Well this year I am going to try and succeed at steam bending where I have failed in the past, this time it will be harder to blame the tools 🙂 with the steam generator from Earlex

Over the weekend I finally put the canoe up on the hoist so I have a little more room in the unheated section of the garage.

I did something stupid the other day, I had a zero clearance poplar insert in the table saw and I started tilting the blade to 45 deg to make a French cleat, the good thing is the poplar snapped without damaging the blade, so I will try and glue the insert up.

I also purchased, for my self, a set of workbench castors for my cutting table, even though it is not that heavy, I really like the ability to have it stable or mobile at my choice of times. I bought these ones online and I am very happy with both the price and how they work! I can’t find the picture – if I get ambitious I will up load one later.

Boschmanbrian wrote:

wbembrid wrote:
My family also gave me a new veritas router plane 🙂

Nice looking plane , as I definitely am not a woodworker , what are the principal uses for this plane , I would think rabbit or slots for shelves or something like that 🤷‍♂️

either doing dadoes, or slots from scratch or honestly it is awesome for cleaning…[Read more]

My family also gave me a new veritas router plane 🙂

My step-daughter’s boyfriend made me a marking knife/awl off of an 18 century pattern out of W1 steel, he does traditional coal forging.

Merry Christmas – enjoy this time however you can!

I turned some mistakes (wrong hole size) for my grandson’s Pikler triangle into some Christmas votives.

The new battery for my favorite electric screwdriver arrived today, the Hitachi is getting old, and the company sold/merged with Metabo but still awesome.

I finished my Grandson’s wall mounted height measuring ruler in time for Christmas, lines are router and paint filled, numbers are vinyl.

I am almost finished the Pikler triangle for my grandson ( 1 year old today), I side of the ramp is a climbing thing the other is a slide, what is a very slippery finish? Lacquer?

I am again playing with dust collection, trying the Stumpy Nubs, donut and bucket system, seems to make a significant difference, the big filter and only using my Thien baffle on my thickness planer.

As much of a toolaholic I am, I ordered new batteries for my venerable Hitachi DB 3DL electric screw driver instead of buying new – I really like this tool. I ordered an after market battery as well as a new Metabo/Hitachi replacement – we’ll see how they both work.

I am in the process of building a couple of things for my grandson, his Birthday is Dec. 13, and then of course there is Christmas … So I am building a Pikler triangle and a little stand for him to help at counter level, known as a learning tower.

This happened the other weekend, but I am only writing it up now. I was working on the table saw turned on the dust collector and went to work cutting some tenons with a dado stack, there is always some dust and small chips when doing this so when there were some I didn’t pay attention. After a while they increased significantly, but I finished…[Read more]

Apparently the Hockey stand needed hockey sock hanging clips, so I modified an old pant/skirt hanger to have it donate the required clips …

I went to change to my winter tires on the new car and my jack was too tall so I bought a low profile floor stand from Princess Auto, even if I did not wait for a sale – free shipping and COVID19.. oh well.

My sister convinced me to build a hockey gear stand for my nephew, she sent me 2 pictures likely form Instagram or Pinterest, so I built the 3 photo.

I did find a little bit more time to work on my side table, so I was able to finish the mortices for the legs, next the tenons …