As I said in my intro, I'm an old dog trying to learn new tricks. I'm also rather cheap. In that regard, I'm using materials that are either very cheap or free to practice on. Since everyone wants to see pictures, I decided to become a rooster and crow a little.
Here's a picture of my shop. It was born this year, and is yet to become fully formed. I realized that many of you have works of art for your workbenches and chests, but I'm using studs and plywood and other things, like recycled kitchen cabinets that were headed for the landfill.
I needed to build a table to hold my MLCS router table top, so I used pine studs and built a stand.
I used mortise and tenon techniques to make the coarse frame (homemade jig, PC router, tenoning jig on the PM66) and some four year old Titebond. No other fasteners.
Now I needed to close in the front, and, lo and behold, I had a supply of surveyor stakes (since I am, in my other life, a land surveyor). Here are the stakes:
They're poplar, a little more than 3/4" thick, planed on two faces, warped, twisted and buckled. They're also not exactly straight. That's not a problem.
I ripped them on the PM66, jointed them on the 882, and planed them on the 22-580. I then ran them through the beading bit, laid them side by side, glued em up and took a break. When the glue set, I milled another couple of stakes, set up the cope and stick set in the router table, and milled the rails and stiles. Cut the panels to fit and made cabinet doors, as you can see leaning against the router table in the shot above.
The sides and rear of the router station are plywood panels salvaged from the Rikon 10-345 shipping case. Here's another view. The upside down was noticed well after the glue had begun to set, and, well, it just gives it character.
The floor in the router station is salvaged chinese plywood from the shipping base of the PJ-882, cut using my homemade panel cutting sled on the 66. You can see the hinges in the hand cut mortises in the doors. I learned that it takes two sets of hinges to hang two doors... you can't hang two doors with one set of hinges. I also learned (recalled, actually) that you lose 3/4" in width when you cope and stick doors, so I milled and beaded two more stakes and glued them against the laminated studs.
So, over the past two weeks I've used a lot of tools in the shop, made many mistakes (some stupid, some from inexperience), had a lot of fun, spent about $8 on studs, nothing on stakes (they were out of date, so I took them), didn't junk up the landfill with shipping boxes, and decided to CROW about it. As I increase my skills and abilities, I'll replace this junk with crafted hardware I can be proud of. For right now, I'm pretty pleased with myself, and thanks for looking.
PS: I read the FAQ on pictures, but don't know how to get the URL for the thumbnails. Sorry for the large post, hope you got RoadRunner or DSL.
Here's a picture of my shop. It was born this year, and is yet to become fully formed. I realized that many of you have works of art for your workbenches and chests, but I'm using studs and plywood and other things, like recycled kitchen cabinets that were headed for the landfill.
I needed to build a table to hold my MLCS router table top, so I used pine studs and built a stand.
I used mortise and tenon techniques to make the coarse frame (homemade jig, PC router, tenoning jig on the PM66) and some four year old Titebond. No other fasteners.
Now I needed to close in the front, and, lo and behold, I had a supply of surveyor stakes (since I am, in my other life, a land surveyor). Here are the stakes:
They're poplar, a little more than 3/4" thick, planed on two faces, warped, twisted and buckled. They're also not exactly straight. That's not a problem.
I ripped them on the PM66, jointed them on the 882, and planed them on the 22-580. I then ran them through the beading bit, laid them side by side, glued em up and took a break. When the glue set, I milled another couple of stakes, set up the cope and stick set in the router table, and milled the rails and stiles. Cut the panels to fit and made cabinet doors, as you can see leaning against the router table in the shot above.
The sides and rear of the router station are plywood panels salvaged from the Rikon 10-345 shipping case. Here's another view. The upside down was noticed well after the glue had begun to set, and, well, it just gives it character.
The floor in the router station is salvaged chinese plywood from the shipping base of the PJ-882, cut using my homemade panel cutting sled on the 66. You can see the hinges in the hand cut mortises in the doors. I learned that it takes two sets of hinges to hang two doors... you can't hang two doors with one set of hinges. I also learned (recalled, actually) that you lose 3/4" in width when you cope and stick doors, so I milled and beaded two more stakes and glued them against the laminated studs.
So, over the past two weeks I've used a lot of tools in the shop, made many mistakes (some stupid, some from inexperience), had a lot of fun, spent about $8 on studs, nothing on stakes (they were out of date, so I took them), didn't junk up the landfill with shipping boxes, and decided to CROW about it. As I increase my skills and abilities, I'll replace this junk with crafted hardware I can be proud of. For right now, I'm pretty pleased with myself, and thanks for looking.
PS: I read the FAQ on pictures, but don't know how to get the URL for the thumbnails. Sorry for the large post, hope you got RoadRunner or DSL.
