Month: December 2011

Things I've made and what making them taught me

Surfacing and Thickness Planing with a Router

Fine Woodworking recently ran an article about surfacing live edge slabs with a router.  I have to admit, that got me thinking about doing a live edge table.  So I got out the router sled that I built to surface my workbench and I decided to snap some pictures of the process. I drove an …

Bent Lamination

A project I’m working on incorporates a 40″ diameter arch as a key design feature.  This being the first bent lamination I’ve tried, I took some pictures I figured I’d share here.  I chose to use epoxy for the lamination because I couldn’t seem to find urea formaldehyde glue anywhere around here, and I figured …

Flip Top Tool Cart

My shop’s small.  Real small.  It’s so small that once, I actually moved a power outlet to reclaim a square foot of wall space to hang something on.  So when it comes to making use of space, I’m really careful to protect my ability to move around.  Everything in my shop is on wheels of …

An Outdoor Table

I was given an old glass table top when I first started making things and it sat in my basement for a few years basically gathering dust until this summer.  Having finally finished my deck railing, I decided I needed an outdoor table.  It’s built from a home centre cedar 4×4 post and 5/4 decking …