I’d left off writing about my yo-yo project, when I ruined the sides trying to rebalance them. To re-true the yo-yo sides I needed to create a jig that would hold one of the sides a set distance away from a router bit and allow me to slowly rotate it into …
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Aug 16 2011
Yo-Yo Fail-Fail
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Aug 12 2011
Notes From the Workshop: 20110812
Welcome Readers from Woodworking for Mere Mortals Steve Ramsey from Wooldworking for Mere mortals featured my router table on his site as part of his Router Week. I’ve definitely seen an up-tick in traffic due to being mentioned on the popular site. If you haven’t already discovered his site, I would definitely …
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Aug 10 2011
Repairing a Recalled Step Stool
I read a few days ago over at ToolGuyd that all of the wooden step stools sold by Target were being recalled. According to the article there have been 26 reports of the stools collapsing, which didn’t surprise me since I own one that has been falling apart for years. The only reason we …
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Jul 28 2011
Thip-Rip Jig
As I mentioned in my ladder toy post, I needed to rip a bunch of thin strips to the same width, so I made a quick thin-rip jig. The problem with the jig in that post was that to hold the dimension I used an expanding miter slot …
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Jul 19 2011
Ladder Toy Video
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Jul 13 2011
Ladder Toy
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Jul 06 2011
New Router Table Fence: The Face
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Jun 28 2011
New Router Table Fence: The Frame
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Jun 15 2011
Bird Feeder
* I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting projects, so if the flickr slideshow doesn’t show up on the feed, you’ll have to click through to the website. Last year, I had to throw away one of our little plastic bird feeders; it just couldn’t stand the test of time and weather. I figured rather …
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