What's on the bench.

[RichardA]

Now that is some drop dead beautiful maple, and you worked it perfectly.

[Tom King]

Yes, gorgeous!  A lot easier to carry around than a Baritone horn too.

[Chestnut]

Still haven't been getting much shop time but its increasing a bit. Cobbled together a stair slide for hazel. She loves it.

[JohnG]

Took a break from my recent crazy long work hours to spend last night in my shop. Cleaned up my shop and then picked up my old kumiko project and made some headway. 

[Mark J]

@JohnG, what will that be when you are done?

[wtnhighlander]

Love that pattern! Never saw that one before, did you make it up?

[pkinneb]

Very cool!! Great job!

[JohnG]

On 2/8/2025 at 9:37 AM, Mark J said:

@JohnG, what will that be when you are done?

Just decorative. Might make an outer frame for it and put a fabric backing behind it. Not sure yet. 

On 2/8/2025 at 9:54 AM, wtnhighlander said:

Love that pattern! Never saw that one before, did you make it up?

I came up with the overall panel design (though it is likely someone else has done the same). Not the sub patterns. The middle section will be the 'asa-no-ha' pattern, and the outer border of hashtags I got from Matt Kenney's book.

[Chestnut]

On 2/8/2025 at 8:14 AM, JohnG said:

Took a break from my recent crazy long work hours to spend last night in my shop. Cleaned up my shop and then picked up my old kumiko project and made some headway. 

That's awesome, I really like the desing. Some day it'd be nice to do that. I'll add it to the list after my cedar strip canoe and all the other projects it feels like i'll never get around to.

[JohnG]

On 2/9/2025 at 3:02 PM, Chestnut said:

That's awesome, I really like the desing. Some day it'd be nice to do that. I'll add it to the list after my cedar strip canoe and all the other projects it feels like i'll never get around to.

It's a nice change of pace, but you have to be in the right mood to make dozens or hundreds of nearly identical small pieces.

[legenddc]

Decided to test the new miter saw and make some planters. Got a decent bit done in a little over an hour. 

[fcschoenthal]

I've been building a new facade for a small bar to augment the kitchen remodel I had done in one of my rent houses. My lumber yard was out of poplar for some reason, so I got some beech for the frames and doors. I've never worked with it before and was surprised at how many little tiny splinter I got in my hands when milling it up. I mean ones that I couldn't even see with a magnifying glass. Luckily, I remembered a solution, duct tape. Pressing it on and pulling it off pulls them right out. Just don't do it where you have hair growing.

[Woodworking_Hobby]

Nothing to crazy; I had some cut offs from the other night and they were about the perfect thickness and width to make a quick cutting board.  I had been needing a new one and was a super quick and easy way to get some bonus points at home. 
 

[Von]

Finally back to workworking after winter and I picked up working on my first urn. There are several journals on this already in the forum I've learned from so I won't cover this in detail. I'm doing a basic mitered box out of some walnut. I'm not happy with any way I found to cut miters on pieces this small on my table saw (I'm adding a miter-cutting sled to my todo list), so ended up making the cuts on the Kapex. It did a good job and the dry fit looks reasonably good. I'll do a little fine tuning by hand tomorrow.

 

[fcschoenthal]

On 3/23/2025 at 9:23 PM, Von said:

I'm not happy with any way I found to cut miters on pieces this small on my table saw (I'm adding a miter-cutting sled to my todo list)

I have a miter cutting sled, but found that with small box sides, running it through a 45° chamfer bit on the router table was more precise than I could get tilting the table saw blade.

[roughsawn]

I made half a dozen urns last winter. Cut the miters on the Saw Stop...setting the 45 with an electronic Bevel Gauge. All the miters turned out perfect. Maybe I got lucky...

[Von]

On 3/23/2025 at 11:12 PM, roughsawn said:

I made half a dozen urns last winter. Cut the miters on the Saw Stop...setting the 45 with an electronic Bevel Gauge. All the miters turned out perfect. Maybe I got lucky...

Beautiful. I hope to do as well. Can you say a little more about how you made the cuts?

Using the miter gauge seemed a bit unstable for such a long cut, especially on the short pieces. And I was concerned that if I made the cut using the fence (sorta like a rip cut), I would blunt the miters from the first cut against the fence when making the second. TIA

[legenddc]

@Von, Kevs Woodworks has a small box table saw sled that you might be interested in. I can’t seem to find the video on my phone but can look later if you need. 
 

I made good progress on a bench for our entryway with shoe storage underneath. Need to cut the back, drill shelf pin holes and then the bottoM is ready for paint. Top has been run through the drum sander but otherwise still needs to be sanded. 
 

[roughsawn]

Von, I used the miter gauge instead of the fence.

My father is now resting in that urn. My mother made me make her a matching urn...for when the time comes.

The boxes were made from a walnut tree that I planted in 1984. The white oak lid was made from a tree that I cut down and milled at Dad's farm.

[Von]

@roughsawn Thank you.

Worked on the top and bottom today. Both are too wide to resaw with my bandsaw, so I used a combination of table saw to resaw as much as possible...

and then finished with a hand saw.

My hand sawing needs work. I drift right if I don't focus on my form.

Thickness planer to the rescue.

[legenddc]

@Von - Here's the sled I was referring to. Starts around 7:50 in case I didn't get the link correct.

 

 

[Coop]

I built Kev’s small sled and it works great. 

[Von]

On 3/25/2025 at 9:10 AM, legenddc said:

@Von - Here's the sled I was referring to. Starts around 7:50 in case I didn't get the link correct.

 

Nice. Thank you.

[fcschoenthal]

Yeah, I have Kev's sled as well. It's a really nice small parts and good use of one track in both miter slots.

[Von]

Well, some days are just learning experiences. Repeating my previous resawing on what I was hoping would be the top of the urn.

Mistake #1: I hoped the blue tape would help me from marring the keep side of the resaw. It just gummed up the sawing.

Mistake #2: I got interrupted during the resaw and let it sit overnight partially cut. By the next day the kerf closed up and it was a pain to get it wedged open and the resaw started again.

Mistake #3: I though the knot in this piece would make for a striking top. As the experienced among you no doubt would have predicted it is making the piece incredibly hard to get flat. Running it through the thickness planer, even on the shallowest of cuts, results in chunks of wood being taken out. My skew plane is better but takes out small bites and is very slow going.

I welcome any advice as right now I'm inclined to throw in the towel on this piece and try another one. The gauging from the planer may make it unsalvageable in any case.