2014 POTD Thread Archive

[Cheeseking]

While I was doing a small turning project a couple of days ago, I decided that I needed a shield on the back side of my small lathe to contain the chips ... John W

Nice job John. Your going to love having the back shield.

 

[Flammable_Solid]

I got back the piece from the water jet guy:



Turned it down to thickness, cleaned up the bolt holes, deburred it:



Checked it against the ABS ring:



Then packed it up with these axel spacers to my customer:



Kinda nice being able to pay for the lathe with a couple of parts. Now to get a few more that will pay for all of the tooling I've been buying....

 

[Brain Coral]

Well, no machining in the shop today, but a little re-organizing.... It was well overdue... A cow couldn't find her calf in my shop at the present time...anic:

I have been accumulating chucks, dividing heads, vises, etc. and they all end up on the floor for lack of a better spot. With all the windows in my shop and the configuration of the space, it's very difficult to build any shelving. So I decided to move things around a bit and make some room. I moved my wooden plane collection to the other end of the shop, freeing up some wall space for some shelving.



I then built a bank of shelves using 2"x2" 's, 2"x4" 's and 3/4" plywood. The shelves are 16" deep and 6' long with the top shelf at 8'. Everything is screwed together.... my shop continues to morph as I go along. It was originally designed for woodworking only, but I caught "the bug" and I'm running out of room...

Here's a few pics of the shelves in place as well as a start at filling them...







I am planning on installing my horizontal mill next to the shelves, hence the cutter storage. It's a start and it felt good to sit on a stool at the end of today, crack a beer and just look at the results... it's not likely to stay that neat and tidy, but here's hoping...

Brian

 

[GarageGuy]

It's a start and it felt good to sit on a stool at the end of today, crack a beer and just look at the results...

One of those "hey, this could actually work" moments. Gotta love 'em! Any time I get a new power tool, I have to rearrange everything in the garage to try to make a spot for it to live. :biggrin: It's extra cool when you rearrange everything and it actually looks good too.

GG

 

[melsdad]

That's a nice collection of planes you have! The organization looks good also.

 

[savarin]

People who have seen my shop dont believe me when I say it was tidy.
I get the urge to tidy up and reorganise it now and again but usually sit down for a beer till the urge goes away.

 

[CluelessNewB]

Nothing fancy and not worth a picture but I made 20 shear bolts for my Kubota front mount snow thrower. They get $3 a piece for them at the dealer. They are just grade 5 bolts with a groove. The groove has a rounded profile at the bottom and is rather thin so I hand ground a tool from HSS. I matched the depth and location of the groove to my last original shear bolt. I held the bolts in a 5C collet on my Logan 820. I made a little spacer for setting up the position of the bolt in the collet and had the carriage locked down. After I got set up each one only took about 2 minutes.

The grade 5 bolts were only $0.25 each in a box of 50. So for about the price of 4 original shear bolts I made 20 and have another 30 bolts for the future. I typically end up breaking about 4 bolts a year so the 20 should get me by for 5 years.

 

[Cheeseking]

The shelves look awesome Brian!! Its amazing what a little stain does even on construction lumber.

 

[Brain Coral]

The shelves look awesome Brian!! Its amazing what a little stain does even on construction lumber.

Thanks...

I think that you may be referring to the shelves that the wooden planes are in ? I made that unit out of 100 year old reclaimed pine boards from a cottage in Ontario. It was made with hand cut joints throughout. The main body has decorative hand cut through dovetails at each corner, each shelf is housed in dadoes cut with a wooden dado plane, the drawer fronts have beads cut into the top and bottom with a wooden beading plane, each drawer bottom is housed in grooves plowed with a wooden plow plane ( actually, the grooves are plowed into a separate strip that is glued to the drawer sides to prevent the grooves from weakening the drawer sides. This strip is also "Quater-rounded" with a quarter rounding wooden plane ), each drawer is put together with through dovetails at the rear and half-blind dovetails at the front and the mounting boards beneath the shelves are hand dovetailed into the uprights of the case.

 

[Brain Coral]

I was just beginning to learn about hand tools at the time that I built this unit and almost bought a dovetail jig for my router, but decided to teach myself how to cut dovetails by hand. They are a bit amateurish and blocky looking, but I have refined my skills a bit since then. The case was stained with a Minwax stain and varnish mix (Pecan ) to try to simulate aged pine, as the old colour was lost upon planing the rough boards.

Here's a pic of some dovetails on a drawer front of a hutch that I built for a client a couple of years ago...



Cheers...

Brian