The Woodshop Shed

Lumber / Panel Cart Modification

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Years ago Grizzly sold a lumber and mobile panel cart. To stabilize the cart from tipping over each caster unit was wider than the panel holding portion. For years in The Wood Buddies we just stuffed lumber, full sheets, and panel off-fall into the cart. This ended up scratching some of the better panel pieces.Next we tried to place an insert inside the body of the cart allowing larger pieces to be outside the insert. Again it was too stuffed.Looking at the lumber / panel racks of other LJ's we noticed the angle rack sides others had created. An idea blossomed why not place angled racks outside the main body of the cart as they would only hold smaller pieces and not enough weight to tip over the cart. Using one sheet of 7/16 thick plywood two 5 wide angle racks were created and attached to the cart. We glued a high pressure plastic laminate to the interior floor allowing larger panels to slide.Now the larger panels are stored inside the cart while smaller items are in the two exterior racks.
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Wood Cookie Sander Stand

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Created a two drawer stand for wood cookie sander. This is a bench model random orbital sander attached to a two drawer mobile stand. The stand has two full extension drawers that hold eight different grit hook and loop 9” abrasive disks. The abrasives are kept from curling using a sheet of clear plastic as a weight. The clear plastic also allows us to note the grit size.Since the wood cookies are 3/16” to 1/4” we kept sanding our fingertips so we designed a pressure board. The pressure board device looking like an unshelled peanut allows for two hands to press the wood cookie against the abrasive. There are two styles of pressure boards. One is backed with 400 grit PSA abrasive while the second has a non-woven (Scotchbrite style) pad attached.The mobile cart is low in height allowing us to sand while standing but allow us to keep our arms straight. The cart top is high pressure laminate attache to birch veneer plywood as is the entire cart. The top Black edging is T-molding. Overall the cart is finished with Tung oil.Lots of wood cookies to sand for our R-tist wood buddy to create painted scenes for Christmas 2020 ornaments.

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Two Part Chair

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With Seven grand kids between our two families it takes some thought as to what they would like that we can make in the Wood Buddies Shop.Since they all like to be around water whether a lake or pool we came up with a two part chair that each could carry and was compact enough to fit in the family vehicle. The two part chair has various names such as camp chair, pool chair, or fishing chair.We created several mock ups out of shelf board to determine the arcs and angles not knowing at the time Woodcraft had plans: Item 412280, Model OFS-1005. Once we had determined all the dimensions we created two fixtures, one for the seat and one for the back arc's. Additional fixtures were built to locate and drill all the clearance holes along with counter sinking them using our 10” drill press.Alder was selected and stainless steel wood screws were used. All the alder was cut then all sharp edges were rounded with a round over router bit. After a final sanding the top back slat was engraved using our laser with the child's first name.A marine grade varnish was applied three times and then the chairs were assembled.

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