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Stitchy is like a very cut down version of the leather sewing machine my mum had decades ago. Was it originally meant to be mounted on some kind of industrial fixture? Next question: Did you make those nice black handles?

I made Sandy the sanding machine. It doesn't have chicken wire sticking out of it! That is a rolled up dog barrier in the background. Not finished yet. The table isn't fastened down, and the motor (which came from some kind of water pump) is missing the cover for the electrics. So I need to...

Cool clamps! You glued the metal? As in, glue? What sort did you use - epoxy?

Dammit got me watching youtube! I actually had in mind fronts which attach directly to the drawer cases (is that what you call them? bodies? shells?) but the false sort is probably more appropriate. My drawers are tiny - only 3 to 4 inches tall, around 7 wide and 7 deep made of 1/4 inch ply...

If I didn't design and make stuff (or often, make the thing I need to make the other thing I need without which my original idea is stuffed. Repeat ad-infinitum) then I would go completely mad. As well, pretty much what everyone else said. A lifetime of being various degrees of broke has meant...

Dammit got me watching youtube! I actually had in mind fronts which attach directly to the drawer cases (is that what you call them? bodies?) but the false sort is probably more appropriate. Anyway, at least now I know how to position them right! (I've a feeling back in the day, we used to...

I used to know this. I am so annoyed. How does one attach drawer fronts? For background, I'm making a set of drawers for my electronics lab, carcass is about 22" x 16" x 8" (h x w x d) made of crappy 1/4" ply with pine runners, and there will be 8x half-width drawers and 2x full width drawers...

I had this marvelous idea that I can make a sander which has a table with a fence on it which can slide in and out on drawer runners, so long pieces can then be passed across the sander at an adjustable fixed distance from it. (My best shot at getting anything flat at the moment) The drawer...

If it's any consolation, I made a CC sled because I needed it in a hurry -- I used a piece of OSB that had been leant against outside wall for a year, a shelf that had been in someone's garden for years and a strip cut from a bit of wood from an armchair that had also been outside for a year...

I know it's a very old thread, but I couldn't resist... My Grandpa (the engineering one, not the gardening one) had a side cutter exactly like this, except for a neat notch in blade, supposedly from cutting a live wire!

Really nice. A sanding machine is on my build list - unlikely to turn out as beautiful as yours though! I particularly like the stopped table. Did you use a brushed or induction motor?

I started making these giant parallel clamps. 5 complete, parts ready, or mostly ready for 5 more. Tightening range is 2 layers Just unscrew the top blocks every couple of layers and move them up. Was hoping to make and actually use them all in one day, but had real trouble getting the welder to...

No, perpendicular. Think of a typical folding pocket knife with a blade 3 inches long, being sharpened on an oilstone 2 1/2 inches wide. So that's half an inch overhang. So pushing the blade down the stone uses the full length of the stone, and sliding the blade back and forth along it's length...

Got to call it something. "Technique" was the word that came to mind. "Way" is good too. "Method" also works but you're more like to find it in a recipe book. If I had a pound for every forum argument I've seen over semantics, I'd be heavier!

Too much time in assembler... You made me laugh though. It's even 2 dimensional! Since the nail holes run parallel to the bench top, there's very little risk. The odd staple turns up at the edges though, easy to spot because the fixings are always rusty and stain the wood.

With the blade held so it's being pushed along the stone, it obviously hangs off at either end, pull the blade back and forth so the whole blade gets coverage, at the same time pushing it along the length of the stone. I don't know if he did it this way just because of blade length to stone...

I did think of making a temporary bench for the purpose but decided against it eventually. I reckon once the top is a few layers deep it'll be sufficiently self-supporting to continue without being clamped to anything, then once it's made I can put temporary legs on it, adequate to then use the...

When I was a kid my Grandad, who was a gardener his entire life, taught me to sharpen knives on his oilstone. I've never seen his undulating-slide technique anywhere else, but bloody hell, it worked! If it was very blunt (read: sharp by any other standard) he'd rub it on a bit of emery paper...

Thanks for the response! I actually appealed via "nextdoor" for unwanted wood/broken furniture, which was moderately successful and meant I could get my "lab bench" build done. But there wasn't really enough of anything suitable for this, and I don't have any more storage! Plenty of other stuff...

I decided to use pallet wood edge-upwards to make a nice heavy bench, since wood is expensive. Finally dismantled enough pallets to make a good start at least. Someone gave me an old beam that must have come from their house - about the only large thing I have that isn't twisted! So I've used...