Like all woodworking shops there is a dust issue. I eventually purchased a shopvac and shortly after a Dust Deputy by Oneida Systems. The foam brick that they include to attach to your shopvac with small casters wasn’t going suffice for my needs. I decided to look for shopvac cart designs online and on YouTube….
I needed something quick and handy for my growing collection of drill bits. I made an identical cabinet for my router bit collection as a trial run and I liked it. So I just duplicated it for my drill bits. It’s just a basic cabinet for my drill bits. Nothing elaborate or anything. I started…
This was the second of a two part series for my wife’s command center area. I really wanted to design my own bench, but my wife really liked this particular farmhouse bench style. This was a fun project to make. We used a specific stain recipe to give it a weathered look. This was the…
I remember going out and searching for wooden crates for the first time. I had a mission to make a chair for my kids. Well, the first version didn’t turn out like I wanted it to. But it taught me some valuable lessons in planning for things ahead of time. I made this “Time Out…
Mother’s Day was approaching and my wife was hinting about our kitchen loft and how empty it looked. She decided to have me build a command center with a farmhouse style bench. I started the command center by looking on the internet for ideas. I wanted to see what people were doing. Well, it turns…
After hauling in a large collection of very large wood crates, I wanted to rip the 4×4 studs down to size. I quickly learned why a lot of people upgrade their Ridgid R4512 Table Saw, or whatever they are using to rip wood. I found I was going to the breaker box more times then…
While I was building my adjustable height workbench I experienced a lot of long and heavy boards. This created a problem for accurate drilling of pocket holes. Regardless of the Kreg K5 built in clamp, the boards would lean or shift due to the length and weight of each board. I didn’t see the necessity…
After watching several YouTube episodes for options on a workbench, I decided to build an adjustable height work bench. This mainly was because of the size of my garage, and the fact that my wife still wanted to park in it. The designs I saw were good, but I wanted to test my creativity and…