The Woodshop Shed

Popping Plugs

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After cutting out plugs on the drill press, I used to saw them from their blank using the table saw. Unfortunately, this would often send the freed plugs flying across the shop, forcing me to hunt for them afterward. I …Source

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Taming Handplane Tear-out

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Nothing in handplaning is more frustrating than tear-out Source

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19 inch Cherry Salad Bowl

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Took a mental health day from other projects around the house. I really needed a lathe day and saw dust on the floor. 19 inch cherry bowl approx 6 inches high. Did a ogee on the side profile, ( Thx Jimmy Clews) . Fun day. Thx for looking.

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Table for a drop zone

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I have been working on and off for a few months on this table.The table was designed as a “drop zone” table as we come in through the garage. Keys, phones, wallet etc.The top is solid curly maple and curly walnut. The top has been repurposed from a coffee table I made about 25 years ago. The top held nicely with biscuits and clue despite the cross grain you see.The base is Cherry drawer fronts and sides, curly maple legs, the shelf is walnut veneer ply left over from a bookcase project. Shelf is Datoed into the legs.Construction is domino's (second project using domino's)Finish is GF wipe on satin.This is my first project of 2022, after moving into a new home, and moving my shop (twice) once into storage then into a dedicated garage space.Thanks for looking

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Dovetailed Storage Box

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My wife requested a storage box, and decided on a final size or roughly 9 square by 10 high. I thought this would be a good opportunity to refine my skills with (mostly) hand cut dovetails, as well as try some new wood combinations for the lid.The box sides are curly maple about 1/2 thick. For the dovetails, after lots of trial and error, I now use a hybrid approach combining several methods. I mark and saw the tails with a magnetic dovetail guide from David Barron. Before chiseling out the waste, I mark the saw kerfs on the pin board using Rob Cosman's method of offsetting the tail board by the width of the saw kerf (.024) into the waste area. I milled a small block of wood with the offset which makes the setup easier. The waste on the tail board is then removed with a chisel.The saw cuts were then made on the pin board using the dovetail guide, placing the saw in the kerfs already made in the previous step. The maple I used on this project had a nasty tendency to chip out along the base lines, even when the lines were carefully scored with a marking gauge and knife. I ended up using a technique that I saw on a video from Mike Farrington, partially removing the waste traditionally and finishing by placing the pin boards vertically in my Moxon vise and routing down to the base lines with a 1/4 pattern bit. The results were much cleaner than I got with a chisel. Perhaps I need to continue working on my chiseling technique.I designed the box in Sketchup, which allowed me to play with different wood combinations for the lid. The final design used an inner field of Sapele, a thin strip of Wenge, a slightly wider strip of Maple, edged with Walnut. The handle on top is made from Wenge, as are the 4 square feet which are not visible in the photo. I used 3 layers of Osmo Polyx for the finish, which produces a soft, satin sheen.It was a fun build, although time consuming for such a simple project. Thanks for looking!

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