Daily Bench Shot

[Gary G™]

Miters look good on those frames.  Are you using a jig of some sort?

Thanks.
I hate to say this—No.
I’m simply measuring, marking and cutting very carefully.
After milling the material, I use my Dewalt 12” sliding compound miter saw and a 60 tooth blade to make the 45s.
I cut a hair off the line, then with the saw off, I bring the blade down, slide the piece next to it just kissing the flat surface of the blade and then make the final cut. This usually takes off about 1/64th of an inch—it’s similar to using a Lion Miter trimmer.
Then, I take each pair and put them back to back along their outside edge.
If they’re not identical in length—that is, if I can feel a difference—I make another kiss cut.
I would say the 24 cuts for the three cypress frames took less than an hour.
The Mahogany frame is more sensitive and the 8 miters probably took an hour.
I glue them using Pony strap clamps.

[R Clark]

Miters always give me trouble.  I making shadow boxes; I dedicated the saw's miter fence with a long fence and 45 slot for miter cuts.  I'm still far from perfect on it.

[Stwood_]

Boink.....

Bench is the cleanest it's been in 6 months I think.

   

[Bob10]

Boink.....

Bench is the cleanest it's been in 6 months I think.

Mine hasn't been that  clean since the day I built it. I think I need to change the way I do things.

[Stwood_]

Mine hasn't been that  clean since the day I built it. I think I need to change the way I do things.

A grain shovel makes quick work in cleaning them off.

[Bob10]

A grain shovel makes quick work in cleaning them off.

Spent most of today moving things around and gathering like stuff into different areas. My shop is used for maintaining houses and apts. I enjoy woodworking and most of the large tools are for that but I have tools for just about everything to do with living in a house and maintaining a yard. I lost my milwaukee plumbing auger set been looking for it for 2 days




I know it's down there because I found it after I needed it last time around and put it in a place it wouldn't get lost, Seems it aint lost but it's hiding really well

[Stwood_]

Spent most of today moving things around and gathering like stuff into different areas. My shop is used for maintaining houses and apts. I enjoy woodworking and most of the large tools are for that but I have tools for just about everything to do with living in a house and maintaining a yard. I lost my milwaukee plumbing auger set been looking for it for 2 days




I know it's down there because I found it after I needed it last time around and put it in a place it wouldn't get lost, Seems it aint lost but it's hiding really well

Buy another set and the old one will show up when yer looking for a good place to stash the new one.

[Bob10]

Buy another set and the old one will show up when yer looking for a good place to stash the new one.

Found them yesterday, had almost given up finding them. I moved more stuff made some stuff them moved more stuff and started looking at stuff I haven't moved in years. It was sitting on the ground behind a saw. More metro racks are in my future. A friend of mine has a few sets he told me to let him know what size I was after so he can gather them up.

[thewalnutguy]

I'd planned to build a bedroom chest of drawers based on a Green and Green model, but one of my requirements was that it must have full extension drawers rather than thin wood runner-rails on the side of the cabinet. One of the details of the model on which mine would be bases was the proud drawer sides on the front of the drawer. These drawer sides are part of the design, and the detail precludes false fronts on the drawers to hide things like like large gaps between drawer sides and the cabinet frame, and below and above the drawer and the rails of the cabinet. It took some playing with ideas and finally coming up with an approach. From another reply in this thread, I noticed that someone else had come up with this issue, but didn't discuss how he'd solved the problem. The project has gotten to the stage where I've installed the full-extension slides and made a prototype drawer to prove the concept. Actually shown in the pictures is prototype drawer number 2. The real drawers will of couirse have full size drawer bottoms, but I couldn't see chopping upa full sheet of material for prototype drawers. The final top drawer will of couse fill the  area above the drawer front

[Gary G™]

Showing stix on the bench wouldn’t make sense for this.
Redoing all the trim on the Sebastian house.
Painted pine vs. natural Cypress.
Old vs. new: