What did you do in your workshop today ?

[monkeybiter]

It's a good looking mod I should definitely attempt.

 

[MikeJhn]

And its got bearings all facing the right direction, wonderful.

Mike

 

[MarkDennehy]

Well, it's a *kind* of woodworking...

(especially when you edit the post to include the right image this time...)

 

[MarkDennehy]

I've seen a similar idea for holdfasts where a bit of softwood with a hole for the body of the holdfast in it sits under the head in Chris Schwarz's bench book to stop the head marking wood but I never translated it to cramps.

Seems a bit overly fancy for holdfasts; I just contact cemented a scrap of leather under the pads of mine and then trimmed off the excess. Hasn't marked anything so far.

 

[Wildman]

my shop vac was delivered by family today it was bought a while ago, weeks in fact and I've since forgotten what brand it is, German I think but never mind. My workshop is taking a while to get into shape since I retired and projects are piling up on me. So a dust free hopefully environment from now on. I also took delivery of a webasto diesel heater that needs fitting in my motorhome when I work out where to put it and what other bits I need. In the meantime I can trial run it in the workshop and gas myself :roll: :roll: :roll: :mrgreen: :lol:

 

[whiskywill]

Well, it's a *kind* of woodworking...

(especially when you edit the post to include the right image this time...)

Do you know you have a dead pig in the corner? Pork for Christmas?

 

[lurker]

Well, it's a *kind* of woodworking...

(especially when you edit the post to include the right image this time...)

Do you know you have a dead pig in the corner? Pork for Christmas?

i dont think its dead but its doing something pretty disgusting the bear further back

 

[MarkDennehy]

Caption reads:
"Paint me like one of your french pigs"

 

[El Barto]

Got one of those Veritas marking gauges. Within an hour I'd experienced that infamous rolling off the table I'd read about... chipped the wheel yippee.

 

[Wizard9999]

Spent the whole day trying to cut some dovetails with my freshly sharpened nail, couldn't crack it. Guess I need an expert to explain how it is done. :lol:

 

[Mr T]

Did a bit of woodwork on our tree yesterday. There was a bit of a gap in the branches at the top. So I drilled a hole in the stem and inserted a pruned bit, worked a treat.

Chris

 

[Mr T]

I've seen a similar idea for holdfasts where a bit of softwood with a hole for the body of the holdfast in it sits under the head in Chris Schwarz's bench book to stop the head marking wood but I never translated it to cramps.

Seems a bit overly fancy for holdfasts; I just contact cemented a scrap of leather under the pads of mine and then trimmed off the excess. Hasn't marked anything so far.

Alternatively you could use magnetic clamp heads.

http://www.christribefurniturecourses.com/index.php/tip-magnetic-cramp-heads/

Chris

 

[Bm101]

Thanks Chris. That's a neat idea.

 

[Jacob]

Spent the whole day trying to cut some dovetails with my freshly sharpened nail, couldn't crack it. Guess I need an expert to explain how it is done. :lol:

My point about the nail was that there's a huge myth about the difficulty of doing things (DTs especially) and hence the need for expensive kit (e.g. PMT 111 chisels in matching sets and pairs of opposite skews etc etc). Particularly so called "London Pattern" DTs. But in fact these are the easiest of all to do and if you were desperate you could probably pick out the waste with a sharp nail - from the pin holes at least but not from between the pins - where any old but slightly wider chisel would do.
Not recommending the nail particularly but don't let me stop you experimenting!

 

[MarkDennehy]

I like that Mr.T, that's quite clever
Those neodymium magnets are handly little things, especially the ones that come with with the countersunk screw holes. I've a very small chisel rack holding a few of the lidl ones at the moment as a temporary job until I can finish off the current project and then spend a day redoing the tool holders for my wall to finally get all the planes and chisels and other bits and bobs off the bench and out from the plastic tubs they're ignominiously sitting in right now.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I glue mine on with hot melt - they knock off easily if not needed.

 

[El Barto]

Did a bit of woodwork on our tree yesterday. There was a bit of a gap in the branches at the top. So I drilled a hole in the stem and inserted a pruned bit, worked a treat.

Chris

Ha ha that's amazing.

 

[SteveF]

finally got my TS into workshop
no help so I had to dimember it
not a bad thing, as it could do with a good cleanup inside

Steve

 

[Phil1975]

Finally got to clean, lube & put some Oak planks through my new (second hand) Sedgwick PT.
It's just a little bit better than the Woodstar I was using before!!

 

[hammer n nails]

Made some dog lead holders