Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT DIY Shop

[BUGTHUG]

Here’s mine after 5 years of moving stuff from one side of the barn to the other. I bought the nuts and bolts from a old part store that closed its doors after 60 years. Bought a bunch of stuff I’ll probably never use.
I’m not quite as organized as you Jeff.

 

[bdbecker]

Congratulations on the new saw! That thing looks like it'll cut some wood!

 

[Jayman17]

Jeff, that's a nice addition to your shop. Glad you got it put together by yourself safely. Now go make some sawdust!

Jay

 

[Unruh]

Great purchase! I have a similar Jet (I have the older model) and love it. Those Timber Wolf blades are what I use as well. Looking forward to seeing what you make with it!

 

[loganb]

Congrats on the saw...that should serve you well for years!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Here’s mine after 5 years of moving stuff from one side of the barn to the other. I bought the nuts and bolts from a old part store that closed its doors after 60 years. Bought a bunch of stuff I’ll probably never use.
I’m not quite as organized as you Jeff.

Considering the volume you have, you may be more organized. How long has it been since you had to make a trip to the hardware store?

Congratulations on the new saw! That thing looks like it'll cut some wood!

Thank you. I hope it will do what I hope to do, which includes trying to harvest some lumber from a Walnut tree I cut down on my property.

Jeff, that's a nice addition to your shop. Glad you got it put together by yourself safely. Now go make some sawdust!

Jay

Soon, on the sawdust. I completed all the setup steps today except the fence. Have to order some dust collection bits also.

Great purchase! I have a similar Jet (I have the older model) and love it. Those Timber Wolf blades are what I use as well. Looking forward to seeing what you make with it!

Your advice is some of what I considered in selecting the Jet. Thank you for the help.

Congrats on the saw...that should serve you well for years!

Thank you. I certainly hope this is a long term investment.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Managed to hit another estate sale yesterday.

I admired this old boy priced at $64. Passed on it because I have absolutely no place to put it and most, if not all, the tools would duplicate what I already have. Thought it was neat that it included a 1/4" drive set in its original box (upper right).

I did pick up this set which appears to be complete and in its original box for $20. I haven't been able to find out anything about the set such as age and original selling price. I picked it up because "one can never have enough clamps" and the knobs are the type that can be slid almost all the way onto a threaded rod and just tightened the last turn or so. Can anybody out there shed some light on the Shop Mate Maxi-clamp?

 

[Jeff Ivers]

While I have been assembling and setting up my bandsaw, I have gone back to work on my router cabinet.

Finished the dust collection assembly.

I had a couple of cutoffs from the tabletop that are going to form the lower portion of my fence. I drilled holes part way thru, inserted some threaded inserts, cut some 1/4-20 rod and epoxied the rod into the insert.

Added some slots to the router fence. The rods will go thru these slots and be held in place by threaded knobs to allow the fence pieces to be open or closed.

I kept trying to come up with a fancy way to hold the Y fitting to my bracket, but finally said "screw it" and went simple. Screwed a screw-eye into the bracket, then used a cable tie thru the eye and around the Y.

Completed fence with closed face.

Complet6ed fence with open face.

 

[Rich M.]

Here’s mine after 5 years of moving stuff from one side of the barn to the other. I bought the nuts and bolts from a old part store that closed its doors after 60 years. Bought a bunch of stuff I’ll probably never use.
I’m not quite as organized as you Jeff.

You have a large selection of hardware and organizers. My guess is you are not just a weekend DIYer.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I've been playing with the new Jet, mostly trying to reclaim some lumber from the fire wood pile as a way to get used to using the saw. Also been working on the final tasks to complete my router cabinet.

Added some pieces of walnut to wrap the cord around.

Pulled the T-track out to install part of my estate sale find.

Put some double tape on the ends to temporarily hold some cleats till I could get some clamps on them.

Cleats clamped in place.

Clamped additional cleats across the others (using screws) as router guides.

New wide track (double track) or whatever it is called, installed.

 

[Jayman17]

Table is looking good. Just curious if you had a reason why you didn't install laminate to that tabletop and fence first? I might be worried about moisture.

Jay

 

[nicholam77]

Nice router table!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Table is looking good. Just curious if you had a reason why you didn't install laminate to that tabletop and fence first? I might be worried about moisture.

Jay

The top is made from a piece of 3/4 inch formica laminated press board glued to a 3/4 inch piece of baltic birch plywood, so I don't understand the question. The bottom part of the fence is the same material. The remainder of the fence is 3/4 inch baltic birch finished with BLO followed by polyurethane.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Table is looking good. Just curious if you had a reason why you didn't install laminate to that tabletop and fence first? I might be worried about moisture.

Jay

The top is made from a piece of 3/4 inch formica laminated press board glued to a 3/4 inch piece of baltic birch plywood, so I don't understand the question. The bottom part of the fence is the same material. The remainder of the fence is 3/4 inch baltic birch finished with BLO followed by polyurethane.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Table is looking good. Just curious if you had a reason why you didn't install laminate to that tabletop and fence first? I might be worried about moisture.

Jay

The top is made from a piece of 3/4 inch formica laminated press board glued to a 3/4 inch piece of baltic birch plywood, so I don't understand the question. The bottom part of the fence is the same material. The remainder of the fence is 3/4 inch baltic birch finished with BLO followed by polyurethane.

Nice router table!

Thank you.

 

[Jayman17]

Jeff, sorry, I see now that the tabletop is laminate. The pattern on the laminate looked like particle board the first time I looked at the photo.


Jay

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Jeff, sorry, I see now that the tabletop is laminate. The pattern on the laminate looked like particle board the first time I looked at the photo.


Jay

Jay, not a problem at all. When I went back and looked at the photos, I realized how much like particle board the laminate looks. Maybe why I got that section of countertop cheap?

For all those checking in on this thread, I was having a rough time with the forum last night and ended up with duplicated posts. I am sorry - still don't know what I did wrong.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Had some Bradford Pear cut to firewood length that I wanted to experiment with on the new bandsaw and some red oak salvaged from a pallet.

My first attempt at a joiner's mallet.

 

[turbowoodworker]

Mallets are fun projects and yours turned out nice. I never thought of Bradford pear. Every ice storm here results in lots of firewood. Maybe I’ll try some for a project.
Rick

 

[Jayman17]

Jeff, nice mallet, I will have to add that to my project list.

Jay

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Mallets are fun projects and yours turned out nice. I never thought of Bradford pear. Every ice storm here results in lots of firewood. Maybe I’ll try some for a project.
Rick

Thank you. I used to have 14 bradford pears lining my drive. Lost 5 in an ice storm in 2007 and had the remainder taken down about 3 years ago. Due to the ice damage, I always thought of the wood as brittle. Was watching the Woodwright Shop on PBS and saw all the woods he was using for projects, so I decided for a first attempt I would try the pear. I like the way it looks and the grain is really straight. Now, if it doesn't split the first time I wack something with it, I'll be good to go.

Jeff, nice mallet, I will have to add that to my project list.

Jay

Thank you. This may see more use applied to the side of my head than to woodworking projects, as in why did I not think of that - wack! The top of the handle on this is a wedge and is inserted from the top of the head into a wedge-shaped cutout in the head. It looked a lot easier on a 30 minute show than it was for me!

 

[turbowoodworker]

Bradford pear has the built in flaw that makes them so vulnerable to damage during ice or wet heavy snow storms. It’s not the character of the wood but rather, the multiple branches all emanating from the same place. Those branches get heavy and the whole tree splits at the juncture.
A couple of years ago, a guy here had lined his long drive with about ten of them. I think eight of them are gone now.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Bradford pear has the built in flaw that makes them so vulnerable to damage during ice or wet heavy snow storms. It’s not the character of the wood but rather, the multiple branches all emanating from the same place. Those branches get heavy and the whole tree splits at the juncture.
A couple of years ago, a guy here had lined his long drive with about ten of them. I think eight of them are gone now.

You are correct. I have been amazed with the wood as I have been experimenting with it on some small projects. With all the UT videos I have watched and the forums I monitor, I find it amazing that I have never seen anyone post about using Bradford Pear in a project.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Since completing the mallet, my shop time has been disrupted by Xmas related tasks. I have managed some shop time in small increments and have continued experimenting with the bandsaw and wood harvested on the property.


Used the bandsaw and my belt sander to sculpt this pair of salad forks/spoons/servers and a stand from Bradford Pear. Somewhat reminiscent of Oral Roberts praying hands.


Got some of those super-duper magnets and made this allen key holder for the bandsaw from a scrap of walnut.

 

[bdbecker]

Those turned out great! How did you get the handles so consistent/round? Did you turn them on a lathe or was that all done by hand? Either way, nice work!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Those turned out great! How did you get the handles so consistent/round? Did you turn them on a lathe or was that all done by hand? Either way, nice work!

By not taking a closeup shot with the camera! Thanks for the complement, but the servers did not come out well enough to give as a gift. I rotated the handles while holding them against the belt sander to shape them. They came out slightly different in size and not as round as I wanted. I also would like to have the handles thicker. For those reasons and because there are some small cracks in the business end, I am keeping these to utilize at the home and determine if the handles will break off or hold up to use. Then, I will try to make a set for gifting.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Today, I finished a project that I plan to give as a gift.


As I mentioned previously, I have been experimenting with some super-duper magnets.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I just finished my daily review of all the great threads on GJ. It is hard to describe how much joy and knowledge I have found by reading about others projects. Wish I had come up with some clever artwork or something else entertaining to say Merry Christmas to all, but I didn't. So, please settle for this:

Merry Christmas to all you GJers and your Families!

May your new year be a whole lot better than this COVID disaster of a year!

 

[Jayman17]

Merry Christmas to you Jeff! 2021 has got to be a better year right!?

Jay

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Merry Christmas to you Jeff! 2021 has got to be a better year right!?

Jay

From a worldwide perspective, I don't see how 2021 could not be better than this year.

 

[bdbecker]

(Late) Merry Christmas to you as well Jeff!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Here in Broken Arrow, OK, a couple of weeks ago we had 6.5 inches of snow - the most we have seen at one time in 7 years. I thought those interested in fluid dynamics might be interested in a couple of photos:


I have mostly been working on small projects. Made a second deep reach clamp from recycled pallet oak. Then I needed a rack to hang the 2 clamps from.


Used some more of that oak and some neodymium magnets to make a countersink rack:

Then my daughter said she needed a shelf to go inside a kitchen cabinet. I lucked into another bed frame to recycle and came up with this.

 

[bj383ss]

Jeff your snow looks as crazy as ours was. Really like that deep reach clamp.

Bret

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Jeff your snow looks as crazy as ours was. Really like that deep reach clamp.

Bret

Thank you, Bret. This has been a crazy winter. I think you Texans have gotten more snow events than we have in NE OK.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

When working on my parts drawer cabinets, I decided I needed more long bar clamps than I had - of course, this was after I had built a bar clamp rack to hold the clamps I already had that took up all the available space I had to work with on one section of wall. Temporarily I had been hanging those clamps where one of my Workmates stores.





Scavenged some scraps of metal and made this new rack for the 4 new clamps.



My Kubota came with an orange plastic cover on the throttle handle. I had noticed that it tended to slide up on the handle and kept pushing it back on - until the day that I didn't notice it and it was suddenly gone. I suppose I mowed over it and sent the pieces onto the neighbors property. So, I turned to some more of the recycled oak pallet wood and came up with a replacement.

 

[Trapps]

I am currently seeking clamp storage ideas. I like the simplicity.
Like the Porsche 917s of yore, your tractor is lighter now and therefore will be faster.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I am currently seeking clamp storage ideas. I like the simplicity.
Like the Porsche 917s of yore, your tractor is lighter now and therefore will be faster.

I have done three different clamp racks now. Wish I could come up with a design that was easily expandable - either that or I need to quit buying more clamps.

As for the tractor speed, I wonder what it would take to measure the difference?

I am now working on some rehab and upgrade of my blast cabinet.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

About a week and a half ago, I decided my blast cabinet needed some love. So, I took it all apart and began the process of repairing and enhancing. I am documenting the progress at
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310730 starting at post 6.
I had also ordered an air filtration system for the shop.

Of course that is when one of the light fixtures in the shop failed and while I was waiting on the bits to convert that fixture to LED, the air filtration arrived with so much stuff scattered on the shop floor that I cannot attempt to install that. And, that is when my dishwasher decided to quit on me.

I really can't complain about the dishwasher, as it is over 28 years old. I opened it up to unload the clean dishes to discover water standing in the bottom. I figured the pump had probably failed. I bailed the water out, came back a while later and discovered even more water standing in it. Okay, maybe the fill shutoff valve has failed. Either way, at that age, I will replace the unit instead of trying to repair.

So, lets shut off the water under the sink so I can bail it out and remove the unit in preparation of a replacement. So bail out, come back later and even more standing water. OK the cheap 28 year old sink shutoff is leaking.

Two new shutoffs purchased (no point in replacing just one). Ideally just unbolt the compression fitting, install the new valve and tighten the old nut onto the valve. No, that won't work because the old valves allowed the pipe to insert into the valve further than the new valves, meaning the ferrule is too far from the end of the pipe to allow it to seal. There is very little pipe sticking above the bottom of the cabinet, so get out the dremel and cut off the old ferrule, so the pipe cutter will work in a way that allows removing the minimum amount of old pipe.

I am sure this type of thing has never occurred to anyone else, right? Any way , I have 2 new shutoff valves installed, the old dishwasher removed to the shop and disassembled for recycling and I am waiting on a new dishwasher.

Anybody tried to buy a new major appliance lately? Availability is a joke.

The good news is that tomorrow, I should be able to get back to work on the LED conversion and then the blast cabinet.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Yesterday, I finished installing the new dishwasher.

Today, I finished converting my first 8' T12 fluorescent to LED. As my ballasts burn out, I will continue this process. I have 8 T12 and 3 T8 fixtures in the shop (all 8' units).

 

[bdbecker]

Funny... I helped my Dad install that same dishwasher last spring. I'm sure you're already enjoying how quiet it is. Also, don't be afraid to skip rinsing the dishes before loading - apparently that thing really does a good job of cleaning.