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Elm Towel Chest

Aug 10, 2009

This is a towel chest I designed for our bathroom made mainly of red elm.  I'd consider it a Mission/Arts & Crafts style.  It was finished it just in time for our 27th anniversary, but...

Meagan's Maple/Padauk Jewelry Box

Mar 20, 2009
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This is a jewelry box that my oldest son and I made for his girlfriend as a Christmas gift.  It's a spinoff of another design that was originally a square box that displayed a decorative tile in...


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Re: Coffee pot

That's one of the nicest turnings I've seen. Gorgeous!

posted: 5:11 pm on September 26th  

Re: Benchtop Tablesaws: We Want Your Feedback

I had a Ryobi BT3000 in the shop for a while last summer. It's definitely possible to get good cuts, but there's just no comparison in mass, stability, working area, noise, and torque. The size and noise concerns will apply to any of the portables compared to a full size stationary saw.

posted: 3:36 am on August 19th  

Re: Setting up shop: Which machine first? And why.

No doubt about it, the TS is the heart and soul of my shop, and the most frequently used tool. I can rip, crosscut, bevel, dado, cut grooves, edge joint, and can even buy profiles for molder head with it. It also provides a large reference surface. Perhaps more importantly, it's the tool I most enjoy using.

A BS is good for curves and resawing, but leaves significant saw marks that are at least 10x larger than those left by a good TS blade, and they need to be planed out or face jointed afterward. I like my BS, but there's no way I'd give up my TS in favor of one...not for the projects I build anyway.

Now, if I were forced to own only one tool...I'd have to contemplate long and hard about the router, the most versatile tool in the shop. With it I can rip, crosscut, dado, groove, profile, create molding, curve, slot, dovetail, finger joint, plunge, edge joint, face joint, write, draw, sand, play gin rummy, and mangle people who try to force me to own only one tool! Well...you get the idea.

posted: 10:11 pm on August 5th