Shop Projects
Cabinet Between Studs Adventures in building a Cabinet: poor choices of materials, false starts, and crazy grain. And also what went into fitting it in-between the studs to save space.
DW735 Helical Head Upgrade Installing the FindBuyTool Helical Planer Head to upgrade my planer. I wish I could have done this years ago
Dust Pipe Rethink I decided that I actually had TOO MUCH dust collector piping, and got rid of some, and replaced others with a Shop Vac system
Helical Head Jointer Upgrade Instead of replacing my jointer, which was otherwise fine; I upgraded it by replacing the cutter head with a helical cutter head with replaceable carbide knives.
The Cheapest 1x30 Sander This is the cheapest 1x30 Belt/Strip sander that I could find, in Ontario, in late 2022. Let's check it out
Arbor Nut Catching Experiment I want to prevent the arbor nut from dropping into the Dust Collector pipe when I drop it. Let's Try Magnets!
Cherry Finish Test Checking Oil-Modified Polyurethane with Shellac and Pre-Stain Conditioner in various combinations.
Improving The Bucket Cyclone The cyclone works great, but needs better suction. A few almost free tweeks make the difference.
Tool Bag Organizer A simple and easy-to-build wooden insert to bring order to your grab-and-go toolkit
Torx VS Robertson First Impressions: Can the Torx Screw provide competition for the mighty Robertson?
LED Lighting Experiment Just how bright are those LED strip lights? Can they be used as regular lighting?
DIY bucket cyclone separator Experimenting with a cheap and easy method to add a cyclone pre-separator to my shopvac
Simple Shop Vac Fix It sounded like it was about to break, but the fix turned out to be easy. Don't be afraid to take things apart!
Worst job in my shop A quick simple shop tip to make this as painless as possible. (Still the worst job!)
Small Drawer Lock Joint Another way of making drawers with one router bit and one router table setup.
Fliptop Stand: Tour and Teardown A Tour and Teardown of my fliptop planer stand. Fit two tools in the space of one!
Disc Sander Build An experiment in building a 12inch disc sander from a surplus furnace motor and other free/scrap parts
Mobile Tablesaw Workstand A Modular Mobile Workstation for your Tablesaw that does NOT require you to dismantle or modify your saw, and adds tons of storage to your shop.
Tool Tote Organizer Building a simple tray to securely organize and hold my jobsite tools in a canvas tote bag.
Aging Cherry With Lye A finishing experiment, using Lye to accelerate the natural darkening of Cherry that comes with time.
Dado Strategy An out of the ordinary project gives a chance to look at construction methods that makes quick work of a lot of dados.
dw735 planer: blade changing assistant A quick and simple homemade tool to make changing the blades much easier.
Older Projects with Few Details...
Homemade table-saw splitterTable Saw dust collection tuning
Updated cross-cut sled
A Drill Press Table jig
Sliding Cross Cut Sled
Laminated Wood Mallet