the past few years. Oh, he built the grandfather clock in the background many years ago.

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[kccrow]

Here's a pick of a small 2 stage from Grizzly ($900 or so):


They make some little units that fit on a trash can for super cheap if you can't afford a separator right away. A shop air filtration unit should be installed as well at some point.

Fine dust from kiln dried or even air dried woods is highly combustible, so getting as much of it out of the air and off the floor as possible is a good thing. Also be sure to keep the vaccuum tubes clean. If a line gets plugged up, you're basically ramrodding gunpowder into a tube and hoping a spark or static doesn't ignite it.

[kccrow]

here's a vid of a kid doing the trash can mod...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWjA7_ytic

I do recommend giving Harbor Freight a look for entry level stuff.

[duncan_idaho]

Finished product. Pretty pleased with it. Kreg joined was amazing for crafting the new top.

Before pic/closeup.

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Finished product. Pretty pleased with it. Kreg joined was amazing for crafting the new top.

Before pic/closeup.

Nice

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by kccrow

here's a vid of a kid doing the trash can mod...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWjA7_ytic

I do recommend giving Harbor Freight a look for entry level stuff.

Thanks, I am going to be doing something like this soon.

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Finished product. Pretty pleased with it. Kreg joined was amazing for crafting the new top.

Before pic/closeup.

Looks great! I bet the Mrs. is happy with it also

[Fire Me Boy!]

Anyone in here into making canes? Specifically crook-necked canes?

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Anyone in here into making canes? Specifically crook-necked canes?

I have made a few now, most of them out of Diamond Willow.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

I have made a few now, most of them out of Diamond Willow.

any crook necks, and do you work for hire?

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

any crook necks, and do you work for hire?

I am not sure what you mean by crook necks but will google it.

I built a cedar chest for one of my sister's friends that asked me to build her one and then drove three hundred miles to deliver it to her after putting almost 60 hours in it. We had agreed on a price and she shit backwards when I got there, so I decided not to sell any woodworking going forward.

Just going to stick to building stuff for family now, got enough siblings, grandkids, neices and nephews on my list to keep me busy. Thanks though!

Here is a bookshelf out of white oak I built for my eldest daughter and a toybox for youngest grandson.