Daily Bench Shot

[Stwood_]

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[®smpr_fi_mac®]

Yesterday's work in my shop:

Built a dual-ended router sled for shaping handles on charcuterie boards. 

Applying finish (again) to a walnut table that I scratched while marking the bottom for the base attachment. 

Not shown:  the hours of cleaning and rearranging that's going on to make my shop more efficient and safer.

[Ray Newman]

Yesterday's work in my shop:

Built a dual-ended router sled for shaping handles on charcuterie boards. 

Applying finish (again) to a walnut table that I scratched while marking the bottom for the base attachment. 

Not shown:  the hours of cleaning and rearranging that's going on to make my shop more efficient and safer.

Now that's an interesting and useful jig!

[®smpr_fi_mac®]

Now that's an interesting and useful jig!

Oh yeah. Saves *so* much time because I don't have to screw around with taping templates to the stock. I also gives me a very safe and solid entry point for my pattern bit, making it much safer. This jig cuts about 50% off the time required in this stage of production.

Not my idea; I found it on YouTube!

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Here's the thread where I was trying to figure out a better method: https://forums.woodnet.net/showthread.php?tid=7369474

[Bob10]

Oh yeah.  Saves *so* much time because I don't have to screw around with taping templates to the stock.  I also gives me a very safe and solid entry point for my pattern bit, making it much safer.  This jig cuts about 50% off the time required in this stage of production.

Not my idea; I found it on YouTube!

(edit)

Here's the thread where I was trying to figure out a better method:  https://forums.woodnet.net/showthread.php?tid=7369474

Youtube is an amazing wealth of knowledge.  Biggest obstacle is figuring out how to ask what you want to find

[®smpr_fi_mac®]

I'm building a simple trinket shelf for my youngest daughter's room.  And a bread slicing board for a friend from some *really* aromatic wood.  No clue what it is but makes my shop smell like cinnamon.

[®smpr_fi_mac®]

I'm applying shellac to the cherry trinket shelf I started last week.

[Stwood_]

Lookin good ya'll.

[stav]

I'm building a simple trinket shelf for my youngest daughter's room.  And a bread slicing board for a friend from some *really* aromatic wood.  No clue what it is but makes my shop smell like cinnamon.

I really like the look of that wood in your glue up.

[thewalnutguy]

Don't know if this really qualifies as a "bench shot". I spent the better part of an afternoon moving an old camel-back drill press I've had for over 30 years ago that recently tried to migrate from low-speed drive to high-speed drive mode as I was using it, resulting in its removing some teeth from two of the gears required for low-speed (50 rpm!) mode. I checked with multiple companies in the metro area that do gear repair or replacement, estimates for repair or making new gears were in the range of about $2,000. I'd tried operating the drill press in high-speed mode, where the damaged gears would not be involved, and even so there was a noticeable "thump thump thump" coming from the drill press running with no load. So yesterday the project was to move it out of the location it's been in since I got it, making room for a newer drill press that unfortunately won't be a full replacement but at least it can use my collection of MT 3 drill bits. Moving the old one probably would have gone faster if I'd had someone to help with the move, the thing is really heavy.