benjamen

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Name: Benjamen Johnson
Date registered: June 28, 2012

Latest posts

New 3D Prints Website — April 21, 2020
How To Not Lose Your INKZALL Marker — May 19, 2016
X-Carve: On Router Bits — January 31, 2016
X-Carve: Organizing Before Assembling — January 26, 2016
A Better Way To Make Small Chain — January 4, 2016

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Mar 07 2012

New Tool! Excelsior Mini-Lathe

Categories:

Harbor Freight, Lathe, Paste Wax, Rockler

by benjamen

March 7, 2012

Last Saturday, after months of talking to a friend about his Excelsior Lathe, I finally decided to purchased one. Of course the fact that it was on sale at Rockler for $200 with the free bed extension didn’t hurt. Unfortunately they didn’t have any more left in stock when …

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Mar 06 2012

Adjusting A Miter Saw Vernier Scale

Categories:

Miter Saw

by benjamen

March 6, 2012

While making some angled cuts for another project, I noticed that the Vernier scale on my DeWalt 705 miter saw wasn’t reading accurately — it was off by 1/2°. Since I was shooting for a 7.25° angle, I clearly needed to realign the scale before I continued cutting. The first thing I …

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Mar 05 2012

Cherry Coat Rack

Categories:

Cherry, Danish Oil, Furniture, Hide Glue, Miter Saw, Router, Router Table, Table Saw

by benjamen

March 5, 2012

Click here if you don’t have flash Rather than put their coats away, my kids usually throw their coats on the floor. I suppose it’s not all their fault after all, since they really can’t reach the hangers in the closet. Getting sick of the mess, I decided to build a coat …

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Mar 02 2012

Issues with Clamping

Categories:

Cherry, Hide Glue, Mineral Spirits

by benjamen

March 2, 2012

When I was clamping my cherry coat rack together, I ran into a few problems with my clamps. Besides the old adage about never having enough clamps, I realized that my quick clamps just weren’t cutting it for this particular glue up. One of the boards was slightly warped, …

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Feb 26 2012

Resawing Safely on the Table Saw.

Categories:

Purple Heartwood, Table Saw

by benjamen

February 26, 2012

Using my router table fence for resawing

Resawing on my table saw has always been hit or miss, not to mention potentially dangerous. It’s almost impossible to hold the piece against the low fence while simultaneously keeping my fingers a safe distance from the saw blade. I’ve tried different combinations of axillary …

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Feb 17 2012

On Draining Air Compressors

Categories:

Air Compressor

by benjamen

February 17, 2012

I’ve probably told this story before, but where I used to work, we bought a humidity chamber for calibrating the humidity sensor on one of my products. Right in the operations manual it specified that the 5 gallon tank on the integral air compressor needed to be drained every X hours of use. To make …

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Feb 13 2012

Ironing My Bench

Categories:

Workbench

by benjamen

February 13, 2012

As of late, I haven’t been as good about cleaning my bench when I leave my shop. This morning I just had to clean my bench before I could work on anything else. Once I finally saw the top of my bench again, I noticed some pretty deep dents …

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Feb 09 2012

Get Woodworking! You Can Make Dovetails

Categories:

#getwoodworking, Bevel Gauge, Chisel, Combo Square, Coping Saw, Pine, Utility Knife

by benjamen

February 9, 2012

Right after I finished cutting all the dovetails for my toolbox, I thought I should have documented that better. So tonight I while I had some time, I thought I’d throw together a picture tutorial on how to make dovetails with tools you probably already have: a bevel gauge, chisel, …

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Feb 09 2012

A Proper Toolbox for My Daughter

Categories:

Hide Glue, Miter Saw, Miter Sled, Pine, Table Saw

by benjamen

February 9, 2012

Click here to see the gallery if you don’t have flash With my daughter starting to work in my shop, I needed a good place to put her tools and unfinished projects. Usually I’ve been throwing them into a box and stashing it under my bench, but I figured it was …

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Jan 20 2012

Notes from the Workshop: 20120120

Categories:

Hide Glue, Two-part Epoxy

by benjamen

January 20, 2012

Click the picture to see the gallery Filling Knots with Epoxy Usually I’ll just layout a project so I don’t have to deal with knots, but in the case of this beautiful walnut board, the knots and surrounding wood are the whole point. To make the board usable, I needed to …

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