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Been plugging away at another drawer in the assembly table. This time one that holds combo and fixed squares. Used the dremel router + rigid foam again. Takes a bit of time, and some careful layout but works nicely in the end. First mess around with different layouts, this one isn't quite the...

A Rockler Story Stick - https://www.rockler.com/rockler-story-stick-kit You install them onto dowel (which I have next to it in the drawer) and set distances for when you're doing multiple repeated marks. I have found this to be useful for cabinetry / casework.

Trying to get all the messy drawers in my new assembly table finally organized. Starting with this one which has a lot of layout / measurement tools. I like to use a combination of hard foam and the softer kaizen foam to create nesting for parts like this. Again it all goes back to using stuff I...

Been a few weeks since I posted. Not a whole lot of new build stuff, but I did get to finally set up my plumbing and electrical tools into a Packout setup. I have a few buddies that work at MT so was able to score these pretty cheap using their employee discount, so it wasn't as painful of a hit...

Although I don't have this in my shop anymore, cause I've since gotten rid of this workbench, I previously had a sliding platform on a lower shelf that I used for my planer. It was similar to described above, where I mounted a set of wood rails, mounted drawer slides on those rails, and then the...

I organized the lower shelf to hold all the hand saws. I chose to use hard foam cause it's cheap and very easy to modify and lay out. It's not as premium or nice as the kaizen foam or custom wood cutouts but this took about 20 minutes and is effective and cheap/free with some foam I had lying...

It's more of a motorcycle lift, like this one from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/VIVOHOME-Scissor-Motorcycle-Scooter-1100Lb/dp/B06X9CYNJF?tag=atomicindus08-20 Pretty easy to use, and for my application pretty heavy duty.

Oof, not much work in the shop these last couple of weeks. But, did get the scroll saw rolly thing mostly built. Now I can keep it underneath the wing of the jointer which was previously dead space. I can use the lift to bring it up to the height of a workbench to help stabilize it. I made a...

Skipped a few steps I think on the lamp post, but I've been chipping away at it. Finally got paint on it and installed and hooked up the lamp fixture. Just in time for winter cuz I think snow comes later this week. Will give me light when I need to go outside and shovel the driveway at 4am!

Been a little while, not so much room for project work the last few weeks. just got back from a family vacay in Nassau, and I'm eager to get back to the shop! A small one that I knocked out recently was to build a rolling shelf out of scrap material that lives underneath the parts washer. This...

Got the pocket hole workstation hung and mounted up on the ceiling. I'll probably reinforce the handle with some steel bar I have lying around as that thing is heavy, no kidding! I think having all filled up with screws doesn't help, lol. Might eventually look for a place down lower to store it...

Assembled the column frame tonight in the shop. Pocket holes and Tightbond II and I don't think those corner seams will open up, even sitting outside. Doing it this way allowed me to get all those internal pocket hole joints accessed. The PT boards were pretty decent, I spent a lot of time at...

It's not light, but it'll hang from the ceiling when not used and I won't really be lugging it around much (hopefully). I have an unfixable tendency to overbuild things......

Jumping back into the outdoor lamp project, time to do the face frame decorative part of the column. Have some relatively straight GC PT 1x4s that I trim to size. My plan is to pocket hole into 4 frames and then assemble them in the shop, then slide it over the column and nail into place w/ SS...

Pretty much can call this project complete! Put the finishing touches onto it over the last day or so. Ordered some Schaller bins and made them fit just right with some filler strips so that it can be hung from the ceiling without the screws falling out: The right hand side is more for larger...

Not a lot of time in the shop today, but got the tops installed with the hinges. Last up is to put some hardware into it.

By the time I get home from work it's getting to be nearly dark, so hard to make progress on the lamp and other outdoor projects. So, continued further on the pocket hole workstation. Setting up to do the dadoes in the two pieces of 3/4" ply that serve as the worktops. While I'm still waiting...

Today was spent on the lamp column. First set the 4 posts. Probably a better way to go about this but this was my approach. I found that a lot of finicky work was necessary to get all 4 posts perfectly set relative to each other so that the column remained upright and square in all three...

Pushing to finish up the pocket hole jig workstation this week. Completed the left hand wing, made it a touch longer than the other side to fit some clamps better. Next is to work on the worksurfaces which is from 3/4" scrap. First cut on the cross-cut sled and tune to size. This allows me to...

Jar944, those columns look great! Am I correct in that you are using the Castle system for pocket hole? It looks great! I thought about PVC but couldn't find a product locally that I liked. If I do a rip cut, the edge ends up looking poor as it shows pinholes rather than the nice glossy and...