Category Archive: Posts by Project

Jan 03 2012

Homemade End Vise

Categories:

Circular Saw, Drill Press, Pine, Quick Clamp, Router Table, Shop, Table Saw

January 3, 2012

Click picture to view album* This past year it seemed like everybody was making a Moxon vise, a vise that you clamp to the top of your workbench to raise your workpiece up to a more comfortable sawing level. After seeing how simple they were to make, I got the idea to …

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Dec 15 2011

New Source For Small Wooden Wheels

Categories:

Wooden Train

by benjamen

December 15, 2011

I was in Michaels a few days ago looking for wooden spheres to use in another project ,when I spotted some 3/4″ toy wheels from Lara’s Craft’s that I thought looked much better than the ones I made for my Flat Car project. They cost about $1.60 for a package …

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Nov 16 2011

Completed Flat Cars

Categories:

Drill Press, Micro-Mill, Miter Saw, Oscillating Sander, Poplar, Red Oak, Router Table, Table Saw, Wooden Train

by benjamen

November 16, 2011

Once I was satisfied with the prototype flat car, I wanted to make a whole mess of them at once — nine in fact. I decided to create a few jigs to make production go more smoothly. I built the first jig for cutting out the wheels. It solved …

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Nov 10 2011

Flat Car Prototype

Categories:

Cherry Tree Toys, Drill Press, Magnets, Miter Saw, Red Oak, Router Table, Table Saw, Wooden Train

by benjamen

November 10, 2011

One day, my son told me he didn’t have enough flat cars on his wooden railway. I figured that we could just buy him some more online, but I discovered that you can’t just buy flat cars, they only come in track sets (although I’ve been told by several people that the

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Oct 17 2011

Crossover Track (Curved)

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Baltic Birch Plywood, Colt Router, Jig Saw, Maple, Pin Nailer, Router Table, Wooden Train

by benjamen

October 17, 2011

Click picture for slideshow My original idea for a crossover track was to have a connecting track that curved out of one track and into another, but it took me a while to figure out how to make one, so I built the straight crossover track …

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Oct 17 2011

Crossover Track (Straight)

Categories:

Hard board, Miter Saw, Red Oak, Router Table, Table Saw, Wooden Train

by benjamen

October 17, 2011

Click picture to see slideshow After my son got his wooden train set for Christmas his birthday, I started building track for him, but my interested waned during the spring and summer. This fall I’ve started building some more wooden train accessories. As I’ve been documenting that process, I realized that …

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Oct 06 2011

Walnut Turner’s Cube

Categories:

Dremel, Drill Press, Misc. Toys, Miter Saw, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

October 6, 2011

Click picture for slideshow A few weeks ago I was digging through the free bin at Rocker and I found a 2-1/2″ square walnut cutoff. The only defect it had was a slight check in the end grain that would hopefully disappear when I cut the hunk of walnut into a cube. …

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Sep 29 2011

Making Wooden T-Knobs

Categories:

Drill Press, Red Oak, Shop, Table Saw

by benjamen

September 29, 2011

Click picture to see slideshow Sometimes you start a project because you wonder, can I make that? I made these wooden T-knobs because I was frustrated that one day when I needed some knobs, I couldn’t buy any locally. My goal was to make them as cheaply and as quickly as …

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Sep 22 2011

Making Another Toy Car

Categories:

Cordless Drill, Maple, Oscillating Sander, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Toy Cars, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

September 22, 2011

I’m taking a step back and showing how I made the wooden car I recently posted here. I first got the idea for this particualr design by looking at some of the wooden cars on the Arizona Wooden Toys website. I liked the design of their “Zoom Racer;” I thought the …

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Sep 15 2011

Storage Cubby

Categories:

Baltic Birch Plywood, Dado Stack, Miter Saw, Shop, Table Saw

by benjamen

September 15, 2011

Click on Image for Slideshow Several months ago, I wanted to practice making cuts with my dado stack so I built this little cubby to hold some safety equipment like goggles, gloves, respirator, etc…

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