Tote for My Dremel
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When I bought my Dremel, it came with a plastic case and a small box plus other features to organize accessories. Over the years, I realized that I really don't like the plastic cases that come with most handheld power tools. In addition, it didn't have a way to organize my ever-growing collection of bits nor did it keep the other accessories from jostling around in the box. After a while, I got rid of the plastic case and kept all the stuff in a tool chest. This was better than the case, but it felt too “packed away”.Fortunately, last year, I made a rather simple tote for my woodcarving tools, which has worked well. It's made my carving tools more accessible, so I found myself carving more. The basic tote design is simple and rather versatile, so I made a similar one for my Dremel and accessories.The tote build was simple, so if you would like details, then check out the project page for the woodcarving tote.A few notes on the features unique to the Dremel tote…The tote includes a tray for the Dremel for easy access. This tray has a couple of runners underneath so it can slide from one end to the other in case I need to access something in the main tray and, of course, so it doesn't fall off.I have a few different attachments for the end of the Dremel. These would jostle around in the plastic case and would get on my nerves when packing away the tool. To solve this, I stuck a few dowels as posts into a small board as posts, some perpendicular to the board, others at an angle to match the accessory. The posts help keep the accessories in one place.If you're a heavy Dremel user like me, you likely have a lot of bits, wrenches, and consumables like cutoff disks and sanding cylinders.To help organize the million sanding cylinders I bought from Amazon and other miscellaneous items, I made a simple tray with dividers. There's nothing unique about the design except that I made one compartment of this tray specific for the tiny Dremel drill bit set.I'm most proud of the organizer for the bits simply because I was able to make what seemed like a million holes in a grid pattern and they ended up being aligned! This organizer was made from two pine boards, final thickness of 1-3/8”, glued together. The holes for the bits were 1/4” while the holes for the collets were slightly larger. I made spaces for the cutoff disks with a forstner bit. These spaces were a bit close to the edge of the organizer, so one side was flimsy. I ended up breaking part of one of the sides well after the organizer was done. All holes were drilled using a drill press.Thanks for checking out my post!
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Danish Modern Campaign Chest
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Built to move (and to last), this piece blends classic proportions and clean lines. When the British Empire began taking over the world in the 18th century, one vexing problem at its tropical holdings was the monsoon season. When …Source
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Cabinet Refacing
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I had a cabinet refacing job to do, wrote up a blog series covering the process https://www.lumberjocks.com/EricFai/blog/133631Finally get to post the project, waiting for customer to select the pulls. I also did the tile backslash.The main project consisted of building new doors, and drawers with new faces along with adding one base cabinet with 3 drawers. I used Poplar for all parts and 1/4 plywood for the panels. I used the old concealed hinges.The wood was primed/painted and then followed up with a satin clear coat. (A fellow woodworker pointed out that I could have had the primer tinted to color then apply the clear coat). Think I'll try that for the next one.During this project I purchased a HVLP spray gun, that actually worked very nicely.I already have a request to build a custom pantry cabinet, with drawers and install a swinging pantry kit. This will be for the same couple.Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome and appreciated.
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Does anybody really know what time it is? - A clock project
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I needed a living room clock, I prefer analog to help my kids learn to tell time, and I don't like any of the ones in teh store. So I made this deco-style clock.The face is birdseye maple trimmed with sycamore to provide contrast. The middle layer is birch, and the back is sycamore – stuff I had sitting around that would contrast in layers but still work together.I spent time drawing out ideas on graph paper until I got angles and proportions that I thought looked good, then I used some trig to figure out what range of angles would be required for a given size of clock face. After determining all the angles, I worked with my Incra miter gage to cut those angles before realizing that was a huge pain in the butt to set up. So instead I used a protractor and straightedge to mark the cut lines, freehanded it on the bandsaw, and hand planed it to the line.It's finished with Minwax polycrylic and the numbers are vinyl stickers off eBay. Dry transfer probably would have looked more like what I wanted, but this was easier for a first clock project.First use for my router plane, routing out the back so the mechanism will fit snugly and is flush with the back layers.
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