What did you do in your shop today?

Gdurfey said:
One to see one more picture of the router cabinet?? Great, here it is. True learning experience!! Of course forgot to grab knobs and 2 handles at Lowe’s this morning, duh. Going to redo the fence in the near future, just not satisfied.

Also, another question: how many of you keep your original tool cases such as my router case? Now that I have that nice drawer, thinking about ridding myself of it, yet, the pack rat/OCD in me says it would be nice to have (since it fits, not planned that way) if I want to loan or take my router to another location.

Just thinking out loud.
Oh, last thing: eliminated the door. Figure better cooling and it will need to be blown out anyway. I think I can reach my power switch pretty quickly even in this location.

Thanks folks for all the encouragement.

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Looks good! I’m in same boat about keeping cases, and the older I get and consider space they all take up, I’d pitch them unless you have a real need (plan to sell or transport a lot) or if you just have plenty of space to keep them.
Just $0.02 worth, but having a door with some opening to draw air (at base of doors) and a rear vent tied to the vacuum along with the main vacuum attach in the rear of the fence will help keep things clean below the table. Absolutely necessary??? Probably not but made sense to me using the plans I based mine on. When the vacuum is on, it will hold those doors shut.

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TimR said:
Looks good! I’m in same boat about keeping cases, and the older I get and consider space they all take up, I’d pitch them unless you have a real need (plan to sell or transport a lot) or if you just have plenty of space to keep them.
Just $0.02 worth, but having a door with some opening to draw air (at base of doors) and a rear vent tied to the vacuum along with the main vacuum attach in the rear of the fence will help keep things clean below the table. Absolutely necessary??? Probably not but made sense to me using the plans I based mine on. When the vacuum is on, it will hold those doors shut.

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@Gdurfey , this is the amount of dust accumulated over several hours of use.
Probably a result of starting a cut and forgetting to turn dust collector on.

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I keep the biggest case. That way, if any routers crap out, and I want someone else to look it over, I have a transport case. If you are never going to upgrade, or use it outside the shop, you might re-purpose it or recycle.
 
TimR said:
already thinking about getting your shop set up
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And thinking about it is all that's going to happen for at least a little while! :ponder: We're still largely living out of boxes and trying to figure out which box that thing we really need ended up in! :sarcastic:
 
Unfortunately my phone cord was screwing with me this wknd,so I’ve got no pics from the wknd. I bought a router and was practicing using it. Started to make a small box using rabbet joints. Also spent 3 hrs drilling 96 holes and installing 96 studs in the wife’s Indy.
 
Finished up a natural edge cedar bowl. Will do a tiny bit of hand sanding and get some finish on it tonight.

Got to get something that will take a better picture than my flip phone.......

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trc65 said:
Finished up a natural edge cedar bowl. Will do a tiny bit of hand sanding and get some finish on it tonight.

Got to get something that will take a better picture than my flip phone.......

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Like that Tailstock Steady!!!! I use mine with nearly every bowl!
 
I use cole jaws on smaller bowls with edges that will hold, but on anything with any size, use the TSS and just press against a MDF plate, or a jam chuck on stuff with uneven edges.

This bowl is within an inch of my capacity, so no other option than TSS.
 
Got a trunk section of Apple cut up and hauled out of the yard. Some rot, but a lot of usable blanks in that wood.

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Took small section of crotch and roughed a bowl.


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I've been cooking old paint on the wood stove and adding kitty litter to make it acceptable for curb side pick-up. Preacher family left about 20 gallons for us to deal with when they left. SURPRISE... About 2/3rds are shot, other 1/3 good but what to do with it? Now days people are so snotty in general, used paint (new just not full), oh no, sooner buy.

About 6 gallons of various wood stains. Think I'll mix them all and plaster the kids Treehouse when I finish it. She's already out grown it. Started 2 years ago. Sad how the need to work gets in the way of life. Often tainting memories, but required for any of those memories to even exist.

Hope to get 5 gallons of bad paint done for this week's pickup.
 
Sooner or later we will all need a metal working or mechanics vise in the shop to cut bolts, screws, pound something flat, etc. My problem is I really don't have a space for another vice and dont want to mount it on the work bench. Heres my solution. I salvage a piece of I beam, cut the bottom flat off to make a T.
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Now whenever I need a metal vice I can clamp it in my wood working vice and not bugger up the wood jaws.
 
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