Kaleo’s Workshop

So over the 4th of July weekend, I got to spent a little more time in the shop. Although the time that I got to spent wasn’t just my own time. At the moment at work I am making a huge curved floor molding to go around a oval shaped cut out of the floor. So over the weekend I had to joint and edge glue some 12 inch wide Red Oak boards. Yes I know it seemed like a waste to me also to make this molding out of such wide stock. But I had to cut out the initial curve and then glue on the off cut to the back to be able to mark out and cut out the same curve only 4 1/2 inches wide. So that’s how a spent a couple of hours in the shop.

But I also spent some time cleaning and arranging tools. The first thing that I noticed was the my very simple and cheap router table was sagging. So I took the router out and braced the table flat again. But this has lead me to believe that I need to make a real router table. So that will be soon. ( my brother in law has a craftsmen bench top router table that I can use if I am in a pinch.)Then I mounted my planer onto a rolling cabinet that I had and leveled it to the extension wing to the UniSaw. The other big thing that you will notice is the huge snap on tool chest in the shop. That also belongs to the brother in law. But man does it look sweet in the shop. My one experiment last weekend was trying to rig up some poor mans dust collection. At the moment I have access to 4 shop vacs. I guess I should say 3 because my Festool Midi vac, does not qualify as a cheap shop vac. So I hooked on up to the planer and that worked beautifully. I hooked another up to the miter saw and that worked beautifully also. Then I tried to hook one up to the jointer. Let’s just say that blue is a miracle worker in the shop, but it has ti’s limits. And one of those limits is attaching a shop vac hose to the DC port of a jointer. Did I mention that this was a poor mans attempt at dust collection. I am saving up for a decent hopefully used and nicely priced something soon. But until then I’m stuck “jerry-rigging” and blue taping stuff together.By the way there will be a new episode of This Week in Wood, hot and fresh by Monday morning. So look forward to that Monday at work, I know I will!!!

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