The Normite section of my blog, some times I just want to play and talk about the big tools.
Last weekend I started making Rebecca some stack-able shoe racks for her closet. I wanted to make them from materials I had on hand (cherry), so after an hour or so of fiddling in Sketchup I came up with the following design. The design is pretty simple, it’s made from 1″ x 3/4″ stock. Something I strive for in all my projects is a minimization of fasteners, thus I only used Dado-and-Tongue, & Slip joints, to hold the racks together.
This is my first end grain cutting board, It’s made from hard Maple & Jatoba, and is 1-3/4″ thick by 20″ long and 12-1/2″ wide.
Last night I finally finished one of the two utility benches, I’m about 80% done with the second one. To finish the top I used BLO (boiled linseed oil), spar urethane, & Johnson’s paste wax. A lot of traditionalist woodworkers will scoff about applying a film finish to a workbench, but this bench is going to be exposed to a lot more than glue dribbles.
To see some additional shots from this project check out the following posts:
The following photo is a close up of the arbor on my 10″ Delta Contractors saw (model TS350). I purchased this saw new in 2004 at Lowe’s, and until today it’s done everything I’ve asked of it.
Give up? It’s not a consistent diameter, the threaded section is 0.610″, the non threaded section is 0.557″, & the standard mounting surface is 0.6245″ (what it should be). So what does that mean? Well that nice Freud dial a dado set I just purchased is essentially useless on this saw.
It’s been over 3 weeks sine my last post, so I think it’s time I give everyone an update. Since my last post, I have been diglently jointing, planing and gluing up boards for my bench tops. It’s boring work so I will spare you the details, but the good news is I’m done with that phase of the project. I’m now into the flatening phase, but thats for a different post.
Thus without further ado the photos .
About half way done with one top
A close up
One glue-up done, one to go.