I spent some time this weekend organizing my workshop. It often feels like I spend more time organizing my workshop than I do working on stuff. A big part of the problem is I keep on buying stuff and then I have to find a home for it in an already crowded space. A smart [...]
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Every now and then I buy a tool/gadget that takes a time consuming process and just simplifies it. Yesterday I picked up a chuck reversing adapter from my local Woodcraft, and is it going to make life easy! A chuck reversing adapter is used to take a turning that is mounted in a chuck on the [...] I was getting tired of reaching for my calipers and setting them to my chuck diameter every time I needed to turn a tenon. The alternative was trying to “guesstimate” the diameter needed and very often I would turn the tenon to small. So I made a spindle and tenon gauge. I have a set of [...] I finally got a chance to play with the chatter tool I made. My initial experiments were pretty disappointing. The tool was “screeching” as it is supposed to, but I only seemed to be able to put spiral grooves on the test piece. My first thought was that the blade was not thick enough and [...] I’ve been wanting to try some different embellishment techniques, one of which was chatter work. However I kept on balking at the price of a new chatter tool. I decided to make my own. It cost me $3.00 and a hour or two on a Sunday afternoon. I got a 1/2″ x 10″ nipple from the [...] |
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