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Here are mine so far,

Very nice. Love the live edge

Are you doing those with just a spur and live center? If so .... HOW LOL

Beautiful work on the box and bowl.

ps The drive center looks like it could use a bit of sharpening.

rjent wrote:Are you doing those with just a spur and live center? If so .... HOW LOL

HECK NO! I have a NOVA MIDI chuck. I start with the wormwood screw in the bark side and turn the outside between centers with a tenon on the bottom. Turn it around and do the inside. I'm turning on a 10er by the way.

That live edge bowl is beautiful !
Paul

I worked on this mostly over the course of the last two months but completed this month, so I guess that qualifies as a July project. It was a birthday gift to my wife who had asked for a desk for many years. My Shopsmith(s) were used in table saw and bandsaw modes along with many other dedicated tools.
I used Bruce Kieffer's plans. They are very good and available free here... http://www.popularwoodworking.com/proje ... esk-system

All of the wood was harvested from our property. That aspect was mentioned here https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 71#p168771 but at the time I did not realize this wasn't red oak. It turns out that this was actually butternut. I knew it could not be oak as it dried; way too light. Normally, most people would say not to use such a soft wood for a desk, but my wife loved the look of it. In the end, it was the right choice (she's almost always right). I was impressed with it's durability, gluing, workability, and finishing qualities. If I had a complaint about butternut it's that it tears out easily. A sharp blade or the belt sander help clean things up.

Some of the veneer was cut with a Shopsmith bandsaw, but I wanted larger sections (>8") to better match the desk design. The vast majority of that veneer (about 50 square feet) was cut with an antique band saw that I fixed up especially for this project, but that's another story.

The Shopsmith was especially useful in tablesaw mode for this project for cutting the wide panels. I also cobbled an outfeed table using ideas I've gathered here and on Youtube.

Side view

Let me lower the bar here. I just finished this a couple of days ago.
My wife wanted to buy this $90 bookcase from Ikea. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20302285/ The last thing I wanted was more mdf in the house, so I said I'd make something. The plan was to paint the bookshelf, so I just used pine boards from Home Depot. But it ended up looking nicer than I'd anticipated. For kicks, I splashed some stain on the wood, and we're keeping it that way.

I used the Shopsmith 510 for just about everything. Ripping, crosscutting, making the moulding (using a moulding head), biscuits. When crosscutting the long pieces I chose to use a handheld circular saw. But, then I used the Shopsmith as a sawhorse. Same as when I routed the dados.

The middle and lowest shelves are permanent. The others are adjustable. I think my wife wants one more. I used a piece of pegboard as a template for all the shelf holes. I was going to use a hand held drill for the holes, but I didn't have a stop-collar for my bit. So, I just put the Shopsmith in drill-press mode and used the built in stop.

dstensland wrote:I worked on this mostly over the course of the last two months but completed this month, so I guess that qualifies as a July project. It was a birthday gift to my wife who had asked for a desk for many years. My Shopsmith(s) were used in table saw and bandsaw modes along with many other dedicated tools.

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I used Bruce Kieffer's plans. They are good and available free here... http://www.popularwoodworking.com/proje ... esk-system

All of the wood was harvested from our property. That aspect was mentioned here https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 71#p168771 but at the time I did not realize this wasn't red oak. It turns out that this was actually butternut. I knew it could not be oak as it dried; way too light. Normally, most people would say not to use such a soft wood for a desk, but my wife loved the look of it. In the end, it was the right choice (she's almost always right). I was impressed with it's durability, gluing, workability, and finishing qualities. If I had a complaint about butternut it's that it tears out easily. A sharp blade or the belt sander help clean things up.

Some of the veneer was cut with a Shopsmith bandsaw, but I wanted larger sections (>8") to better match the desk design. The vast majority of that veneer (about 50 square feet) was cut with a antique band saw that I fixed up especially for this project, but that's another story.

The Shopsmith was especially useful in tablesaw mode for this project for cutting the wide panels. I also cobbled an outfeed table using ideas I've gathered here and on Youtube.

First "they are almost always right" and when the arnt they still ARE
Nice work
I never used Butternut but my supplier has it, is that Natural or has it been dyed or stained?