Category Archive: Table Saw

Feb 09 2012

A Proper Toolbox for My Daughter

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

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 03 2012

Homemade End Vise

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

by benjamen

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 20 2011

Making a Wooden Ball Joint

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Baltic Birch Plywood, Drill Press, Oscillating Sander, Poplar, Rockler, Router Table, Table Saw

by benjamen

December 20, 2011

My wife and bought an Android tablet to replace the small TV in the kitchen that was taking up so much counter space. Of course the space saving part depended on mounting the tablet under the cabinet. While there are several good tablet mounts available for $20 to $40 on …

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Nov 16 2011

Completed Flat Cars

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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

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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 (Straight)

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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 10 2011

Big Curve, Little Curve

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Colt Router, Maple, Miter Saw, Oscillating Sander, Router Table, Table Saw, Urethane

by benjamen

October 10, 2011

Click picture to see slideshow My son’s preschool teaches writing with a system called Handwriting Without Tears. It is a much simpler character set to learn and can be represented by four simple shapes: big curve, little curve, big line, and little line. You can buy sets of …

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Sep 29 2011

Making Wooden T-Knobs

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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 15 2011

Storage Cubby

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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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Aug 26 2011

Wacky Track or Shake Shake Bridge

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Drill Press, Maple, Miter Saw, Pull Saw, Router Table, Table Saw, Wooden Train

by benjamen

August 26, 2011

In Misty Island Rescue, Thomas must cross the Shake Shake Bridge, a bridge that shakes violently when an engine crosses it. I didn’t intend on making a replica of the Shake Shake Bridge, I actually meant to make an imitation of Wacky Track, bendable wooden …

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