mickyd's Woodworking Projects

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:35 pm

Bill,

Don't forget to let the dog out of the carrier!

wlhayesmfs · Post by **wlhayesmfs** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:35 pm

Buy the way I love this workbench. I am saving pictures and am going to build it once the house is done and I can get back to the shop. First I have to clean up from this remodel and get my shop ready and clean up the SS and start building fun stuff again. You guys have great ideas and I love to see what you are building and changing. I am also looking at the dust collection fix you are working on.

shipwright · Post by **shipwright** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:50 pm

Important things first, Bill. Well done on getting back to work. Congrats

Paul M

horologist · Post by **horologist** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:56 pm

Bill,

First though was that it would be mighty crowded in that "dog house". I suppose the timing may be a bit awkward but finding a job these days is cause for celebration. Congratulations.

Troy

wlhayesmfs · Post by **wlhayesmfs** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:36 pm

Thanks to everyone on the going back to work. I have been off since Jan and at 62 I didn't have too many looking at me. But a good company picked me up and I even have a company looking at me for a District Manager position in this area. So if I knew tearing up my house would bring on work I would have done it months ago. Now I have to find time for work and play again.
Hope everyone has a good 4th. Enjoy friends and family and play safe.

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:35 am

wlhayesmfs wrote:Thanks to everyone on the going back to work. I have been off since Jan and at 62 I didn't have too many looking at me. But a good company picked me up and I even have a company looking at me for a District Manager position in this area. So if I knew tearing up my house would bring on work I would have done it months ago. Now I have to find time for work and play again.
Hope everyone has a good 4th. Enjoy friends and family and play safe.

Congratulations on your new job Bill. Play time will suffer for sure now except for weekends. Nice thing is you'll be able to pay for your play time a little easier.

I almost forgot to show a change I made on my workbench casters. The previous design with the hook and eye screw wasn't effective. That was done to prevent the wheels from folding under when the bench was moved. The design was inferior because the plywood was too narrow and the casters axle was not outside the vertical leg centerline. I added a wider piece of plywood to move the caster outward.
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The plywood is now a bit too wide. I'll cut if off at the end of the casters mounting plate so that I don't have to lift the bench so high when I want to move the casters from their raised to lowered position.

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:54 am

So, back to my adjustable set up gage project. The workbench extension table project was a diversion but it gave me a chance to do some prep work. Did up a sketchup version of the wood and brass pieces and added it to my initial post on this project here. Check it out. (Just had to do an animation too). The actual sketchup file is toward the bottom of that post in a zip file. VERY good thing I did the sketchup file. There is a dimensional error in the magazine article that I wouldn't have noticed had I just worked off the plan. It would have resulted in the vertical brass piece hanging over into the edge roundover by 1/8".

I wanted to use the left over African Mahogany from the candle lantern project. I only had 2 pieces left over that were the specified 3/4" thickness. Based on the magazine articles cut out plans, I drew up scaled paper templates of the two parts. Obviously didn't have enough wood to use that method.
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The cutout plan for the smaller sliding arm, shown on the bottom of the paper in the photo above and also in the photo below, has material for handles used while doing the 1/4" edge roundovers. That excess material is later cut off. I won't have enough material to do it that way so I'll need a plan B.
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I had to join the two pieces I have in order to have enough width for the 3" wide body piece. Don't have my jointer up and running yet so I took a trip to the high country to visit SDSSmith. He used one of his jointers to fix me up. I told him I was bringing over an 8" length. He thought I said 8' length so he had to clear out some of his toys to accommodate the length.

He brought up a good point regarding jointing the edges. He told me I could have used my conical sander to do the same thing. Never even considered that! That thing is a wonder tool if you ask me. Anyway, joined them up last night. Could have used a few more clamps though.

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So this is roughly the way I'll layout my cuts. I'll figure out a way to add the temporary handles in order to keep the pinkies safe during the routing operation. Probably will just screw on some sacrificial pieces.
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Hopefully get some sawdust time in tomorrow. Too busy today. San Diego sure knows how to celebrate the 4th. Food, fun, and fireworks galore.

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:04 am

mickyd wrote: He told me I could have used my conical sander to do the same thing. Never even considered that!

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robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:12 am

Not sure how that bum link got in there and it will not let me edit it out...

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:54 am

Your so right on the plane farmer. Back to the basics. That's the problem with us baby boomers. The basics are powertools. I enjoy seeing handtools in the hands of the craftsmans and envy them for sure.