Woodworkers Thread
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Final product. I still can’t figure how to get led lights on the inside. I bought some but I don’t like them and they werent easy to work with. Any more ideas or advice on that would be awesome
Just a heads up for everybody that Handworks is a go for this year in the Amanas. If you're interested in handtool woodworking even a little you need to make it over for this. It's free and there are tons of vendors there selling new tools, old tools and you can watch people make stuff like they did 100 years ago. This will be my 3rd time going and I wouldn't miss it. If you want to go see Roy Underhill give his speech on Saturday morning get there early because the main barn fills up fast with people wanting to hear him.
https://www.handworks.co/
https://www.handworks.co/
I have been making these for my wife, daughters and daughter in laws....
Clamp racks, lumber storage, and a shop vac/ cyclone cart. I have a new house with a dedicated workshop room off of my extra deep garage so organization has been a priority. Also, I need more clamps
correct.... they keep asking for different styles.... the big one with no handles on it yet in the picture is basically a cardinal and gold wood.. its my ISU pin...
My goal this summer is make a bunch of stuff like this for my “shop”. I’m a rookie at this but learning. I need more ways to organize my tools, extra wood, etc. all my extra boards are currently just laying in a big ass pile in the corner of my garage and it drives me nuts.
Thanks for posting this. I had never heard of it but already marked my calendar and told my wife we were going.
Is it better to go on Friday or Saturday?
Friday the crowds will be smaller for sure but getting to hear Roy Underhill is an absolute treat so I guess it depends on what you're after what day you'll want to go. I got to hear Roy talk in 2015 at this and it was great, in 2017 I had to miss because I had to coach baseball on Saturday morning but I did buy a shirt off of Roy from the back of his van.
There's a lot of great ideas out there for storage. I don't get a lot of time to woodwork and drives be crazy spend half my time finding/moving stuff. That said you can't really have enough for somethings like lumber and I always still have piles after I fill the lumber rack.
One suggestion I am glad I stumbled upon is if you are going to make some cabinets use pegboard for the doors. I use a simple plywood frame with two pieces of peg board separated by ~1/2". Using two pieces lets you hang things from both sides of the door. The picture below isn't mine, but from a google search that looks like the plan I saw that first gave me the idea. With two sets of doors you can hang things from on both sides there is a ton of storage on both sides. Since making the first I've done a few of various sizes. Really efficient use of space.
https://www.buildsomething.com/plans/list
https://fixthisbuildthat.com/
There are a lot of places you can find plans for shop storage and organization. I usually start with youtube or the sites linked above for inspiration. You can purchase plans too with some places if you don't want to design your own.
If you sign up for Kreg promos they email you from that buildsomething site and they actually have some pretty cool designs and ideas for random pieces.
I finally finished the knife I was working on. I put it off for a long time. The quenching went horribly. I dont think I got the steel hardened so this ended up being a practice knife. Will give it another go this spring. Will actually buy a forge if I do to make the quenching easier. I tried using a torch to heat the steel on this knife. It wasnt heated evenly, so when I put it in the oil the knife warped. Had to heat again and hammer it as flat as i could. Reheated with more attention paid to heating evenly and quenched again with out warping it. Did the file test it didnt feel hardened, but i dont have the experience to know for sure. Once I sharpen it and use it I will know by how well it keeps an edge.
Fairly happy with how the handle tuned out though. It is a little big for my baby hands though.
Fairly happy with how the handle tuned out though. It is a little big for my baby hands though.
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Ever watch Forged in Fire I think the show was called? Might have been on Discovery or History Channel. Been a few years since I saw it, maybe it didn't make it longer than a season or two. It was mildly entertaining, but felt like the same repetitive competition after a couple of episodes to me (know nothing about the art). Just crossed my mind seeing you post about forging and quenching your own blade.
I saw a few snippets on youtube that inspired me to do this. Then when I saw I could buy a knife blank from the waterjet youtube guys I decided to. Seasons 3-5 of forged in fire are on hulu and I have watched some episodes. What bothers me about the show is after each test round there is little mystery as to who is going home as there is almost always one blade that is far inferior. The show is a bit repetitive but all competition shows like this are. it reminds me of the show Chopped but instead of making food from mystery ingredients, they are making knifes from mystery metals/items.
Google tells me that they are in season 7 right now so peope must still be watching it.
No kidding! It always seemed to me that half of the contestants didn't really know a ton about what they were doing as the judges/experts pointed out seemingly obvious flaws in the commentary. But something tells me (as you'll probably learn as you gain experience if you keep doing it) that it isn't an exact science and does have an element of art/feel to it being that it's hand crafted. Probably also didn't help that they were using equipment that wasn't their own, might be a learning curve if they have a different way of doing some things.