I completed this race car bed last week for a customer. All I need now is for them to pick it up so that I can continue with my projects.
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Storing plank lumber
Category Archives: Workshop
Milling lumber with Chainsaw today
Spent about 4 hours or saw making lumber today from the fir and spruce logs I had piled up behind the workshop. The logs were cut in summer 2014. The bark still on, they are starting to get buggy. So I slabbed some up to get some 2×4 or whatever I could get. The scraps and small logs were cut up for firewood.
This is the type of chain I use for slabbing the logs.
I keep forgetting that the GoPro camera damn near needs to be on top of the action to get some decent footage. View the video in full screen for a closer look.
Make your own pegboard hangers
I had a bunch of retail packages to organize recently. Luckily I found a pegboard cabinet locally for a good price and snapped it up. But I needed a couple dozen hangers. Not wanting to go the consumer route, I opted to see if I could make my own and see if it would work.
pallet boards on the bench
Today I picked out some old pallet boards from the wood pile out back. Pulled out most of the nails and staples and sanded them down. Glued together now, I’ll let this set up overnight for a strong bond. Not sure what I’ll be doing with it, I might cut out another wood map.
Busy in the workshop
Too hot to be outdoors, the coolest place today is the workshop. Kept busy cutting out the wooden maps that are on order by a few folks.
Attaching your scroll saw blade
Looking for opinions on scrollsaw machines, in particular, your opinions on what blade mounting system you prefer (and why) for working with small blades #3 or smaller. Anybody?
Experimenting with router bits
While making my sliding garage screen door I got the idea for making use of some scrollsaw patterns I own. Maybe I could decor the door, you know, dress it up a bit. And it starts with router bits, what to use based on what’s available.
Sliding Screen Door for the Garage
The attached garage is a place we use to store firewood during the winter. Usually we can keep about a cord at a time. For some time now I’ve wanted to have a screen door at the entrance to allow a cross breeze with the windows on the opposite side of the garage. It would help keep the humidity down, which is something I’ve noticed a lot this year.
So I present to you the nothing fancy sliding screen door.
Flat file map cabinets make great workshop storage
I purchased two of these 5 drawer map cabinets. They are big! Too big for the house, which was the original destination. They are 48 inches wide and 36 inches deep. Two units stacked on top of each other makes a height of 36 inches.
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Recycled map cabinets make for high capacity storage
I obtained this bulk lot of 20 map cabinets at a government surplus auction. I was going to keep a few and sell the rest. But, nobody was interested so I am recycling them as storage solutions for the workshop.
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