This is my first end grain cutting board, It’s made from hard Maple & Jatoba, and is 1-3/4″ thick by 20″ long and 12-1/2″ wide.
Some of you might remember that back in April I picked up a well used Stanley type 13 #3, that was in need of some TLC. Tonight I finished refurbishing the plane. To get the plane back into working condition, I performed the following tasks:
The following photos are of the plane after a few test cuts.
Last night I finally finished one of the two utility benches, I’m about 80% done with the second one. To finish the top I used BLO (boiled linseed oil), spar urethane, & Johnson’s paste wax. A lot of traditionalist woodworkers will scoff about applying a film finish to a workbench, but this bench is going to be exposed to a lot more than glue dribbles.
To see some additional shots from this project check out the following posts:
I was on vacation last week so I built myself a collapsible spray booth. The walls are made up of 8: 45″ by 90″ panels. The corners are formed by joining 2 panels with door hinges; thus allowing the booth to be collapsible for storage. The 4 corner units are bolted together using 2 parallel boards: 1 along the top of the wall, and 1 along the bottom. The top of the booth is a single sheet of plastic film held in place by the top parallel boards.
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The following photo is a close up of the arbor on my 10″ Delta Contractors saw (model TS350). I purchased this saw new in 2004 at Lowe’s, and until today it’s done everything I’ve asked of it.
Give up? It’s not a consistent diameter, the threaded section is 0.610″, the non threaded section is 0.557″, & the standard mounting surface is 0.6245″ (what it should be). So what does that mean? Well that nice Freud dial a dado set I just purchased is essentially useless on this saw.