The Woodshop Shed

Unjamming a Hole Saw

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Hole saws provide an inexpensive way to bore large holes, but they have a maddening tendency to clutch the drilled disk afterward. I've found that the best approach for removing a stuck disk from the saw is to clamp it …Source

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12v Drill Showdown

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We take a look at six drills to see what sort of progress these tools have made in the past decade. There was a point in time when drill comparisons were ubiquitous in the pages of this magazine. There was …Source

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(from Lumberjocks.com)


Continuing the tool theme, I made this recently after thinking about the design for a long time. I've done several previously that were modified cheap-o steel compasses, all with my innovation of a chopstick that can be sharpened with a pencil sharpener, or shaped. Mahogany, brass tubing cut & shaped, brass pins, shellac. You can clearly see the over-drilled hole of shame- a permanent reproach.

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Live edge end tables

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The person I made the live edge dining table want end tables to match. They had old barn beams cut to make the legs. The beams matched the mantle. When I trying to figure out how to attach the legs I was going to lay them flat on the cut outs. Then the rough wood I was going through to use fit in the mortise that had been cut. So I decided to make tenons and peg them just like they were originally. I think they turned out great for not knowing how it was going to be put together at the beginning. I guess the old saying a blind squirrel finds a nut is true.

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Floating Backlit Bookshelves

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These bookshelves were a sub-project of a basement improvement project that I started early this year, and they're the first to be completely finished. I'll post the cabinet build project once they are completed (I'm oh-so-close).The bookshelves are 3/4” maple plywood with iron-on birch edge banding. (I bought birch banding prior to deciding on the less-expensive maple plywood. The color is close enough.) The finish is shellac followed by GF Exterior 450 Flat poly. They're mounted with a french cleat, which floats them away from the wall 3/4”. The back panel of each box is dadoed to accepts aluminum channel for LED strip lights.
The four boxes hang on four matching cleats with some low voltage wiring running between them, with the 12V wire from the transformer exiting the wall behind one of the boxes.
I added a spacer between each box to visually lighten the look and make the assembly look less monolithic. The spacers are made from the same 3/4” ply with a teak veneer applied, also finished with shellac and poly. They simply hang on a plywood cleat that's attached to the side of a box with double-stick tape. I made a quick jig to place the cleat in the same location on each box.
I built the boxes with removable backs because I'm still on the fence about painting the back to match the wall (painting over contact paper) to give the illusion that the wall's visible through the shelves. Here's an earlier experiment with one box back painted that way. Comments on which looks better?

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